Starting Weight: 164 / Current Weight: 158.5 / Goal Weight: 150
So I think it’s pretty safe to say that I’ve plateaued – I’ve been sitting here at the 158/158.5 mark for a little while now. And while I was drinking my TAIslim stuff this, I had grand hopes of losing another couple pounds.
But…I suppose I can’t complain. This hasn’t been a very usual week, and I certainly haven’t been doing very good:
- Little to no exercise
- I only tracked my points 1-2 days out of the week
- Big lunch of Chinese food on our anniversary
- Ate out at the Farmer’s Market Thursday night
- Had an amazing (but way too many points to count) dinner in San Francisco Friday night before the symphony
- Had a Burger King Whopper Saturday night in San Francisco
- Sunday lunch was potluck-style at church
- Sunday dinner was our Youth Ministry Dinner (potluck style as well)
So I suppose I should be glad that I didn’t put a few pounds back on after that week. However, it’s time to get back on the horse. Despite my “bad” week last week, I had a few people from church say they noticed that I was losing some weight and that was very encouraging. So I need to get back to it. I still have 8.5 pounds to lose in about one and a half months.
Does anyone have any advice for how to break through the plateau of losing weight?
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Just stay focused and keep counting your points. Get back to the exercise. Reading your week it seems that you plateaued because of the lack of exercise and eating out more than what you wanted to do. Get back to basics I guess is the easy way to say it.
Often plateaus are a sign that your body has found a new “normal”. While balancing the right foods and the exercising, you got to switch it up. For instance, if you run 30 minutes every day, your body will assume that’s the normal amount of activity each day and your metabolism with adjust accordingly. When you do get the exercise back in, vary it up throughout the week: change up machines, do five minute intervals of different intensities, etc. You got to keep your body guessing and not used to anything too long in order to get that metabolism spinning.
Also, don’t forget that while you are exercising you are building muscle, which is five times heavier per unit of volume than fat. I had a similar issue for about two months, where I was stuck between 77 and 78 kg for about two months after several months of steady weight loss. I was doing everything right, but the weight loss just stalled. It turned out that my muscles were simply bulking up.
You should be able to pick up a set of body composition analyser scales (Weight Watchers have their own line here in .au, which can be bought in any department store) reasonably cheaply. They can give you a fairly good idea of how your body’s changing as you try to improve it.