Something I hate so much is plateau stages of weight loss. It comes off so easy and then a few months later its like you don't lose anything at all. No change at all. weight doesn't go up doesn't go down and I get frustrated. I mean how can all this hard work and strict eating get me no where. Then It happens I'll lose a pound and Im like thank you sweet baby jesus. But its the times when it takes so long to loose anything.
Sure I still loose inches but its always nice when the scale goes down.I mean it is called Weight loss. I am trying to loose weight, pounds, be a smaller healthy number. But inches are nice, Ive gone from a 55 inch waist to a 36 in waist but I am still a little discouraged.
A lot of people quite at this stage, the I haven't lost anything in 2 months now I will go eat pizza. Starting over is just as hard as keep going.
I use to just lower my calories try and only eat like 1000 calories a day starve myself till I seen the pounds come off that way, let me tell you I was just as unhappy as I am now when I hit a plateau. Now I still keep eating, I may cut down some of the snacking I do and replace it with a protein shake or fruit.
Things that I do know can be a part of this horrible part of weight loss is, Water weight, gained muscle or if you are a girl that evil time of the month is coming and your body is going to be out of whack pretty soon.
(which never weight your self for those seven days)
Water weight is your body is holding on to water because you didn't drink enough. You need water to flush out your system. You're body already loses water during the day, so keep your self hydrated.
Eat the green stuff, I find if I feel like crap and nothing is working, I add more veggies to my daily meals. spinach and broccoli and lettuce... I am a rabbit lol. Added to my daily serving of watermelon
Protein, lean protein chicken , turkey. I eat bout 100 to 120 grams of protein, They say you should eat like 46 to 80 grams to be healthy which I don't know if I believe that, but you should be eating protein. When someone says eating too much protein will make you bulky and fat I get a weird look on my face. I have yet to find if you are working out and not tryin to get massive gains, it wont happen, but I am not a expert, I don't know everything yet. I could be wrong. I am speaking for me and me alone. I will tell anyone to balance protein to carbs and stay low fat. But with me when I hit my nothing has changed, I step it up and I cut carbs. for me. Find a balance that works for you.
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I change up my workout routine, many times your body can get use to what you are doing with workouts and get use to it that its not helping lose the fat. I change it up with the way I lift, the days I run where I run. Also getting enough in, I upped my workout HIIT to 54 minutes because it was getting to easy at 51 minutes. I try and get a better pace with running. Change it up.
The other thing other than cry about it is I look at what I have been doing, have I been over eating have I been doing to much and I scale back or add on.
I try not to do that 21 days of no sugar detox, becuase the last time I did it, I was sick and my body hurt and then when I did add sugar back in I wanted to die. So I already am at low sugar. So I might change that up, but a big thing is Sodium. salt holds onto water, water causes water weight and bloat. I will cut back my salt intake if I start to feel bad or hit a plateau. It helps.
Beating the plateau is only one hill in this journey. Just keep swimming (hahah) I know that I will one day reach my goal. All this hard work will not be thrown away.
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