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2. You may try to break a plateau by decreasing
percentage of carbohydrates and increasing
percentage of protein that you intake each day.
3. Another common recommendation is not to mix your protein and carbohydrates. If you have a protein breakfast, wait 2-3 hours before resuming your balanced meals.
4. Generally speaking, you should be exercising no more than 1 hour per day. However, ask yourself if your fitness routine is intense enough? Simply walking around
block for 15 minutes a day may not be enough for you. Each person is different. Also, walking around
block may have been an excellent exercise when you first started to lose weight, but it may not be enough now that you've hit a plateau.
5. If you have recently added a fitness regimen to help you lose weight, you may experience a slight weight gain for
first few weeks, especially if part of that routine involves weight lifting. This can be a very frustrating experience. If you are engaged in an intense workout regimen, it may help to measure yourself with a measuring tape, rather than
scale. You will be putting on muscle and muscle will burn more calories than fat, but it's also heavier.
6. If you are already on a low calorie diet and you are sticking to it, then it is not recommended that you cut out any more calories. Increasing your activity is really
key to breaking out of a plateau. However, if you are "supposed" to be on a low calorie diet but you are not sticking to it, well,
answer is obvious: you need to stick to it.
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