My plateau is probably the leftovers I stopped counting

2026-10-10 23:33

i’ve been circling the same three-pound range for five weeks now — 187 to 189 — and my first instinct was that the medication had quit on me. But when I actually wrote down a normal Tuesday, it was ugly in a boring way: handfuls of my kid’s mac and cheese, two bites of toast while packing lunches, a spoon of peanut butter that somehow became four, and a small piece of cake at work that I mentally filed under nothing.

My appetite is still quiet, so none of it feels like a binge. It’s just unmeasured. The annoying part is that the fix is not mysterious, it’s tedious.

I’m back to weighing the boring stuff and not pretending bites don’t exist. Anyone else find their plateau was mostly a logging blind spot rather than a medication ceiling?

2026-10-19 05:36

Your Tuesday sounds a lot like mine — the "spoon that became four" is the classic one. What helped me was a dumb little system: a "tasting bowl" next to the stove, and anything I sneak goes in it, then I weigh the bowl at the end of the day. It turned a vibe into an actual number, and mine was ~200 cal most days.

Question though — was that Tuesday a one-off recall, or did you actually log 5–7 days? One reconstructed day can just be a weird day. Also, does your 187–189 band line up with your cycle? If it does, you may not be plateaued so much as re-measuring the same water at the same point each month.

2026-10-28 01:46

The sneaky one for me wasn't leftovers—it was pre-dinner tastes while cooking. No plate, no pause, so my brain never files it as a meal.

I put a sticky note on the stove and drew a hash mark every taste. Six to eight most nights, which is a real number by Friday.

Chewing gum while cooking killed most of them, and the scale finally drifted down ~0.5 lb/week. In the trials, self-monitoring is one of the boring consistent predictors, which tracks with my n=1.

Have you tried pre-logging the bites before they happen, instead of reconstructing Tuesday after?