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Plateau Breakthrough Tips

by Monica Neave

Enjoy A Cheat Day
Eating a healthy and perfect diet 100% of the time can actually backfire on you. According to Body for Life author, Bill Phillips, “It is also important that you over-feed the body a little bit once a week, it helps convince your body it’s not starving and it hasn’t hit a famine. Throughout time, our bodies have had to adapt to times when there was a lot of food and times when there wasn’t enough. If your body feels that there is a food shortage, the fat will come off slower. So the Free Day, believe it or not, accelerates fat loss.” This is the best kept secret of the body for life program and the reason that so many people are able to stay committed to the plan and achieve those amazing transformations you’ve seen in his book, website, or magazine. He’s not talking about gorging on the worst foods for an entire day but just indulging in something that you enjoy and have not been eating regularly since you started a healthy diet. Just be sure that your cheat meal does not become a daily thing.

Keep A Food Journal
Maintaining an ideal calorie intake takes a lot of work and if you’ve been on a weightloss plan for an extended period of time it’s easy to get off track. It’s not something that happens overnight or purposely. It’s small changes that happen gradually and are not easy to notice unless you’re writing down every single thing you eat. Obviously protein carbs and fat are something that most people keep track of but what about sauces, condiments, spices, soft drinks (diet or regular), alcoholic drinks, fruit juices, toppings of any kind, mints, sweeteners, etc. Maybe you’ve been adding too much salt to your food and it’s causing you to retain water on a regular basis. Diet soft drinks although they have zero calories may be filling you up so that you’re neglecting your water and fiber intake which are both crucial to weightloss. Try journaling for a week and be honest about your food intake. You may be surprised to find that you’re not eating as healthy as you think.

Try Liquid Meals
Life can get quite hectic these days especially for working moms, which leads to a lot of meals eaten outside of the home. It can be increasingly difficult to count calories, fat, and carbs when you’re eating out often and this can sabotage your weightloss plan despite your best efforts to eat healthy. This is the reason meal replacements shakes are so great. They were designed for people who don’t always have time to cook healthy, for those who don’t want to worry about exceeding their calorie intake, and for those who have difficulty getting enough protein. Try replacing one or two of the meals that you normally eat out with a meal replacement shake and a piece of fruit. You’ll save yourself money, time, and at least 150 calories.

Circuit Train for Intensity
Most people who strength train are on a split routine which is very effective for building fat burning muscle. The problem is that your body adapts so easily to any changes and sometimes it needs more calories burned during a workout in order to respond. Switching around the order of your exercises, increasing reps and weights, or trying different muscle combinations are great changes but may not always help you off your plateau. Your only other option is incorporating circuit training into your routine. Try it once a week in addition to your current routine or take a break from your regular workout for one week and try circuit training 3 times in addition to 3 days of high intensity cardio. Your body won’t know what hit it and you’ll start losing again.

Make The Yoga Connection
Yoga may not burn enough calories to be considered a cardio workout but it does build fat burning muscle. Yoga also diminishes the daily stress that stimulates deep abdominal fat cells to accept and store fat. It’s also believed that certain yoga poses regulate thyroid function and contribute to weightloss. On top of this yoga increases flexibility and improves posture making you appear longer and leaner. Try it twice a week for one month and see what happens.

Highly Recommended: for those who've tried everything to get off a plateau and still can't lose weight.
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