MILF-ebrity Fit Club week 5 with photos
Posted
January 29, 2007 at
8:14 am by
Jessica
I can’t believe its been 4 weeks since I started my weight loss journey. This week however, I will not be discouraged as I find the scale has not budged at all this week. Sigh. I still hold steady at 10 lbs. The scale does not however, reflect a lack of trying. I have not strayed from my Weight Watchers Flex Point diet, not even one tiny morsel of a cheat point was used.
So, what gives?
According to About.com, I just may have hit an early plateau:
Obstacles to Strength, Endurance and Weight Loss
Almost everyone reaches a weight loss plateau at some point in their fitness lives. The reason is that the human body works hard to keep energy intake and output in balance. In other words, your body does not like to lose weight (not a revelation, huh?). After your initial weight loss, your progress will slow down and eventually stop even though your exercise and food intake is consistent. The bottom line is that the very efforts you make to burn more calories may eventually slow it down.
Problem 1. Lowering your calories too much
Fact: It takes calories to burn calories. When you decrease your food intake, your body simply lowers its metabolic rate in response. This still allows the body to function properly, but ultimately your body requires fewer calories which creates hunger and prevents you from losing fat.
Makes sense, my body may be onto me; putting my brain into starvation and survival mode, but, could that be happening so soon? Or perhaps, it was because I had a respiratory cold last week and wasn’t able to walk or exercise or is it because I am so hyper-aware of my food, I might not be eating enough, suggesting it is indeed an early plateau?
This week I’m going to start with varying my exercise program and kicking it up a notch with exercise in general. Thank goodness this stand-still will not getting in the way of my determination, given that I’ve already made my goal of 10 lbs. weight loss a month, I’m lucky to have reached my goal. Hopefully, I’ll have some loss to report next week.
In the meantime, as promised, here is my one month pictorial update:
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1. SewingSiren said:
January 29, 2007 @ 9:41 am
Congratulations! You look great.
2. Petulant Pixie said:
January 29, 2007 @ 11:45 am
You can see the 10 lbs gone! In your belly and hips!
I know from having gestational diabetes that when you’re sick, your body metabolizes the sugars differently, so that might be part of why you didn’t lose anything this week.
I also know from doing Jenny Craig (8 years ago) that when you hit a plateau for a couple of weeks, they lower your calorie intake. I guess that means you’d go down in points on WW? That was always a very sad time for me, seeing some of my food disappear off my menu. Rationally, I knew that weighing less meant I needed less food, but still, less food isn’t a fun thing when you’re dieting.
Maybe this week will pick up for you!
3. Jessica Carlson said:
January 29, 2007 @ 6:59 pm
SS and PP, thank you so much!
I was like, “Why bother puttng up the photo, I don’t look any different.”
It’s great that hear that somebody noticed!!!
4. Elizabeth said:
January 29, 2007 @ 10:25 pm
That is so awesome that you have lost ten pounds in only four weeks!! You look terrific
5. Jill said:
January 30, 2007 @ 1:49 pm
You look awesome! Good work!
6. Michele said:
January 30, 2007 @ 4:26 pm
Keep up the hard work and due diligence! I made my goal weight a few years back and it was SO rewarding in many ways. I felt great, looked great and the compliments were unending (that was the icing in the cake, so to speak). The skills you learn from WWs will last forever. I pull mine out every so often when I see the scale start to go the wrong direction. It’s so worth every starving moment.
7. mothergoosemouse said:
February 2, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
You DO look different! You look great.
I can’t handle the points. I swear I eat like 100 points a day anyway, so there’s no way I can cut that by 75%. More power to you!!
8. Melissa said:
September 7, 2007 @ 10:57 am
Living with diabetes, I used to struggle with my weight. I tried different things. I don’t struggle any more. I have learned that most of it is in your attitude and it sounds like you have a great one. Good work.