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Anyone else hit a brutal plateau around week 6 on tirz and just want to eat the fridge

Posted by erin_rows in Weight Loss & Metabolic - 1 points, 2 comments.

Right so I'm grand for the first month, dropping nicely, appetite basically gone, food noise silent, the whole dream.

Then week 6 hits and my body just parks the scale. Like, refuses. I've been logging everything, calories are still down, training's the same, sleep's even improved, and nothing moves for two weeks.

I know plateaus are a thing and the body adjusts. To be fair I'd be a bit suspicious if it just kept melting off forever.

But the mental side is what gets me. The food noise creeps back, I start eyeing the bread bin again, and suddenly I'm bargaining with myself over a bag of crisps at 10pm like some sort of gremlin.

For anyone who's pushed through it, did you titrate up, hold the dose longer, or change something else entirely? Did your numbers (HRV, resting HR, sleep) tell you anything useful before the scale caught up?

Comments

  • paige747: Oh god the 10pm crisp bargaining is so real lol... I hit something similar around week 7 on tirz and what helped me was actually titrating up a small step instead of just white knuckling it. The dose i'd been on just wasnt cutting it anymore for whatever reason, and waiting it out felt miserable. Honestly tho before changing anything i'd double check youre actually eating enough. I was logging what i thought was a deficit and when i really weighed stuff i was barely hitting 1200 cals some days,
  • erin_rows: Oh the weighing everything thing, I should probably do that. I'm a guesstimator not a measurer, so my "deficit" might be a few hundred calories of wishful thinking tbf. 1200 would not surprise me some days. Titrating up is what I was leaning toward anyway, just wanted to hear it wasn't mental. Cheers for that, I'll sit on it a week and actually weigh my food properly first before changing anything. If I'm underfueling the dose bump won't fix the stall, it'll just hide it.

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