Help! I've hit a plateau!

amaodonnell

I hit a plateau right around the holidays and it took me a little while to get back in the swing of things afterwards. I have been eating 1400 (net) calories since about September. I don't have a gym membership, but my apartment has a fitness area that I frequent 4 - 6 times a week, depending on the week. It has a bike, elliptical, treadmill, some free weights and a weight machine. When it is nice out I try to go for long walks to try and help with the boring old routine all the time. I don't have a lot of free space in my apartment to do other things in it.

I figured with the horrible eating around the holidays it would deter a plateau for a little while, but my body has refused to budge from where it was at. Any ideas that might help me overcome it? I've been thinking about messing with my calorie settings for a few weeks and then dropping it back down, seeing if that would help with anything. I am just looking for suggestions as to what I could change or add in that would help anything at all.

xraychick77

people stall for one reason...doing the same thing over and over.

our bodies always keep trying to be in homeostasis. So it adapts and ajusts to what we do it in order to be the most efficient. The key is to keep changing things up. You can decrease the cals a bit, or do as you said, increase for a bit then lower back down. You could increase the intensity of your workouts. Not so much the time or how many days, but the intensity. Instead of jogging, run. Instead of running, do HIIT. Throw some weight lifting in there too.

cmriverside

Are you weighing,measuring, and LOGging everything you eat? You need to do that. It is very easy to make huge mistakes when we estimate.

A kitchen food scale is only about $20 at Target or amazon.com.

Worth its weight in gold. Use measuring spoons, count all your oils, dressings, butter. Use measuring cups for everything you drink.

Slow and steady. You can do it.


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