Ways to Avoid/Break Plateaus

HBBrown78

Save for later! Thanx

araxiedyck

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thecazstewart

Really useful! Thanks!

Vonnie2006

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TT_luvs_fitness

bumping for later

MadeOfMagic

can I ask WHY I have to avoid plateaus? I mean I lost 35lbs despite the fact I never believed I could lose 5. I'd like to lose more but have plateaued or been up/down a few for about a month or two now... my question is why stress about it? I want to lose more and I joined a gym yesterday--wuhuuu-so after a year I think I'll be more serious about working out and not just dieting... but what's made this journey so good and yes, fun, is that I'm not stressing.. I'm eating all the foods I love...still getting results over the last year...buying new clothes... and things are OK. however.. i like all your tips

You don't have to stress at all in fact, some people never hit a plateau, but many people do and don't care. If you mix up your diet and exercise than you won't to worry about hitting a plateau. It's just some people eat the same and exercise the same ways a lot, after a while the body gets used to it and they hit a plateau-which can be very frustrating because people go months without weight loss even if you're working out hard and eating right; if you constantly mix things up you will never run into this problem.

You're lucky that you don't even stress about it, but for many us it's unmotivates you when you see no change in scale for months especially when you're working so hard; some people don't go by scale but only by measurements and they still see their body changing even if the scale isn't. Mixing things up always gets the scale moving though

jerber160

can I ask WHY I have to avoid plateaus? I mean I lost 35lbs despite the fact I never believed I could lose 5. I'd like to lose more but have plateaued or been up/down a few for about a month or two now... my question is why stress about it? I want to lose more and I joined a gym yesterday--wuhuuu-so after a year I think I'll be more serious about working out and not just dieting... but what's made this journey so good and yes, fun, is that I'm not stressing.. I'm eating all the foods I love...still getting results over the last year...buying new clothes... and things are OK. however.. i like all your tips

You don't have to stress at all in fact, some people never hit a plateau, but many people do and don't care. If you mix up your diet and exercise than you won't to worry about hitting a plateau. It's just some people eat the same and exercise the same ways a lot, after a while the body gets used to it and they hit a plateau-which can be very frustrating because people go months without weight loss even if you're working out hard and eating right; if you constantly mix things up you will never run into this problem.

You're lucky that you don't even stress about it, but for many us it's unmotivates you when you see no change in scale for months especially when you're working so hard; some people don't go by scale but only by measurements and they still see their body changing even if the scale isn't. Mixing things up always gets the scale moving though

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nellyb2011

Thanks for the info. Great stuff

tweetybaby69

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archgrrrl

Sounds like pretty good advice! I'll probably have to come back to it later for reminders

MadeOfMagic

Yay! So glad this post is still helping people

crudd123

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barney50501Missy

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ShrinkingShawna

Bump. Thank you!

livestar

Thanks so much for posting this!

svetz

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mandypizzle

A lot of great tips! Thank you!!

avocado22

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poohbear1971

Thank you so much!!! I am definitely on a plateau and going to use these tips to help. Bump!!!!

workingforthatbody

Thanks for posting! Lots of great tips x

mtcHavingItAll

Awesome post! Thanks!

Lwillis1234

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jlreser

WOW................SUCH GOOD INFO AND SO RELEVANT FOR ME AS I'VE HIT THAT PLATEAU! I already ate low carbs for the past two days to jump start/shock my system so I'll know how it worked in the morning. Lots of other good tips. KUDOS!!!!!!!!

jenbridges

awesome info! thanks so much!

MadeOfMagic

You guys are most welcome

purpleychick

Great information to know!!!

ThinMint_Stac

Loved this thread!!! Thanks!!

Cupcake1015

great info, thanks!

j1wright

Might need this for later.

Temple_Fit

Great thread!