| THE BEST MEDICINE- LAUGH! SECOND DOSE Last night, my friend and I were sitting in the living room and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." She got up, unplugged the TV, and threw out my wine |
| THE BEST MEDICINEf- LAUGH! FIRST DOSE There are always two ways to look at everything, I guess. My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion last October, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table. My wife noticed me staring and asked me, "Do you know her?". "Yes", I sighed, "She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since." "My God!" says my wife, "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?" Got a Joke? E-mail it to us: frontpage@collectivewizdom .com |
Break Through Your Diet Plateau
Related Links
ExercisesThat Speed Up Your Metabolism
Foods That Speed Up Your Metabolism
Add Muscle The Healthy Way
March 5, 2008
By Susan M. Callahan, Associate Editor and Featured Columnist
You know the syndrome. You've been on a diet for a month or
so. Things are going great, you've lost pounds and inches.
You're just starting to feel like you're going to make it to your
goal weight, after all these years of trying. Then, you hit The
Wall.
The Diet Plateau. All of us have hit that wall. And, no matter
how much harder you pedal that elliptical trainer, no matter
hoe thin you slice that measly piece of meat you allow your self,
when you step on the scales, the same numbers stare back at
you.
What is a diet plateau. Why causes a diet plateau happen? How
can we break through?
Diet plateaus have several causes. There could be many
reasons you have hit your particular plateau. Short plateaus
lasting a few weeks are normal and unavoidable. Everyone hits
them.
But if your plateau has lasted longer than two weeks, you will
need to jolt your routine. Why?
The body settles into a metabolic routine after a while of being
on a diet/exercise plan, and you need to shock it again to get
the weight loss restarted. Here is a game plan:
One thing you might do is eat a bit more. Yes, I said "more".
Often, if we are eating too few calories, the body's metabolism
slows down too much and starts to hold on to its fat reserves.
In effect, it acts as if you are starving, so it hangs on to your
fat.
Eating just a bit more will trick the metabolism into relaxing
again, bringing it out of starvation mode.
You might try eating an extra pear or small apple with a small
piece of cheese for a snack. Also, try eating a bit more of foods
that speed up your metabolism like peppers. Try that for a
week, without changing your current exercise pattern.
Another tried and true strategy for breaking out of plateaus is
to change your exercise pattern. Change it 180 degrees. If
you always start with cardio and follow with weights, switch
up. Start with weights and follow with cardio. If you always
run for 2 miles, then skip a day, switch it up. Run for 2.5 miles,
skip for 2 days. Or, better yet, if you have been doing a step
class fro your aerobics, try a hip-hop dance class. The
stop-and-start movements will wake up your metabolism.
After two weeks of your new routine, your metabolism should
kick up. Then, you should be able to go back to your old
routines with continued weight loss.
If that doesn't work, I have posted a simple plan below.
Good luck!
Related Links:
Diet and Exercise --A Simple Plan
Foods That Speed Up Your Metabolism
How to Add Muscle Safely
Fat--It's Alive!
Waist Size Matters
Why We Go Soft In the Middle
Why Americans Read In Bathrooms-The Hidden Epidemic of
Constipation
Bowels -3 Keys to Normal Bowels
My Heart Attack
Sugar-The Disease Connection
Six Pack Abs Step By Step
| COLLECTIVE WIZDOM.COM Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Healthy Life |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |