
Are you having trouble losing weight? There are many reasons why this might be, but it’s likely not your fault! Here are 14 reasons why you might be having trouble losing weight:
If you keep switching from one diet to the next; from one diet which tells you to eat no carbs, and the next diet which says to only drink juiced vegetables, it’s no wonder that your body keeps getting confused! When you change your dietary habits so drastically like this, your metabolism keeps having to switch between very different modes of operation, which is not an overnight process.
When large changes in your diet happen, your body tends to want to slow down the metabolism in order to keep things running smoothly, which can be counterproductive if you’re trying to lose weight.
As said before, the most important thing for losing weight is to keep your body at a caloric deficit, but beyond this, living a completely sedentary lifestyle can also lead to many other health problems beyond simply not being able to lose weight. However, many people don’t have the time to exercise and be active while balancing a full time job, children, school and all the other responsibilities that everyone has to deal with in their daily lives.
But there is good news! The best solution to this problem is to find small ways to be more active in your daily life, such as biking to work or working at a standing desk for several 15-minute intervals throughout the day. And there are many more small tricks that you can do to activate your body and boost your metabolism! Individually, they are easy to implement. But if you compound several of them together, you will definitely start to see results!
If you want to learn more of these simple tricks you can use to remain active, I talk about them in my free book, “Starvation Mode: Escaping the Weight Loss Trap”.
This can be a major problem if you like to drink juice or soda a lot! As tasty as these drinks are, they are usually packed with sugar and contain almost no nutrients. I talk about this in my book - you shouldn’t drink your calories!
When your body doesn’t have to work very hard to break down the components of the juice, it just takes all of that sugar and most likely turns it into fat, unless you are being extremely active and burning a lot of calories!
This might only apply to you if you are working out regularly and building muscle, but sometimes the weight scale isn’t the best indicator of your health or how much fat you have lost.
For example, if you are lifting weights and building up muscle, you may be putting on new weight in your muscles at the same time that you are burning fat. If this is the case, you might actually gain weight, even though you are losing fat! This is why it’s necessary to look at other factors that can give you a good indicator of your overall health, not just weight.
To be honest, you are probably not eating enough protein. Most people don’t eat enough protein in their daily diet. This is a shame, because your body actually needs protein in order to burn fat!
If you want to be losing weight, you should be getting 25 to 30 percent of your daily calories from protein. Protein helps your body burn fat, because it builds muscle! And muscle takes more energy for your body to maintain than fat does, even while it’s at rest. Building up even a small amount of muscle can be extremely helpful when trying to lose weight.
I’ve talked about this in a few of the points above, but I’d like to say it officially: one of the main reasons you might not be losing weight is that your metabolism is in the basement. For one reason or another, your body has slowed down its metabolism to try to hang onto your excess body fat as hard as it can! And if you don’t learn how to boost your metabolism, you probably won’t make very much progress.
But how does one boost their metabolism? Good news! There are several tricks you can use to accomplish this! And I talk about them in my free book, “Starvation Mode: Escaping the Weight Loss Trap”! Just click the link below to grab a copy!
If you want to lose weight, you need to be drinking enough water! Water helps all of your body’ natural weight-losing processes to work smoothly, especially your liver! So make sure to drink a lot of it throughout the day!
Finally, one of the main reasons that you might not be losing weight is because you aren’t actually eating enough! If you starve yourself because you’re trying to lose weight, you’re actually forcing your body into “Starvation Mode” which means your body will slow down your metabolism and try to do everything it can to stop losing weight! This is a defense mechanism that our ancestors evolved back in the Stone Age to help us deal with periods of famine or food scarcity.
However, in our modern world, this is rarely a concern. Nowadays, this natural biological mechanism is just making us tired all the time and making it harder to lose weight! The problem is, most people don’t know how to lose weight without starving themselves. But don’t fall for this trap! There is a different way. Do you want to learn more? I wrote a book that can help! It’s called “Starvation Mode: Escaping the Weight Loss Trap”, and you can grab a copy completely for free below!