“I have been exercising 5 days a week for 2 months and I have stopped losing weight.   Why?”

Well there are several factors that can be sabotaging your weight loss success. Starting with one very large principle: that true weight loss takes into consideration three actions; nutrition, cardiovascular exercise and resistance training. To believe that long term weight loss can be accomplished by only diet or exercise is not realistic. Eventually the body reaches a plateau. This is why many people who use Atkins, South Beach or other such diets eventually become frustrated when the scale stops creeping down. These diets create a deficit in calories from what your body is originally used to, therefore causing you to lose weight, but when your body’s calorie intake equals your calorie expenditure you create an equal balance. This irritating experience can be avoided by making sure to increase the body’s metabolism by exercise, therefore helping you to continue to lose weight.

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