Just a few things I already stated : I suggested, and always suggest, that lifting is necessary while losing, and much better than cardio. I have lifted every 4 days religiously with about the most intense workout (only about 70-80 minutes of lifting) I can stand to given the fact I am not going to get much muscle out of it (of course I have gained muscle by far, not lost). I highly, highly doubt I am going to "lose pounds of bone weight". I have about 3 servings of dairy average + whatever whey protein counts as, if it counts as anything that matters. Every calorie I cut from my diet was bread, pretty 110% sure I am going to be just fine.
I never implied that anybody "should" just diet, only if they are that incredibly lazy and weak. They need to walk more, lift, and eat whatever their body urges them to on any given day. I am not mindlessly preaching any mantra. Every single person without some complex disorder can easily lose every pound of weight without ever suddenly having it come grinding to a halt. 1800 is just a number for my height (average height) and gender, it obviously depends on starting height/weight/gender and is incredibly easy to alter. And every time I weightlift, I eat before and after, like anybody should.
Are you talking about a plateau with LIFTING or with weight loss? Because forced reps and complexes and all that other shit, nobody is going to hit a plateau (without being someone who just refuses to do the hard work) before like 250 bench and whatever more than reasonable amount on other weights. I already stated from the start, turning to people who know more than you (friends or trainers or ___) for intense, actually extremely high level lifting is one thing. Nobody is going to face those dilemmas just casually lifting, and certainly it is never going to do anything to weight loss. Nobody plateaus on weight loss without being a pussy, with the few rare exceptions I stated over and over and over.
I am not underestimating anything; you are sitting here talking out of your ass. You act like anybody could possibly start working out and eating way less and come away from it more unhealthy. Your body is less stressed by itself, you gain back flexibility, and any amount of effort versus previous no effort will increase muscle mass guaranteed, as long as mindless hours of cardio burning away the body while it is already burning itself away are not involved. If the person started out "fat strong" or something, then they really fucked up their strategy and are going to have to do a lot of lifting just to maintain the body to extremely minimal gains, which is unfortunate but hey whatever.
I am not uneducated, just not weak, stupid, or lazy, so it took almost no effort to figure out every single thing I needed to do on the diet & exercise side of things. The only thing that took any actual effort was to control myself the first month, to stop the 2300, 2500, 2700 calorie days...that took constant casual obsession, but only for the first month. After that I have never counted calories or paid attention other than to estimate and make sure I eat 1600-2200 calories a day. The amount of time I have spent writing in this topic is more time than it took to figure out 99% of the diet/exercise stuff. No matter how much you want to convince us you have legitimate special knowledge, there is nothing a personal trainer can learn that we cannot learn by researching casually on the internet. Who knew that pushing weights around was not a mystical, magical science. Whoa supplements besides a few that everyone agrees are good are garbage, so difficult to find out, wow!!!
Take a vitamin/supplement for calcium every day and hope they really work, they are supposed to "definitely" for calcium <3 as for me, just the usual multi :)