taking a week off ...food or exercise?

havingitall

I hit a plateau myself and spoke to a nutritionist. She said to eat 6 small meals a day. That has mad e a difference for me. I am also working with a personal trainer and the new exercises are good for my body. I would say don't give up anything.Just switch it up. Try different exercises or a different way of eating. Make sure you are getting adequate protein and relax. This will pass.


When you hit a plateau it feels like that is all you can think of. Afterwards it isn't all that bad

9726172000

cycling excercise/food cals mean one day you have alot of excercise cals with the least amount of food intake cals for one day then the next day you would have a few excercise cals with alot of food intake cals. the food intake cals should be pretty much very healthy food. I do this a week at a time and I have never hit a plateu since I have been doing it. it actually keeps your body guessing. hope this helps.

Also you might want to think about cycling your excercise/food cals.

What's that mean? Cycling like a bike?

flea

I think hiding the scales is a good idea - I've got my husband to hide mine.

I think if your body has become accustomed to you eating 1200cals you may gain a bit if you go to maintenance (or anything above what you are eating now) but only for a little while. I posted a question the other day about a similar thing so just taking my answers from that and from what my personal trainer told me. I'm sort of upset that I'm gaining weight but in the mean time I keep exercising so I'm actually smaller than where I was 5lbs below where I am now which is kinda funny (you can see in my profile - the one in the orange I weighed less than the one in the pink but in the pink I'm smaller all round thanks to lots of weight training).

My current goal is to eat to my BMR and all my exercise points in hope of allowing my body to recover and realise I'm not going to starve it again - I'm hoping it doesn't take too long for it to repair itself.


BTW I've been on a plateau now since January so I'm trying hard to do something completely different.