I started this a few months ago, lost about a pound a week for a month and then hit a plateau that I've been at for 45 + days. Not a "i'm only losing .3 lbs a week" plateau. An "I weigh exactly the same as what I weighed on June 1, with the scale never going any lower, and going a pound higher every so often."
Visited an RD "give up cheese and crackers, those are causing the plateau." Gave up cheese and crackers, still no change. "Up your calories/cut your calories." No change.
I think my body is stuck and just wants to weigh this amount. (It's 184 for those of you who like numbers.)
The scale was started to dictate my moods. To work so hard at something and see zero results starts to take a toll. To spend so much time thinking about what I was eating and getting nothing from it. It hit me when a friend texted me a picture of her dinner and I thought "I bet she didn't weigh that chicken and pasta before putting it on her plate. How freeing that must be."
So, I'm done. For how long I don't know. Will I gain back the 4 pounds and weigh what I weighed all those years I was putting zero effort into my eating? Who cares. It's 4 pounds.
And because this is a message board and not a personal blog or journal entry, hit me with advice, admonitions, stories of your plateau, ideas, scientific studies, etc.
I'm off to eat a bagel that I haven't weighed, and hopefully soon the knowledge that it is approximately 1.5 ounces and what its calories are will leave my brain and let in some more useful knowledge.