Weight Loss Plateau Discouragement: 3 Steps to Break Through and Regain Confidence
Weight loss can sometimes encounter a plateau, 3 steps to accelerate breakthrough. (Photo / Pexels, pixabay, unsplash, below same)
Editor / Jie Jie
Healthy eating is popular, and more and more people use exercise to maintain their figure. Many people have made up their minds to lose weight, work hard and control their diet, but they always encounter a weight loss plateau. In fact, this is a reaction caused by the body’s readjustment mechanism, which is to prevent rapid consumption of calories, especially people who lose weight quickly, are more likely to encounter this situation.
How to know if you have entered a plateau, can be judged by the following conditions:
The food intake has not increased, and the categories have not changed, but the weight has not decreased for a period of time
Regularly quantitatively exercise to consume calories, and the weight remains unchanged
The plateau time lasts for more than 2 weeks
If you encounter a weight loss plateau, first don't be discouraged, there are 3 small tips to find the breakthrough, so that the hard-working you has the opportunity to lose weight healthily.
Adjust your mindset
Many people encounter weight loss plateaus and begin to feel discouraged and slack, leading to an increase in diet or social activities, and gradually giving up. If you clearly understand that this is a body’s self-protection mechanism, you should calmly and peacefully reach a ‘resolution’ with the body, maintain the weight patiently, and then gradually break through the plateau situation.
Change your diet
Here, ‘changing’ your diet does not mean reducing food intake, but changing the ‘structure’ of your diet. If you only eat the same food, it is better to change it to different types of food with similar nutrition, such as changing chicken breast to fish, high-fiber fruits to other vegetables, and appropriately increase the intake of high-quality protein and fiber, as well as vitamins, which can quickly exit the plateau situation.
Change your exercise mode
If you long-term exercise with the same type of exercise or posture to consume calories, the body will form muscles or have become accustomed to this intensity, which will reduce the calories consumed. Try to gently increase the intensity and length of exercise, let the body consume more calories, or do more aerobic and anaerobic exercises, improve metabolism, or do stretching exercises like yoga, which can help shorten the weight loss plateau situation.
