Have you hit a low carb weight loss plateau? It can be frustrating to remove your favorite foods from your diet and yet not see the results on the scale but the answer to how to get off your plateau is an easy one and if you would like to learn how to do it then I encourage you to take two minutes to read on.
Low Carb Weight Loss Plateau
Carbohydrates are a key nutrient in weight loss. When you eat carbs your body responds by producing a hormone called insulin. The presence of insulin makes it easy for your body to make fat and harder for your body to release stored fat. This is why low carb dieting is successful, when you omit carbs you do not get the fat-storing properties of insulin.
However, this does not mean you are automatically immune to hitting a plateau. The reason is because your body is very good at adapting to your dietary changes and if your weight has stalled it is likely that your body adapted to your different intake of food and is responding by lowering your metabolic rate. This makes it very hard for your body to burn fat and you get stuck.
To boost your metabolism you need to mix up your food intake for a short period. This allows your body to move past it's adaptation. How do you do this? The best way is to add an overeating day to your diet week that includes carbohydrates. Your metabolism will spring into action to take care of the additional carbs and you will be back to fat burning mode again.
You will notice a bloating effect from the additional carbs but this will quickly go away over the next couple of days and you will be left with a fully charged metabolism that gets you past your low carb weight loss plateau.
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