Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Breaking through a plateau?

Thursday, January 13, 2011

[fast5] Re: Breaking through a plateau?

Actual bodyfat loss takes a long time. Rapid weight loss, weight gain or any fluctuation is always just water balance. We're down 5 lbs when we fast for 3 days and gain it right back when we look at a cookie. It's meaningless. The only thing that's meaningful is what you enjoy doing everyday for the rest of your life. Anyone can lose weight. It's not really that hard. What IS hard is keeping it off once the glamour and novelty wear off.

Martin Berkhan (of Leangains.com) once blogged something that I'll never forget. He said it once took him over a month to shed just 1% of his bodyfat. His body was THAT freekin stubborn. Could you imagine what would have happened if he would have quit? Or changed his diet that didn't need to be changed. Or read 13 other books looking for "secrets." Or took pills... the list is endless. It just took TIME because the body doesn't want 6 Pack Abs or 6% Bodyfat. It's not good for survival so you have to just grind it out.

That's why finding a diet you ENJOY is so important. Anyone can do a 90 Day crash diet but in 10 months they're going to look fat again. Everyone has done that. Why even deny it.

If I were you I wouldn't change anything. You're at that place where there isn't any excess water to lose so that scale isn't going to move fast like it did in the beginning. The last 10-20 lbs is always the hardest but it's also what makes the most difference in terms of appearance.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "flippetskater" <flippetskater@...> wrote:
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> Oh hey, that's very nice of you. :-)
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> Well, I weighed in this morning, and I'm at 131 even. Lowest recorded weight was four days ago - 130.2 - and that was after a full two days of fasting (i.e., I skipped one usual window). I don't usually do that, this was only about the second time, and the first time was because I was simply shifting my window to have a family breakfast - but I felt I needed some kind of 'boost'.
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> I'm happy that I'm more or less 'maintaining', just wondering why the weight doesn't seem to be coming off much anymore. I'm not cheating anywhere - I'm perfectly happy just eating in the evening. I'm not even usually hungry until my window, and not starving even then.
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> All I can think is that somehow, I'm still taking in more calories than I'm burning...which is strange, because I know I was eating more food when I was eating three squares, plus indiscriminate snacks - and I wasn't gaining weight on that, just maintaining at a higher point.
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> I hate counting calories, but maybe I'll have to. I don't see how I'm eating more than 1200-ish calories, maybe 1500, during my window, because that's really a lot of food at one time, and I'd feel overfull. I'm only eating what I would have normally had for a normal dinner, and then maybe something like a couple of grapefruit near the end of my window. I'm sure that I used to regularly eat 2000+ calories a day...so this next-to-nothing loss is mystifying.
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> I'm generally eating healthier than I used to, as well - because if my choices have narrowed, I have to think....do I really want to eat *that*, and then not have room for *that*?
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> Anyway. I'm still sticking to things, because it isn't really difficult. I just wish I'd see more progress than I am.
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Chantelle <chantelles@> wrote:
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