The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. If you have reached a fat loss or weight loss plateau, you have to change up your diet and/or exercise regimen to break the plateau.

When you start dieting and exercising, your body becomes accustomed to:

• The amount of calories you eat
• The types of foods you eat
• The times of day you eat
• The amount of calories you burn off via exercise, etc.

If you want to maintain an ALREADY healthy body, then it's perfectly okay to stick to a specific diet and exercise regimen. However, if you are trying to either lose weight, burn fat, and/or build muscle, you have to break your bodies comfort zone so that you can either prevent or break a fat loss and weight loss plateau.

As far as eating is concerned, there is a dieting system called calorie shifting from the Fat Loss 4 Idiots program. This system is designed to prevent you from reaching a fat loss plateau. What it does is it will show you how to "shift" the calories from the meals you eat each day. By shifting calories, you are preventing your body from getting accustomed to foods you eat. This whole process confuses your metabolism and causes it to increase dramatically. Check out the calorie shifting system from Fat Loss 4 Idiots here.

Now, as far as exercising is concerned, I recommend for you to increase the intensity of your workout every week. For example:

• Let's say you do cardio on a treadmill the first week at a speed of 3.0 and an incline of 5.0. The second week you should decrease the speed to 2.7 but increase the incline to 8.0 (trust me, it's pretty intense). The week after that switch to working out on an elliptical.
  
• You arm curl a 25 pound dumbbell the first week. The second week you increase to a 30 pound dumbbell. The following week switch to doing cable arm curls.
  
• Etc.

So, in summary, by increasing the intensity and changing up your exercise routine every week, you will stimulate muscle growth and fat loss which will keep you out of a plateau. Also, by "calorie shifting", you can break a fat loss plateau quickly due to the increase of your metabolism.

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Orignal From: Quick Tips On How To Break A Fat Loss Or Weight Loss Plateau

发贴者 healthlifeblog 时间： 5/06/2009