Weight stuck at a certain point?

By now, I know a lot of you are frustrated because my routine has given you results bathroom scale-wise as well as visible results, but now it has made you reach a plateau where you're not losing anymore noticeable weight. Well remember what I said in the introducton page. I do not like the bathroom-scale as an indicator for fat-loss primarily because it is not exclusive to fat-loss - Losing a pound of fat is no different to the bathroom scale than losing a pound of water, (or muscle if you're not eating enough. I go by what I look like in the mirror - even then it is simple to notice if you are not losing anymore fat.

Well why is this happening? It could be for two possible reasons:

You have lost enough already!!
- Your body is trained for survival, it treats any change as something potentially harmful. Thus at first it resists fat-loss, but when continuous fat-loss occurs, your body will respond more efficiently. (Sorta like Objects in motion - see? Physics has its relevance!) However keep in mind fat's function. It is an energy source and fat storage is your body's storage of energy, excess energy if you will. Your body will not want to lose this fat-source which it deems valuable. Thus it is your body's natural way of telling you to stop and slow down. Most people ask Why they cannot lose anymore weight. well it maybe because they've lost enough already and it is their body informing them of that.

Your body has gotten used to its routine
- If you remember correctly in the exercise section of the page, I told everyone to vary their workouts. This is the key to success - variation - because it prevents your body from getting used to the workout. Allowing your body to get used to its workout slowly diminishes the effects of exercise. Elongate your workout periods, throw in some new aerobic exercises once in a while - don't let your body predict what you will do next.

"Ok so now what do I do?"

Basically start from scratch - this isn't as bad as it sounds because you've come along way from your original weight right? At this point there are no various categories as there were in the exercise page. From now you do a minimum of 40 minutes of aerobic exercise five times a week - regardlessif you are a couch potato or an athlete! Along with this, barbells and dumbbells are your new bestfriend. You will pump iron and perform resistance exercises like you have never done before! Why? Because this way you will build muscle! "So?" Muscle burns calories and will help deplete energy from fat-reserves. "Anything else?" Yeah! forget 8-10 glasses of water a day from now on, its one gallon of water! You understand? - this is a technique I heard body builders do, weeks before their competitions. It is not too much at all, sure you may urinate frequently but this is good!

What else can you do? Alter your diet somewhat, remember six meals a day? Well you are sticking to that however we're going to add in a little twist. Not many sites I've been to suggest this specifically, some may imply it but I am blatantly stating it. We will number your meals 1-6 1 being the first and 6 being the 6th. ("Whoa slow down! Right?").

Well here is another formula for you to use:

Meal 1 > Meal 2 > Meal 3 > Meal 4 > Meal 5 > Meal 6 (eqn 3)

Understand this? I basically mean that your meals should get progressively smaller as you go throuhg the day. Not drastically smaller, but gradually smaller! The logic behind this is that you are more active during the day! So eat healthily while burning off the calories from breakfast and meal 2 throughout the day. Your last meal is a period where you are relatively inactive and should therefore not be as large. Make sense? Good!