We all know that the few of the main ingredients to a successful journey is food, water, exercise (strength and cardio). We all know that without the combo, the journey could be hard. If we just have the food, but we aren't building our strength and our cardio...we would lose weight, but it would be losing more muscle then the fat. If we build on our strength and cardio but continue to eat the junk...you aren't really going to see much of a difference. The water...well we need to keep hydrated. It helps our bodies to flush out the toxins and helps flush any water weight we may have put on our bodies.
But there are some things that I think we all know, we definitely have all seen in our journey's, but we tend to get frustrated with and sometimes forget. That is our lovely plateau. It happens to all of us. We all hit that plateau moment. We all feel frustrated cause the scale and the inches stop coming off. It is frustrating!! I have been one of those people who hit that plateau for a week or two...and I let it derail me from my journey. I have gone on a massive roller coaster ride cause of the plateau's. I've stayed on ledges for weeks/months/years on end...never budging, never wanting to move. I was one of the worst offenders...I'd see the progress, huge progress, and just because of a couple of weeks of plateauing...I gave up and saw that progress be thrown out the window.
One thing I have learned from reading Chris Powell's books, and relearned again from my fitness assessment at the gym yesterday, is that we can beat the plateau. Plateauing isn't just because of your "diet" or your exercise. It's because your body gets used to what you are doing. If you are doing a "diet" or you do the same exercises day in and day out...your body is going to get used to it!! Sounds funny, I know...but our bodies are smart. So you have to switch up your routines. Switch up the way you eat for a week, trick your body. Constantly make your body keep guessing on what kind of strength training you are going to do. Switch up your cardio every now and again...but make it something that you'll like. Exercise, even though it can be hard, can and should be fun. Not something you dread. If you like what you are doing...you are going to keep doing it.
This is something I have to remember...a lot. I'm a huge "plateau comes, I stop" kind of a person. I hate that I do that. It's about time that I change it. I have to change it. For myself, for my health, for my family. I do not want my daughter to learn that when something you don't like comes up, to quit. I don't want her to know that. So I have to change. I need to change the way I think. I need to prove to myself that the ledges aren't as comfy as they seem and that climbing out it and moving along my journey is worth the fight, and definitely worth the view.
So if any of you hit that plateau and think about giving up...DON'T!! It isn't worth it. You are worth it! You can break through the plateau!! You can do anything that you put your mind too!! You are worth fighting for!! Proving to yourself that you can do it is worth more to you then denying yourself the view from the top!!
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