| You know the drill, you work hard on your diet | | | | like vegetables and fruits. |
| and you failed to lose weight despite being at | | | | The second reason is you're under too much |
| your best behavior since kindergarten. What | | | | stress to begin with. I'm not talking about huge |
| happened? You figured if you had 1000 calories | | | | stress like death of a close person (although it can |
| deficit you would surely lose 2 pounds per week | | | | really affect your weight loss effort) but daily |
| right? Well, it's not as simple as calorie in, calorie | | | | stress that you might not even aware of. Stress |
| out as most weight loss coach would like you to | | | | like traffic jam stress, work stress, financial |
| believe. It not even solely about diet and exercise | | | | stress and relationship stress are all stress that |
| too. Believe it or not, it's everything from your | | | | affects the body in the same way. Your body |
| environment, your mood, stress level, sleeping | | | | releases Cortisol, which is a fight or flight stress |
| behavior and much more. To simplify, it's all about | | | | hormone designed to save your life from a saber |
| how your environment affects your gene | | | | toothed tiger. Cortisol worsens insulin resistance, |
| expression. (This simply means what genes are | | | | catabolized the muscle, (resulting in lower |
| activated according to your environment) | | | | metabolism) and worse of all it promotes the |
| One of the most important reasons why you're | | | | storage of fat in your body. |
| not losing weight is because you're not eating | | | | Third, most people ate way too much sugar and |
| healthy. I can already hear some of you lamenting | | | | carbohydrate. I don't care if its "only"100 calories, |
| that you're eating plenty of healthy food and are | | | | eating carbohydrate is way more dangerous that |
| living as healthy as you can get but you're more | | | | you thought possible. It's so dangerous to your |
| likely than not to be wrong. Diet sodas, | | | | weight loss effort that I almost always advise |
| whole-wheat bread and 1g of "net carbohydrate" | | | | client to even skip fruits at the very beginning of |
| bread is healthy food. They're simply empty | | | | their weight loss effort. There you go, some of |
| calories that make you crave more of them. | | | | the reasons why you can't lose weight no matter |
| Simply going for low carbohydrate or low calories | | | | how hard you try. |
| is not enough; you must eat real and healthy food | | | | |