Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
What I am trying to establish is how to distinguish a genuine plateau from measurement noise and creeping intake, before changing anything.
Tell me what I have not thought of.
steph_laguna 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 195 lbs for 7 weeks. Tried everything — calorie cycling, increased exercise, more water. Nothing worked.
What finally broke the plateau: a brief dose increase followed by return to maintenance. Lost 12 lbs in the next 3 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.
sarah.morrison said:Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 195 lbs for 7 weeks.
sarah.morrison 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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Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
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