Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
The narrow version of the question is how to distinguish a genuine plateau from measurement noise and creeping intake, before changing anything.
Happy to be told the question itself is wrong.
rachel_ABQ said:Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 214 lbs for 6 weeks. Tried everything — calorie cycling, increased exercise, more water. Nothing worked.
What finally broke the plateau: increasing protein to 150g/day. Lost 5 lbs in the next 2 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.
LabKate said:Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 214 lbs for 6 weeks.
LabKate has the substance of this right. The condition it depends on is worth stating. Most reported plateaus are not plateaus. Weight is a noisy signal — daily variation of one to two kilograms from glycogen, sodium and gut contents — so a fortnight of flat readings is well inside the noise band. Before concluding anything, look at a rolling weekly average over at least four weeks and at a tape measure, because recomposition shows up in circumference before it shows up in weight. Then track intake honestly for a week: appetite suppression fades unevenly, and intake creeping back up is the single commonest cause.
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View Resultsrachel_ABQ said:Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
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