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Weight Loss Plateau
« on: May 10, 2013, 08:56:26 AM »
Any tips on how to break a weight loss plateau?  Ive been doing cardio everyday and sticking to the diet.  Do I cut more calories and increase the cardio?


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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2013, 08:59:44 AM »
Only thing that's ever worked for me is a diet switch....from no carb to vegan and switch back after a couple of weeks...be warned energy drops hard.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2013, 09:01:05 AM »
Any tips on how to break a weight loss plateau?  Ive been doing cardio everyday and sticking to the diet.  Do I cut more calories and increase the cardio?



Time... stay the course...

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2013, 09:02:08 AM »
Only thing that's ever worked for me is a diet switch....from no carb to vegan and switch back after a couple of weeks...be warned energy drops hard.

Will do; i'm desperate to see those # going down again!

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2013, 09:05:13 AM »
Will do; i'm desperate to see those # going down again!

thanks

Also beware the "shits" and no high carb foods.....greens are your friends.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2013, 09:13:45 AM »
I would change diet but dont go overboard.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2013, 09:16:56 AM »
Less food.

I was considering this, but on second thought I dont know.

Diet:

Meal 1- 2-3 fried eggs

Meal 2- 1/4 cup lightly salted peanuts or low carb yogurt (Kroger Carb Watcher? 4g carbs)

Meal 3- 5 deli slices of turkey on one piece of white bread w/ yogurt or banana

Meal 4- 1 cup low fat cottage cheese

Meal 5- hand full of peanuts or a couple fried eggs

All diet pop or crystal light drinks

Not trying to build muscle, but cutting to near single digit bodyfat % and build from there.  My permabulker approach left me unfulfilled.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2013, 09:19:21 AM »
HIIT cardio.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2013, 09:20:35 AM »
Also, dropped from 220 to 204 in about 3 weeks and now Im plateaued.

Goal is diced 170, been there before 6 years ago so I know thats the target.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2013, 09:24:28 AM »

Dude, that's like 1200-1300calories.

Why aren't you dropping weight?

Did this plateau happen recently, and for how long? You can be constipated to shit which disguises weight loss.

plateau for 4 days; current going on.  Weightloss has been very noticable in the face and stomach so not just constipated.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2013, 09:30:19 AM »
If you were willing to to add a few weeks on to the diet, you could edge up the calories for a couple of weeks, then go back into it. That will sometimes restart weightloss after a slow down.

Also it could just be a water balance issue, sometimes you won't see a loss for a few days during an intense dieting phase, then you'll see a larger than normal drop as it sorts itself out.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2013, 09:31:41 AM »

It's only been 4days, why are you freaking out. Just keep doing what you're doing, and give it some time.

Water fluctuation, sodium intake, muscle growth etc... can have this effect on scale weight.

I think you need to take a chill pill and stay on course.

If your weight doesn't change in 2wks, then i'd start worrying.

HTH

cool, will do

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2013, 10:04:41 AM »
Cheatdays.

And if you have to cut for such an extended period that you hit plateaus you might have larded up too much. I like doing short bulks and short cuts. Easier on the system

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2013, 10:10:49 AM »
Try cycling your carbs. Seems to trick the body pretty well.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2013, 10:16:33 AM »
Any tips on how to break a weight loss plateau?  Ive been doing cardio everyday and sticking to the diet.  Do I cut more calories and increase the cardio?



yes, now you need to increas calories till your heart's and mind's content. Then you go back to dieting.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2013, 10:22:24 AM »
Any tips on how to break a weight loss plateau?  Ive been doing cardio everyday and sticking to the diet.  Do I cut more calories and increase the cardio?



Dumbbell Circuits and the rowing machine  - HIIT - little rest between sets

fat and weight will melt off you. 

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2013, 11:05:11 AM »
Dumbbell Circuits and the rowing machine  - HIIT - little rest between sets

fat and weight will melt off you. 

How often do you cheat? You may benefit from a few days of going off the diet altogether and then going back on.
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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2013, 11:08:55 AM »
How often do you cheat? You may benefit from a few days of going off the diet altogether and then going back on.

Never mind. I was under the impression you had been on a lengthy diet.
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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2013, 11:10:39 AM »
How often do you cheat? You may benefit from a few days of going off the diet altogether and then going back on.

Not much - but i keep seeing steady progress so i just stay the course.  Down 44 lbs since last year.  Started w Rushfit and Bas Rutten cd's and now do more of a hodge podge of HIIT w dumbbells, pull ups, kettle bells, rowing machine, plyo.

I Try to eat every 3 hours a few hundred calories max and never a big meal at any one sitting.

Hi protein - Mod fat - low carb.


Not no carb by any means, but low carb.  


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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2013, 11:13:06 AM »
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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2013, 12:22:38 PM »
No "Expert"  here, but I would try to cut the Calories, and maybe up the cardio  8) 8)

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2013, 12:24:58 PM »
eat less.

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2013, 02:33:09 PM »

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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2013, 02:58:48 PM »
Fuck it. Perhaps you will LISTEN.

3 DAY PER WEEK  M,W,F

Run stadium steps. It should be large enough stadium that when SPRINTING up once, two steps per, that you're VERY FUCKING TIRED.

Do this 8 to 10 times. NO REST, BUT YOU CAN WALK DOWN.

THIS   WILL   SMASH  PLATEAU.


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Re: Weight Loss Plateau
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2013, 04:20:10 PM »
Fuck it. Perhaps you will LISTEN.

3 DAY PER WEEK  M,W,F

Run stadium steps. It should be large enough stadium that when SPRINTING up once, two steps per, that you're VERY FUCKING TIRED.

Do this 8 to 10 times. NO REST, BUT YOU CAN WALK DOWN.

THIS   WILL   SMASH  PLATEAU.



Absolutely agree with this.