Stuck at the same bloody weight

[dudelooks]

Been bang on plan. Loads of speed food. Loads of water. Around 6 syns per day. No rice or pasta or spuds as I don't eat these anyway.

Yet the fucking scales haven't shifted all bloody week.

What am I doing wrong? Or is this normal?

Sorry, I should have added that this is my eighth week or something like that.

I've lost 3 stone with sw but plateaued for weeks.

I'm now doing a version of sw5:2 where I fast for 2 days a week and I lost 5LBS last week!!

Have you lost nothing for 8 weeks or is it just this week?

Up your syns to 15. I find I stay stuck if I don't have them all x

Thank you all for your replies.

calzone that's interesting - tell me more?

I've lost 19lbs. I have another 2 stone to go to target (god that sounds like so much ).

I'm hoping this is just a plateau that I will eventually overcome but it's so disheartening when you're really on plan and the stupid scales don't reflect it whatsoever.

Sometimes you have a sts. It sucks. Hopefully the following week you'll have a bigger loss.

Sts? Stay the same?

Yes.

Have you done your measurements?

I haven't, groovee. I haven't done them since I started. Wish I had.

I had a plateau at about 20lb. It was about three weeks of half a pound loss, sts, etc.

I'm now back to losing a pound and a half to two and a half pound a week which is my usual rate, so was just a blip. No idea why though!

I did have to do a mental reset and sort of treat it like my first week - that seemed to do the trick. Think I got a bit stuck in a rut.

Fb group called sw5:2 making diets work for you.

I fasted for 2 days on 500 calories and eat sw style the rest of it but count my calories.

clash Glad it's not me. Pleased to hear you got through it.

calzone Thank you

Yes - you plateau, because basically your BMR has changed. Don't give up. Also you might find that during your monthly cycle you will struggle. I do - every four weeks I maintain or put on! then Aunt Flo makes an appearance,a nd it all come off again :)

A few things you can do though:

~ Check your portion sizes
~ Look at your snacks, can you make changes there? e.g. if you're having (say) 2 x Muller Lights a day as an am and pm snack, that is around 200 calories, but 2 x apples would be around 100. So see if you can swap out snacks for things like carrot sticks, fish sticks etc
~ Keep to 1/3+ Speed on your plate (see image for clarity)
~ Drink more

Also - over time, your weight loss will even out to around 1-2lb a week :)

The first fe weeks will be dramatic (say 3-5 a week) and then it might go to 0.5lb... 1lb...0lb...2lb etc.

as long as the trend is downwards, you're doing fine :)