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Breaking through the plateau

toto_smile
toto_smile Posts: 8 Member
edited February 7 in Health and Weight Loss
I've officially hit a plateau and have stopped losing weight. I'm currently at a healthy weight, but I would love to lose a couple extra pounds. Any advice on how I can break through this plateau???

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  • loriq41
    loriq41 Posts: 479 Member
    Heavy weights and I found with my last plateau (I am about 9 lbs from maintenance) that this plateau was caused by not eating enough with adding the weights..so i bumped it up and lost weight the next week..
  • LifeIsAClimb1993
    LifeIsAClimb1993 Posts: 3 Member
    At the moment, I'm only cutting calories from my diet. I do no exercise really apart from everyday stuff, like walking into town or around campus etc. Whenever I hit a plateau, I just go hard at exercise for a week. I make sure I swim every day, even if it's just for half an hour, and make sure I'm more active like going for long walks whenever I can. This seems to break through the plateau and I start losing again :)
  • Escape_Artist
    Escape_Artist Posts: 1,155 Member
    How long have you been at the same weight?

    Also open you logs
  • quiqui29
    quiqui29 Posts: 42
    I would suggest changing the type of exercises you do, how long you exercise per day, how many days per week weight training if you do any.
  • toto_smile
    toto_smile Posts: 8 Member
    Thanks for the advice guys! Since I don't have the right weights at home to keep my workouts effective, I've decided to start doing Insanity workouts...we'll see how that goes haha
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