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Originally Posted by jessica2231
ok thank you! how will i know when i hit a plataeu. and if nothing changes in a week or two what should i do?
If you see no change over a week or two, I would recommend doing nothing except sticking to your plan. A week or two is not enough time to tell if a change is needed.
If you see no change over 4-6 weeks of really sticking to your plan, that is when it is time to make changes.
You are doing the right thing to weigh yourself often and watch the patterns that develop. I, and many other women here, follow a whoosh-bounce-hold pattern. I tend to lose in a quick burst, a "whoosh", of several pounds over a few days. Then I bounce back a pound or two, and then hold (or fluctuate up and down about a pound) for a couple of weeks. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
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If only it were linear. oh wow that seems long. but its probly cuz im just starting out. thank you.
This is a good insight. I've been at this for almost two years, so 2 weeks doesn't seem like very long to me. But I am sure you are right, that in the beginning, it would have seemed like an eternity to see no loss for 2 weeks.
Try to be patient and take a longer term view - I know it's hard. Think "What matters is not that I weigh less than I did yesterday or even a week ago; what matters is that I weigh less than I did a month or two ago."
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It does! It feels like I have done nothing this whole week! even though I've worked really hard.
Then what you have accomplished is that you've worked really hard and stayed on plan. Be proud of that! Trust your plan and give it time.
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I just ended TOM though shouldnt i be losing excess water? sometimes all this is so confusing.
Everyone's patterns are different, and you have to do the science experiment to detect your own patterns. My own whooshes are not that tightly correlated with the end of my period - maybe they come a week or two later, maybe they come the week before. Also if you are anything like me, your period doesn't really end abruptly so much as peters out over a few days, so maybe that whoosh is still coming.
Hang in there. Trust your plan. Take a longer term view.