I have been in a 7 week stall. I'm exercising, eating protein, and drinking water. My physican's office suggest that I stop exercising because I'm not taking in enough calories. Have you experienced this and what do you suggest to get pass the stall.

I hate to admit it, but I majorly slacked back on my exercise routine because any day that I get intense with exercise, I have gained weight overnight, and am way hungrier than if I just leave it alone. I heard from MarksDailyApple.com ( a primal/paleo community) that instead of "eat less / exercise more" the formula should be "eat more / exercise more" or "eat less / exercise less". Just something else to confuse me.

I hate to admit it, but I majorly slacked back on my exercise routine because any day that I get intense with exercise, I have gained weight overnight, and am way hungrier than if I just leave it alone. I heard from MarksDailyApple.com ( a primal/paleo community) that instead of "eat less / exercise more" the formula should be "eat more / exercise more" or "eat less / exercise less". Just something else to confuse me.

I totally agree with this philosophy. After all, studies have come out recently stating weight loss is 90% diet. Excerise helps increase metabolism, but if you aren't consuming enough calories, your body tries to hold on to any fat reserves it can. So either eat a little more to compensate, or cut back on the excerise. Either way, you gotta change things up to get out of that stall!

Yup, I had the same thing happen to me. I was told by my trainer and bariatric team to eat more and back off my excercise a little bit, it broke the stall and I began losing again.

Then I had major spine surgery and have been restricted from anything other than walking. Which by the way is not as easy as it once was due to pain. When I started losing quickly again I was even more confused!

Here I was barely doing exercise but following a 1000 calorie a day diet and my weight was coming off slowly but surely. Then I stalled again for almost a month.

Because I could not exercise, I have had to be very very careful about what I eat. The weight just comes off slower now but it still comes off which is what is important.

Anyway, I was shocked that I was told to exercise less and eat more but it certainly worked!

Thanks for the information! !

I just had my 3 month NUT meeting this week and she warned me of this down the road. She said what I would need to do if/when this happens is to eat 5 small meals per day instead of 3 so my body would know that calories are coming and be willing to burn fat instead of holding on to it. So counter intuitive.