What To Do When Weight Loss Plateaus

What To Do When Weight Loss Plateaus

When you are attempting to lose weight you will hit the the dreaded plateau. You know what I am talking about. Everything seems to be working so well. You are burning calories and losing weight. Your exercise program and diet is working. Success is yours. And then seemingly overnight everything changes.

You haven’t changed anything. You haven’t eaten more or exercised less. So what happened. Well you have hit a plateau. It is inevitable. Why you ask?

Well your body is sometimes you enemy when attempting to lose weight. Your body wants to maintain a balance. So when you are losing weight your body is trying to figure out how to adapt to it and stop it from occurring. I know this stinks but it is a reality. So if you want to avoid plateaus then you need to keep your body confused or off balance.

Here are some ideas.

If you are in the weight room you can change your set and reps from week to week. You can stick with the same exercise program but vary your sets and reps.

You can switch up your exercises. Instead of doing a barbell bench your may want to switch to a dumbbell bench press or an incline bench press. I would vary your weight room exercise routine at least every 12 weeks or so.

If you are doing cardio then you can vary your intensity or the time that you do your cardio workouts. Do something like interval training where you can constantly switch up the times of intensity and moderate activity.

You may also want to try re-feeding. I wrote a recent article on this so I won’t cover it again. You can read the article on How to Lose Weight with Re-Feeding.

If you keep your body confused through the tactics described above then you should be able to bust through any plateaus that you may experience.

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