why has my weight loss stopped, how can i speed it up again?

[lillyannsmummy12]

Hi guys i have been dieting for 5 weeks now and I'm on a vegetarian diet but i eat boiled chicken, My diet consists of veg and corn and fruit through out the day, I also work out 5 days a week twice a day (also pole dance) and i lost a stone (hurray) but its now stopped could it be my scales because my body is changing but the weight isn't, can someone please help me

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Hi lilyannsmummy12,

Most people's weight loss journeys have their blips and spurts and plateaux.

The process of a human body losing weight is actually quite complex, though the general overiding principles aren't really.

Many factors can have an effect upon your hormones which are, basically, the mechanisms that control processes such as fat burning, fat storage, sense of satiation, feelings of hunger, and many many other processes within the body.

Most of the hormone changes that have occurred to deal with your excessive body weight can be reversed by either reducing body weight or increasing your exercise/activity levels.

But body's do take a bit of time to adapt to changes. And also, a lighter body mass needs less maintenance calories than a heavier one.

I'd suggest just keeping to what you're doing in the main. It may well be a stall and may sort itself out. Things like sleeplessness, stress, an infection like a cold or flu, can knock the weight loss off of course for a few days, so see if in a week or so you start losing weight again.

If not perhaps fine tune your current regime to reduce your calorie intake a little more. If that pushes you into losing weight faster than about 1 Kg a week over the following 2 or 3 weeks, then add back in those calories in whole or part.

Good luck with your weight loss journey.