10 Ways to overcome a Diet Plateau and Loose Weight

1. Vary your program. The human body is an amazing piece of machinery, capable of adapting to just about any circumstance or stimulus. By shaking things up a bit and varying your program by introducing some new elements, you'll likely find yourself off the plateau and back on the road to progress in no time.

2. You should be

eating at least 1200 calories a day if you are a woman and 1500 calories per day if you are a man. If you restrict your calories too much your body will start stockpiling fat because it thinks you are starving.

3. You may try to break a plateau by decreasing the percentage of carbohydrates and

increasing the percentage of protein that you intake each day.

4. Another common recommendation is

not to mix your protein and carbohydrates. If you have a protein breakfast, wait 2-3 hours before resuming your balanced meals.

5. Speed up your metabolism. Metabolism is the number of calories that you burn at any given moment. Your metabolism burns more calories while you are active then when you are at rest. Learn how many calories you need per day- What is your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)

When your cells need energy they will break down carbohydrates first, then fat and finally protein. Your body converts carbohydrates into a form of sugar called glucose which is easily used as fuel by your body. Any excess carbohydrates you eat will be turned into fat for storage. Of course, any fat you eat will be stored as fat as well.

a.) Becoming more active will stimulate your metabolism, says Susan L. Burke, MS, RD/LD, CDE, director of nutrition services for eDiets. Muscle is more metabolically active than fat, she explains, so replacing your fat stores with lean muscle allows you to maintain your weight much more easily. Regular strength training can increase your resting metabolic rate anywhere from 6.8 to 7.8 percent. You can get great results with only two 15-minute lifting sessions a week.
More fat is burned off when women exercise during the two weeks following ovulation to about two days before menstruating because estrogen and progesterone promote the body's use of fat as energy.

b.) Eat breakfast and eat more often!
Your body has been deprived of food throughout the night, therefore your metabolism has slowed. If the cells do not receive sufficient nutrients they will begin to function less efficiently on smaller amounts, and they will actually store more fat to use during these times of nutritional deprivation.

c.) Relax 10-15 minutes every day with your favorable activities.

6. Drink 6-8 glasses of water. Lack of water can slow the metabolic rate just as lack of food can. Often, plateaus are due to fluid retention. To eliminate excess fluid, restrict your salt intake, drink more water, exercise, and eat more fruit-especially cantaloupe, honeydew, oranges, and bananas, which contain water-eliminating potassium. (Just don't go overboard-they still have calories.)

7. Don't eat too much of rice, potatoes, beans, nuts, pastry, pasta especially in the evenings. For dinner chose mainly large mixed veggies salads... with fish, lean meat or cheese.

8. Do not eat cookies, chips, candies, brownies ...

9. Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.
You can eat as much as you like of these

vegetables:
-artichoke, celeriac (celery root), lettuce, asparagus, chicor, zucchini, (green) beans, (garden) cress, beet , cucumber, onion, broccoli, dandelion, hot (Chile) peppers ,(green) cabbage, endive, radishes, carrot ,garlic, spinach, cauliflower, turnip.

Fruit: apple , mango,raspberries, cranberries, orange, strawberries, grapefruit, papaya,tangerine, lemon, pineapple.

10. Spice your food with cayenne pepper, basil, parsley, dill, sage, thyme.

We grow up with the paradigm that we must have fluid at mealtimes, and that we must have tea or coffee directly after a meal. That is nonsense, and we should strive not to fill our digestive system with beverages when it tries to optimize nutrient absorption during and after meals. Rather have a glass of water with a dash of raw organic Apple Cider Vinegar 45 minutes before your meal.

One of the primary keys to weight loss may simply be the action of enzymes.

Lipase for example is found abundantly in raw foods but few of us eat sufficient raw foods to get enough lipase to burn even a normal amount of fat, not to mention any excess. Lipase is a fat splitting enzyme that aids the body in digestion, fat distribution and the burning of fat for energy. Lipase activity breaks down and dissolves fat throughout the body. Without lipase, fat stagnates and accumulates in organs, arteries and capillaries. You will also notice it on hips, thighs, buttocks and the stomach.

Protease is another crucial enzyme for maintaining a healthy body. The Two Primary Roles that Protease plays are to break down proteins and eliminate toxins. The Elimination of toxins is crucial for anyone who is Burning Fat. Your body stores excess toxins in your body fat. As your body begins to burn this fat the toxins are released back into your system. This can sometimes cause water retention and bloating. Since Protease attacks and eliminates toxins, it is crucial to have extra protease during fat loss.


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