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Old 08-04-2006, 03:59 PM
EricT EricT is offline
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So you weighed 200 and you got down to 155? That's good progress and honestly if this is your first weightloss plateau then you're doing well. But you may have given up to early as for as going for the fatburner pill solution. Now there are a lot of proven diets that others here know about but I think it is useful to just be aware of certain things. And it may be somewhat motivating.

One is that weithtloss pretty much always slows down or stops completely for everyone. It is normal. It doesn't mean that there is something wrong with you and you just can't do it. People have a tendency to think that the body's ultimate response to a caloric deficit and cardio is to drop fat...but this is really only the initial response. The ultimate response is for the body to ADAPT and attempt to maintain homeostasis. A few points to keep in mind.

1. It is a mistake not to worry about lean body mass. I guarantee with what you are doing now you are losing lean mass. Result? You burn less calories and metabolism slows. And if you do lose the fat all that "respectable" muscle will have melted away or at least a lot of it will have. At this point you're probably taking in too few calories. You try to maintain to much of a deficit for too long and your metabolism slows more to adapt PLUS your body can't maintain it's lean tissue which compounds to problem. Your body thinks it's starving. It's waiting for things to "get worse" and thus trying to hold on to fat for when things do. Does this make sense?

2. Also, as your body adapts to caloric intake so does it adapt to exercise activity. You don't want to do the same activity and the same level of intensity and at the same frequency forever. You do the same thing for long enough and your body gets better at it. Part of getting better is that it burns less calories doing it. Change up the cardio, maybe try some HIIT or whatever.

3. This is further to the lean muscle thing...muscle burns around 5 times as much energy as fat mass. A good reason to hold it in high esteem if you want to lose fat. Something to think about.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.
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