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Successful Weight Loss
You are overweight and so you purchased my "Burn
Fat Build Muscles Fast" system so that you can lose weight fast and get a
well toned muscular physique. You were committed to the program and you
continuously lose 1-2 pounds of body fat per week. You were very happy with
the results you were getting until suddenly after a month or two, you noticed
that your weight loss is getting slower and slower until it grinds to a halt.
What happened, you wondered? Well, this dreaded phenomenon is called the
"Weight Loss Plateau".
Weight Loss Plateau
Firstly, you need to understand why you have hit the weight loss a plateau.
Actually the answer is very simple. You see, and you probably know that in
order to lose weight,
you have to consume less calories than you burn for energy. So if you were
losing weight effectively before and now your weight simply refused to go down
any further, that could only mean one thing. That is you are longer on calorie
deficit situation. Yes, you can say that you are still eating the same thing
and amount when you begun the program and I can tell you that is exactly the
problem. Here is why:-
Decreased Metabolism/Calorie Deficit
You see, if your diet requires you to cut calories and since you wanted to get
faster result, you cut down your calorie consumption more than what is
recommended, your body adapts to this by decreasing your metabolic rate
sometimes known as "starvation mode" or medically known as "adaptive
thermogenesis".
This adaptation is actually a natural survival instinct because your
body instinctively "thinks" that you are starving and thus conserve your fat
to keep you alive. Tweak your diet to get out of this phase.
Now, it may also escaped you that as you were losing
weight, you were getting smaller and therefore need less calories so that
if you are eating as much as before when you were heavier, then you are now
consuming more calories than you are burning. Common sense right? However,
most people do not realize this implication or thought about it this way.
Since you have a smaller body and is much lighter now, your body will
burn less calories when you move about or doing your cardio exercises. Again
this boils down to common sense and common sense is not so common after all.
In other words, you have to tweak your exercises to burn as much calories as
before when you were much heavier.
These are the reasons why you often hear people say that it is most
difficult to lose that
last ten pounds. It is not difficult at all, it is just that they have
overlooked those simple facts explained above. So the answer as to why you
have hit the weight loss plateau is that you no longer in a caloric deficit
state.
So how to break out of weight loss plateau? Well, start of by giving
your body a break. Take a week or two off your program since your body has
adapted to it. This is also to give your body a physiological break from the
stress of dieting and exercising and for it reset some of those starvation
hormones and start stimulating your metabolism, so when you get back to the
state of calorie deficit after your much needed break, your body will be
responsive to your effort again.
Then when you return to your weight loss program, tweak it to reflect
the current state that you are in and watch those body fats start disappearing
again. One easy way to condition your mind to lose more weight and overcome
weight loss plateau is through self hypnotism. You can read about it at "How
to use self hypnotism to lose weight".
Chris Chew
Author-
Burn Fat Build Muscles Fast System
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