Two weeks ago I started a "one week" committment to really make a change to try and breakthrough a plateau that had lasted for months. My committment was:
1) To absolutely stick to my planned food, no cheating!
2) To increase my exercise to twice daily, one cardio, one weight training, 5 days a week
After my first week there was absolutely no change, though I hadn't been able to stick to it 100% as I missed a day's exercise due to a minor injury. Undeterred I reduced my calories a little and tried for another week. I still wasn't quite able to stick to it as I had a day off work this week and my gym is at work so no work = no gym. Sure I could have worked out at home but I didn't :-)
I'm sure my scales are lying to me (I changed them a few weeks ago and I don't trust them!) but this week they're telling me good lies. An astonishing three pounds lost this week! Now I don't believe for a second that I lost nothing the first week, and 3lbs magically melted off this week. I never lose more than 1lbs a week.
However, I just realised that its been that time of the month (well for me, that time of the 10 weeks) slap in the middle of this fortnight which could have caused the apparent standstill the first week due to bloating. I often show weight gain around this time but I had forgotten all about it.
Anyway, obviously I'm so delighted at the results that I'm sticking to my committment. My stats show a slight muscle loss despite breaking all weight training records in the gym so I'll kee an eye on that. It could just be fluctations or innaccuracies in the measurements but if it drops again I'll put the calories back up to what they were.
So, to anyone who's hit a plateau, take a close look at your behaviour. Could you be slacking a bit? Could you try a little harder for just one week (or two!)?
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