How to Smash Your Fat Loss Plateau
The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle Podcast
The Flexible Dieting Lifestyle
5.0 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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In this episode, we talk about how to smash weight and fat loss plateaus. To begin, we define what a plateau is (1:24) and explain what happens when you first start losing weight (2:22). You’ll learn more about this in the episode itself but at the beginning, your first initial drop can be pretty significant due to losing water weight. However, after that, you’ll see more consistent progress (3:20).
Next, we move on to a few compounding variables that can make a difference in your weight loss (4:57). These can include but aren’t limited to - sleep quality, overall stress levels, and whether or not you’re able to go to the bathroom. In terms of stress, we dive deeper into cortisol (12:53), which is the stress hormone can have both beneficial and negative impacts on your body. Remember that you have to earn the right to lose fat and that your body will fight you. So if you’re chronically stressed out, you won’t lose the weight. Then to wrap this episode up, we explain how high stress training (18:02), as well as high sodium levels (18:47) can impact your weight.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the flexible dotting lifestyle podcast. I'm your host, Zach Rushlow. I'm with my co-host, Miguel Blakoutes. And today we are talking about how to smash plateaus. |
| 0:21.8 | This is arguably the most common question we get is, okay, I've hit a plateau. |
| 0:27.3 | I need to get my weight loss going again. |
| 0:30.4 | I need to get my fat loss going again. |
| 0:32.0 | And I want to preface this episode is only nutrition based or in the grand scheme of how to smash plateaus via weight loss |
| 0:40.6 | plateaus or fat loss plateaus. It's not going to be like how do I smash plateaus in the |
| 0:45.8 | gym with my performance. We will cover that in a future episode, but for the sake of this |
| 0:50.1 | episode, it's all going to be the mindset of how do I smash a plateau in regards |
| 0:55.8 | to fat loss slash weight loss. So I'm excited for this episode. Remember, before we begin, |
| 1:01.4 | screenshot, posted up on your Instagram story, let people know that you're listening. Also, |
| 1:07.1 | five-star reviews on iTunes. You guys are crushing it. It's helping us. It's literally iTunes loves those. It's like, hey, like things are working. Let's show this some more people with us. We can have more impact. So we appreciate you guys going and doing that. So Miguel, let's just get right into the episode. We need to understand what the heck is a plateau. So we need to understand first and foremost, |
| 1:28.7 | we don't need to make changes and things are working. And how do we identify if something is |
| 1:33.0 | really a plateau? Awesome. Cool. So I think that I think the most important thing to do |
| 1:40.6 | when understanding a plateau is first of all to kind of set some realistic standards. when understanding a plateau is, first of all, to kind of set some realistic |
| 1:44.4 | standards. Because, so a plateau is just a stall in progress. But the stall is what's kind of |
| 1:53.3 | important for us to define, first of all. So I get people, and you probably get this to, Zach, |
| 1:57.7 | people that will message you and they'll say something like, Hey, Zach, like, I'm plateaued here. |
| 2:02.7 | Like, oh, no, what's happened? |
| 2:04.0 | They're like, well, I was losing, I was losing weight, and now I'm only, I was losing weight |
| 2:07.6 | quickly, and I'm only losing weight at a pound per week. |
| 2:10.8 | Like, you're not plateaued. |
| 2:12.5 | First of all, we need to just set some definitions to what plateaus are and what can kind of happen along your weight, |
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