Weight-Loss Little Plateau..

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Sarin

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Hey again guys. I have yet another plateau and am wondering if there's really anything else I can do to overcome this last step nutritionally.

A little about me.. I am 5'2or3" and 18 years old. Female. Starting weight was ~215 and I am now down to 127-130. I would really like to be 120, which according to my BMI is what I should be at.

I do not exercise, I do not have the time. I've lost all this weight just by adjusting my calories. I currently eat 1100-1300 calories a day.

Is there anything I can change to lose these last few pounds without exercising? Probably not, but I thought I might be missing something.

Here is my average day diet-wise (I eat small meals frequently):

Breakfast - Fruit & Yogurt Parfait
Snack - Yogurt (someones I cheat and have a non-fat latte instead)
Snack - Pickles
Lunch - Veggie Wrap or Small Veggie Sub & Small Soup (I work at a sub shop)
Snack - Yogurt
Snack - Veggie or Fruit
Snack - Bag of Baked Cips or More Veggies/Fruit
Dinner - Usually Canned Soup. But sometimes I'll have some Fish or Chicken with Veggies/Potato.
Snack - Veggies & Dip


Thanks!
 
Hi, and congratulations on your progress! That's really inspiring.

I recently read an article about this. You might actually need to up your calorie intake at this point in order to see more gains. Here is the article:
 
@Sarin,

Congrats on the progess as well... that over 85 lbs!

As for the plateau, if you're been at a caloric deficit for a prolonged period of time, that will cause your hormonal environment to shift (leptin levels fall, thyroid hormones decrease, etc.)

Typically, it is advisable that you come out of deficit once per week (by eating at or above Maintenance Level). Depending on how large of a daily caloric deficit you been doing, and for how long, you might need to eat at Maintenance for several days to get your metabolism squared away.

Then resume the diet again.

The plateau is not caused by your lack of exercise (although I would highly recommend exercise to you), as this happens with people that combine exercise with diet as well. Your body is simply responding naturally to what it perceives (and rightly so) as insufficient nutrition at the moment.

The key point to notice in the previously referenced article was the point about how she started losing weight again when she started eating more.

Hope that helps.
 
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