By James Steele


In case you are like many people, then you have tried quite a few diets, with varying degrees of success. You may have lost some weight but you typically get to a certain point and then nothing you do can help you shed more pounds. This plateau is hit by just about everyone and is common amongst all of the different weight loss programs. There exists a new way of avoiding this plateau by attempting to trick your metabolism.

You most likely have already hit the plateau at least once--in fact, it has most likely caused a frustrating end to more than one diet program. The plateau is an unusual phenomenon and it happens to even the most successful dieters when they arrive at the third or fourth week of their diet programs. Up to that point weight is coming off and then it simply quits, and absolutely nothing works to keep the body shedding weight. This is the body responding to the things you're putting it through. Your body decreases your rate of metabolism when you arrive at this point since it wants to protect you from accidental starvation. What this does, then, is keep your body from shedding any more excess weight.

This is the reason people stop trying to shed pounds because, this plateau keeps them from thinking that doing so is achievable. This is exactly what causes a lot of people to start eating again and they often gain back more weight than they lost to start with. The way to prevent this is simply by using a diet where you move calories. What you want to do is eat a different number of calories each day, which purportedly helps you fool your metabolism. If this works on your body it will not enter "protective" mode. This can keep your body's metabolism rolling at its current rate instead of slowing down and you'll keep on shedding pounds. As you get to this point, you have passed the plateau and your diet will continue to work the way that it was supposed to.

It is very simple and easy to integrate this type of plan into your everyday routine. One of the more popular techniques of caloric cycling is the 14 day method. The program will go for a couple weeks, where you do the standard plan for 11 days, and then 3 days where you eat what you want. Move your food throughout each day to trick your metabolism and then eat whatever you desire to keep yourself from hitting the plateau. This keeps you from being frustrated at a rigid regimen with your eating. You could continue doing these 14 days again and again until you are satisfied with your weight loss.

One other 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. You do this every couple of days for as long as it takes you to arrive at your weight loss targets. It's a program that you have to try, since it might be exactly what can get you past your plateau, to where you will shed all the weight you'd like.




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