PLATEAU
If anyone has any ideas on how to break a plateau.....please help!
I just can't break 170. I've been here for 4 month. I'm getting so discouraged. I have 34 lbs more to lose. My body just won't let go! It's starting to become very depressing. Reading all the other messages, I'm way behind in weight loss. It looks like everyone else has lost or close to losing 100lbs. 
Becky
246/170
I just can't break 170. I've been here for 4 month. I'm getting so discouraged. I have 34 lbs more to lose. My body just won't let go! It's starting to become very depressing. Reading all the other messages, I'm way behind in weight loss. It looks like everyone else has lost or close to losing 100lbs.
Becky
246/170 
Hi Becky,
One of the Plateau Princesses here, I am resolved to my body loosing weight when it wants to not when I want it to....At least that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
Remember your only competition is between your brain and your body
...not anyone else on this board. We didn't gain the weight the same and we won't loose it that way either! I know I started out fast and now am way behind, but I figure it took me 40 yrs. to gain it and hopefully 18 mo. to loose it.
Hang in there, as long as you don't go up more than a couple of pounds and always come back down, you'll be fine...
Catherine
275/195/150ish
1/22/04
Remember your only competition is between your brain and your body...not anyone else on this board. We didn't gain the weight the same and we won't loose it that way either! I know I started out fast and now am way behind, but I figure it took me 40 yrs. to gain it and hopefully 18 mo. to loose it.
Hang in there, as long as you don't go up more than a couple of pounds and always come back down, you'll be fine...
Catherine
275/195/150ish
1/22/04 
Hi Becky!
Sorry to hear about your plateau, but of course you know this is completely normal. Long plateaus are a fact of lilfe for many of us, but they DO eventually break. Please don't be discouraged, since you are already doing so fabulously! 
One neat little trick to break a plateau (at least this has worked for me in the past), is to give your body a bit of a shock/boost, by having one day (and only one!) of a spike in your calories. For example, I was stuck in a plateau, and for just one day I doubled my calories by having the highest calorie choices that I could which I would tolerate without dumping. On an average day, my calories are around 1200 or so, but on this particular day I ate around 2500, by grazing, drinking multiple protein shakes (around 5) and eating all sorts of things/snacking (I still made very healthy choices, it is just the frequency and quantity that I adjusted - I NEVER over-stuffed or forced anything). Then, the next morning I went back onto my usual regimen of counting and eating normally (three meals and two snacks). After around 48 hours or so, the weight began to come off again - and it was great.
I don't know why this seems to work. One explanation that was given to me, is that our bodies go into a semi-starvation mode due to our newer, regularly lower intake of calories, and the weight loss slows as our body tries to preserve calories/energy. When you "shock" the system with this sudden spiked increase in calories, it starts things up again, and you once again go into the losing mode.
Now mind you, I am not trying to give you any specific advice - I am just sharing what worked for me in my particular case. Also, my "splurge day" did NOT include high carb, high sugar foods - those are always no-nos. Rather, I ate more meats, several high protein shakes, and more fat (real butter on veggies, that sort of thing). So carefully picking your calories is still very important, even during this special "boost day".
At any rate, good luck - and don't worry, this will definitely pass! You are FABULOUS!
God bless,
Michael
375/188/185
One neat little trick to break a plateau (at least this has worked for me in the past), is to give your body a bit of a shock/boost, by having one day (and only one!) of a spike in your calories. For example, I was stuck in a plateau, and for just one day I doubled my calories by having the highest calorie choices that I could which I would tolerate without dumping. On an average day, my calories are around 1200 or so, but on this particular day I ate around 2500, by grazing, drinking multiple protein shakes (around 5) and eating all sorts of things/snacking (I still made very healthy choices, it is just the frequency and quantity that I adjusted - I NEVER over-stuffed or forced anything). Then, the next morning I went back onto my usual regimen of counting and eating normally (three meals and two snacks). After around 48 hours or so, the weight began to come off again - and it was great.
I don't know why this seems to work. One explanation that was given to me, is that our bodies go into a semi-starvation mode due to our newer, regularly lower intake of calories, and the weight loss slows as our body tries to preserve calories/energy. When you "shock" the system with this sudden spiked increase in calories, it starts things up again, and you once again go into the losing mode.
Now mind you, I am not trying to give you any specific advice - I am just sharing what worked for me in my particular case. Also, my "splurge day" did NOT include high carb, high sugar foods - those are always no-nos. Rather, I ate more meats, several high protein shakes, and more fat (real butter on veggies, that sort of thing). So carefully picking your calories is still very important, even during this special "boost day".
At any rate, good luck - and don't worry, this will definitely pass! You are FABULOUS!
God bless,
Michael
375/188/185 
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