Can I please have a moan?! I just cannot budge an annoying half stone and I know for others who have a bigger goal it might sound like nothing to worry about, but it's driving me mad.
In recent years I had successfully lost weight with a 'lazy keto' diet, got down from about 14 stone to 11st 8lbs which felt ideal, as I'm almost 6ft and that's the lightest I've been since I was a teenager! So I was very happy and maintained it for about a year, with the odd pound or 2 fluctuating, but mostly steady.
Then at the end of last summer in the space of 5 nights holiday, I piled on the half a stone despite not going overboard with junk food and drinking. Since then, so around 9 months now, I have not been able to shift that extra half stone. At first I did lazy keto again, which did nothing, and that had worked pretty fast to see some steady losses last time. Then I was very sick around Christmas, and took a while to recover and get back to my usual exercise routine. To make up for lack of workouts I did much stricter keto and finally resumed normal exercise since March/April.
Currently I'm doing the keto quite strictly plus now counting calories, which I didn't need to do last time. Been at around 1300 cals per day for the last 5 weeks, which according to MFP should result in 2lb off a week. Nothing moving! WTF is going on?! I'd love to lose that half stone again so some of my clothes fit better and I feel as confident as I did when I was trimmer.
In the last 5 weeks I have: been to the gym for weights 3-4 per week, some weeks more. Done yoga classes 2-3 times per week. Increased my step count to over 10k per day. Eaten mostly meat, fish or vegetables, some low carb fruits now and again, no snacking, plenty of water, hardly any sugar or processed foods, all under 1300/1400 (my tdee is 1600). Spent my lunch break walking around the park 3 times per week, instead of sitting in the break room. No takeaways or junk or extravagant meals out.
In the last 2 weeks I have also cycled to work instead of driving, so around 40 mins 3 x week, up and down hills (so some exertion). My legs are feeling it but the scales are the same as ever and so are my measurements, it's not muscle weight and I'm not toning either, flabby bits are still sadly very flabby. I know 2 weeks of cycling isn't long to see a difference, but that's on top of the previous 3 weeks of changes. I'm weighing and tracking everything on MFP so I know there's no hidden calories anywhere. I can't figure out what to do, I feel like I'm already doing all the right things with no results, so obviously there's something I'm missing. I can't moan to friends as they all have much bigger weight loss goals and it's upsetting for them they aren't as close to target as I am.
Argh!! Any chance it might suddenly just drop off instead of being gradual as I was expecting?!