Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
What would genuinely help is knowing 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.
Dr.DermMIA 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 216 lbs for 8 weeks. Tried everything — calorie cycling, increased exercise, more water. Nothing worked.
What finally broke the plateau: adding HIIT cardio 2x/week. Lost 10 lbs in the next 3 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.
Dr.GastroMayo said:Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 216 lbs for 8 weeks.
No disagreement with Dr.GastroMayo. One condition attached. Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body. A body 20kg lighter needs meaningfully fewer calories at rest and less to move, so the deficit that produced the first phase is arithmetically smaller now. The options are the honest ones — increase the deficit slightly, increase activity, or accept the new plateau — and escalating the dose is only one of them.
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View ResultsDr.DermMIA said:Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.
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