Are You Stuck in Traffic???

So here you are...feeling like you are stuck in traffic...the scale is not moving up or down.

I have been in that spot quite a few times over this new journey. At times it gets frustrating, other times it is puzzling. It can be as simple as your body has gotten used to your current food choices or your workout. Or it may be that your body doesn't have enough fuel to keep it going and it starts to hold on and go into starvation mode.

I almost cringe when I hear people say that they are going to go on a 800 or less calories a day. That's like putting a 1/4 tank of gas in but expecting to drive cross country without ever stopping for fuel again. It make work for a few days...but it won't last. Your body starts to panic when it realizes that you are not going to give it more fuel and it goes into starvation mode and will start eating away at your muscle and hold on to the fat to use for fuel.

In your workout, if you are walking outside at a park trail, try starting in the opposite direction that you have been walking. Try doing an interval workout. Don't to the same exercise for a long amount of time. Break it up doing different exercises during your workout time.

For example, I enjoy working out on Tuesday nights while watching Biggest Loser. I have a gazelle and I may start on that and go until the first commercial break. Then I get my crunch ball and do crunches until the break is over. Then back on the gazelle until the next commercial break and then get my hand held weights and do some exercises with my weights until the show starts again..then do push-ups and possibly more crunches etc...but keep going until my set time is up while watching. If you exercise while watching a show, and you exercise every commercial break for an hour show, you get at least a 20 minute interval chance, instead of staying on the treadmill or gazelle etc.

Try changing up the way you do things and see if you see a change in the scale. But most important, make sure you are giving your body enough fuel to function!

Keep on Keeping on!!!