Day 12: Recovered from the weekend's little faux pas, I am back on track with the Diet. Although, I have to say that I am frustrated because my total weight loss is holding steady at 9 lbs. I know that having a few drinks over the weekend could not possibly be the cause of the stall to my weight loss, as I worked out extra hard. I thought I had been doing everything right, and then realized my mistake. I have been skipping snacks recently in an effort to further reduce calorie in-take. MISTAKE. My body went longer in between meals, which I believe caused my metabolism to slow down. Not only have I been giving my body less calories and burning energy at a high rate from the Diet, but now I was starving it of its periodic snacks that stimulated my metabolic rate. Therefore in order to protect itself, my body began conserving what it could. Hence my plateau. Dumb! I thought I was being smart about skipping the snacks, but it has screwed me up.
I will have to jump start my weight loss again. I will have to lower my overall calorie in-take again, but must keep eating every few hours to stimulate my metabolism. That should create an energy imbalance and the pounds should start coming off again. I am not despairing yet, as I think I understand the reason for this problem and am prepared to correct it.
I am a little over half way through the diet. If I can loose another 9 lbs that would total near 20 lbs. I never expected to loose 30 lbs, so if I came in somewhere between 15 lbs and 20 lbs of "real" weight loss, I will be very please with myself.
Lesson learned on Day 12: Avoid plateaus by stimulating metabolism every few hours. Do not let your body starve because it will protect itself by storing whatever it can.
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