Plateaus!!!! - ThinnerTimes

Gwen · 02-26-2008, 01:47 AM

Hi there Peeps

I am experiencing an agonising 3 week plateau in my weightloss journey and, although I've read everything I could find about it on the Forum, it was only when I read Jim's updated blog that it all made sense to me.

For anybody experiencing a plateau or fearing the dreaded plateau this should be compulsory reading:

Plateaus - Oh! The Beauty and Granduer - part of James Ranes (Omaha Jim)'s Life Exhibited blog

Thanks HuggyBear!!!

Remember Peeps - keep your eye on the goal

XXX

Omaha Jim · 02-26-2008, 10:19 AM

Thanks for putting this on here Gwennie! I need to start moving my blogs to be resident on TT - but hopefully people will still go to my blog at www.life-exhibited.blogspot.com.

monkeygrly · 02-26-2008, 10:23 AM

I don't have any advice to offer but I will say that I had 3 week plateaus my whole first year of weightloss. Every 3rd week nothing at first I was horribly discouraged but I continued to lose at a very steady rate and by my one year surgiversary I had lost a total of 130 lbs.

nextbigloser · 02-26-2008, 10:26 AM

I have been on a plateau for about 2 weeks now. I can say that I have not exercised as much as I should be and I think that contributes to my stall. I joined a gym yesterday and I hope to see that scale move soon.

Gwen · 02-26-2008, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by monkeygrly

I don't have any advice to offer but I will say that I had 3 week plateaus my whole first year of weightloss. Every 3rd week nothing at first I was horribly discouraged but I continued to lose at a very steady rate and by my one year surgiversary I had lost a total of 130 lbs.

Thanks for posting that Kristi!

XXX

MiladyB · 02-26-2008, 12:02 PM

Gwen, plateaus most certainly play with your mind. I was lucky that I consistently lost every week for the first 9 months but once I hit 9 months I had the mother of plateaus. It went on for 6 weeks. Talk about getting discouraged!! I was right outside of onederland too. What I did was increase my calories a bit and up my protein. I sat down with the nutritionist and discussed what I was eating...all seemed ok in that area so I decided I needed to change things up a bit. My nutritionist encouraged me not to worry. She explained that plateaus usually lasted 4-6 weeks....yep...6 weeks to the day my weight dropped like crazy. I lost like 10 pounds in 2 weeks. So hang in there sweetie. It's hard but it is something we all go through.

galaxy135 · 02-26-2008, 12:31 PM

Hi Gwen

I had a 4 month plateau last year and it really got me down. I spoke to Shaw about it and he explained that it was my body's way of readjusting itself to the huge weight loss I had already experienced.

MiladyB · 02-26-2008, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by galaxy135

Hi Gwen

I had a 4 month plateau last year and it really got me down. I spoke to Shaw about it and he explained that it was my body's way of readjusting itself to the huge weight loss I had already experienced.

Hey there Lou, I just noticed that you and I share the same surgiversary!!

shereeks · 02-26-2008, 01:50 PM

Aw bless my ever shrinking friend Gwen. I absolutely know you are going to do this but I appreciate that sometimes its hard to see the woods for the trees so thought maybe if you say my weight loss week to week it may help you see that even with the plateaus there is always hope for that final goal!

The first numbers are lbs and second lot are kilos just for you

Hope it helps - you are a fighter and you will keep fighting til you get to that goal - I know it!

01/08/06 - pre op weight - 322lbs/144.8kgs
15/09/06 - starting weight - 299lbs/134.7kgs
26/09/06 - 284/130
03/10/06 - 280/128
10/10/06 - 278/125.5
17/10/06 - 273/124
22/10/06 - 267/121
29/10/06 - 264/120
05/11/06 - 260/117 plateau start
12/11/06 - 257/117
19/11/06 - 248/112.3
26/11/06 - 246/111.4
03/12/06 - 241/110 plateau start
10/12/06 - 241/110
17/12/06 - 240/109.6
24/12/06 - 234/106.2
31/12/06 - 226/102.5
07/01/07 - 221/99.7 plateau start
13/01/07 - 221/99.7
20/01/07 - 220/99.5
28/01/07 - 217/98.9
04/02/07 - 214/97.1
11/02/07 - 212/96.7
18/02/07 - 208/94.7
25/02/07 - 201/91.3
01/04/07 - 190/86.7
09/04/07 - 188/85.3
15/04/07 - 186/84.7
22/04/07 - 179/81.1 plateau start
29/04/07 - 179/81.1
05/05/07 - 177.80.6
13/05/07 - 176/79.8
20/05/07 - 173/78.9 plateau start
27/05/07 - 173/78.9
03/06/07 - 171/77.8
10/06/07 - 169/76.8
17/06/07 - 166/75.5
24/06/07 - 164/74.2 plateau start
01/07/07 - 164/74.2
08/07/07 - 159/72.7 plateau start
15/07/07 - 158/72.5
22/07/07 - 158/72.5
29/07/07 - 157/71.3
05/08/07 - 155/70.7
12/08/07 - 152/69.4
19/08/07 - 150/68.6 plateau start
02/09/07 - 150/68.6
09/09/07 - 150/68.6
16/09/07 - 146/66.9
23/09/07 - 144/65.6 plateau start
30/09/07 - 144/65.6
05/10/07 - 144/65.6
13/10/07 - 142/65.0
20/10/07 - 140/64.1

Gwen · 02-27-2008, 05:42 AM

Thanks for the encouragement Beth, Lou & Sheree!!! Thanks for posting your log Shereek - I wanted to ask you about that before and now I've got it to refer to in future

Confession - don't know if you heard about the Earthquake felt across much of the UK in the early hours of this morning? It was actually not an earthquake but me jumping off the scale in celebration when I weighed myself and the scale had moved after three weeks

I am soooo happy and ready to tackle the couple of pounds to my next goal which is ONEDERLAND (the real one!!)

Thanks Peeps!!! and thanks Jim for writing that beautiful piece!

XXX