The Diet Plateau

After you’ve been on a diet for a while, you get to a point where no matter how hard you try, you can’t drop any additional pounds. Even if you are continuing on the same exact same diet that helped you lose your initial weight, your weight doesn’t budge. You’re actually stuck in ‘Diet Plateau Land’, which can be very disheartening and often leads you to abandon your diet efforts and gain back all of the initial weight that you’ve lost. The only way to break through this plateau is to increase your aerobic exercise and beef-up your strength-training activity.

Aerobic exercise burns extra calories that you can’t possibly lose by dieting alone. Walking for 30 minutes a day can improve your cardio-vascular fitness while you burn unwanted fat calories, which helps you to break the diet plateau. In addition, strength training exercises using light hand-held weights while walking, gives you a double-blast of calorie burning. In 3-4 weeks time, you’ll see those extra stubborn pounds melt away as you successfully reach your target weight.