Epic stall :(

[mbuczkowski 272]

Ok. I am frustrated and need to vent. I dropped 65 lbs in 3 months. But the last month has been zilch!

I'm even walking 4- 10mi /day and half of my walks are with a 30lbs pack on my back. In the evenings, I go to the gym for 45min to work arms or legs with weights.

What's up body??? How do I kick this stall. I tried 2 days of carbs, 3 days of liquid protien...still...nothing! I log my food and Water. It's all about 1000cal/day. I get about 120g Protein and 50 or less of carbs.

Ok. I feel better... I just needed to vent.

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[JNewman531 7]

sounds like you're doing everything correctly. i'm in the same boat. down 80lbs since feb and i've stalled out over the last month. i run 5 miles three times a week and log all of my calories keeping sub 1300 a day. i feel like stalls kinda work themselves out. you're definitely at a calorie deficit and you're killing it with exercise. if someone has advice i'd love to hear it as well. but for me the stalls have gone away after a while.

[Clementine Sky 708]

It might seem like a contradictory action to take, but you may want to experiment with increasing your calories and healthy fat with good choices and see if that makes an impact. There was an article in The New York Times a few months ago about a long-term study of the contestants on the weight-loss show "The Biggest Loser," and how extreme dieting and exercising permanently damaged their metabolisms. Eating too little can be detrimental to your weight loss in the present and the future. When your body isn't getting enough calories to sustain your lifestyle it sort of freaks out to try to protect you. With the amount of vigorous exercise you're doing, you're not really consuming enough calories. So when you're not getting enough food, your body thinks you're going to starve and slows down your metabolism to try to protect you. It's an adaptation method the human body evolved to have back when our ancestors were going through famines.

I broke my first month-long stall simply by adding in a daily afternoon latte made with whole milk. I broke my second stall and actually lost weight at a more rapid pace when I was on vacation with my family and not tracking what I ate. I was still being mindful and making reasonable choices, but did have frozen yogurt and the like at times. I think my body took to the extra calories like a car with a tank nearing empty being filled up.

Your body can also just stall out because it needs some time to catch its breath. I've had several lengthy stalls, but had exceeded my goal weight by the one-year mark. I then lost another 15 pounds, and have been maintaining that for six months. Slow and steady seems to have helped me with keeping the weight off. Congrats on your weight loss thus far. You lost more in three months than I did in nine.

[Greensleevie 451]

3 minutes ago, Clementine Sky said:

It might seem like a contradictory action to take, but you may want to experiment with increasing your calories and healthy fat with good choices and see if that makes an impact. There was an article in The New York Times a few months ago about a long-term study of the contestants on the weight-loss show "The Biggest Loser," and how extreme dieting and exercising permanently damaged their metabolisms. Eating too little can be detrimental to your weight loss in the present and the future. When your body isn't getting enough calories to sustain your lifestyle it sort of freaks out to try to protect you. With the amount of vigorous exercise you're doing, you're not really consuming enough calories. So when you're not getting enough food, your body thinks you're going to starve and slows down your metabolism to try to protect you. It's an adaptation method the human body evolved to have back when our ancestors were going through famines.

I broke my first month-long stall simply by adding in a daily afternoon latte made with whole milk. I broke my second stall and actually lost weight at a more rapid pace when I was on vacation with my family and not tracking what I ate. I was still being mindful and making reasonable choices, but did have frozen yogurt and the like at times. I think my body took to the extra calories like a car with a tank nearing empty being filled up.

Your body can also just stall out because it needs some time to catch its breath. I've had several lengthy stalls, but had exceeded my goal weight by the one-year mark. I then lost another 15 pounds, and have been maintaining that for six months. Slow and steady seems to have helped me with keeping the weight off. Congrats on your weight loss thus far. You lost more in three months than I did in nine.

I concur. I exercised a lot like you do, and whenever I stalled out, I increased my calories and viola! Stall over. Give it a try!

[mbuczkowski 272]

I'll give it a go, but it scares me as if on a slippery slope to add more food to my day.

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[Clementine Sky 708]

5 hours ago, mbuczkowski said:

I'll give it a go, but it scares me as if on a slippery slope to add more food to my day.

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I was worried about that as well, but I think it's really an issue of planning. I would slide down slippery slopes by grazing, making unhealthy choices spontaneously or while already ravenous, or having a "well I already cheated today, so I might as well just start again tomorrow" attitude. That's different from deliberately choosing extra calories you're incorporating into your diet, and keeping track of them. It will probably scare you less once you start doing it, because you'll see that you still have that sense of control. For me, having the set routine of adding in the same extra calories every day - the afternoon latte with whole milk for the first stall, and later single-serving packs of almonds - helped me to stay on course because it was all disciplined.

[mbuczkowski 272]

Thank you.

I also checked this morning. While in my stall my body fat has dropped .5% even though the scale isn't moving

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[mbuczkowski 272]

I included what my friend refers too as "bro science" and end my shower ice cold. It's supposed to wake up your cells...but it worked. I broke my 5 week stall!

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[Theresa A 4]

Change the food up. Don't eat same thing everyday like I did and I increased excercise.