Why It'S So Difficult To Lose Weight

There are lots of myths about weight gain, weight loss and dieting, but the most damaging is that it’s all about willpower. “If only I had a stronger willpower”, people say to themselves, “I would eat more healthily and become slim again”. If you believe that then you will also believe that if you are fat then it is all your own fault.

So, you go on a diet and when it fails (which many do) then naturally you blame yourself. You get depressed, gorge on carbs and give up.

The fact is that experts who work in weight loss management are well aware that weight loss is about far more than simply trying to eat fewer calories. Most overweight people have a metabolic problem, one that makes them hungry all the time. The normal feedback mechanisms that tell you that you are full no longer work. Willpower fails because you are up against one of the most basic drives we have, hunger.

Why It's So Hard To Lose Weight And Keep It Off

This metabolic problem will not only stop you losing weight, it will also lead to serious health problems such as high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. Unless you do something about it this is a problem that will get worse over time.

Once you solve the metabolic problem (and the good news is that it can be solved) your appetite will shrink and you will find it not only easier to lose weight but to keep it off.

At the heart of weight gain is the hormone, insulin. One of the main reasons why so many people struggle to lose weight is not because they are idle or greedy but because their muscles have become resistant to insulin.

Why Is Weight Loss So Hard?

Insulin is a hormone produced by your pancreas. It controls your blood sugar levels, but it does far more than that. It also controls fat storage. When you eat a meal, particularly one that is rich in sugary carbs, your insulin levels go up.

Insulin’s job is to bring down the fat and sugar that you’ve absorbed from your meals and which is now circulating in your blood. Ideally it would push those excess calories into cells like your muscles to be burnt as fuel. But if you are “insulin resistant” then your muscles find it hard to absorb these calories. Instead they get dumped into your fat cells.

The trouble is, your body still craves fuel, so you will soon start feeling hungry again. So you eat, again. But because you are insulin resistant many of the calories you absorb get diverted into your fat cells. You get fatter but still stay hungry. 

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Once you have become insulin resistant your pancreas will have to start pumping out ever larger amounts of insulin to get your blood sugar levels down. Higher insulin means more fat storage, particularly fat around the tummy (abdominal fat). What happens next depends on your Personal Fat Threshold (the amount of fat you can carry before you start having serious health problems).

As you get fatter, so does your liver and pancreas. As fat invades these organs it starts to interfere with your body’s ability to produce insulin. So your average blood sugar levels start to creep up. You have prediabetes; you are not yet a diabetic, but there is a high chance that unless you do something about it you will become one. Raised levels of blood sugar are bad for your arteries, your heart and your nerves, even when they are not yet in the diabetic range.

The fat that infiltrates your liver may also, in time, lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and some to liver failure. NAFLD is now the commonest cause of liver disease in the West and over a third of people in the UK or US have it. Around 20% of all liver transplants are now for NAFLD. People tend to develop it in middle-age and there is currently no effective drug treatment.

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Rising levels of abdominal fat also produces chronic inflammation throughout the body such as increased heart disease and damage to large and small blood vessels, it is associated with raised CRP and common inflammatory disorders.

Your blood pressure may rise, along with triglycerides (a form of fat that circulates in your blood). The combination of raised blood sugar, abdominal fat, triglycerides and blood pressure is known as metabolic syndrome. It puts you at high risk of heart disease and stroke.

Insulin resistance commonly start in your muscles when you are younger. The muscles are where a lot of the energy you consume are burnt up. If you are very active then when you do eat food which causes a spike in blood sugar, it is mopped up and used by the muscles before it causes problems.

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When you eat a bit too much and do too little exercise, fat builds up inside your muscles. This is why we strongly encourage people to also increase their activity levels alongside the diet and move more, as this will enhance the improvement in blood sugar levels, reversing diabetes and metabolic syndrome and improve general wellbeing and health.

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Most people approach losing weight as a diet rather than taking it on a lifestyle change. I’ve defined DIET as, “Doing Injury Eating Temporary Sustenance.” We try to eat healthy or go on a fad diet for a temporary period in our lives such as wanting to fit into a specific dress, going on vacation or attending a special event rather than making it a permanent lifestyle change. Losing weight requires a change in mindset and lifestyle. If you don’t change your mindset towards food and the reasons why you eat to live rather than live to eat, you will never lose or maintain your weight loss due to you reverting back to your old ways and habits. You have to take on a mentality of, “Out with the old and in with the new.” The word diet should no longer be a part of your vocabulary. In order to have a well balanced life, we must incorporate a healthier way of living by eating right and exercising for the duration.

Why Do I Find It So Hard To Lose Weight?

There are 52 Mondays in a year. When we decide to go on a diet, we tend to say we will start anew on Monday. Monday gets here, we slip up and instead of dusting ourselves off and hopping back on the wagon to live and see another day, we just say forget it…we’ll start over on Monday. There’s 6 days between Monday to Monday right? Why not just start over the next day rather than continuing the train wreck with the possibility of gaining more weight by waiting to start over on the following Monday. There will never be a perfect time nor day to decide when you will change your lifestyle. You need to be in this for the long haul. Any day is the perfect day in making up your mind that you want to live a healthier life. No one is promised tomorrow so that is why it’s so important in making good use of today. Every day is a day worth living and making healthier decisions.

Life happens to the best of us. Crazy workday, children getting on your nerves and you and your significant other are not seeing eye to eye. You get a promotion, finally being able to fit into your favorite dress, or it’s a major holiday being celebrated with family and friends. Sometimes when things go awry or when things are going great, we tend to turn to comfort foods to fill the voids in our lives, make us feel better, or as an opportunity for reward. Emotional eating is not a good way to reward or face life’s problems or celebrations. By partaking in our favorite comfort foods gives us not only a temporary high in making us feel better but leaves us with a permanent low with the problem still existing and the celebration having passed. Eating our way through guilt, hurt, pain, emotional instability, happiness, love, joy and peace doesn’t solve our problems nor does