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By Russ Howe


Have you ever felt like you can't lose weight on a low calorie diet no matter how much exercise you do in the gym? If so, you are certainly not alone in that situation. In fact, around 80 percent of gym members have hit this point at some stage in the past and don't know how to get around it.

The first thing to do is forget about pushing past this issue without changing anything. Your lack of results is your body's way of telling you that something is wrong in either your workout regime or your eating plan.

When people hit this wall, they will reach the conclusion that they cannot see progress. They normally have two big issues in common with each other:

1. They don't eat enough calories.

2. They usually perform hour after hour of aerobic activity.

Should you recognize any of the above conditions in your current predicament you need to change tactics. Overdoing the cv exercise and eating too little food is a sure-fire way to blast your body into a plateau.

If you have ever tried restricting calories and cutting out your most enjoyable foods for a week you will already know the problems this approach yields - yet it remains a commonly made dieting mistake. By restricting your favorite snacks your diet becomes the enemy, which is never good for long-term progress, and by restricting calories you run the very real danger of pushing your body straight into starvation mode, which is renowned for elevated fat storage.

In an attempt to curb your insanely low calorie diet from starving it to death, the body begins to adapt to this low food intake by storing as much as it can and holding on to what it has got. This is why you'll often see girls who spend hours in the gym and live on salads, yet seemingly cannot lose any fat.

It is also quite common to see people coupling this poor strategy with overly long aerobic exercise. This type of exercise, when performed in excess, has been shown to break down lean muscle tissue and is a toxic ingredient in a weight loss plan.

Instead of falling victim to the same old mistakes, you can do two things. Firstly, structure your calorific intake to be roughly your goal body weight (in pounds) multiplied by twelve. This ensures enough quality calories per day are entering your system and, believe it or not, you will find it far easier to lose fat despite eating more food than you may right now.

It would also be worth taking a week to familiarize yourself with high intensity interval training, or HIIT for short, which has been scientifically accepted as a superior method for blasting adipose tissue. It also provides you with shorter, more enjoyable workout sessions.

If you dream of owning a lean, defined physique typical of the type of body you would see on the cover of a fitness magazine or beauty magazine, you need to get your training and your diet in check first. If you can't lose weight on a low calorie diet the trick is to stop doing the things which are already not working for you. Change your approach, eat more food and exercise for less overall time but at a higher intensity level. This will fire up your body's metabolism and improve your fitness massively.




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