Nine weeks flat after five months of steady loss, same dose, same routine, and I cannot tell whether to wait or change something.
What I actually want to know is how to distinguish a genuine plateau from measurement noise and creeping intake, before changing anything.
I have searched first, so if this is covered somewhere point me at it and I will read it.
Dr.GutHealth 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 214 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 5 lbs in the next 2 weeks. Plateaus are temporary — they always break if you stay consistent.
DanielChem_CHI said:Plateau breaking story with a stall: I stalled at 214 lbs for 6 weeks.
Agreeing with DanielChem_CHI, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. 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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Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.