Breaking your plateau or stall....
..with diet and I just learned how with exercise!! Woo hoo!
Last night at support group there was a fitness trainer on staff that attends the meetings, along with a nutritionist. The fitness part comes from him, the nutrition part comes from me and my stapler peeps results!
Diet: Wen in a stall or plateau you must "trick" your body into letting it know you are not in "starvation" mode. Goes back to when we were caveman and food and water were scarce. If you up your liquids to 80 oz, yup 80 peeps, and increase your calories by 500 calories at least, eat 6 times a day, and do this for one week, and then return to your normal routine you will let your body know that food and water are abundant and that will kick your fat burning metabolism back into gear.
Also you can do it with exercise. I learned last night that the way muscle and fat work together, if muscle feels threatened by losing water/fat and nutrients it too will hold onto it. For example, lets say you do the same cardio workout 3-5 a week, or walking. Your body willl only allow the same amount of water to be "let go" because it knows it is going to get replinshed as usual. If instead of doing 1 exercise of 30-60 minutes, stop and do 10 min exercises 3-6 times a week. Your muscle will go into a "shock" and start taking fat and water from fat. When you do this 3-6 tmes a day it takes from fat 2-6 times more than doing one continual 30-60 min rutine. Your body actually thinks its working out MORE when in fact minutes wise its the same. Its best to mix it though, 10 mins cardio, 10 mins strength training, 10 mins power walking, 10 mins swimming, jumping rope.. whatever. You can only do this for 6 weeks and see fat burning results before your body will recognize that this is the new/usual routine.
I hope this makes sense, I am trying to explain it in very lame terms so its easy to understand. The trainer gave his schpeel about it and did a demonstration using a large bucket of water and a small one and showed how utlimately the large bucket (fat) got extremely reduced by the smaller (muscle). It was very interesting.
I hope it makes sense to y'all and I hope it helps and works for ya (awhile).
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J.Bridget Fisher aka koi-pea
2/9/04 lap 5'11"
298/170-trying to lose another 10
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