Tips to exit the plateau in weight loss.

Although it can be frustrating, it is not uncommon to reach a plateau of weight loss, especially as you approach your ideal weight. Do not let that put you off. Everybody goes through this. So here I give you some tips to overcome the plateau in weight loss.

Sometimes people get into a routine of food, eating the same things day after day can lead to overeating as a result of being bored. An easy solution is to add more variety to your diet by including some new foods and condiments to plan your meals. And do not be afraid to try new recipes. This may be just what you need to start losing those extra kilos.

Enjoy a fitness program based on interval training. In these programs, short bursts of high intensity effort with periods of slower to catch your breath and allow your muscles to recharge alternate recovery. When working at a higher intensity part of the time, you end up burning more calories and fat in less time than you would if you were working at a steady pace. You will also develop more lean muscle mass, which contributes to further increase the metabolism and that in turn will help you get out of that weight loss plateau.

You must be careful if you're eating too much of certain foods that are known to halt the loss of weight. A good rule of thumb: keep tabs on everything you eat in a journal, so you can be aware of what you are consuming each day. We recommend taking a close look at the amount of carbohydrates nuts and low-fat cheese you're eating and cutting these items look.

Finally, it is possible that your weight loss has stalled because you have already reached your healthy weight, even when it's not your desired weight. If your cholesterol and blood sugar are normalized, your desire to keep losing more weight can be a matter of cosmetics. In this case, instead of focusing on the number on your scale, you should focus on how well you feel and how good it is to be healthier

Weight loss

The search for the perfect body and the elimination of unwanted pounds and fat is much more complex than it seems. It all starts with the formation of fat cells (adipocytes) in the four major periods of intra-uterine life, early childhood, adolescence and pre-adolescence. The higher the number of adipocytes formed, the greater the tendency to store fat. In women, fat concentrated around the waist, culottes, abdomen and inner thighs after puberty is a fatty deposit called fat gynoid, deeper, less hydrated peroxide and less with light energy reserves for pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding. Is the first fat is stored in the abuses food out of the latter during weight loss and physical activity.

For a real process of weight loss, weight loss should be slow and gradual - about 500 grams of fat per week. To do this, treatment should consist of nutrition education, physical activity and medical and aesthetic direct elimination and reduction of fat cells in areas of deposit, providing a fat substitute for muscle procedures. Not long ago, the only process capable of reducing the number of fat cells in areas of deposit liposuction surgery was associated or not with Dermolipectomia (surgical removal of excess skin). Many people applying such procedures as a magic formula for the perfect body without the effort of physical activity and nutrition education and 80% of cases recover all fat over a period of two years. With the advancement of cosmetic medicine, the process of weight loss has new non-surgical treatments such as Eletrolipoforese with Manthus, Hidrolipoclasia, Carboxiterapia, Carbolipoclasia, Intradermoterapia and Lisadoterapia address weight loss of localized pockets of fat, allowing a direct and healthy weight loss.

When performing aerobic physical activity immediately after these procedures, the body uses fat from treated areas such as muscles, resulting in a substitution of fat for muscle, increased basal metabolism and gradual and progressive weight loss to achieve the perfect body.

News from aesthetic medicine for weight loss:
Functional Nutrition - is the development of a custom menu that aims to use medicated food aid in increasing metabolism, fat loss and treatment of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, thyroid, etc. Eletrolipoforese - is the application of Manthus appliances, a powerful ultrasound to break the fat in microdroplets with an electric current that pumps blood and lymphatic vessels draining the fat. The device is applied to the skin with ultrasound gel, allowing reduced immediately. May be associated with Endermologie, a suction device which improves lymphatic drainage of the fat. It is indicated for the reduction of localized fat, cellulite, pre and post liposuction. Hidrolipoclasia - is the combination of the application of saline instead of fat to improve eletrolipoforese loss process immediately after the procedure. Fat is aimed at advancing and used during physical activity.

Indicated for localized fat and cellulite:
Intradermoterapia - application product is capable of causing lipolysis - breakdown of fat cell - allowing a longer action and prolonged effect. The Melange can be applied by the Manthus device without using needles. Indicated for localized fat, cellulite, sagging and stretch marks. Carboxy - is the application of CO2 gas in the skin and fat which promotes increased local oxygenation and distribution of fatty tissue. Therefore, there is replacement by adipose tissue collagen and elastic, allowing fat loss without causing sagging skin. Widely used in the pre-surgical preparation for the prevention of scar tissue and improve the treatment of localized fat, cellulite, stretch marks and sagging. Promotes sustainable and gradual weight loss.

Rapid weight loss, reduced muscle mass

If you lose weight too fast, lose more muscle when you lose weight more slowly, a new study shows.

The researchers assigned 25 participants to a diet of five weeks very low in calories, with just 500 calories a day. Another 22 volunteers underwent 12 weeks a diet low in calories, with 1,250 calories a day.

 The findings were presented Wednesday at the European Congress on Obesity in Bulgaria.

The researchers found that right after finishing diets, both groups had similar levels of weight loss. The average weight loss was just over 19 pounds (8.6 kilos) between the very low calorie diet, and just under 19 pounds between those who made the low calorie diet.

The researchers then observed the loss of fat-free mass, which includes all body tissues except fat. The important tissues are blood, bones, organs and muscles. But the mass of organs, blood and bones does not change during dieting. Therefore, changes in fat-free mass during diets are mainly due to changes in muscle mass.

Participants in the very low calorie diet lost about 3.5 pounds (1.6 kilos) of fat-free mass, and those who made the low calorie diet, 1.3 pounds (0.60 kilos). The fat-free mass formed 18 percent of weight loss in the group of the very low calorie diet, and 7.7 percent weight loss in the group of low calorie diet, the study found.

Four weeks after finishing diets, reductions in fat-free mass were on average 1.8 pounds (0.8 kilos) in the group of very low calorie diet, and 0.7 pounds (0.3 kilos) in the group the low calorie diet. The fat-free mass formed 9.4 percent of weight loss in the group of the very low calorie diet, and 2.9 percent weight loss in the group of low-calorie diet, according to the report.

"The loss of fat-free mass was even greater after weight loss induced by rapid diet in slow, with a total weight loss like" the authors of the study, Roel Vink and Marleen van Baak concluded, the Faculty of Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University, and colleagues.

However, the study authors also noted in a press release of the meeting that muscle loss among people on very low calorie diet probably overestimated immediately after finishing the diet, compared to four weeks later.

This is probably because they had a greater loss of water and glycogen (a natural form of sugar in the body) when right diet had just completed four weeks later, the researchers explained.

Research presented at meetings should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.