How to Avoid Plateaus

When you are trying to find your ideal weight there comes a time (when you do things in the traditional manner) where you often hit a plateau. And typically a pause like this feels like a very bad thing.

I talk about this a lot with my co-host of Girls Throw Too who grew up like me, moving very fast, leaving little to no chance for pause. I remind her that having space between questions and answers allows a listener to enjoy the podcast more. Even if it feels scary to have some quiet.

Plateaus are a convenient way to market to people that they need to fix more (and eventually buy more). They say…

“The scale stopped moving? Time to work harder, sacrifice more, bust through that plateau!”

In reality, if our results are stalled it could mean a number of things:

.... Our external work is slowing down so our internal work can process through.

… We are sacrificing too much and setting up an unsustainable life that makes us unhappy at the moment.

…. We are meant to focus somewhere else for a while.

And everything in between!

So what do we do??

One of the main gifts I feel blessed to help clients with is designing a life that truly serves them in the moment on their path to receive their deepest desires.

Clients desperately want to get excess weight off their bodies and finally live a life free of the battle with weight and food

They want a life of ease. This doesn't mean they want to do nothing. It’s actually quite the opposite as I tend to work with overachievers.

They still want to put forth effort in their bodies, they just don’t want to wake up every day and go to battle with so little to show for their scars.

So they either give up from time to time (mostly out of pure exhaustion) or they continue pushing forward convincing themselves the sacrifice will eventually pay off.

The plateau is interpreted as a threat when really it’s the biggest gift you could ever receive. It’s an excuse to pause

It feels like the last thing in the world you’d ever want to do is pause. Had I not lost weight injured on the couch I never would have believed that my path to losing weight was to do less.

If I hadn’t received clients and sales in the times I wasn’t trying I never would have believed that I should stop doing sales calls and “dialing for dollars”.

All that effort comforted me. It made me feel like I was “doing something” to achieve my goals. I could tell everyone what I was doing and they could give me pride and agree with my own confusion as to why I wasn't more successful.

But life always felt like a battlefield. It felt like extreme effort every single day. It felt like I was working SO hard for so little. And as I went to sleep each night I would ask myself, “is it ever going to get easier?”

Now I get to live that life of ease and help others do the same. The concept of plateaus doesn’t exist in my life because I am not trying to aggressively push towards a goal. I merely state some of my dreams and allow the rest to fall into place.

I still make an effort and I still work. But all of it is intuitive and intentional. None of it is to check off my “I worked hard” box anymore. 

If you would like to receive your ideal body while maintaining a sense of ease I would be honored to guide you on that journey.

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