Stalled For 3 Weeks At 4.5 Months Out - Up Calories? Cut Fat? Cut Carbs? More Exercise?

[Catracks 865]

I called my nutritionist because I am in a stall at 4 1/2 months. The scale has been at 180 for 3 weeks! She told me to cut out the 1 oz of cheese I eat every other day. After reading that healthy fats and Protein are the way to go, I'm wondering if I shouldn't be cutting the carbs instead, I eat 30% fat, 30% carbs and 40% Protein. She says that my food choices are very healthy, but I should be eating no more than 25% fat. She also doesn't think I'm only eating 800 +/- 50 calories a day. I measure carefully, read labels and enter the into into Fitday.com.

I do know that I need to step up the daily exercise. I hike like a mad person on the weekends - up and down the local mountains until my muscles are pretty sore.

I don't know what's right anymore. Did anyone have a stall like this? Yes, I have seen the boot camp thread, but I'm wondering if this can't be cured another way. I'd like to know what I might be doing wrong.

[Joyfulone1 6]

We were sleeved on the same day and I could have written your post!!! I have been stuck at 186 for almost a month!!!!! I'm trying not to freak out but the longer the scale doesn't move the more worried I get. Prior to this stall, it seemed the more I exercised the slower the weight loss was so I completely stopped exercising. I'm going to start back exercising tomorrow and keep my calories at 800 and see what happens within the next week I have tried raising and lowering my calories to no avail. It's so frustrating being in a stall, especially this soon out. Although I am so please with my weight loss, I would like to hit my next mini goal of 175 within the next few weeks. Please keep me posted on what works to break your stall as I will do the same.

[Catracks 865]

We were sleeved on the same day and I could have written your post!!! I have been stuck at 186 for almost a month!!!!! I'm trying not to freak out but the longer the scale doesn't move the more worried I get. Prior to this stall, it seemed the more I exercised the slower the weight loss was so I completely stopped exercising. I'm going to start back exercising tomorrow and keep my calories at 800 and see what happens within the next week I have tried raising and lowering my calories to no avail. It's so frustrating being in a stall, especially this soon out. Although I am so please with my weight loss, I would like to hit my next mini goal of 175 within the next few weeks. Please keep me posted on what works to break your stall as I will do the same.

Oh thank goodness. It does look like we are sleeve twins. I thought I was the only one with this long of a stall at only 4.5 months. I don't know what to do except to get more daily exercise and cut the carbs even deeper. I barely eat any as it is.

[Swimmer 199]

I have been stuck at 178 for weeks too and I'm about four months out. I barely eat and when I work out I swear I gain. I do feel like I'm losing muscle now even though I swim a lot.

[Catracks 865]

I have been stuck at 178 for weeks too and I'm about four months out. I barely eat and when I work out I swear I gain. I do feel like I'm losing muscle now even though I swim a lot.

I have lost inches. I know that, but you'd think the actual poundage would begin to move again eventually. When I work out hard (5-6 hours of strenuous hiking), a do gain a couple pounds and then it goes away after my muscles release the Water they use during repair. The weight goes from 180 to 182 or 3 and then back down to 180 and has been doing that for the last 3 weeks. ARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!

[Pennie 66]

Stalls are so maddening. My most disheartening stall happened just 6 weeks out from surgery, and lasted 3 weeks.

There are all kinds of "tricks" you can try to break the stall. Anything to change up what you are doing might be enough (increase calories, decrease calories, increase exercise, decrease exercise). But I honestly think trying to break a stall is almost more frustrating than the stall itself. In my experience, it's best to just keep your nose to the grindstone. It sounds like you have a well balanced diet, you exercise, and you eat about 800 calories a day - correct? Keep it up. The stall will break. Eventually. Just keep up the healthy lifestyle and trust the process.

I know it is so maddening. I hope your scale budges soon. In the meantime, congrats on the inches lost! That's great!