Eleven weeks of the same three-pound wobble had me convinced my medication just quit on me. My appetite is still quiet, so I started mentally writing a post about dosage.
Then I did a really boring experiment: for eight days I weighed and logged everything, including the olive oil I pour by feel, the cream in my coffee, and the bites I eat while making my kid's lunch. The "tiny" stuff added up to roughly 350 calories a day.
That is not a dose mystery; that is my deficit leaking out the side of my tracking. I'm not saying plateaus are always simple, because mine has been stubborn and I'm still tired of it.
But I was ready to chase a bigger lever when the smaller, more annoying one was sitting right there. Same prescription, same gym routine, tighter logging.
For people who've dug out of a long flat stretch: what food or habit was hiding in plain sight for you?