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

By James Steele


If you're like most of the people out there, you will have tried a number of different diets and obtained a different degree of successes. You might have lost a few pounds but you generally get to a certain point and then nothing you do can help you shed more pounds. The plateau thing is actually quite common--it is something that people deal with whatever diet plan they follow. There isn't a way of avoiding this plateau if you don't fool 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 regime. 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. Up until that moment, the weight drops off and then it just stops and practically nothing you do can get your body to shed more weight. This is how your body responds to the adjustments that you've made. Your body will go into a protection mode to prevent you from starving and it will slow down your metabolic rate. What this does, then, is stop your body from shedding any more weight.

This is what makes people believe that they simply aren't capable of reaching their weight loss goals and they throw in the towel. This is what causes most people to start eating again and they usually gain back more weight than they lost initially. The best way to stop this is to pick a diet where your calories just get shifted. This means that you eat a different number of calories daily which can help deceive your metabolism. If this works on your body it won't enter "protective" mode. This will keep your metabolism constant instead of slowing down and you are going to shed even more weight. Once you reach this point, you have passed the plateau and your diet will keep on working the way it was created to.

It is really simple to integrate this type of plan into your day to day life. Most likely the most widely used method of calorie cycling is the 14 day method. In this method, you stick to your diet for eleven days and then on the 12, 13 and 14th days you try to eat the things you actually want to eat. You switch your foods each day, deceiving your metabolism, and for three day eat what you want, preventing the plateau. This actually also keeps you from becoming frustrated at a stringent regimen with your eating. You can actually keep doing these 14 days again and again until you are happy with your weight loss.

The 2 day plan is one other good plan in which you eat as usual for one day and then trim your calories by 20% all the way up to 35%. You do this every couple of days for as long as it takes you to reach your weight loss objectives. This program is wonderful for helping you get past your plateau and lose the weight you want to lose so you should try it out.




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