Not Your *Typical* Plateau
BY JEN WIDERSTROM
I’m telling you, it never fails! Whenever I work with someone who’s experiencing a weight-loss plateau, nine times out of 10, they’re just not eating enough!
I know it sounds strange but your body is triggered to actually hoard and hold onto weight when it thinks you’re starving to protect you. We’ve gotten ourselves to a place where we label calories as “bad” and restriction as “good” and that’s simply not the case.
If this is sounding familiar, my first step for you is to get your good calories up by adding in nutrient dense and protein forward snacks in between meals into your eating routine. Golden time zones are 10-11am and 3-4 pm. Doing this will help keep your muscles intact and metabolic fire stoked so you’re burning calories vs storing calories and as an added bonus, you won’t head into any main meal with reckless abandon, which for me always leads to overeating.
My go tos are:
Boiled Eggs
Lightly Salted Cashews
Pumpkin Seeds (Trader Joe’s have perfect texture - try HERE)
Collagen Powder (Transform’s dissolves best - try HERE)
Low Sodium Deli-Meat (Look for less than 250mg per serving)
Low or NO sugar Jerky (I like Chomps - HERE and Froning Farms - HERE)
2% Greek Yogurt (Look for 6g of sugar or less)
High Quality Protein Shakes (Try mine HERE!)
Try this for a few weeks and see how that moves the needle for you!
Jen Widerstrom, Founder
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