Weight Loss
Why Can’t I Lose Weight?
There seems to be no end to the lengths Americans will go to, to lose weight. From fasting to gorging, everyone seems to have the latest cure and the latest fad diet. There is no wonder people are searching online, asking “Why can’t I lose weight”?
How crazy can diets get? How about getting injections of a pregnant woman’s urine? Or eating nothing but cabbage soup? Has the world gone mad or are they just having a laugh at our expense.
If we are to take the question “Why can’t I lose weight?” seriously then we need to look at how that person has tried to lose weight in the past. If they have tried fad diet after fad diet and wanted to have weight loss quickly then maybe that would be the first place to start.
I recently had someone ask me that very question. “Why can’t I lose weight”? When we looked at her diet it was low in calories and low in protein. But what the person asking the question couldn’t understand was, she had been eating almost half the amount of food she normally ate and she still wasn’t losing weight.
There is so much misleading information around on weight loss that it is no wonder there is total confusion. The sooner people realize that they will not lose weight permanently on a fad diet that either concentrates on one food, promises amazing weight loss in 7 days or suggests that you need to cut calories to lose weight, the sooner people will stop asking “Why can’t I lose weight”?
It seems to me that the majority of people who have a chronic weight problem have been doing something wrong. They have either been eating the wrong foods or simply eating too much and probably too late in the day. Anyone who thinks that they can lose weight by embarking on a fad diet that is far from being a well balanced nutritious regime is just fooling themselves.
It is vital that all the people who are saying “why can’t I lose weight?” realize, first and foremost, that a healthy well balanced nutritious diet is the only way forward, not just for their immediate weight loss regime, but for life.
Rapid weight loss is detrimental to your health and is unlikely ever to be sustained. Consuming low levels of calories as suggested by some diet regimes is basically a semi starvation diet and can cause loss of muscle from our organs including our heart. This is not a sensible way forward.
Always look for the scientific evidence to back up any diet you may choose to follow. And remember it is physiologically impossible to lose more than 2lb of fat a week. Any diet promising more than that is lying. You may however lose more weight than 2lb but it won’t be fat. It will either be water or muscle and most importantly your body will not be able to sustain that weight loss when you return to normal eating.
So to answer the question “why can’t I lose weight?” it is likely to be because you are not eating enough of the right foods at the right time of day. It really is as simple as that.
Janet Matthews
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