20F/5’4/CW: 162/SW: 210/GW: 130
Hello everyone! This isn’t my first rodeo losing weight, but I’m down 50 lbs from 210 in June. In the beginning, weight was just falling off (as expected, especially in the beginning with water weight). I’m very data driven, so it was fun to keep track of CICO. I’m also very good at counting calories and weighing all of my food (again, not my first rodeo). I don’t drink calories and have started to pick up running in the past month.
Things were going so well until about 3 weeks ago when the scale stopped moving: tale as old as time, there’s the dreaded plateau. From a numbers perspective, I’m doing everything right. I’m eating at a deficit, working out, and tracking everything. My logical brain knows I must be losing weight. But by the following week’s weigh in, the scale didn’t change and the longer it goes on, the more upset over it I get and the more I weigh in.
It’s one of those things like a UTI or period cramps where you always forget how much the experience sucks until you’re going through it. And you tell yourself to be appreciative more after it passes. Part of me knows it’ll pass, another part of me feels angry and resentful. I’m mad at my body on behalf of my brain. I’m scared that I’m making no progress while pushing myself every day. And I’m terrified of giving up.
There’s not much of a point to this besides satisfying my desire to rant (and procrastinate). How do you all personally get through long plateaus and how long do yours usually last?
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