Plateaus are a natural part of weight loss. Almost everyone reaches one eventually.

Most people get surprised and discouraged by plateaus. They are following a healthy low calorie diet and exercises, but their weight does not budge.

Your body slowly adapts to your diet and workout program. It becomes efficient at expanding calories.

Believe it or not, our bodies do not like having a low body fat storage. Our survival instincts kick in and as a result our metabolism slows down.

This is where you will need to apply some changes to your diet and workout to help keep the ball rolling.

To break out of your plateau you might want to either lower your calories or increase your workout frequency and/or intensity.

Also, following any of the steps below will help you break out of your weight loss plateau. The material in this entire article can be used to break through.

Summary:

Plateaus are a natural part of weight loss. It might appear discouraging as you are still following a low calorie diet and you are exercising but you are not losing weight. This is because your body has adapted to your diet and workout program. To break out, you will need to apply changes – lowering your calories, increasing exercise intensity, adding diversity, etc.