Losing weight is not as easy as it sounds. We all fall prey to all these seductive fad diets. We all start these diets with high spirits but after a week or two, we find, that we don't lose weight as they claim. Like the General Motors diet, planners claim that you can lose from 4-7 lbs in only one week!!!! 4-7 lbs????? I didn't even lose 1 lb after a whole 2 weeks.
It's not that I'm negating all these diet plans. The fact is that these diets somewhere have worked for someone. They really did. Similarly, you might have tried a few diets and must have observed that one or two of them made a major difference in you, in just a few days. What I'm trying to tell you is that it is not necessary that you try any diet that sounds good to you, and it really does work for you. Any diet that might have made your friend lose stones might not even let you lose only 1 lb. There are many factors involved in why we don't lose weight the way we want to. In this article, I'm going to highlight a few possibilities. I'll give you an insight into yourself with the hope that the diets start working for you.
1. It's your body, your requirements, and your metabolism:
It is practically unfeasible for two people to have the cent percent same ideas; the equivalent is the case with the body. Everyone is different from every other person. The reason behind this is that every person's routine, working timings, sleep patterns, food likes and dislikes, activities and physical caliber is different, and this determines your metabolism. So you don't have to blame your stars for that, you actually need to change your habits and your routine.
2. Diets can never work alone:
Dieting will only help you not to gain more. But what about all those fats that you have stored in your body overages. There are generally two methods told. Either to get lesser calories than you require for your routine or to burn more calories than you eat. But I tell you the golden rule that worked for most people including myself, which is to combine both ideas. This is the best way to lose faster than anything else. Eat fewer calories and burn more than you burn in your routine.
3. Low calories means No calories:
People have this misconception that a low-calorie diet is not harmful at all. Low-calorie diet does mean that it doesn't have as many calories as its normal counterparts have but it never means that it has no calories. Once a friend of mine started a low-calorie diet plan, and by the end of the month she gained 4 lbs. Then finally she told me the reason for that, she started eating more than normal. She thought she can eat as much as she can. So better look at the total calories you are taking per day rather than checking calories for the individual food items.
4. Your medical status needs attention:
At times there are few medical conditions that thwart us from losing weight. Right now I'm giving a brief account of how these health conditions prevent me from losing weight.
a. Hormonal imbalances tend to put weight in a few cases. Insulin, Estrogen, and Thyroid hormones play important roles generally. Insulin helps the cells to uptake sugar from blood and burn in cell activities. So in Diabetes lack of Insulin can cause weight gain. Estrogen is a female sex hormone. This hormone has a particular ability for water retention and weight gain. Moreover, this hormone tends to preserve fat in the body and this fat is particularly deposited over the belly area and hips. That's the basic reason why females have the pear shape fat pattern in their bodies. In the last Thyroid is one of the major causes. Hypothyroidism makes a person fat, lazy and lethargic all the time.b. Some health conditions like kidney failure, heart problems, and pregnancy also make a person gain weight. Pregnancy is a normal physiological condition, whereas the other two are pathological. In heart and kidney problems there is usually water retention which makes the body swelled up and edematous.
c. In stress, either mental or physical, the body system automatically gets into a "flight or fright" condition. It starts preserving fat for energy usage in the future. So you need good mental and physical relaxation to let your diet work at its best.
So, by now you might have pointed out a problem or two, which tends to prevent you from losing weight. Once you're done with fixing the health problem you will start enjoying the results of your hard work.
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