Bandrai's Journal, 10 December 2021

Following this! Best of luck on your journey! We CAN do this 💪💪🤛 

Nice work!  

I'm at a very similar plateau, 141/138. I need to cut my calories for a few weeks and focus on HIIT and cardio. Drop a few (like 4) pounds then get back to my lifting!  

Unfirtunately plateaus are inevitable as we get closer and closer to our goal weight. Scale weight changes become less and less validating the efforts and discipline we used to make progress. Look for non scale victories to fuel your motivation, add a few intermittent fasting days here and there, accommodate bigger planned (or unplanned) calorie days with low calorie days either before, after or on both sides of these days. It is a process for sure, more a continuing goal than a race to a finish line. Not sure if this helps but remember how it felt to be exactly where you want to be...that's the reward for your perseverance. Good luck, keep on keepin on!! 

have you attempted tracking calories and step counter! I've had really good luck with both. once I hit a plateau and I either decrease calories by 200 a day or increase steps. just throwing it out there. once the scale starts moving again I keep that up until I hit a plateau for a week. also daily weigh ins first thing after waking up before any food or water consumption after using the bathroom. Weight and fat loss is linear that's why I don't like to do weekly weigh-ins.  

* is not linear. My apologies but I voice text and obviously make a lot of errors lol 

When I hit a stubborn plateau, it usually means my body has gone to super efficient mode. As counterintuitive as it sounds, I increase calories by 2-300 per day for 3-4 days. Don't do more than 4 days. Body resets and weight loss resumes. It sometimes takes a little longer to start dropping after reset. The whoosh is coming tho. Works for me. Had a Canadian hippy MD tell me that 30 years ago.  

try to increase your calories a bit. *should* give your metabolism the bump it needs. then stay there until you stop losing again then drop back down.  

that's what I do at the end on my fat loss phases.like the last 4weeks start to taper back up. I'll continue to lose weight and also gives me a jump start on finding maintenance cals. works well for me. 

One thing I figured out is that my muscle mass has increased over the past year so my goal is going to be higher than I originally thought. Have you had a bodyfat measurement done anywhere? I am shooting for 25% and that means 145 at my current body masss and not the 125 I was in college. At least that is the plan at the moment.