HELP! Plateau

[xxStephxx]

I am stuck at 208 pounds! I am at a huge plateau.

Is there anything I can do to break it?

[mojean]

How long have you been at 208?

[xxStephxx]

Maybe 2 weeks. I think maybe even more.

[leaddog66]

Dont let it get to you. It happens to all of us. I got stuck at 189 for 2 weeks, the next week I was up to 192! 3 weeks later Im at 183. Just dont lose heart. Keep pounding away and you WILL get there!

[alarionov]

Have you introduced a new food into your diet in the last two weeks? Or maybe increased the amount of another food?

[Squiggle86]

Your body may just be catching up to your weight loss (congrats, by the way!) or you may be losing inches. Do you measure yourself?

Fitday is a great tool to see how many carbs/calories you're really eating. When I'm stalled I enter it all in, just to see. You might be surprised.

[lisabinil]

How are your measurements and clothes fitting? A true stall is one that lasts 4 weeks or longer with no loss of weight OR body measurements. ;)

[cs_carver]

Bodies have intelligences of their own. Agree with all the suggestions above, and add that a real "stall" doesn't start counting until about a month or so.

Additionally: Depending on why you gained the weight, and how long you have been there, and probably a million other reasons, your body / soul / unconscious may have its own reasons for not being "thin" quite as fast as your posting intellect thinks it should be.

[karrier]

I know what you are going thru. I am on a 10 week stall. Just yesterday I started on adding more fat. I have 1/2 cup whipped cream with stevia and vanilla for breakfast. Today I stood on the scale and it has moved by 2 lbs. I am waiting until I've done this for a week to see if it has really started everything again.

In a nutshell... add fat.

[Josiemk]

I stall acouple of weeks before my monthly comes & then I start lossing again.

You may want to start a journal so that other can see what your eating & how you are exersizing & offer tips from there.

Good luck.