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What's your worst plateau experience?

5.1K views 28 replies 21 participants last post by  perfect blue  
#1 ·
I've been stuck since before Thanksgiving. My only bad food days have been Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. And I exercise, well, I count work as exercise because I'm running around for 7 hours. Other than that, my diet is just picking at things throughout the day and I never go above 500 calories. It sucks so bad. I don't understand and I'm so pissed.

Share your worst plateaus and how you got past them.
 
#2 ·
Last year when I was dieting healthily I was stuck at 50kg for like... 2 months lol. Then I got fed up and binged for 7 months and gained 6.6kg from my start weight. I've since lost the weight and then some in the past 3 weeks, though.
 
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#4 ·
I've been at between 95 and 100 lbs for forEVER! I tried eating "normally" for a day to boost metabolism, but freaked out and purged when I got too full after dinner....

My body just does NOT want to go under this weight. I'm going to have to reduce again I guess. It's been many months here and I'm getting frustrated! But much less than the 500-600 cals/day and I start feeling dysfunctional, achy, SO tired and slightly faint. I'm a pretty busy single mom, so I need the energy. Ugh.
 
#10 ·
I'm glad I found this topic because it's actually what I came here looking for. I'm 5'3", 99-102 pounds and have been plateaued since a wee bit after thanksgiving. I've tried increasing my intake and doing everything I can to break it. I was eating 500 calories maximum and I just would not lose any more. So for the past week and a half or so I've been trying to eat at least 750 calories and at most, 950. I'm still stuck. I had almost 1400 calories yesterday because I got drunk, weighed in today and still the same weight. I did purge a lot last night though and I think that's my main problem right now. I can't seem to get myself to keep all of the increased intake in, I'll eat 950 calories but then go exercise 700 off. Ugh. I'm trying for 1,000 calories today, and I'm hoping that I can get past this soon. I might try the chocolate mono diet. Good luck everyone x
 
#11 ·
I plateau horribly. I fast all the time and I'll lose a few pounds the first day and then nothing for days. If I eat even one small thing, like a slice of cheese, I will be a pound higher the next day. Seriously. I gained almost 20 pounds in a recovery attempt and now it's taking me forever to lose the weight. I'm just stuck.

I guess I'll keep fasting and hope that eventually the weight will have to come off.
 
#12 ·
im in one right now. ive had net 600 or less calories except for three days in the last 2 weeks and i havent even lost .1 pound im exactly the same
 
#14 ·
I swear since around 20-25th december (after i came back from overseas) i put on a little weight and plateaued because i was not walking 24/7.

Now i am freaking out that i feel like I'm still gaining!! ever since i came home I've been running or walking for 25-40 mins everyday but nothing is changing D:

I'm 170cm/5'7 and now about 50kg/110lb and its f*ing killing me.

I was on a steady 500 calories then recently decided that if i increase my intake to about 1000 it might boost my metabolism so i can start loosing again.

done that for three days now and i swear all thats happening is gaining!!

today i've decided to go on a tea fast and I've already gone for a 40 min run/walk....

sorry for the rant but I'm just so desperate!! :(
 
#16 ·
I'm currently on a plateau :/ I went on a semi liquid fast and everything was going well. I lost like 3kg in the first week. And the second week: BAM, my period came. And I've being stuck in the same 120/121/122 region ever since.
 
#17 ·
Me too, been like this for about 2 months. I'm trying going back to a keto diet to see if that helps. I'm currently on 500 cals strict with at least 10 kms walk/run a day. I've not shifted weight at all in weeks. It's nuts, or I am, one or the other!

My body seems to plateau after every 5lbs these days, it sucks.
 
#18 · (Edited by Moderator)
3 years. Since December 2011 I've been at the same weight and could not for the life of me lose it. I'd gain/lose the same 10lbs here and there, but generally I'd say around the 140lb mark. Now I'm at 130lbs and there's no way in hell I'm letting myself go up again. My goal is about 115lbs so now the only way is down for me. I'm finally managing to end this 3 year plateau (which for the most part was psychological I think) and getting to where I should have been 3 years ago.

I'm doing it by basic calorie counting. My safe number is 800 because it's not so low that I feel hungry, and it's not so high that I end up getting carried away and binge eating or wasting calories on junk. One meal absolutey has to be high fibre bran (shop brand version of All Bran), and another meal has to have baked beans. With those two foods I get 21g fiber. I don't care what the other meal is as long as it's a meal. I generally try to stay under 90g carbs, but if I want bread (wholemeal!) or a sandwich then I'll have it because it's one of the few foods that actually satisfies my hunger and stops me from reaching for chocolate and junk.

Also, I'm trying to retrain my sweet tooth (or binge tooth as I like to call it :p). I didn't have any chocolate or junk yesterday, and so far today (it's 3pm here in England) I haven't touched the stuff. Whenever I make English tea (at least 3 times a day!) I make green tea too and I add honey because I really hate the flavour of green tea. I don't count the honey calories because I just really cba. It comes under 100 calories altogether, but I don't worry because I'm restricting anyway so until I reach another plateau I'll keep losing weight. :D
 
#19 ·
Probably recently was my worst experience...the time between Thankgiving and New Year. I was about 105 and couldn't, no matter how much I restricted, get back down into the double digits. I've lost more weight in the past 2 weeks than I have in the past 2 months. The only thing differently I've done was binge and purge a couple times. Bodies are weird.
 
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#23 ·
I've been stuck at 124lbs since forever :( I regret binging sooo much, I feel disgustingly fat. Nothing I do is even working...I've been jumping in the trampoline non stop, using the stepper, eating nothing but 1-2 meals a day of veggies and fruit, measuring things and counting calories like crazy, but nope. Still as fat as ever, I'm sick of this *flips table*
 
#24 ·
Been within the same 10 pounds since OCTOBER. Binging right now to get over it, or try. If this doesn't work, I'm fucked.

I usually eat <200cal.