What are weight loss plateaus?
You’re experiencing a weight-loss plateau, a couple weeks in a row when your weight doesn’t budge. They can be extremely frustrating but don’t give up! Plateaus are normal – they often happen about a month into dieting and then periodically throughout your weight loss journey because your body goes into “starvation mode”. If you’ve read my blog before this is probably a familiar term to you. Our bodies, like ourselves, get used to habits and patterns. If your body is used to getting chocolate cake for dessert every night and then it stops getting it … well, you can probably imagine … it’s not going to be happy. At first the body goes along with its normal functions because, it thinks the cake will come back. After a while, when the cake still hasn’t returned, the body starts to panic because it’s not getting the calories that it’s used to getting from the cake. To compensate for the loss of those calories the body starts slowing down and using less calories. It’s our job to trick o
