When you hit a wall……..take a week off

First I would like to apologize for the length and typos:blushing:

So i'm gonna start by saying that when I put in hard work and see no results, i get frustrated just like everyone else and I just want to quit.

This happened to me two weeks ago. for an entire week,, I worked out for about 90 minutes a week. I tried to eat back some of my exercise calories, I lifted weights, ate healthy. The whole shabang.. when i weighned in the scale stared back at me screaming I had lost nothing. not even a pound or an ounce, NOTHING. the exact same number form a week before was staring back at me.

To say I was screaming in frustration is to lie. I wanted to grab my scale and fush it down the toilet. This had happened to me before. I was excersing a lot and was not seeing any changes in my scale numbers. after reading a bit about it on MFP. i found people who said that their trainers would suggest taking a week off exercise becasue their bodies where becoming acustomed to their daily toutine and were not burning as effectively. one even suggested that taking every 8th week after 7 weeks of exercise would do the trick.

The first time I did it, I tracked all my calories and almost always went over my 1200 but i never went above my maintenance. I LOST 3lbs. the Most I had lost in one week since I started to actually dilligently tract my weight loss.

So last week when I hit the wall again. I promised myself I would take a week off. It was hard. I was afraid that I would gain back the pounds I had lost. But I made myself not go to the gym. I would wake up at 5am and lay in bed debating wether I should just go coz i was awake anyways. but I knew that my body needed a break, that i needed to jumpstart my weight loss.

So today I step on my scale and I have LOST 4lbs. I wanted to marry my scale. Jumped up and down infront of my mirror and sang crazy songs.

I needed this. to remind me that i can do this, that I dont have to be so intense all the time and that I need to listen to my body.

Anyways. back to the gym today.



PS. I also drank crazy amounds of water and green tea. I think that really helps.