{"id":338,"date":"2015-03-18T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthchicchatter.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T14:12:33","slug":"top-reasons-why-the-scale-isnt-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Top Reasons Why the Scale Isn\u2019t Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are dedicated, you have a plan, you are working it (most of the time), yet the numbers on the scale don\u2019t seem to budge. What\u2019s the deal? There are many reasons why this might be happening, but for today, we will review the most common reasons.<\/p>\n

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  1. Overestimating calories burned or underestimating calories eaten. There are many schools of thought on this one, but studies show those who keep a food and workout log have the most success. However, sometimes use a little common sense. The averages often used in estimated caloric burn don\u2019t apply to everyone. I know I burn about 2\/3 of whatever the exercise piece of equipment tells me (even if I\u2019ve entered my weight). Also, if I\u2019m not really legit with entering everything I eat (or measuring the salad dressing), it\u2019s soooo easy to add calories in. Or maybe not log them at all! (If you are a parent or the dish cleaner, how often have you polished off the remaining bites? This same thing can be applied to the chef! It happens.)<\/li>\n
  2. Fad diet yo-yo. Juicing has a place\u2026I like to detox where I get back to clean eating pre\/post a ONE day juice fast, but my fast is really a liver detox. Usually when one does a juice cleanse, the \u201cweight\u201d lost is not the desired FAT loss, but simply water. Or, (horror) muscle loss due to severe caloric restriction. Super low calorie juicing or detox teas really just clean you out, but they are not healthy sustainable life habits. Movie stars who juice before the big day will put it right back on after the event. Skip the too-good-to-be-true programs and opt for living FIT. Every day.<\/li>\n
  3. The routine rut\u2026otherwise known as \u201csame ol\u2019, same ol\u201d. We are creatures of habit, aren\u2019t we? We work our favorite body parts, we run our favorite paths, we take our preferred classes\u2026we lift the same body parts. Unfortunately, the more we repeat a movement, the better we get at it. The more efficient we become (which lends itself well to racing and energy utilization) the fewer calories we burn. Mix it up. Try new things. Challenge yourself. Just don\u2019t stay in the routine rut<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Stress. Ah, that darn stress. A certain amount of it is ok, but if the scale isn\u2019t moving, take a moment to inhale deeply and consider how you can de-stress your life. Honestly, it will do your body much good. Because with stress, comes cortisol. And cortisol. Well, that\u2019s an entirely separate blog on its own! (see more about Cortisol’s effect on weight loss\/gain here<\/a>.)<\/li>\n
  5. Not eating enough. I\u2019ll call this the Marcia syndrome. My friend Marcia is a committed healthy eater. But, she is also a working mom with two kids and she\u2019s a woman who works out. If she is on the run, she skips eating vs eating something junky. That\u2019s good she skipped junk, but then uh-oh. When she takes in too few calories for what she needs, her body will hold back from dropping energy stores (aka fat).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Marcia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Just remember consistency is key. Keep on keeping on. That\u2019s what Marcia does. She\u2019s a lean, mean racing machine. Check her out:<\/p>\n

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    \u2018Til next time, live fit. Laugh often. What have you got to gain?<\/p>\n

    Lisa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You are dedicated, you have a plan, you are working it (most of the time), yet the numbers on the scale don\u2019t seem to budge. What\u2019s the deal? There are many reasons why this might be happening, but for today, we will review the most common reasons. Overestimating calories burned or underestimating calories eaten. There …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,15,65,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-eating","category-nutrition","category-diet","category-workouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}