Weight loss stall - driving me nuts!

Hong Kong Yanpep International
LeanStrong said:
To push past a stall, try eating at your maintenance calorie level for two or three weeks.
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Thanks for that advice. I think I probably am too low on calories, and maybe going overboard with the exercise a little... I'll try reducing the intensity for a bit, and upping what I eat.
 
I have been hearing that if the meds stop working, there are other alternatives. Maybe talk to your doctor about switching? I saw someone on a forum say that ozempic quit working on them, so they moved to something else.
 
True_Pizza said:
People always disagree with me, but I take a few days off when this happens.
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I think you're right. When I'm in a stall, I let myself have a cheat meal to shock my system. It's usually enough to get the scale moving again.
 
A plateau specifically means the scale completely stops moving. Yours is still moving though. Was two kilos weekly genuinely the expectation here?
 
What was going on those first nine weeks, just zero movement on the scale? Asking because I'm coming up on week five myself and expected faster progress by now. By week ten was it mostly the quieter appetite and clean eating doing the work?
 
I count myself stalled if the scale doesnt move for a whole week, since I step on the scale every day. Weekly weigh-ins dont give a great picture. When I stall, the medicine is not where I look first. I review my daily deficit and my activity, and what changed there. Ive raised the dose only when hunger showed up late in the week. You have to be candid with yourself about it.
 
You're just 5 weeks in, stalls are expected. My weight sat still a couple weeks, then suddenly dropped two pounds. That's simply how it goes. Aim for slow, gradual loss and focus on the long game rather than the coming week.
 
I agree that people should recheck their quantities and post them. From my own history, 120kg down to 65kg over 2012-14, then 145kg to 75kg during 2022-23, then 75kg to 65kg in 2025-26, two weeks of an unchanged scale means basically nothing. Normal fluid shifts easily swing plus or minus 2kg, and that noise sits on top of the real weight, more if your weigh-ins are at different hours. Weight can stay flat or rise across a full month with no change in calories or long-term loss rate. A true stall on GLPs shows loss slowing gradually toward zero before stopping, and you need 6 weeks or so before you can say it isn't fluid. A sudden stop with unchanged intake, after under a year on reasonable doses, is rarely a true stall.
 
Going slowly is fine, honestly. You are making good progress. Progress isnt always a straight line. I dropped some lbs, put some back, then dropped more. There were even times when my loss stalled for a whole month. I reached my target weight in the end.
 
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