The lightbulb went on..

The last few weeks have been tough on me diet wise.  I had been on the same plateau for about 2 weeks, and not one ounce was budging!  So I started to be very critical of my eating - I started cutting back the calories even more - skipping the protein, not having a fruit with my lunch or dinner..smaller amounts of protein.  Didn't work..still didn't even loose an ounce!  I upped my water intake - I did pee a lot more, but didn't loose anything!!

Finally I had had it - yes to HELL with the diet I was thinking - I was mad, that I couldn't loose anymore than the 35 that I had lost!!  So I started to cheat - I ate a HUGE salad, with dressing last week, and a larger than normal dinner. The next morning, I weighed 2 pounds less..WHAT? How does that happen?  Puzzled, that day, Tyler and I ate lunch out..and my rebellion of not loosing, I had a small cheese burger AND fries...the next day, I stepped onto the scale to see how much damage I had done, and I lost another pound!

So by this time I am confused, elated, and annoyed...  I decided to ask my "pro" hubby what the deal was..

 He simply replied, "well honey, if you would of asked earlier I would of explained it to you"..."Explain what?" I asked, "well your body was going into starvation mode, you were not getting enough calories, and it got us to the 500 you were eating. That is what put you on that plateau. Now that you have increased your calories dramatically, it signals to your now healthier hypothalamus to BURN those off, and you loose more weight."

OK so in lamans terms - body was starving from being on the diet for 4 months - it accepted the 500 calories and would not burn any of them.  Even though I was never hungry, my body was.  I increased the calories, and it triggered my brain to BURN those, extra calories, thus loosing weight and breaking the plateau.

In serious weight training, they do a Hi-Low calorie diet - its where you eat very high calories for a few days and then BOOM hit it with a few low calorie days - it helps get that last few pounds of stubborn fat off.  It tricks the body. So basically that is what I did to my body...and started loosing again.

Now that I have been eating more normally such as whole grains, diet soda, potatoes, and some (not too much) refined sugar, my body has been burning it - which is what a healthy hypothalamus does.
 
I will be going back to the low calorie diet tomorrow to get it burning at a much higher rate, and see how much I will loose in the next week.

I really loved the wheat bread this past week..hehe, its the simple things that make me smile!