BugDude
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If you track your weight every Monday and graph it (easy to do in an Excel spreadsheet) you can see your plateaus over time and trend how long they last. It is your body's way of saying, "Whoa, there's something going on here. I'm burning more than I'm taking in so I need to slow things down to try to maintain myself." It is an unconscious survival tool buit into our bodies. It definitely helps to just mix things up either exercise or calorie wise. Either increase or decrease one or the other or a combination thereof. Or, once you see a trend and know that it will adjust you can just keep doing your thing with the confidence that it will adjust and continue to progress.
It would be nice if the body reacted to the calorie deficit created in a linear fashion, but realistically it reacts in spurts. I've tried to make some type of correlation between plateaus and spurts of loss, but it seems rather random. I might go 2 weeks without losing and then lose 6 pounds in a week. Some weeks when I really dug deep and exercised more and really tightened down on my diet I didn't lose squat. But that also helped my body adjust, so there's no direct correlation between "I did really good with my diet and exercise this week" and actually losing weight that particular week. It is a cummulative thing, so just keep up the great work and you'll keep seeing progress.
By the way, great job!!! You look awesome!!! Strikingly pretty both before and now. Glad you are focused and determined for all of the right reasons. Attitude is everything, so keep up the positive outlook.
It would be nice if the body reacted to the calorie deficit created in a linear fashion, but realistically it reacts in spurts. I've tried to make some type of correlation between plateaus and spurts of loss, but it seems rather random. I might go 2 weeks without losing and then lose 6 pounds in a week. Some weeks when I really dug deep and exercised more and really tightened down on my diet I didn't lose squat. But that also helped my body adjust, so there's no direct correlation between "I did really good with my diet and exercise this week" and actually losing weight that particular week. It is a cummulative thing, so just keep up the great work and you'll keep seeing progress.
By the way, great job!!! You look awesome!!! Strikingly pretty both before and now. Glad you are focused and determined for all of the right reasons. Attitude is everything, so keep up the positive outlook.
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