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Originally Posted by GonnaLooseitagain
LLV-thats nice to know, I have been on a stall/plateau for a couple weeks now...man are they discouraging!!!!
Yes, they're discouraging, but it will start moving again, as long as you continue to do all the right things. I used to consider myself the Plateau Queen because I hit so many brick walls it wasn't funny. I would get at a certain weight and just stay there for a few weeks at a time. But eventually it would start moving again and I learned to handle the plateaus a little better after reading that article about it being your body putting everything on hold for a spell to adjust to new routines, new calorie levels, things like that. But eventually it will allow things to move downward again
The worst thing you can do is get discouraged, assuming your weight loss has stopped, and give up. Just keep on doing what you've been doing to lose the weight you've lost so far. Maybe even increase your foods just a tad. I'm not sure how much I agree with the "up your calories to break the plateau" theory, but sometimes I
did that if I ate more than usual, I'd start losing again. I don't know if that was coincidence or that theory really works, but they say that giving your body a little bit more food apparently gets your metabolism to release its hold on everything because it no longer thinks it's going to 'starve'. It's like it says, "Yay! Food! Okay, I'll start pumping again," and it burns off the extra you've eaten, plus the rest of it as well.
Maybe not a good description of that theory, lol. But you can look it up online just about anywhere. Some people 'shift' or 'stagger' their calories. They eat 1300 one day, 1500 the next, etc. I tried that and it didn't really work for me, but hey, what works for one person may not work for another