Break Through Your Plateaus with these tips…

Plateaus not only slow your weight loss, but sometimes they can slow your motivation.  Don’t let this happen!  Follow the tips below the break through your plateaus and keep moving towards success!  Some of the most common overlooked causes for plateaus are salt, protein deficiency, and the most obvious CHEATING!  As always with cheating the easiest fix is to stop cheating!  Some patients will cheat knowing that they can counteract this with an apple day.  Personally I avoided cheating after my first apple day, if anything was going to drive me to eat a hamburger it would be another day of eating nothing but apples!  Some patients though feel as though it is ok to cheat because there is always the option of an apple day.  Or some patients think that numerous apple days will help promote better results.  This mind set can actually counteract your results.  This diet is comprised mostly around protein, if you skip your protein or have too many apple days your body will get protein deficient.  In this state your body will begin to hold onto foods and you will not lose weight.  It is important to do a protein day following an apple day.  In a protein day you will want to take away a fruit or vegetable and add a serving of protein.  In a protein day feel free to use substitute protein sources like egg whites, fat free cottage cheese, or rice bran protein.  On the opposite end of the spectrum sometimes patients will experience so much success with the program that they do not feel the need to eat and just don’t.  It is fine to eat under the 500 calories but never skip your protein!  No matter what always get your 7 ounces of protein in daily.  If you have been strictly eating chicken and fish as your protein and are experiencing slow results you may want to consider adding a serving of top sirloin, egg whites, rice bran protein, or cottage cheese a couple of time throughout the week.  For more information on plateaus related to salt review “Sodium… A Weight Loss Offender” .  Just remember, BE INTENTIONAL!  You can do anything for 40 days.