Whether you’re Team 05:00 or just trying your best to pack a healthy lunch, make the gym, go to meetings, juggle being a mom and look cute while doing it, healthy living is a lifestyle that can be unforgiving at times.
For instance, at the start of your fitness journey, the results were almost effortless but now progress seems like a far-fetched dream. The scale refuses to budge even though you’ve been diligent about everything.
Frustrating as it can be, a fitness plateau is just a speed hump on your road to becoming as fit as fiddle. Moloko Mehlape, a Centurion-based dietitian with a special interest in weight and chronic disease management, says a plateau effect is mostly common in people who use are into fad diets.
