Strategic Weight Loss for you
One of the first things you do when you decide to lose weight is to set a weight to achieve. For most, that goal will be their “ideal weight” but to many the ideal weight may be exactly the wrong target weight!
In previous years the plan or overweight have the physiological effect of moving the concept of ideal body weight of what is really considered “ideal”. The benchmark is the weight which your body naturally feels comfortable. If you’ve been overweight for a very long time or if you’ve always done the yo-yo your body can respond to your initial weight loss by slowing down its metabolism because it thinks you are in starvation. This slowdown leads to discouraging plateaus that often are completely abandoning a plan, and lead to weight regain partial or total. (more…)