Defeat Weight Loss Plateaus With Calorie Cycling

Lost on the high plateau

That might make a great title for a spaghetti western. (By the way how did spaghetti and cowboy films get stuck together?) But it is really miserable when you are so tired of your diet that you are 6 inches from scarfing down the contents of the nearest fridge and yet when you step on the scales or measure your body fat the numbers are the same they have been over the last couple of weeks. Traditional wisdom says, press on this is not the time to quit. Well, your response is to grab that traditional wisdom slap it on some bread with mayo and shoot it down the ole' pie-hole. The good news is that there is a simpler way to shed weight for those who have struggled with losing weight in the past and for those who are planning on shedding some pounds now.


Troglodyte DNA causes weight loss plateauing.

Our bodies are very stingy when it comes storing fat. The body doesn't see fat the way we do as ugly and unhealthy, it sees fat as its protection against the famine that it is sure is coming. You see, our bodies do not realize that we are living in times of comparative plenty, they still are operating under the assumptions our DNA had as cave dwellers. Back then it was important that our DNA instructed the body to convert any excess food into fat and tuck it away in its fat cells because you could never be sure when you would be able to club your next mammoth and the body needed stored fat to survive those lean times. As a result our bodies will quickly adapt to a reduced calorie cycle. i.e. Low calorie dieting. The metabolism slows as the our caloric intake falls because our DNA signals starvation to the hypothalamus.


Calorie Cycling To The Rescue!

Calorie cycling is a way to get us of the weight loss plateau. According to our DNA, losing weight is a high crime against our bodies, so we need to keep the fact that we are about to lose weight a secret. It takes the body a few days to catch on to our nefarious plan to reduce its fat stores so we have a chance to hide our plans by cycling our caloric intake with a calorie cycling plan. But does calorie cycling work?


Does calorie cycling work better than other diets?

I am not going to make the claim that it is superior to all other diet plans, but it definitely works better than all of the traditional low calorie programs when it comes to weight loss plateaus. Remember rule one: The body adapts to patterns of behaviour. If you are repeating actions over and over to change your body in anyway, your body will adapt to that pattern and then plateau. That means it will stop changing in the way you want it to for a drawn out periods of time no matter how faithful you are at following your routine. This is really discouraging! But when we cycle through different sets of mini-programs we can keep the body from adapting and stopping on a weight loss plateau.


Every Other Day Dieting

If you cycling your eating plan every other day or so you can keep your resting metabolism high, you will not become bored with a routine and you will lose weight rapidly. Some calorie cycling plans are better than others and I would encourage you to use the one that includes foods you'd normally think of as "no no's" when on a diet. This makes the whole dieting process a lot more fun. When you know that you have only a day or two before you can cycle your routine.


A New You Off The Plateau

Just imagine what you will look like 4 weeks from now while actually enjoying calorie cycling weight loss. If you keep that imagination before you, you will easily follow your calorie cycling weight loss plan to a new you.