Not sure I can do this anymore!

Hi there!

Maybe you should consider that you've hit a plateau. There is a point when we can't lose weight anymore and we start to gain again. Most people think it's because they getting fat which might not necessary be the fact. Which people forget to remember is that muscle is heavier then weight. But, if your scale hasn't moved in 4 weeks, yes you body has hit a plateau, but that's because it's already adapted so well to what you doing it's normal.

SOLUTION!!!

SHAKE IT UP! Change you exercise routine. Do something new so that you start to activate other muscles as well. You will feel and see a difference soon. You should change your workout about every 3 weeks to keep you body guessing. Instead of hitting the treadmill at the gym for the 100th time, play tennis for a 1hour at medium to high intensity. Or swim laps for a hour. Go hiking! Do something fun that involved a little bit of heart raising action. OR short you workouts, but really go ALL in. A good form of training is COMPOUND TRAINING/ SUPERSETS. Things is when you do back-to-back exercise @ high intensity with no break between sets targeting two difference muscle groups.

Eg. (You could do them simultaneously) Lunge with row. Targeting - legs, glutes and shoulders; Plank with leg-raise. Target - core and glutes. Also if you lift the alternate leg to arm it becomes a balance exercises.
(OR You could do them separately) Squat (legs) for 30s sets, Vertical chest press (arms and chest) for 30s not break in between (THAT IS ONE SET).

I had the same thing problem you have now, 2 weeks ago. I stopped logging what I ate and switch from going to gym to playing volleyball and I dropped from 70.7kg to 69.1 not a lot but I got a result.

Take a break even! For the next to weeks just relax. Give you muscles time to recover. Be conscious of what you eat. And start it up again. Maybe you need a break. Most people will tell you that a break is a bad thing because you'll never come back from it. I say if you disciplined, love you body and know you goals, Getting back ain't so hard!

Good luck I hope that this helped. O also do some research about plyometric training. Does wonders for toning. And join www.liveexercise.com New exercise routines live everyday. Do what you love with your whole heart.

xx

Er, one more thing. If you interested in diets. Try the Scarsdale 2week diet. The diet plan is just to help you start off. I've just started it, but a friend of mine recommended to me. He started it and in two weeks I really saw a result. He lost 4/5kgs in 2weeks (WITHOUT WORKING OUT). Maybe this will help you. I'll be interested to see where I will be in 2 weeks.

Alcohol calories are special calories. They bind with lead and stick to the insides of your body.

They attract other alcohol calories which attach, limpet-like to your stomach and hips, never to leave.

Beware alcohol. It is evil.

Don't give up!
I just broke through a 10 week plateau by changing my macros to: 40 carb 40 protein 20 fat.

Whenever I feel like this I repeat the following it help keep me going:

"If you get tired of starting over, STOP QUITTING."

I'm not certain what your goals are but if you are going to maintain them for life you need to be able to keep going. Throw the scale out and focus on a healthy lifestyle, how your clothes fit, or your general frame of mind. The weight will eventually come off. I know its not easy, I'm a slow loser. I have lost 25 pounds since July, 2011. I have 60 more to go. There are many who would have lost the full 85 pound in the time it took me to lose 25. What I do know is these are gone forever, what I've done to lose them I can do for the rest of my life.

Do take a look at the page that Helloitsdan linked to. I've read and re-read it a few times - not made any comments yet - but you know what it's all starting to make sense in my head. More so because I am eating more calories and still losing weight. I thought I'd give upping my calories a try after doing, I think, 3 weeks at 1200. I've now set my goal as 1500 but in reality am eating around 1700 a day once I've taken some of my exercise calories into account.

You know what? That 1700 is more or less the number that comes up in the chart on the Fat2fit site so I may as well just increase my goal to 1700!

Good luck in your journey and remember that if you give an increase a try for a few weeks, what's the worst that can happen? You stay the same or put a pound or two on? That's where you're at now anyway. The best that can happen is that the weight shifting instead