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Plateaus

Weight loss plateaus have often derailed me. I lose patience and either start thinking that the effort just isn’t worth it or that the process has stopped working for me. Sometimes I even try to outsmart it. Usually by eating more liberally for a couple of days with the intention of shaking up the routine and then getting right back on track to jumpstart the losing process again.

Inevitably though, my body proves smarter than me. Getting back to bad habits reignites the sugar addiction and constant cravings. Instead of a couple of days, I am off track for weeks or months at a time and lose any progress that I have made before thinking I know how to beat a plateau.

The truth, as Deborah Murtagh puts it, is that plateaus are normal, healthy and expected. They are just our bodies taking a break to refocus energy to recalibrate hormones after a period of weight loss before it tackles another.

Important lesson - trust the process. If you know that a program has helped you release weight, trust that it will continue to do so!




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