Plateau-Help!

I've been on a plateau for almost two weeks. Does anyone have any suggestions to beat it out? Thank you! :)

I had a 4 week plateau.  I tried lowering my calories, exercising more, and being really careful about the foods I ate, but the scale still didn't budge.  I had already lost a lot of weight and was pounds away from my goal, so I figured maybe the reason I stopped losing was that my goal was unrealistic.  Everyone was saying I look great at this weight anyway.  So, I kind of gave up on losing weight and just focused on maintaining.  And I loosened up a bit.  After I hit the plateau I stopped allowing myself cheat days, but then I had a big weekend of camping with my friends, drinking wine, eating hot dogs, muffins, cookies, chocolates, everything.  My calorie count for the week ended up a little over maintenance, but when I stepped on the scale, I was down 1 kg.  I couldn't believe it.  So my advice to you is to just take a break from the diet for a week.  It might help boost your metabolism and get you back to losing.

Well....Today I will admit that I ate 5 cookies while baking them today. So, maybe that will help...in some weird way >.>

Hey Willow.............

What kurichan says is completely true, the advice most often given for a plateau is to have a maintenance day or two and then get straight bk on the norm and repeat every week or two.

Plateau's are basically the body gettin used to the routine you have gotten in.  Dotn panic just try and mix things up a little.

Try doin a completely different exercise to what you have been every other day, incorporate some weights if you dont already? Eat maintenance for a day then say 3 norm days and then a maintenance again n then 5 norm days etc, just to keep your body guessing and shock it out of the nice comfortable place its gotten into hence the plateau.

thats basically what happened to kurichan.  Also try not to think of what your doing as a diet and mroe of a permanent lifestyle change so dont 'take a break from the diet' as such just mix things up a little and instead of lowering kcals higher them and try couple of maintenance every other week or maybe one maintenance every other week, whatever you're comfortable with.

Are you close to your goal? 

I'm not anywhere near to my ultimate goal but have lost a little over 10% of my body weight so far. I was really frustrated, my plateau lasted a month almost exactly. I just kept to it. I kept to my calories and exercised and tried not to let it get me down. It was tough and I found a group in the Motivation Form to help me out. Cheesy..but it works .  I broke my plateau this week! I'm so excited and it's def worth it..coincidentally my plateau break came after my calorically expensive anniversary celibration...lol...go figure. My body always surprises me when I'm bad.

I had hit a two-week plateau.  So many of the folks whose opinions I respect here had said to increase calories for a while, so I did for about a week.  Increased my daily calorie intake by about 300.  And, I'll be darned if it didn't work.  Sounds strange that you would LOSE weight by INCREASING calories, but I guess it has something to do with jump starting your metabolism.  Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me will respond to your post and explain it better than I can.