Monday, November 10, 2008

The Insurmountable Plateau

For over three months now, I've been stuck in a weight-loss rut. I've hit my plateau. I hover anywhere from 181 to 183 lbs and no matter how much I exercise, I cannot seem to lose more weight.

If I can't lose weight exercising five hours per week, then I guess I'll have to enter the starvation phase of dieting. That isn't something that I wanted to do. My original goal was to lose weight without making myself miserable. But when you hit a plateau, you've got to find a way to start making progress again.

I'm hoping that if I start limiting my caloric intake to 1200 calories a day that I will be able to break through the plateau and start losing weight again, allowing me to eat return to normal eating habits.

Only time will tell.