Overcome Your Weight Loss Plateau
Are you at a weight loss plateau? If you are I agree it's very annoying, but it can be overcome. First of all make sure you're not aiming at some unfeasibly low weight... That could be unhealthy for your body type... Your body knows what is best for you and it may just be desperately trying to keep you at its 'best weight' However, if you know you really could do with losing some more weight then here are a few 'tricks' that have conquered a weight loss plateau for myself and others: Don't stick to a low calorie diet day in and day out. Your metabolism may just slow down. Try tricking it with a higher calorie day approx two days a week. For example, three days lower calorie, one day higher calorie, three days lower calorie etc... As a rough guide if you're eating 1400 calories on your 'low' days you could perhaps increase that to 1800 on your 'high' days. However, that's just approximate and depends on your weight and daily activity level. The higher calorie days may also save your sanity! Another method that really works, and can work alongside the above, is to eat only a very pure diet for as long as it takes...
In my case I eat only fruit, veggies, cous cous, millet, basmati rice and pulses for up to a month at a time... Absolutely no refined, processed or yeasted foods. No sugar, no caffeine, no alcohol, no chocolate. I know, big yawn! I couldn't keep that up for more than a month, because I do need a bit of naughtiness in my life... Of the food variety, of course!
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