This has been popularized in the diet press as "set points". Whatever I do to try to lose weight, my body will fight it. It wants to stay the weight it is. Once I get into a losing trend, it's easier to maintain that trend. But, getting off the current set point is very hard. So I thought I was in a losing trend, and I relaxed what I was doing. "Aha!" exclaimed my body. "This is the new normal!" And so it has been:
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| The horizontal grid lines here are two pounds apart. |
I need to blow through this plateau and get back into a losing state. How? Back to basics. Track, baby track, as Kim would say. Not just track, but make better choices in the food department. Focus on keeping those carbs down. No treats. Sadly, meat-based meals. Lots of leafy greens allowed, but only small portions of other vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Keep drinking water.
And, the other half of the equation: exercise. Except for the gym and a single weekly walk, I haven't been moving much. I leave the gym and go to work or home where I stay huddled up and working. Got to raise the base activity level every single day.
So I'm off to the great outdoors, right here and now. GTG. TTFN. SYL.
3 comments:
yes, one of the things I've learned by so carefully tracking my food and weight is all about these set points AND the periods you are losing weight. I kept those holiday 3 on FOREVER with just a bit of overeating and under-exercising. I mean it's not like I was eating a box of donuts every day, jeez.
But now that the needle is moving a bit, it's moving. It's like once my body decides to lose, it's ready. The key here is to keep prompting it with good days logged in.
We've got to persuade our bodies that we really mean it when we move more and eat less. It's like you have to sneak up on yourself and make sure you haven't scared your body into hunkering down to survive the famine.
snort, famine
that's really funny in a way like I'd laugh if it didn't make me want to throw myself out a window
agree, agree, agree
Liz
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