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6 Ways You’re Sabotaging Weight Loss

If you're having trouble losing weight, some of your everyday choices could be to blame. Find out why your scale is stalled, and what you can do about it
By Emily G. W. Chau fitbie
 

Is Your Scale Stuck?

6 Ways You’re Sabotaging Weight Loss // Woman on scale © Thinkstock
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You’ve lost a few pounds, amped up your exercise, and still the weight isn’t coming off as fast as before. What’s a body to do?

Don’t get sad. Get strategic. “What gets in the way of weight loss isn’t always food per se, but the circumstances around our eating or our ability to be active,” says Maria L. Collazo-Clavell, MD, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic. “Although your body is programmed to resist losing weight after you’ve dropped about 5 to 10 percent of your body mass, you can bust through your weight loss plateau if you plan ahead.”

To help, we’ve identified six habits that could be sabotaging your weight loss efforts—and ways to overcome them.

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