I know, plateau's can rally get you down. I think it is because your metabolism adjusts and slows down to save energy. What helps me in plateau weeks is cinnamon ( in the morning over breakfast cereal) to kick start metabolism. In addition I take cayenne pepper capsules (1 with every meal) its really just cayenne pepper in a capsule. nothing else. although i like medium spicy food, I could not eat too hot...lol.
of course you could just eat really spicy food.
Te idea is that those spices help to get your metabolism back into gear.
It did the trick with me. give it a shot, only spices...
Good luck,
Maybe you need to change your routine some. If you continuously do the same exercises or eat the same amounts of food, your body becomes used to it; exercise is no longer a challenge and your body now knows that the calories will be there.
Try changing your exercise to challenge your muscles more - maybe walk faster, try a resistance band, even swinging your arms more, interval walking, etc - any type of change.
For the calories - try increasing by a couple hundred calories for a couple days, then drop back to your 1200 calories for the next couple of days, then maybe back to 1000. You don't have to do it exactly the way I put it, but at least try to vary your calories regularly.
Thanks for the advice. I'm going to give it all a try and see if I can break through this.
Good luck!! Hope to hear soon that you are back on a "losing streak"..
Back on track! finall down to 153 as of this morning!
What did you do to make the weight start moving again?
honestly I had a pretty rough week and didnt eat much and exercised a lot to deal with stress. not the best way but it seemed to work.