mizzie
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I'm just so frustrated! I've done this before, I know my body and what I need to do to lose weight. I know what kinds of food will work and how much. I'm exercising and counting every calorie, I even weigh everything first to make sure I have the exact amount right. I have figured out my BMR and my activity level ("lightly active" I even aimed low just in case). So what's going on?
I started on January 3rd (not a new years thing, just when the timing worked out) and lost 3 pounds the first week, then 1, then 2, then nothing for 3 weeks. Not an ounce! I know for certainty that I'm not eating too much, so that's not it. And the first week I figured it might be water weight, but not for 3 weeks.
Here's a break down of my last week. My BMR to maintain my weight at my current activity level is 2263, so I eat 1000 below to lose 2 pounds a week, right? So, I'm allowed 1263 calories a day and my last 7 days are: 1194, unknown, 1260, 1284, 1309, 1220 and 1222. Yes, I have one unknown day there because I was visiting my mother. But she made healthy food (she's diabetic) and I didn't over eat. At worst, I might have eaten 1600 or so.
But, even if that one day had been 2200, it still wouldn't have caused me to gain weight, since it would only be at maintenance AND I should have at least a 6000 calorie deficit from the other days. In order for me to have stayed exactly the same, I would have had to eat 8200 calories on Saturday and there's just absolutely no possible way that happened!
So, this could be a plateau. But is it possible to plateau after only a month of weight loss? Last time I didn't really hit one (not counting the couple of times I didn't lose for one week, only to whoosh the next) until I had lost 65 pounds (8-9 months into it).
And the most frustrating thing about this is that I'm part of 2 local weight loss challenges (both with prizes!) and this is NOT helping!!! If this is a plateau, the timing sucks!
I started on January 3rd (not a new years thing, just when the timing worked out) and lost 3 pounds the first week, then 1, then 2, then nothing for 3 weeks. Not an ounce! I know for certainty that I'm not eating too much, so that's not it. And the first week I figured it might be water weight, but not for 3 weeks.
Here's a break down of my last week. My BMR to maintain my weight at my current activity level is 2263, so I eat 1000 below to lose 2 pounds a week, right? So, I'm allowed 1263 calories a day and my last 7 days are: 1194, unknown, 1260, 1284, 1309, 1220 and 1222. Yes, I have one unknown day there because I was visiting my mother. But she made healthy food (she's diabetic) and I didn't over eat. At worst, I might have eaten 1600 or so.
But, even if that one day had been 2200, it still wouldn't have caused me to gain weight, since it would only be at maintenance AND I should have at least a 6000 calorie deficit from the other days. In order for me to have stayed exactly the same, I would have had to eat 8200 calories on Saturday and there's just absolutely no possible way that happened!
So, this could be a plateau. But is it possible to plateau after only a month of weight loss? Last time I didn't really hit one (not counting the couple of times I didn't lose for one week, only to whoosh the next) until I had lost 65 pounds (8-9 months into it).
And the most frustrating thing about this is that I'm part of 2 local weight loss challenges (both with prizes!) and this is NOT helping!!! If this is a plateau, the timing sucks!