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09-17-2008, 07:30 PM
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JJascaxal
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Some suggestions to break the plateau:
1. Throw your current menu out the window. No more chicken breasts and spinach, for example. Eat completely differently. Base your diet on a whole bunch of different vegetables from the Induction list, every single day, totalling 15 carbs. Eat all of them, spread out throughout the day, not just at one or two meals. Eat fish, especially salmon. Add spices you haven't tried before, if your doctor permits it. Try any food that's on the Induction list that you don't normally eat. Your body is used to your routine--it's time for some surprises.
2. For one week only, eat from 1800 to 2000 calories per day and cut your exercise to no more than 45 minutes per day. That's meant to break you out of the low metabolism you could be in right now. In "starvation mode" you can almost live on air and water alone. Celery can put weight on you.
3. Do not eat after 8pm. Eat your breakfast before 9 am.
4. Ask your fiance to massage your whole body every evening (and you can do it for him, too). Get the blood flowing to every part of you, down to your toes and up to your scalp.
5. After the week that's relatively high calorie and low exercise, start your exercise routine back so that you are exercising an hour a day most days, and also, at least one day per week, spend several hours in a high intensity activity, like hiking or bicycling, or actively swimming.
6. Post pictures around the house of you at your lowest weight. Look at them often and visualize yourself back at that weight.
Good luck! Different combinations of these steps have worked for me to break a plateau in the past. I hope they work for you!
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