We’ve all been there. The dreaded plateau strikes and the scales stop moving steadily downwards and choose instead to meander up, down, around and back again, every day driving us into a deeper pit of frustration and despair. Sometimes it feels like we’re doomed to be running in place forever.
If you stick to the BSD, though, eventually the losses begin anew. Even a small loss is paradise compared to rollercoaster of the plateau, but this thread is about the times when the plateau was followed by unexpectedly great weight loss. That way new BSDers and old timers alike can read this thread when they’re in the depths to feel just a bit better about keeping on the program when the scale is being mean.
I have two major plateau recovery experiences. The first happened during the original 8 weeks. I hadn’t weighed myself the first few weeks, then when I did in the 5th week, it was a plateau. Up and down over a range of 3-4 pounds. To say I was horrified and perplexed is an understatement. That was August 25th. On September 1st, I was down .1 pounds from my first weigh-in ever. By the end of that week, I had lost 7 pounds. The next week I lost another 7. That was the first time I saw in numbers the power of the BSD, plateau be damned.
Those losses were the highest I’d ever recorded. Last month, I had a two-week plateau in the middle of February. I recovered with my usual loss the last week (3 pounds or so), and the same again the first week in March. Then the second week I hit a mini-plateau. Less than 10 pounds from the major goalpost of weighing less than 200 pounds, I bounced around a single pound for 4 days, leaving me a final week’s loss of 1 pound. I was deeply dejected, thinking that maybe my days of steady 3 pound a week losses were over already even though I still had more than 80 pounds to get to my goal weight.
This week I lost 9 pounds, breaking my previous record, taking me 3 pounds below 200 and putting the lie to all those downer thoughts that can plague us when the scales don’t go our way.
Okay, your turn! Share your most inpsiring plateau recovery stories.