Hi all,
First off, I do want to say thank you to this community. I've been a lurker here since I started my weight loss journey a few months ago (since July) and I've gone from 223lbs down to 198lbs (30/M/6'0"). I've found every post here to be helpful in aiding my weight loss and helping me remain focused on reaching my goal weight of 185lbs. Weight has been a struggle for me my whole life, I have never, not once, been at a healthy weight. A couple of years ago I reached my heaviest of 240lbs and ever since then it's been just a really long journey of trying to be a healthier/happier-with-myself type of person.
The weight, for the most part, has been going down slowly but steadily. Since July, I've followed a somewhat strict CICO diet, consuming about 1550 calories every day. Some days maybe a few less calories, and others, a few more. I will say, throughout September, I did have a bit of a cheat-meal-every-week sort of thing but even then 5-6/7 days a week I did remain in a calorie deficit. October and November have been fairly good and I finally saw myself drop under 200 for the first time in 11 years. The last couple of weeks have been a bit tough. As mentioned in the title of the post, I've found myself hitting a plateau between 197 and 200. I've read online that this is normal, and that I should expect the weight loss to resume momentarily; however, what has made this frustrating and worrisome for me is that I've had perhaps the healthiest month or so ever since starting losing weight. I've stayed at a calorie deficit, I haven't had a single cheat day — and for about two weeks and a half the scale isn't budging (down 197.4, up 198.5, down 198.1, up 198.4).
I have a Withings Body Scale, so I'm able to look at other things aside from my weight. I have lost about 3.3% of body fat throughout November and gained about 3.2% muscle mass. I have started working out recently, but (to be quite honest) it's been fairly inconsistent... I'm not sure whether the scale isn't budging because I'm replacing fat with muscle or simply if my metabolism is slowing down drastically from having been on a CICO diet now for ~5 months.
So with all that said, I was hoping to see if anyone else here has sort of run into a similar situation as mine. I read an article online about trying to up my calorie intake to sort of break away from the pattern/cycle my metabolism has gotten used to from being in a low calorie diet for an extended period of time — something I'll be trying out throughout the next few days. I feel like I'm so close of reaching my goal weight, so close of finally being at a healthy BMI (just 13lbs more to go!) — I'm doing well not letting the plateau result in loss of motivation, trying hard to remain disciplined.
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!
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