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Weight Loss Plateaus

Everyone has experienced a plateau when losing weight. No matter what you do, not a single pound will come off. I’d like you to change the way you think about plateaus. Not only are they not necessarily a bad thing, weight loss plateaus can actually be a good thing.I’m speaking from my own weight loss experience, and I’d be curious to know if you’ve experienced something similar.

I tend to lose weight in bursts, not steadily. For example, I’ve recently lost 8 pounds, but that hasn’t been spread evenly over the last two months. I lost five or six pounds pretty quickly, and then the remainder over the next month. For the last three weeks, I’ve been stuck. I know how frustrating it can be to do everything “right” and still not see any results. There are more positive ways to look at the situation.

First of all, you’re not gaining.

If you’re anything like me, it’s not uncommon to lose weight and see it immediately come back on. At least when you hit a plateau, that isn’t happening.

A plateau can help reset your “normal” weight.

I’m speaking strictly from personal experience, but I think that plateaus are your body’s way of resetting your setpoint. That is, your body learns to recognize a new, lower weight, as normal. Have you noticed that when you gain weight, you tend to quickly bounce right back to where you were when you started? Why is that? I think it’s simply that your body is used to being that weight. If you can get your body accustomed to a new, lower weight, then that’s definitely a positive, don’t you think?

Positive attitude and actions

If you focus on not losing weight, then you’re likely to just increase your level of frustration, which in turn ups your chances for failure. Instead, focus on the positive things the plateau can do for your body. Given time and continued persistence, you’ll break through the plateau and keep on losing.