In order for us to maintain our bodyweight our body has a home it lives at.
As long as your calories are consistent, your training is consistent, sleep is consistent and your steps are consistent you will stay here.
If you want to gain weight you must eat more than your body’s baseline (home).
If you want to lose weight you must eat less than your body’s baseline (home).
This home is called ‘homeostasis’.
When eating below this baseline your body is constant fighting against you in an effort to reach homeostasis aka your previous base line.
When you hit a plateau and your body has reached homeostasis metabolic adaptation occurs. This is nothing more than a plateau to keep things simple.
Your body will naturally get you to burn less calories resulting in you to stop losing fat even though you’re eating a level of calories that was once allowing you to lose before.
All of this is normal…. Super normal.
When a plateau occurs, dont get all poppy pants as David Goggins would say..
You simply need to tweak the stimuli.
You can either:
Eat less calories
Walk more
Train 1 more day
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