14 Ways To Break A Weight-Loss Plateau And Get Unstuck, According To Experts By Karin Miller and Ashley Martens (www.womenshealthmag.com)

Weight loss is a journey that can sometimes be frustrating. One day you are trying a new workout and replaying motivational quotes in your head on repeat, the next day you find yourself feeling as if all of your efforts are all for naught when you step onto the scale and see the same number again. Hitting a weight-loss plateau can be seriously demoralizing.
TBH, your body does not really want you to lose weight—when you cut back on calories, it thinks you are starving. “Your body will then make you feel hungry because it thinks something is wrong and wants you to gain that weight back,” says Peter LePort, MD, a bariatric surgeon and the medical director of MemorialCare Surgical Weight Loss Center at Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, California. Also, when you start losing weight (muscle or fat), your metabolic rate slows down, which means your body starts burning calories at a slower rate.
Other common culprits behind a weight-loss plateau may be gut imbalances, hormonal imbalances, immune dysregulation, inflammation, nutritional deficiencies, or under-recovery, says Chicago-based dietitian Chelsea Stegman, RD, LD, CPT.

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