mercredi 8 mai 2013

How You Can Trick Your Metabolism To Keep Your Weight Loss From Hitting a Plateau

By Wilson Resturbee


If you're like many people, then you have tried a number of diets, with varying degrees of success. You most likely lost some weight, got to a certain point and then, regardless of what you tried, couldn't lose any more. The plateau thing is really fairly common--it is something that people deal with regardless of what diet plan they follow. There's no way of avoiding this plateau if you do not deceive your metabolism.

It is likely you have already dealt with this plateau, which will normally end the diet plan with lots of discouragement. This is an unusual event, which happens to successful dieters roughly the third or fourth week of their diet. Up until that point weight is coming off and then it just stops, and nothing works to keep the body shedding weight. This is how your body reacts to the changes that you have made. Your body slows down your metabolism when you reach this point because it wants to protect you from accidental starvation. What this does, then, is stop your body from losing any more pounds.

That is why people stop trying to lose weight because, this plateau keeps them from thinking that doing so is achievable. This is just what causes a lot of people to start eating again and they typically gain back more weight than they lost to begin with. The way to stop this is to choose a diet where your calories merely get shifted. What you really are trying to do is eat a different number of calories every day, which is supposed to deceive your metabolism. If this works on your body it will not go into "protective" mode. This helps to keep your body's metabolism working, instead of slowing down, and your body continues to drop some weight. As you reach this point, you have passed the plateau and your diet will continue to work the way that it was meant to.

It is not difficult to work this plan into your daily routine. Probably the most popular method of caloric cycling is the 14 day method. In this plan, you follow your diet for eleven days and then on the 12, 13 and 14th days you eat the things you truly would like to eat. Move your food throughout each day to trick your metabolism and then eat anything you want to keep yourself from getting to the plateau. This is also quite handy in keeping you on course with the stricter dieting programs. You can keep repeating these 14 days until you truly feel satisfied with the amount of weight you have shed.

One other popular program is the 2 day plan in which you eat as normal one day and the next day reduce your calories by between twenty and thirty five percent. You do this every couple of days for as long as it takes you to arrive at your weight loss targets. This is a program that is deserving of your attention since it could be just what you need to pass your plateau and drop all of the weight you would like to lose.




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