Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Keep Your Weight Loss From Hitting a Plateau by Tricking Your Metabolism

By Kayla Milliway


If you're like the majority of the people out there, you will have tried a number of different diets and obtained a different degree of successes. You most likely lost a little bit of weight, got to a certain point and then, whatever you tried, couldn't lose any more. The plateau thing is really quite common--it is something that people deal with whatever diet plan they follow. There isn't a way of avoiding this plateau unless you deceive your metabolism.

You've probably already faced the plateau problem which will probably have caused you a lot of discouragement and ended more than one diet program. The plateau is an unusual phenomenon and it happens to even the best dieters when they get to the third or fourth week of their fat loss programs. Until that point weight is coming off and then it just quits, and absolutely nothing works to keep the body shedding weight. It's your body reacting to the things you're putting it through. Your body decreases your metabolism when you arrive at this point as it wants to protect you from accidental starvation. What this does, then, is keep your body from losing any more excess fat.

This is what causes people to believe they are not capable of losing the weight they want, and they stop trying. At this point they go back to eating, and putting on their weight back plus even more than they dropped usually. The best way to stop this is to pick a diet where your calories merely get shifted. What you are trying to do is eat a different number of calories every day, which is supposed to deceive your metabolism. When this works, it stops your body from flicking the switch and going into protective mode. This will keep your metabolism steady instead of slowing down and you're going to lose even more weight. If you get to this point, you'll have passed your plateau and your diet will keep working the way it was designed to work.

It isn't really difficult to work this plan into your daily schedule. One of the more popular calorie shifting techniques is the 14 day method. The program goes for two weeks: you do typical things for the first eleven and then during the last three you eat whatever you desire. You can rotate your foods during the day and deceive your metabolism and then for three days eat what you wish to eat and prevent the plateau. This is also pretty handy in keeping you on the right track with the stricter dieting programs. You can keep on repeating these 14 days until you really feel satisfied with the amount of weight you have dropped.

Another popular program is the 2 day plan in which you eat normally one day and the next day cut your calories by between twenty and thirty five percent. Keep repeating the process for as long as it takes you to attain a satisfying level of weight loss. This program is fantastic for helping you get past your plateau and lose the weight you want to lose so you should definitely try it out.




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