The Dread Diet Plateau

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The Dread Diet Plateau

» by juju on February 11, 2003

Sorry for the late post, but it’s a big subject.

If you’ve been working on losing weight for a while, or have tried several times, then you’re familiar with this term, the dread diet plateau.

This is when you’re doing everything right, but you stop losing weight. You just stop. You’re still exercising, still eating right, doing everything you were doing when you were losing weight before, but the scale won’t budge, and it’s been a week, maybe two or three since you’ve dropped a single lb. You feel crazy. Or desperate. Or blue. Or all three.

Yesterday I said, this isn’t a setback. But it sure feels like one. Plateaus do not signal failure at all, but because of what they can do to you psychologically, they are dangerous.

It’s very important to understand as much as you can about your plateau so you know what to do about it, but more importantly what to feel about it. Even arming yourself with a lot of information won’t help you from getting blue when this inevitable time in your weight loss arrives.

Inevitable? Well, nearly, yeah. Especially if you’re a woman and have a lot of weight to lose. You will reach a stopping point no matter what, no matter how good you are. Maybe, in fact, because of how good you are.

The most successful dieters I know experience the greatest number of plateaus. People with diabetes and insulin-resistance experience lots and lots of plateaus. People who overdo dieting experience lots and lots of plateaus.

So, how should you feel about a plateau? Interested.

You should feel interested. You should adopt a scientific stance, and a willingness to proceed with a methodical method to explore this plateau, and how to scoot off of it. See yourself in a little lab coat, looking over your reading glasses at your clipboard, and consider these options, at these stages of your weight loss effort:

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