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Why Your Weight Loss Plateaus, and How to Fight It

  • January 17, 2017

If you’ve embarked upon a weight loss journey, you may find that simply lowering your calorie intake and exercising more doesn’t always show up on the scales. This frustrating result of the hard work you put in to your new health plan is highlighted in a report by CNN Health. One major problem is understanding not only how to raise your body’s metabolic activity, but how to get your resting metabolic rate to its optimum.

One way to do this is to understand the importance of the type of exercise you choose. While diet has the greatest impact on your weight, exercise is an important part of the total equation. Also important is learning how to wake up the fat-burning hormone in your body, irisin, which is released during exercise. Irisin helps your body shed fat and keeps body fat from forming in the first place, suppressing fat cell formation by 20 to 60 percent.

Irisin is a kind of myokine or muscle-derived chemical messenger or protein that also helps improve heart function, reduces your risk of atherosclerosis, increases mitochondrial biogenesis and induces telomere elongation in cells, which may improve your health and longevity.

Your diet is one of the major ways in which you can give either the right or wrong tissue the competitive advantage, and that’s why I recommend peak fasting, which helps reset your body to burn fat for fuel, and helps optimize insulin sensitivity and mitochondrial health and energy production.

Together with high-intensity strength training, also known as SuperSlow weight lifting, and high-intensity interval training (HIIT), you’ll be on the road to slimming down.