{"id":93,"date":"2010-03-22T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/22\/weight-loss-plateaus"},"modified":"2010-03-22T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:07:00","slug":"weight-loss-plateaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Weight Loss Plateaus"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got a great question from a reader:
“i was looking at your weight loss log & i seems that you never really plateaued or temporarily stopped losing weight. congrats on your weight loss by the way! ive made a huge plateau right now and i think im going back to calorie counting to get off the final 20 pounds – any feedback on how to stayed on the weight loss train without getting off periodically?”<\/i><\/p>\n

Oh yes…..I plateaued A LOT during my weight loss journey. If you look at the dates in my Log, you can probably see that I didn’t always “weigh in” each week. In reality, I weighed in once a week EVERY week for the two years I was losing weight. However, if the scale didn’t budge, or I gained<\/i> weight that week, I didn’t log it, I just wrote down whatever it said the following week. The reason behind this was that for me<\/i>, I didn’t want to get discouraged by seeing my log go up and down, up and down. So I just recorded losses.<\/p>\n

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In a previous post, I said my friend Rachel (above) started Weight Watchers. She’s weighing and measuring every Saturday and logging it online. I think that’s fantastic. It shows her progress on a graph too. So if she happens to plateau or gain a few during her time at WW, the graph will show that.<\/p>\n

There was a time when I plateaued for MONTHS. It was really frustrating. After seeing so much progress each week, to be at a standstill for weeks (sometimes months) of hard work, it was discouraging. Keep at it! Don’t get discouraged.<\/p>\n

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The above picture was taken at my 27th birthday (I think) when I weighed about 175.<\/p>\n

The advice was I was given by my personal trainer to get over my plateau was pretty simple: DO WEIGHTS! A weight training program is the FASTEST way to lose weight when you get stuck. And it’s important to mix things up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a great question from a reader:“i was looking at your weight loss log & i seems that you never really plateaued or temporarily stopped losing weight. congrats on your weight loss by the way! ive made a huge plateau right now and i think im going back to calorie counting to get off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,154,188,300],"tags":[8662,8683,8760],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}