heidrun
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Well people, my plateau days are over. When I weighed myself today at the time where I base my weight loss info on (fully dressed in the afternoon) then the number on the scale told me that I had lost 4 lbs./1.7 kg As usual I had a HUGE weight loss basically over night, because yesterday I was in my usual plateau weight (321.7 lbs/146 kg). So I have lost in all since january 86 lbs/ 38.7 kg. The thing is that my weight has been basically the same since 18th June, so I haven’t lost weight for nearly one month. It would be understandable not losing weight if I had been pigging out, but I wasn’t! I followed my food plan as I had done before (when I was losing weight) 99.9% of the time. I didn’t eat sugar or binge on junk-food, or do anything different. I guess plateaus are just part of the process of losing weight, but they sure are the biggest hurdle for maintaining the mentality necessary for the weight loss. When you don’t see any results despite doing everything right, then it is so easy to fall from the right path. You start to think what’s the point of continuing, when you aren’t losing any weight.
Luckily I kept focusing on my goal, so I didn’t cave for the voices telling me to quit. I said to myself that the weight loss was just the one of the benefits of eating very healthy. I feel great both physically and mentally thanks to a healthy food choice, and those things are just as important as the weight loss. So I continued to eat as I did, and made an effort to be even stricter with the food-choices, and finally after much waiting I have gotten over this plateau, and lost some weight. I think this plateau is just one of many to come, but at least I gotten the experience that they will end eventually if you keep on eating the healthy way, so there is no reason to quit. Just make minor adjustments in the nutrition and be patient.
