Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
The question I want answered is how to distinguish a genuine plateau from measurement noise and creeping intake, before changing anything.
Not looking for reassurance. Looking for the part I have got wrong.
ricardo_MIA said:Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 200 lbs for 6 weeks. Tried everything — calorie cycling, increased exercise, more water. Nothing worked.
What finally broke the plateau: increasing protein to 150g/day. Lost 9 lbs in the next 2 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.
Dr.PeteFamMed said:Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 200 lbs for 6 weeks.
No disagreement with Dr.PeteFamMed. One condition attached. Most reported plateaus are not plateaus. Weight is a noisy signal — daily variation of one to two kilograms from glycogen, sodium and gut contents — so a fortnight of flat readings is well inside the noise band. Before concluding anything, look at a rolling weekly average over at least four weeks and at a tape measure, because recomposition shows up in circumference before it shows up in weight. Then track intake honestly for a week: appetite suppression fades unevenly, and intake creeping back up is the single commonest cause.
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View Resultsricardo_MIA said:Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
Second this.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.