Hitting plateau

I'm running short on my P90X workouts. I've got two weeks left: this week with week 12 routines and next week's recovery week. For the past nearly three months I've been working out approximately 5-6 hours/week, which sounds (and is) a lot. so you would think that by now, I would be in  an awesome shape and you could see lots of result compared to the beginning. True, I've gotten a lot stronger and I can do more push-ups than ever, but still I body looks about the same as it was in the beginning.

Last weekend I came across a study about hitting plateau when working out a lot. Accordingly to the study, it seems that your body easily gets used to the harder workouts and your normal energy burn hits plateau instead of your body burning more energy all the time. This would explain why I'm not losing any weight (not even my intention) and why I'm not seeing much result when looking in the mirror.

So what now? I've been trying to find different ways to recover from plateau. Same things keep coming up: eat right, exercise, sleep. Keep track of all these three for two weeks and see, if you find what's been going wrong. I have been doing my workouts, so that's no problem. BUT I know last week I wasn't sleeping well for several reasons, so that's one thing I will focus on this week. I will head to bed at 10 pm the latest each night. Also, I've had more sugars in my nutrition last couple of weeks and that's something I know I will have to put an end to. So, my challenge for the next couple of days will be to write down everything I'm eating -and I mean everything! And to make this a real challenge, I will publish this list right here in my blog. Getting back to basics is sometimes all you need, hope this also works for me!