I think I have plateued.

Hello this is my first post and I was hoping to introduce myself properly before asking for help, but I'm feeling a little down about my weight loss.
I'm Paul and have used MFP for about a year on and off. And have recently got back on the wagon so to speak. When I started back up February 17 this year I weighed 262.2 and today I have gotten down to 246. For the past seven days I have been bouncing back and forth between 245 and 246. I do weigh myself daily. I am eating the same. Keeping the calorie below 1960 as I'm supposed to. Most of the time I'm around 1500 to 1700. I do not exercise. I just work on my feet all day. Sometimes I feel like my scale is not working correctly because I feel my close and work uniforms getting looser everyday. It's digital so I though it would be accurate. Just feeling discouraged.

Thanks will any encouragement.

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Here we go again. 18 days and have stayed around 230.

Can someone have a look at my diary? Perhaps I'm not eating right.

Thanks.

unknown

Assuming your calorie logging is bang-on, perhaps your deficit is a little small for the "noticeable" scale results you're looking for. Lots of assumptions here but...

1,950 BMR - 1,687 Calorie / day average over the past 2 weeks = a daily deficit of 263 calories
3500 (calories/pound) / 263 daily deficit = 13.3 days to lose 1 pound

100 less calories per day, or geesh man, maybe just a wee bit of exercise might get the scale moving again. Unless you're 8' tall, 230 lbs. is enough that you shouldn't have to wait that long for results.

Some (well, probably many on MFP) will argue that 0.5 lbs / week is just dandy but, I'm a similar size and that just wouldn't cut it for me. Maybe when I drop to 220ish I'll re-evaluate my goals. Just my opinion.