Tips to avoid weight loss plateaus and slumps

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Most weight controllers will find their weight plateauing after a while. This applies to children as well as adults. It's very normal. It's almost unheard of for someone to just loses weight in a linear fashion. There are plateaus, there are slumps that you get into. It's very important for weight controllers to realize that's likely to happen. It's almost guaranteed. It's not a reason to give up. It's not a reason to stop doing what you are doing completely, but you might want to change certain things. The Well Spring Weightloss Plan book that I wrote references this. I have a chapter on slump busters, ideas that people have used effectively to break out of those plateaus. It really could be anything that creates a new focus, a new level of intensity. Doing something that is different that as different from your routine. You set more stringent goals. It could be working with a friend or joining a support group. So if the pattern of your life is not making the desired changes that you really want, it's time to change the pattern of your life.

Video Categories: ELEMENTARY, Kids Health Ages 5 to 12, Nutrition for 5-7 Year olds, Nutrition for 8-12 Year Olds, TEEN, Health and Development, P.E. and Exercise

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Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, PhD

Weight Management Expert

Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, PhD, ABPP, is the President of Wellspring. He was Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Northwestern University Medical School, where he is Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Kirschenbaum is a Fellow and Diplomate in Clinical Health Psychology in the American Psychological Association and former president of its Division of Exercise and Sport Psychology. Dr. Kirschenbaum has provided invited addresses at many professional conferences world-wide, received numerous grants for research, and published 10 books and 150 journal articles on weight loss, sport psychology, and related topics. His books include: the first book published for professionals on the treatment of pediatric obesity - Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity; Weight Loss Through Persistence; The Sierras Weight Loss Solution for Teens and Kids (2007); and, The Wellspring Weight Loss Plan. Dr. Kirschenbaum’s research on sport psychology won the top prize for research on the mental game of golf from the World Scientific Congress on Golf (St. Andrews, Scotland) and Golf Magazine; in 2000, the American Council on Exercise and its Board of Directors unanimously endorsed his book, The 9 Truths About Weight Loss, as "the best book ever written for the public on how to lose weight and keep it off."