Wednesday, September 4, 2013

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

By Ron Stucky


If you're like most of the people out there, no doubt you've tried various diets to different degrees of success. You probably have lost excess weight, until you get to a specific point, and then you don't lose any more, regardless of what you do. The plateau thing is really very common--it is something that people deal with regardless of what diet plan they follow. There isn't a way of avoiding this plateau if you don't fool your metabolism.

You probably have already experienced this plateau, which will normally end the diet plan with lots of discouragement. This is an unusual phenomenon, which happens to successful dieters about the third or fourth week of their diet. Up until that moment, the weight comes off and then it just stops and nothing you do can get your body to lose more weight. This is how your body does respond to all of the changes you have been forcing upon it. Your body switches into protection mode to avoid starvation, so it slows your rate of metabolism. What this winds up doing is keeping your body from losing any more weight.

This is what makes many people believe that they simply aren't capable of hitting their weight loss goals and they quit. This is 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 simply by using a diet where you transfer calories. What you are trying to do is eat a different number of calories every day, which is supposed to trick your metabolism. If this technique works on your body, then it won't get into the position where it is attempting to protect itself. It will keep your metabolism constant instead of slowing down and you are going to shed even more weight. If you get to this point, you'll have passed your plateau and your diet will keep on working the way it was designed to work.

It's pretty simple to apply this kind of plan for your every day routine. One of the most popular calorie shifting techniques is the 14 day method. In this method, you follow your diet for eleven days and then on the 12, 13 and 14th days you try to eat the things you actually would like to eat. Move your food throughout each day to fool your metabolism and then eat whatever you want to keep yourself from hitting the plateau. This could also help you from being frustrated with a strict diet regime. You could continue repeating these 14 days until you feel content with the amount of weight you have lost.

Yet another popular program is the 2 day plan in which you eat as normal one day and the next day cut your calories by between twenty and thirty five percent. Keep on repeating the method for as long as it takes you to attain a gratifying level of weight loss. This program is perfect 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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