4 Reasons you have hit a plateau

4 Reasons you have hit a plateau

As everyone knows when you’re try trying to lose weight your results are based on 20% of your work outs and 80% of the food you are consuming. Below we listed the top 5 reasons you are at a current stand still.

You’re not working put hard enough. I know you may think you are working out more than ever. You might need to switch from 3-4 days a week to 5-6 days a week. Try to make sure you have at least 30-45 minutes of cardio in every workout. Also you always want to incorporate strength training in every workout. If for some reason you can do strength training make sure you do at least 60 minutes cardio. Every work out should be at least 1-1 ½ hours long. Also try to change up your work outs as much as possible so you can sock your body and break that frustrating plateau.

When you eat try to make sure you eat at the same time every day. For example breakfast at 8:00 am snack, lunch at noon snack and dinner at 5 or 6.  Dinner can be a real set back especially for us women so try to eat as early as possible. You will get used to your new eating habits after a few days.

Know your calorie count. If you have a smart phone you can download the Jillian Michael's app. It’s great and best of all it’s free. The app will prompt you to enter your height, weight, body type etc. There is a calorie counter in the app make sure to use it every day to keep you on track to your goal.

Get more sleep and stress less. Sometimes we eat more during the day when we don’t get enough sleep and we also can hold onto weight longer when we stress out. Make sure you are getting a minimum of eight hours of sleep a night.