The process for reducing weight can always look so challenging, where more that it "demands" from time and others thing to invest. First week of diet is where most dieters tend to run activity with high motivation.
However, you may feel that your weight is stuck and looks harder to go down, even though you're still practicing the same method. Undoubtedly this is what's called with "plateau" where it's also happened commonly when you exercise.
It is so annoying to feel the condition, but surely this "phase" can be fixed so you don't need to stop doing diet.
So let's see about this phase, the trigger and certainly the strategy to fix it. So you can go back on ideal path to lose the weight.
As explained, when you "enter" the plateau phase, then the body can't be stimulated anymore for the weight loss process, regardless the exercise or meal plan you've been using.
Such phase may occur weeks to month when running the diet. You can basically notice the slow progress, despite nothing's changed with the program.
The body can adapt to any changes, both in your physical activity or what to eat. The body metabolism can be slowed as the "barrier" against the reduced calories. That's why body don't burn calories that much and don't actually affect the weight reduction.
Once you are "trapped" in this situation, it does not mean you already fail. It basically means the body already adapts with the changes as well.
There are certain things that may cause the situation, from the metabolism problem.
Basically you need less calories when the weight is decreased. The metabolism of body can also adapt with such situation.
The result is your body don't burn much calories as it should.
When you lose weight, there's chance your muscle mass can reduce.
The loss of muscle can also contribute to plateau since the calories burning are also decreased.
Your body looks bigger not just because the fat only but also the muscle.
Still about how body adapt to the changes you do, then remember to fix it where you can still improve the "level" and do something different about your diet.
The progress without you realize will be affected when you are not consistent enough about the meal plan or the intensity from the training.
Changing the plan may always seem reasonable option with it. Since many plans outside regarding diet, you can simply find what's good enough to practice.
Now let's see the strategy to do to overcome the plateau in diet.
First you need to evaluate the meal plan, you can track it with a journal and monitor the calories intake. You may eat something you don't remember before, so you can track what can contribute to calories gain.
Next is of course to evaluate the physical activity or the body training and sync it with your meal plan.
Adding the duration as well as training variation can help for the case.
Yes you need the sufficient intensity to trigger the more calories burning.
