How To Maintain Weight Loss
If you're on a good weight loss journey, you certainly don't want to stop losing weight. When a plateau comes without warning, frustration and sadness can creep up on you. Assuming you're at a weight still considered obese, there are some ways to get back on track for weight loss and start burning more fat. It's not easy, but it is possible.
What you need to do is go through and analyze your diet and exercise plans. When you stop losing weight even though there is still a lot of fat left, the body is telling you something. It's saying "I have no reason to lose any more weight." What you need to do in order to fight back is give it a reason. First of all, get in a good mindset that will's yourself to think more weight can come off. It could be a mental block where you may think it's impossible to lose any more weight. Avoid thinking like this and instead tell yourself what you want to look like.
After you're in the right mindset, it's time for some changes. Switch up your workout by adding some more cardiovascular activities or different lifting workouts. The key here is body fat confusion. When you begin losing weight for the very first time, it probably came off dramatically. This is the phenomenon of something called "the first month." Since your muscles and the rest of your body aren't used to working out and eating healthy, the most results are seen when the shock hits your system. More calories have to be used as energy and nutrients have to be used to build back muscle that was broken down.
All that a plateau means is you're doing just enough to maintain current weight and mass, but not enough "shocking things" to trigger more weight loss. Develop a whole new way of exercising that you can maintain for long term amounts of time. It might be necessary to increase the length of time you are burning calories so that your body has to use more resources to keep you going. It doesn't take too much of an increase to maintain weight loss.
This is a problem that many bodybuilders or regular people who are just trying to build some more muscle run into often. At first, muscle growth happens rapidly as well as extreme soreness. This is because you're changing how the muscles function each day. These muscles get used to the same workouts after awhile and eventually are just maintaining themselves but no growth is occurring. In order to start building muscle again it is necessary to confuse them in order to spark more soreness as well as stronger rebuilding. This might mean harder workouts, different muscle movements, more weight, or more reps.
What you need to do is go through and analyze your diet and exercise plans. When you stop losing weight even though there is still a lot of fat left, the body is telling you something. It's saying "I have no reason to lose any more weight." What you need to do in order to fight back is give it a reason. First of all, get in a good mindset that will's yourself to think more weight can come off. It could be a mental block where you may think it's impossible to lose any more weight. Avoid thinking like this and instead tell yourself what you want to look like.
After you're in the right mindset, it's time for some changes. Switch up your workout by adding some more cardiovascular activities or different lifting workouts. The key here is body fat confusion. When you begin losing weight for the very first time, it probably came off dramatically. This is the phenomenon of something called "the first month." Since your muscles and the rest of your body aren't used to working out and eating healthy, the most results are seen when the shock hits your system. More calories have to be used as energy and nutrients have to be used to build back muscle that was broken down.
All that a plateau means is you're doing just enough to maintain current weight and mass, but not enough "shocking things" to trigger more weight loss. Develop a whole new way of exercising that you can maintain for long term amounts of time. It might be necessary to increase the length of time you are burning calories so that your body has to use more resources to keep you going. It doesn't take too much of an increase to maintain weight loss.
This is a problem that many bodybuilders or regular people who are just trying to build some more muscle run into often. At first, muscle growth happens rapidly as well as extreme soreness. This is because you're changing how the muscles function each day. These muscles get used to the same workouts after awhile and eventually are just maintaining themselves but no growth is occurring. In order to start building muscle again it is necessary to confuse them in order to spark more soreness as well as stronger rebuilding. This might mean harder workouts, different muscle movements, more weight, or more reps.
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