7 factors that prevent you from losing weight

The eas­i­est way to deal with excess weight is to reduce the size of your plate, as well as to do sports. How­ev­er, that’s not all!

The age of life is the age of thin­ness: the fight against excess weight nev­er ends! The more we try to get rid of excess­es, the more per­sis­tent­ly they strive to stay in their usu­al places. And the thing here is not at all a bad metab­o­lism, which is usu­al­ly com­plained about, but in small, non-obvi­ous fac­tors that every­one admits.

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1. Work at night

We live accord­ing to dai­ly bio­rhythms, accord­ing to which we pro­duce dif­fer­ent hor­mones at night and dur­ing the day. In the dark time of the day, soma­totrop­ic growth hor­mone is pro­duced, which is involved in the reg­u­la­tion of metab­o­lism. At the same time, the lev­el of the stress hor­mone cor­ti­sol, which pre­vents the nor­mal process of fat burn­ing, should decrease at night.

Do you often sit with reports until mid­night? It is not sur­pris­ing that the fig­ure begins to blur lit­tle by lit­tle. As a result of night wak­ings, your body expe­ri­ences an imbal­ance of hor­mones: too much cor­ti­sol is pro­duced and too lit­tle growth hor­mone. And this leads to the accu­mu­la­tion of fat reserves.

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2. Junk snacks

Every novice adept of healthy eat­ing knows that unhealthy sand­wich­es and donuts should be replaced with dried fruits and nuts and eat­en as a snack. Con­vinced that they are final­ly doing every­thing right, such peo­ple can eat a whole pack­age of dates, dried apri­cots or peanuts at once. Are they right?

Dried fruits and nuts are real­ly rich in use­ful fiber and also con­tain many impor­tant vit­a­mins and min­er­als. Only sim­ple sug­ars, which are abun­dant in figs, raisins and oth­er snacks, can nul­li­fy all the ben­e­fits of dried fruits and nuts. It is impor­tant to know the mea­sure. The norm per day is 30 grams.

3. Passion for carbonated water

Prob­a­bly, there is no per­son who would doubt that sweet car­bon­at­ed water is not use­ful, but rather harm­ful. And yet the col­or­ful bot­tles on the super­mar­ket shelves look so tempt­ing! What is the harm of car­bon­at­ed water:

• First, the car­bon diox­ide con­tained in such a drink stim­u­lates the appetite.
• Sec­ond­ly, a huge amount of sug­ar is added to car­bon­at­ed water: 1.5 liters of sweet car­bon­at­ed water can con­tain 46 tea­spoons of sug­ar! And this is not less than 750 kcal, some­times more.

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4. Coffee with you

Now it is fash­ion­able to buy a glass of aro­mat­ic drink in a cof­fee shop before work to take it with you to the office. But do you know how many calo­ries a cap­puc­ci­no con­tains? On aver­age 150–250 kcal! And if also with sug­ar or caramel syrup, then all 500! By the way, how many cups of cof­fee do you drink in a day? That’s it!

All talk that cof­fee not only does not harm the process of los­ing weight, but also stim­u­lates it is a big myth. As they say, not all drinks are equal­ly use­ful, and cof­fee, sur­pris­ing­ly, is includ­ed.

5. Craving for chocolates

At the end of a hard day, you want to feel sor­ry for your­self and treat your­self to some­thing deli­cious — choco­late, ice cream, piz­za, French fries. Harm­ful food some­times soothes, dis­tracts from unpleas­ant thoughts, improves mood, reliev­ing emo­tion­al dis­com­fort. But the con­se­quences of such dis­re­gard for one’s health will be much greater — it is both excess weight and dete­ri­o­ra­tion of well-being.

At the same time, mag­ne­sium, thanks to which we feel calmer after a choco­late bar, can also be found in bran smooth­ies, yogurt and straw­ber­ries. And B vit­a­mins, which put our nerves in order, are found not only in burg­ers or shawar­ma, but also in liv­er frit­ters, toma­toes, car­rots, and cau­li­flower.

By the way, all fried unhealthy piz­zas, buns and pota­toes con­tain tryp­to­phan, a sub­stance from which the body syn­the­sizes the hap­py hor­mone sero­tonin. Alter­na­tive healthy foods con­tain­ing tryp­to­phan are bananas and turkey.

6. Taking sedatives

Many of the seda­tive drugs and herbs have a side effect — they slow down the metab­o­lism: they reduce the excitabil­i­ty of the sym­pa­thet­ic ner­vous sys­tem, which affects the rate of metab­o­lism. When tak­ing seda­tives, mus­cle tone decreas­es, which means that the inten­si­ty of ener­gy expen­di­ture also decreas­es.

Remem­ber this, even if the med­i­cine was pre­scribed to you by a doc­tor. In order not to gain excess weight in this case, reduce the caloric con­tent of the diet by 10%.

7. Products in front of the cash register

Nowa­days, bright, col­or­ful choco­late bars, cans of soda water, and chips are attrac­tive­ly dis­played in front of the cash reg­is­ter in every super­mar­ket. And while there is a queue, the hand invol­un­tar­i­ly reach­es for a small choco­late bar — one can’t hurt, right? How­ev­er, if you buy a small bar of choco­late or a jar of cola every time you go to the store, obe­si­ty is not far away. After all, even one jar of ener­gy drink con­tains about 4 tea­spoons of sug­ar.

And do you make small mis­takes when los­ing weight?