Thursday, June 28, 2012

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

By Jonas Varig


If you're like many people out there, you've probably tried a few different diets to different degrees of success. You probably have dropped a few pounds, until you get to a certain point, and then you don't lose any more, no matter what you do. This plateau that most people hit, is typical with virtually all diet plans. You can't prevent the plateau problem if you don't learn to deceive your metabolism.

You've probably already experienced the plateau problem which will probably have caused you a whole lot of discouragement and ended more than one diet program. This is an unusual thing that happens to even the most successful dieters sometime near the third or fourth week of the diet they have selected. Right until that point the weight seems to come off with no problems and then it just quits and nothing really works to help the body lose more fat. This is how your body reacts to the modifications that you have made. Your body enters into protection mode to avoid hunger, so it slows down your rate of metabolism. What this does, then, is keep your body from shedding any more excess fat.

This is what causes people to believe they're not capable of losing the weight they want, and they stop trying. At this point they return to eating, and putting on their weight back plus even more than they lost usually. The way to stop this is with a diet where you transfer calories. What you're trying to do is eat a different number of calories every day, which is meant to deceive your metabolism. If this technique works on your body, then it doesn't get into the position where it is working to protect itself. This can keep your body's metabolism churning at its present rate as opposed to going slower and you'll keep shedding pounds. As you arrive at this point, you have passed the plateau and your diet will continue to work the way that it was meant to.

It is pretty simple and easy to integrate this type of plan into your day to day life. Perhaps the most widely used method of caloric cycling is the 14 day method. The program goes for 2 weeks: you do typical things for the first eleven and then during the last three you eat anything you want. You can rotate your foods during the day and fool your metabolism and then for three days eat what you wish to eat and avoid the plateau. This can also help you from being frustrated with a rigid diet routine. You can continue repeating these 14 days until you feel happy with the amount of weight you have shed.

The 2 day plan is yet another 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 achieve your weight loss objectives. This is a program that is deserving of your attention as it could be just what you need to pass your plateau and get rid of all of the weight you would like to lose.




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