Trick Your Metabolism So Your Weight Loss Doesn't Hit A Plateau

By James Steele


If you're like the majority of people, then you have tried quite a few diets, with varying degrees of success. You may have lost some fat but you generally get to a certain point and then nothing you do can help you shed more pounds. The plateau thing is in fact very common--it is something that people deal with whatever diet plan they follow. There's no way of avoiding this plateau unless you deceive your metabolism.

You've probably already dealt with the plateau problem which will probably have caused you a lot of disappointment and ended more than one diet plan. This is a strange phenomenon, which happens to successful dieters about the third or fourth week of their diet. Up until that point weight is coming off and then it just quits, and nothing works to keep the body shedding pounds. This is how your body responds to the changes that you've made. Your body shifts into a protection mode to keep you from starving and it will decrease your metabolic rate. What this does, then, is stop your body from losing any more excess fat.

That is why people stop trying to shed pounds because, this plateau keeps them from believing that doing so is achievable. This is where most people return to eating and start putting on back their weight usually more than they lost initially. The simplest way to stop this is to pick a diet where your calories merely get shifted. What you want to do is eat a different number of calories each day, which purportedly helps you deceive your metabolism. If this strategy works on your body, then it won't get into the position where it is working to protect itself. This will keep your body's metabolism working, as opposed to slowing down, and your body goes on to lose weight. When you get to this point, you will have passed your plateau and your diet will keep working the way it was designed to work.

It isn't really hard to work this plan into your daily schedule. One of the more popular caloric cycling techniques is the 14 day method. This method goes for 2 weeks: you do ordinary things for the first eleven and then in the last three you eat whatever you want. Rotate your food throughout each day to fool your metabolism and then eat anything you want to keep yourself from reaching the plateau. This also keeps you from being frustrated at a rigid regimen with your eating. You can continue doing these 14 days again and again until you are satisfied with your weight loss.

The 2 day plan is another way, where you eat normally for one day, and the other day you reduce your calories by 20% to 35%. You could keep doing this every two days for as long as required to get your weight off. This is a program that is deserving of your attention because it could be just what you need to pass your plateau and lose all of the weight you wish to lose.




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