Weight Loss Tips After Hitting A Plateau

Hitting a weight loss plateau is frustrating when you feel you’ve been consistent with your workouts and eating healthy. There are many reasons for hitting a weight loss plateau. They can be underestimating your calorie intake, not getting enough exercise, not getting enough sleep, and overworking your body. Here are some weight loss tips after hitting a plateau.

Switch Up Workout Routine

It’s common to hit a workout plateau despite keeping a regular routine. You may notice your workouts are getting easier or you’re no longer seeing results. The best ways to push through a workout plateau is to switch up your routine. Switch the intensity and duration of your workout. Try new machines in the gym that you’re not familiar with. Increase endurance by working out longer or adding heavy weights and more repetitions.

Increase Daily Steps

Having a daily step goal is a great way to see weight loss results. If you already have a step goal, adding an extra 2k steps to your daily goal is a way to increase your activity. This is a great way to get you in more of a calorie deficit to being to see results.

Track Calories

In general when dieting people tend to underestimate the amount of food they consume. Tracking calories will help you know exactly what you are consuming and let you see what adjustments you can make if any. Research shows that tracking your food can help improve weight loss.

Sleep

Sleep is very important for weight loss. It has also been shown that the lack of sleep can lead to weight gain. When you don’t get enough sleep your metabolic rate is lower and hormone levels are disrupted, increasing appetite and fat storage.

Recovery

Sometimes what your body needs is a break. Having the right amount of recovery time is an important part of weight loss. Try eating at maintenance calories for a couple weeks to allow your body to rest, relax and recover. Maintenance calories just means the amount of calories your body needs to stay at the weight you currently are. After a week or two you should be able to start seeing results again once you go back to a calorie deficit.