Learn How To Avoid A Weight Loss Plateau
It is easy to get very excited when you first begin to loose weight. If you stay committed to a diet and exercise routine the pounds come off very quickly at first. This happens for a variety of reasons. Once your body gets past a certain point in your weight loss; it can plateau which can be very discouraging. This is why it is important to know how to avoid a weight loss plateau before you hit one.
Knowing the steps to stop from hitting a wall with weight loss will keep you from getting discouraged and stopping your efforts in obtaining a healthy weight. Being armed with the knowledge before you get to a plateau is you r best defense in letting nothing get ion your way of hitting a healthy weigh goal and living a long happy life.
The main reason people hit their first weight loss plateau is because the human body burns burns more calories per activity the more weight a person has on them them. When someone carrying excess weigh reduces the amount of calories they are taking in the body quickly starts to tap into it’s fat reserve to burn the fuel still requires for all task the body is performing at the larger weight.
As the size of person is reduced during weight loss the less calories the body burns to perform all task. This means if nothing is done to alter ones diet and exercise routine then the body will stabilize itself and maintain the new weight. If your body does this and you are not yet at your ideal weight then this could be the weight loss plateau you hit.
It is easy to take the steps needed to avoid a weight loss plateau hit; when you first start dieting. All you have to do is increase the amount of exercise you are doing as part of you weight loss regimen. This will get your body back up to the the amount of calorie burning it was performing at prior any weight loss.
Another way to avoid keeping your weight loss from coming to a halt is to increase water intake as your weight gain progresses. For one reason or another people start off a diet plan taking in the proper amounts of water and then decreasing it as they loose weight. Being aware of proper water intake can go a long way to keep from hitting a plateau in weight loss.
Reducing your caloric intake again is necessary for some people to stop a weight reduction plateau. Again this goes back to the fact the human body burns less calories as excess weight is shed. Less calorie intake means the body will rely more on fat reserves to fuel the body.
Making changes in some of the foods in your diet can also help you prevent hitting a wall in loss of weight. Changing snack food and meal side items to more water based plants and will help in many ways. These food will make you feel full longer while reducing calories at the same time.
All of these tips should help you along your journey in losing weight and not becoming derailed by not being capable to get around a weight reduction plateau.
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April 3rd, 2010 at 6:16 am
Hey
Iam man around 30 years old weight 78 Kg heigh 172 lean around 62 kg. I wanted to cut around few kgs. By adding my weight, heigh and age I got the following;
BMR 1794.5 *1.725=3095
I started to take around 2000 calories the next day I was almost died during the night I could not sleep in addition I got a kind of vibration inside my body at the beginning I thought it was normal but latter on became worse in short I was short in calories and took sugar to regain power. Now my metabolism is almost died I feel a kind of bloating inside my stomach nonetheless I feel that my muscles disappearing any suggestion do I am very scared..
Best regards
John
May 24th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
John,
It sounds like you may have hypoglycimia like I do. This makes it even more difficult to diet, because you have to keep your bloodsugar up to survive. You also must keep your bloodsugar up to around 90 to maintain a metabolism that will burn fat instead of muscle. Some of the things I do is I eat almost all of my carbs in the morning, thus giving you the rest of the day to burn them off, I eat alot of vegetables and fruits. Which the natural sugars in the fruits will keep your sugar up. I also add in a little peanutbutter and celery for snacks. The peanut butter help maintain your bloodsugar. I also dont eat anything pre-packaged. Only fresh natural things. I eat only fish and poltury due to red meat is to hard to digest, and it takes a couple of days to digest it. I take in probably around 2300 calories a day but I eat a big breakfast being probably 800 of those calories. then a snack of fruit mid morning, then a lunch of alot of vegtable and a small piece of meat to help maintain my bloodsugar. then I have a afternoon snack of fruit again, then supper of more vegitable. Sometimes if I am hungry before I go to bed I will have a piece of fruit again. Thus keeping my bloodsugar through the night. I dont eat anything 2 hours before I go to bed. But I also get up early to have breakfast. I hope this works for you. Remember there isnt a diet out there that is for everyone, each individual person is unique and their chemical make up is different. So you may have to alter things a bit to what best works for you. mostly try to eat things that maintain your sugar and doesnt raise it, if you eat somthing that makes your sugar go to high, then shortly it will drop low and you will have to eat again to bring it back up. you want to maintain it at around 90. This will keep you burning fat.
Best Regards,
Jeremy
May 24th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Also I almost forgot the most important part drink alot of water. I always have a bottle of water in my hand. No caffine! Along with walking or light exercise. Nothing to strenuous cause it will take your sugar down especially if your not use to it. So start off slow. No reason to rush. Also the shaking was from your sugar getting to low thats why you had to eat the sugar. I hope all of this help you out.
Best Regards,
Jeremy
May 24th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
One other little tid bit of info for you. Try not to eat anything that has high frutose corn syrup in it, and try eating flax seed bread, instead of wheat bread. Also eat sweet potatoes instead of reg. potatoes. Also substitute margarine for real butter. As far as cooking oil only use extra virgin olive oil. their are some fats that your body needs to burn fat these are some of them.