Hello guys and welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. I'm Chelsea, former overweight, healthy vegan,

confused about why I couldn't look like my favorite plant-based influences, even though I was

chugging back green smoothies every day. After a decade of unsustainable vegan diets,

I learned the truth about weight loss, lost 40 pounds,

and now I'm in the best shape of my life even after two kids.

Girl, if you've been struggling to drop the pounds as a vegan,

stuck in a cycle of self-savitage, sick of yo-yo

dieting and going hungry, never being able to get and stay lean, then this is the podcast

for you. Each week I share the no BS truth about why vegan women are overweight, the action

steps to get you shedding fat and the

mindset you'll need to get slim for life. I'm stoked to have you here. Let's get started.

Hello my friend. Welcome back to another episode of Lean with Plants.

So we're going to be talking about a plateau today. Oh my goodness, the amount of pain that

plateaus cause us. We're going to be talking about exactly what a plateau is, what it isn't, and talk a little

bit about how to know when you genuinely stop losing weight, know if you're in a genuine

plateau, and then why it's normal, it happens to everyone but most importantly how to get

that weight loss moving again and I get the impression sometimes that people think that a plateau

when it happens to you is something that is really bad that it's dangerous it means that your

metabolism is broken and it's like

this big, scary thing. In reality, everyone is going to experience a plateau at some point.

I feel like I'm saying this word plateau so much, and I've never said it so much in my life.

It's kind of weird. It's really frustrating, and a lot of people stay stored in a plateau forever and then

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