Bust through a Plateau (Part 2)

The 2nd way to bust through a plateau is by looking at your current caloric intake per day. Back when you started your weight loss journey you were working with a specific set of calories per day that you knew you could eat without gaining weight. This number was also low enough to allow you to safely lose 1-2lbs per week.

However, if you have lost 10 or more lbs you may have found that your weight loss has begun to slow down.

What's the reason for this?
One possible reason is now that you weigh less, you require fewer calories per day to maintain your current weight. So if you are looking to lose even more weight you will have to either decrease your calories or increase your exercise to continue to lose weight at your previous pace.

Always be cautious, though, in dropping your calories too quickly. You want to make sure that you have already increased your activity levels first and that the quality of the calories you are eating is high.

After you've sufficiently upped your workouts and improved the quality of the foods that you are consuming, you can then decrease your daily caloric intake.

It's always best to see what you can get away with first, so I wouldn't recommend cutting back more than 20% of the calories you were previously consuming before you hit a plateau.

(* Note: the flip side of this plateau busting tip is that if you're consuming too few calories per day your body will limit your fat loss attempts to prevent starvation by causing you to burn fewer calories during the day…)

In Part 3, I'll show you how an unlikely source could be the reason you're stuck in a rut. I think you'll like the answer of how to overcome this one…