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Need advice--four month plateau!

So I've been on these boards a few times posting about my plateau but I am back for more help as I still haven't broken through the wall.

I've been at the same plateau for 4 months now--constantly regaining/gaining the same 3 pounds. The first month I was eating about 1500 calories a day and doing 240 minutes a week ofcardio and two strength training workouts. After the first month of the plateau I begain trying every plateau buster possible--eating less calories (1300/day), eating more calories (1600/day), cycling calories (ie high day/low day but averaging 1500/week), cutting out processed food, cutting out sodium, working out harder/switching up workouts, even drastically upping/downing my calories (11/day or 1600/day during different weeks)--you name it, I've tried it for at least 2 weeks at a time (so my body has time to adjust to the changes). I RELIGIOUSLY journal and measure every, single solitary bite I eat. Yet no matter what I try the scale won't budge--nor am I losing inches either. I've even gone to my doctor to confirm there is no medical reason (thryoid, etc.) I'm not losing weight. Its so frustrating I end up crying every week when I weigh in from the frustration.

As a last ditch effort I'm looking for someone with stats similar to mine that can tell me EXACTLY what they are doing each week to lose b/c no matter what I try it just isn't working. Again, I'd really appreciate someone who has similar stats telling me EXACTLY how many calories they eat per week/day and how much they work out so I can break this plateau (Although helpful, advice such as eat less sodium, journal every bite have already been tried so I really just want real world examples of calories/activity levels from someone at my weight/height who is successfully losing).

My stats: I'm 5'6 and currently at 155 pounds. I do cardio 4x a week for an hour (treadmill/elliptical) burning 600 calories (6 APs validated by a HRM) and strength train 2x/week for 30 minutes. The rest of the day I'm very sedentary b/c I'm a student.

Thanks in advance for your help!


Sun. Apr 13, 7:07pm

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