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Seriously, explain the plateau in a concrete, coherent way. No mushy "maybe it's because" or "perhaps it's due to" responses. This is a mathematical problem, and it deserves a near-mathematical response.
A pound is 3500 calories. If I'm losing 500 calories per day, my weight should be going down incrementally. It should not be staying at the same number.
Let's say you start with a bucket of ten apples, and every day I remove one apple from the bucket. If the result of this, every day, is that the bucket continues to be filled with ten apples...and assuming I'm not regularly adding new apples to the bucket...you would agree this would be a legitimate premise for an episode of the X-Files.
Also, don't give me the "water retention" argument. Water weight fluctuates, but it doesn't explain the same weight over an extended period of time.
So again...in a completely cogent and intellectual way, explain the "plateau."
A pound is 3500 calories. If I'm losing 500 calories per day, my weight should be going down incrementally. It should not be staying at the same number.
Let's say you start with a bucket of ten apples, and every day I remove one apple from the bucket. If the result of this, every day, is that the bucket continues to be filled with ten apples...and assuming I'm not regularly adding new apples to the bucket...you would agree this would be a legitimate premise for an episode of the X-Files.
Also, don't give me the "water retention" argument. Water weight fluctuates, but it doesn't explain the same weight over an extended period of time.
So again...in a completely cogent and intellectual way, explain the "plateau."