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Betty asks:
Help! I’ve hit a plateau in my diet. No matter how well I stick to the guidelines of my diet I can’t seem to lose any more weight. For the past two to three weeks the scale simply won’t budge. All I see is the same number. What do I do?
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Hi Betty,
This happens to everyone. It’s hard to tell exactly why, but sometimes weight loss begins to stall after awhile because of some physiological reasons. For instance, water retention and other physiological factors related to an adjustment in your blood-sugar metabolism may be keeping your weight from dropping.
My best advice: Don’t despair. It will only be a matter of time before the pounds start dropping again. Your body will soon adjust, and you’ll begin to see weight loss again.
In my experience, if you are at a plateau for a week or longer, you need to make a change. Your body has gotten used to your diet and, depending on how severe your diet is, your body may be feeling you are starving it. In any event, a drastic change will help. You may want to switch to a very different diet – I have tried something like the grapefruit diet for 2 days (no more) to “shock” the body back to where you want it.
The other thing to think about is where your weight is right now. Perhaps you are at your ideal weight and should not be going any lower. Check with your doctor or, if you are on a “plan” (such as Weight Watchers), with your diet counselor.
Something that has really helped me get through a plateau is not so much as a ‘diet plan’ but just simple lifestyle changes as well as an all natural dietary supplement that helps to regulate blood sugars and increase your metabolism naturally called Bios Life Slim. If you would like more information you can email silver519@hotmail.com. Also, exercise is a very important component, I find that when you are good with one area, like nutrition, then you are more motivated to exercise and it just ‘snowballs’ from there.
Unfortunately, as we lose weight, our body’s require fewer calories. So you need to adjust either the calories that you consume or the calories that you burn. As a general rule, women should not go below 1200 calories a day. More than that and you lose muscle mass. Decreased muscle mass means a slower metabolism. One of the main reasons women gain weight as they get older and/or gain their weight back after losing weight on a diet is that they don’t have enough muscle. So one of the most important things we can do is resistance exercise to build -build -build muscle !!! (and no, you will not get bulky!! Muscle takes up less space than fat!)