Plateau
Thought this info might help when you hit that plateau and want to give up.
Every once in a while, you just stop losing weight. Try as you might, a week passes by, maybe two, but the needles on your scale is simply stuck. You're on a plateau...
To imagine what this means, think of pulling your car off the road while you are on your way down the mountain and stopping to take a look. That's a good time to look back at the peak, to see how far you've come in your journey. Take a breather, sit and enjoy, and recognize that you will get started back on your journey down the mountain, with time.
It's important to note that while you may not be losing weight, you may still be losing inches. This could be due to gain in muscle mass, change in water mass in your body, or any other two or more parallel processes that might be obscuring the fact that you are thinning down.
Generally speaking, plateaus seem to happen when your body has gotten used to the new regime - Its slows down its metabolism a notch to compensate for what it perceives as a potential emergency due to lack of food. Intuitively, the best to break a plateau is to make a change to your dieting regime.
What's truly interesting, however, is that a temporary increase of your food intake by a couple of hundred calories might be more effective than decreasing it by the same amount, since that sends out even louder alarm bells to your body. In other words, if you seem to be taking a break in your weight loss journey, enjoy that break by allowing yourself a few extra treats for a day or two, and then go back to the calorie level from before.
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Staci
333/203/180
Surgery/Current/Goal
Century Club Aug 07
February 19, 2007 Surgery
"] Finally starting my journey to weight loss
November 27, 2006 State overturned Appeal
October 2006 Appeal to the State
August 2006 2nd Referral (denied appeal)
March 2006 Referral (denied).
From this perspective, everything is equally forgivable, whether it’s our laziness, self-hatred, impatience, large thighs, or tendency to overeat.
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