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The psychology of plateaus — what worked for you?

AmyNC_wife Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM 11 replies 1,431 viewsPage 1 of 3
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AmyNC_wife
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Jun 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM#1

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.

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Dr.ObesityLA
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Jun 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM#2
AmyNC_wife 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 211 lbs for 7 weeks. Tried everything — calorie cycling, increased exercise, more water. Nothing worked.

What finally broke the plateau: a brief dose increase followed by return to maintenance. Lost 8 lbs in the next 3 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.

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Jun 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM#3
Dr.ObesityLA said:
Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 211 lbs for 7 weeks.

No disagreement with Dr.ObesityLA. 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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Jun 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM#4
AmyNC_wife said:
Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use.

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anders_CPH
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Jun 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM#5

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.

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