Have you reached a point where you can’t seem to lose any more weight? Don’t throw in the towel just yet. Here are some tips to get over it:
Have you reached a point where you can’t seem to lose any more weight? Don’t throw in the towel just yet. Here are some tips to get over it:
- Examine your diet to make sure you are being honest with yourself. You lose the right to complain if you aren’t eating what you are supposed to.
- Alcohol not only adds calories to your diet, but it effectively slows your metabolism and reduces your motivation to work out and diet. So it’s better you say ‘adios’ to Alcohol.
- If you still have refined carbs in your diet, get rid of them, especially before a workout. Eating a meal containing low-glycemic carbs about three hours before a workout results in more fat burned than a meal containing refined carbs.
- If you are coming to the gym and you are doing the same thing every time, change your workout. Run today, lift weights tomorrow, swim on the next day, take a group exercise class the day after.
- Working out at different levels of intensity is thought to increase weight loss. Do more of weight training and then finish with moderate cardio exercises.
- Use weight training to build muscle. Each pound of muscle burns about 50 calories a day at rest.
- If you are not drinking enough water during the day, your body may be retaining water, adding to the numbers on the scale. Hydrating your body is a must during a workout and water helps alot during a workout.
- People who exercise at least 30 minutes every day are more successful with weight loss. Try to get in at least this much exercise and increasing the time you spend working out every day will increase the caloric burn.
