Mental and physical plateaus

I gained a kilo this week. In the grand scheme of things, I  know that this is not a disaster - I am still below 70kgs at 69.6.

However, taking into account my graph for the past 10 or so weeks, I can see that my weight has really stagnated since early april when I first went below 70.  That’s four months of little or no loss.

I think I must admit that I am on a serious plateau. I feel very dissapointed with myself, very discouraged and a bit worried that this could be the start of the climb back up into the 80’s. That MUST not happen!

I think that this plateau is due to both physicl and mental factors -

• Physical - my body has adapted to the number of calories I have been eating, and I need to eat less. probably not during the week - I need to control my weekend eating, whereas before I could lose weight just by controling my midweek eating.
• Mental - I have been unable to make the connection and convince myself that I need to change my eating habits. I used to be able to lose weight and still have 4-5  treats a week. I now need to cut that down to 2-3 treats at most, but my brain keeps telling me that I’ll still lose weight if I have that chocolate bar - and it’s just not true! Also, I have not been practicing my notivation daily, I have let old bad habits slip back in.

I wrote a post once before about weightloss being a journey that needs many course corrections I have been in need of a major course correction for some time now, I just have to figure out how to make it. So my goals for this week (which I actually must follow for a change) are:

• Read my motivation file, and make some notes to read every morning and night.
• Increase my excercise by one extra session this week
• No off plan eating on the weekend - except for one night out on saturday (I’m going to a ball!)