Make sure you are eating less than your body burns every day.  Exercise as
often as possible.  And a plateau is when you don't lose weight for like a
month when you are doing everything right.  Not just a week or two...

det

Sounds like your metabolism is catching onto your tricks. Time to step
it up, but don't cut your food intake, instead:

Drink at least 1/2 gallon of plain water a day, not counting the water
you drink to stay hydrated while exercising (1 qt/hr is about right).

If you are only 10 lbs away from slimness you can expect to not lose
much so speedily by just cutting back the calories. You're going to
have to sweat out the remaining weight, and your diet will just
maintain your energy levels and fuel the burn. I'm no expert, but I
believe in occasional marathon burns, of approximately 1500 kcal (3-5
hrs), coupled with healthy eating of proteins and fats to keep your
lean mass.

This was how I stayed skinny as a kid at least. I'll let you know in a
couple of months if this works for adults...

Heywood

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EXERCISE.

You can't be healthy without exercise anyway, and as many people have posted
here before, exercise will get you off a plateau.

congratulations, this is an awesome result.

Many women bloat due to water retention just before their periods,
that could mask your ongoing fat loss. Also, being stuck for a few
weeks after losing a bunch of fat is completely normal in all people.

You might consider also that quite possibly, after you lost weight and
adjusted to eating less, how much you eat now is much closer to how
much your body needs to maintain weight. How much more fat do you have
to lose?

I would not worry too much, and would wait a few weeks before making
any big changes.

i

And because of that very rapid loss you ended up having unrealistic
expectations.  You are doing fine.

Let's take a step back and think about what that actually means to
have a better view.  Fat is 3500-4000 calories per pound.  So you
were losing 12,000 calories per week or 2000 calories per day.
That's about the total human metabolism.  Unless you were fasting
with nothing but water, what you were doing exploited so sort of
metabolic loophole.

Step back again.  At 3500 calories that's 500 calories per day.
Perfect.

More than anything I think your only problem in unrealistic
expectations.  Everyone would love the time scale for loss to
really be week to week, but it just isn't for most people.  Month
to month.  Don't expect to like it, no one does, but a month with
a loss is not a stall.

The less you have to lose the slower it goes.  Simple as that.
On Atkins it's expected that the last 10 are supposed to take a
year.  Supposed to as in there's something possibly wrong if
they keep dropping faster.  While you aren't on Atkins that
advice is good.  Relax, you have been successfull and you
continue to be successfull given how little you have to lose.

Keep at it at the same level.  Allow the last few to take their
time.  If you further cut calories you may need to sustain that
lower amount forever to keep it off.  Do you really want to
reduce your food forever from today's level?  You're already
doing great, so let it run.