Why do so many people fail at losing weight? Are we all lazy? Or is it because our addiction to food is too great? Is it because we refuse to exercise and are not burning calories? No. Failure to lose weight is due to a few factors:
Most do not understand the risks of caring unneeded weight. The reason why most people attempt to lose weight is for physical appearance. Improved looks is a great benefit of weight loss, but should not be our primary reasoning to wanting to lose weight. A proven fact is that carrying too many pounds for a long duration kills thousands of people annually. Countless studies have explained and proven that losing body fat is guaranteed to improve and have a longer life. Understanding the risks of being over-weight can motive us to not only losing the fat, but keep it off for good. This requires a complete lifestyle change, not just a diet. Living a healthy life is as addictive and contagious as living as a gluten.
People do not commit to life-long changes to their lifestyle. Many think of a “diet” as something temporary. Whenever they are trying a new diet they confine themselves so much they are miserable. Eventually failure is inevitable due to the unreasonable demands of most “diets”. Some of these diets force you to only eat specified foods (e.g., no carbs, special soups, proteins only, etc. ) Perhaps you, like myself, have perhaps tried some of these diets before. The trick to losing weight long term is in making gradual lifestyle changes you can stick to forever.
Most people are not provided the truthful facts of losing weight and becoming healthier. With the conflicting info found in the media, and all of the different quick weightloss fad diets, it is imaginable why so many people really don’t know the truth about weightloss & keeping it off long term. If they do learn the truth, many pass it off as the fitness nuts judging the overweight; many obese individuals would rather accept that they are overweight than become one of those shallow athletically fit people that they feel they share nothing in common with.
Many people just do not understand that they are continually either gaining more fat, or losing the weight. There just is no in between. Many justify binging or giving up because they hit a small road-block. This isn’t an all or nothing game. For example, while I was overweight, if I ate poorly at lunch, I’d go ahead and eat an unhealthy dinner since I already messed up the day. That or I’d say, I’ll start eating healthy starting on Monday since I’d already ate poorly over this weekend. Everyone at different times eats too much. The successful people won’t let a bump in the road completely get off track their change in lifestyle. If you aren’t implementing positive changes in lifestyle and losing weight, you simply are gaining weight. Once again, there is no in-between.
Many don’t realize their food consumption each and every day. So many overweight people will eat thousands of extra calories and fatty foods without any thought about it. It’s tough to know if you are gaining weight or losing weight every day unless you are keeping an eye on what you’re consuming. Many times this is due to the subconscious mind is telling them they are hungry and not the body alerting them that it needs to refuel. Addiction to food is like anything else the body has an addiction to, the addiction has programmed their mind to send false-signals telling the person they are hungry. The main key is to stop identifying with the conditioning and addiction through healthy living and many times this can require help from healthy supplements to overrule the poor conditioning. Rooting out the addiction and the need for food in order to benefit from an improved, healthy lifestyle is the key ingredient, not continuing to feed the addiction.
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