I saw your post about your plateau! Maybe you should try shocking your body a little bit! Exercise less for a few days or do something completely different. This may be just me but one week I was so sick and didn't go to Jazz once, I lost 3lbs that week! I would suggest switching up your diet a bit, but then I read about your addiction so maybe not! Haha. Eating high carb foods for a few days would shock your system too.
Hey girl! Yeah, I actually tried to shock it with carbs by eating a TON of fruit, high-carb fruit, cos that doesn’t trigger my addiction, but I thought it would still be a big change for my body and shock it a bit, ya know? I thought it had worked, cos I initially gained like 5 pounds, then lost about 10, but then it sort of settled right back in the same place it had been before.
I also backed off on exercise a bit, taking off 3 days one week, tho I did keep going to Jazzercise and yoga, I dropped biking and my ‘home Jazzercise’ workout I was doing on the other off day. My weight did the same thing, kinda dropped a bit, but then just settled back in again. :/ I can’t bring myself to not go to Jazzercise, unless I’m hurt or sick — I just miss it too much! :-)
I have actually done the carb-binge sort of thing before when I did keto (a few years ago), to shock it into going again and it worked! The only problem was, that it soon became a once a month binge, then a once a week binge, then .. well … you know!
I still thought about (and am still thinking about) trying a true carb-binge on sugary and floury things, but it really scares me, cos I just don’t know if I can stop once I start. :( So, although I think about it, so far I haven’t taken that possibly doomed step.
The fact that I think about doing a carb-binge and obsess over all the foods I would include in that binge, is a bad sign!
I have also been thinking about doing either day of total fasting or a fat-fast, but neither really appeals to me much, so I haven’t tried either of them.
So … I guess I’ll just keep at it, maybe try the fast or fat-fast one day if I get really, really desperate. I’m also trying to reduce the diet sodas (eliminate?) thinking they may be stalling me, and drinking much more water. I had begun doing daily strength challenges, just so I felt like I was at least getting stronger during it, but I got bored with them and stopped. Perhaps I'll give that another go.
Thanks for the note! Hopefully something will work soon.
