Weight Loss Plateau
How to Break Through It!

A weight loss plateau is eventually reached by anyone that is following a long term weight loss program.

No matter how perfectly you do everything, it is always--only a matter of time, before your body adapts.

This means that the nutrition and exercise strategies that you are currently using to reach your ideal weight, have to be changed. What do you do in this situation?

When you hit a weight loss plateau, the more options you have to break through it, the better your chances of reaching your long term goal.

When you reach this point in your program, what it really means is that you need to change your nutrition and exercise variables.

Using current reality to stay on track...

This is why the weekly weight loss chart is so useful, as soon as the adaptation sets in, you know about it.

And once you know about it, you can make the necessary changes!

Doing the same things you did last week, will not do you much good in breaking the plateau, and most likely will produce similar results.

There are so many changes you can make in your nutrition, aerobic and weight training strategies.

In this section I will cover nutrition and aerobics, since weight training will be covered later on, in full detail.

And because weight training burns fat indirectly, it will never be your first or second option, for breaking a weight loss plateau.

Aerobics should always be your first choice...

This is the best way to burn fat both in the short and long term, and this should always be your first option.

For cardio workouts, the first thing you can change is the type of exercise you are doing.

Then you can also change your intensity, duration and frequency.

The time of the day is also an option, and the last thing you can do if you want to really turn up the heat, is doing double-cardio!

Everything that has to do with cardio-training will be covered in full detail in the section on aerobic exercises.

Nutrition is your second option...

But to be on the safe side, never decrease your daily calorie intake by more than 100 calories.

You don’t want to go too low, and trigger the starvation response.

Lowering your calories, should be used *only* if your daily calorie intake is more than it should be.

It is always better to use cardio to burn the fat off, then to simply drop your calories, and try to diet the fat off!

Eating food in its natural state, increasing your meal frequency, and the more advanced techniques, like temporary increase in protein and a temporary decrease in your carbohydrate intake can also be used.

These topics will be covered in full detail in the Nutrition section.

Always keep your eye on your weekly chart...

You do not have to change anything if your chart shows excellent progress. Make adjustments only when you hit a weight loss plateau!

There are so many options to break through a plateau. All you have to do is choose the one that is most effective for you.