Why You Can’t Lose Weight: Says a Nutritionist

Jan­u­ary 28, 2021, 14:30

So, you switched to prop­er nutri­tion, look at the com­po­si­tion of prod­ucts, drink more water and still do not lose weight. Are your healthy habits not work­ing or have you just not found the mag­ic diet that will solve your weight prob­lems for­ev­er? Before you despair, think about what in fact, there may be a rea­son why you can not throw off the pounds.

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Weight loss should occur nat­u­ral­ly, avoid/reduce junk food, refined sug­ar and flour prod­ucts, increase veg­etable, water and exer­cise intake, and reduce stress. So if you haven’t already, start here.

Anna Kovalchuk, dieti­cian-nutri­tion­ist

But for those of you who have improved their diet, changed their lifestyle and are feel­ing bet­ter but still not los­ing weight, this is for you.

First, you have made great strides! While your weight may not be ide­al (yet), there’s no deny­ing the fact that your body is health­i­er on a cel­lu­lar lev­el and the ben­e­fits you expe­ri­ence are impor­tant to your health.

At the same time, we all want to achieve the ide­al weight.

Why can’t you lose weight

Here are ten rea­sons why you might not be los­ing the weight you think you should be.

• You eat too many high glycemic foods those. refined flour, white rice, fried pota­toes (pota­to chips, french fries) and sug­ar. Even if you have improved your diet, these foods are the #1 cause of excess weight. There­fore, it is dif­fi­cult to lose weight if they are reg­u­lar­ly present in your diet.
• You eat more than your body needs those. your por­tions are too big. Even if the food you eat is health­i­er than before, it may be more than your body needs. In many cas­es, when you improve your diet, the food you eat becomes more nutri­tious and some­times high in calo­ries, such as nuts. It will also help you lis­ten to your body’s hunger, for exam­ple, are you full but still eat­ing out of emo­tion? If so, can you sat­is­fy your emo­tion­al needs with­out food?

• Lack of phys­i­cal activ­i­ty. Although weight is main­ly depen­dent on nutri­tion, exer­cise can have an indi­rect effect. First, lack of exer­cise slows down your metab­o­lism, caus­ing you to burn few­er calo­ries. Sec­ond­ly, exer­cise can help relieve stress, and high stress can slow down your metab­o­lism.
• Slow metab­o­lism. First of all, you can speed it up with the help of phys­i­cal exer­cis­es. Slow diges­tion can also be the cul­prit, because when your diges­tion isn’t work­ing effi­cient­ly, you’ll burn calo­ries more slow­ly. You can shake up your metab­o­lism by occa­sion­al­ly eat­ing a much low­er calo­rie din­ner (such as an all-veg­etable meal) that is quick to digest and easy on your stom­ach, or you can speed up your metab­o­lism by adding more exer­cise.

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• Stress. When you are stressed, the hor­mone cor­ti­sol is released. Your body will hold onto weight to sur­vive if it feels like it’s in a cri­sis. Solu­tion: Reg­u­lar­ly prac­tice stress reduc­tion tech­niques such as med­i­ta­tion, yoga, deep breath­ing, grat­i­tude jour­nal­ing, ther­a­py, mas­sage, nature walks, talk­ing to close friends, talk­ing to ani­mals, etc.
• You are not eat­ing as well as you think. Some­times we’re just not being hon­est with our­selves. You might be think­ing, “I don’t eat too much sug­ar” or “I usu­al­ly choose good food.” Try to track your food through­out the week to see what you are actu­al­ly con­sum­ing. Often this is a prob­lem of mind­ful­ness, we sim­ply do not real­ize what and how much we eat, because we are dis­tract­ed by dai­ly activ­i­ties.
• Lack of con­sis­ten­cy. From that, what you do depends on your health. Do you always fol­low a healthy lifestyle? A week or two and then stop if you don’t see results right away? How long have you actu­al­ly been lead­ing a com­plete­ly healthy lifestyle, includ­ing nutri­tion, dai­ly rou­tine and exer­cise? Soci­ety is full of fast weight loss schemes (which always work but nev­er last), it can often be hard to have the patience to change all your habits and then stay con­sis­tent long enough for the change to hap­pen.
• Mal­func­tions of the thy­roid gland. One of the func­tions of the thy­roid gland is to reg­u­late metab­o­lism, so an under­ac­tive thy­roid gland often leads to a decrease in metab­o­lism. The num­ber one sign of an under­ac­tive thy­roid is fatigue even after a lot of sleep. It is impor­tant to check with your doc­tor for thy­roid dis­or­ders and make sure you are get­ting enough iodine nat­u­ral­ly. A healthy diet and lifestyle can often restore healthy thy­roid func­tion.
• Tox­i­c­i­ty. The intake of tox­ins through processed, arti­fi­cial, or pes­ti­cide-con­tain­ing foods can dis­rupt hor­mone func­tion, and tox­ins can get stuck in fat cells, which can affect over­all health and abil­i­ty to lose weight. While I am not usu­al­ly a fan of intense detox, if you feel like your diet has been tox­ic for a long peri­od of time (chem­i­cal dyes, drugs, arti­fi­cial sweet­en­ers, pes­ti­cides, addi­tives, trans fats, etc.), you may ben­e­fit from the course. detox, which will remove these tox­ins from fat cells.
• You are not ready to lose weight. This requires seri­ous hon­esty with one­self. Are you real­ly ready to lose weight and pri­or­i­tize your health? For many, there are cer­tain ben­e­fits to not los­ing weight. Here are some exam­ples:

Some­times being over­weight allows you to put off tak­ing action or tak­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for oth­er things in your life.

For some, pri­or­i­tiz­ing their own health comes with guilt, espe­cial­ly for those who care about oth­er peo­ple and always put oth­ers first.

There are those for whom it comes down to the fact that they do not feel wor­thy to give pri­or­i­ty to their own health.

If the weight you car­ry is of any use, or if there is strong resis­tance to tak­ing care of your health, self-sab­o­tage can occur, even with the best of con­scious inten­tions.

Solu­tion: First, have com­pas­sion for your­self and remove the obsta­cles you have on your path to health, with the help of a ther­a­pist, jour­nal­ing, med­i­ta­tion, etc. Then return to weight loss when you’re real­ly ready.

The author of the arti­cle is Anna Kovalchuk

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