By James Steele


If you're like a lot of people out there, you might have 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. The plateau thing is in fact quite common--it is something that people deal with no matter what diet plan they follow. There's no way of avoiding this plateau unless you trick your metabolism.

You most likely have already reached the plateau at least once--in fact, it has possibly caused a frustrating end to more than one diet program. This is a strange event, which happens to successful dieters about the third or fourth week of their diet. Up to that moment, the weight falls off and then it just stops and nothing you do can get your body to lose more weight. It's your body reacting to the changes you are putting it through. Your body goes into protection mode to prevent starvation, so it slows your metabolism. This, then, keeps you from being able to get rid of more weight.

This is what makes many people believe that they simply aren't capable of attaining their weight loss objectives and they quit. This is what causes most people to start eating again and they usually gain back more weight than they lost to start with. The way to stop this is by using a diet where you shift calories. What you are trying to do is consume a different number of calories every day, which is designed to fool your metabolism. If this works on your body it won't enter "protective" mode. This will keep your metabolism constant instead of slowing down and you are going to drop even more weight. When you arrive at this point, you have passed the plateau and your diet will continue to work the way that it was designed to.

It is really simple and easy to integrate this type of plan into your day to day life. Most likely the most common method of calorie cycling is the 14 day method. In this method, you stick to your diet for eleven days and then on the 12, 13 and 14th days you try to eat the things you truly would like to eat. You move your foods throughout the day, fooling your metabolism, and for three day eat what you want, avoiding the plateau. This can be quite handy in keeping you on the right track with the stricter dieting programs. Simply keep repeating the fourteen days until you've achieved your weight loss objectives.

The 2 day plan is yet another excellent plan in which you eat regularly for one day and then reduce your calories by 20% all the way up to 35%. You do this every 2 days for as long as it takes you to achieve your weight loss goals. This is a program that deserves your attention since it could be just what you need to pass your plateau and shed all of the weight you want to lose.




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