| If you want to lose weight, you'll have to work | | | | contributory factor that makes people sluggish |
| hard at it. Exercise and a good and balanced diet | | | | and thus slows down weight loss. |
| is what you should look at when you are trying to | | | | Stress...Not managing your emotions properly... |
| lose weight. But there are some people who diet | | | | If you are stressed out then weight loss is going |
| and exercise but seem to be stuck with the | | | | to be a problem. Constant stress releases a |
| weight that they are trying to lose. | | | | hormone called Cortisol that leads to an increase |
| The logic behind losing weight is simple: burn the | | | | in appetite. |
| calories that you consume. So if you are not | | | | It is because of this hormone that extra fat |
| losing weight, here is what you could be doing | | | | tends to get stored around the stomach making |
| wrong: | | | | you look and feel bloated and fat. It is also leads |
| Not enough exercise...Expecting a lot for doing | | | | to emotional eating that comprises mainly of |
| very little... | | | | comfort foods such as sweets and fried stuff. |
| To change the shape of your body you shall have | | | | Trying to relax for a couple of minutes every day |
| to put in a lot of exercise. The more overweight | | | | can be beneficial in this context. Try some |
| you are, the harder you shall have to work! | | | | breathing exercises, yoga or go for a massage |
| So if by running thirty minutes a day you feel you | | | | that takes the stress off. |
| should be losing weight, you are wrong! Unless | | | | Equal input and output... |
| you have a medium to high intensity cardio work | | | | You exercise for an hour a day and then come |
| out for a period of thirty minutes, done five days | | | | back and eat a full meal. This is one of the |
| a week coupled with weight and strength training | | | | biggest reasons that impair weight loss. Exercise |
| exercises, chances of you losing weight are | | | | burns energy which makes us hungry. |
| remote. | | | | By eating the right amount of food or eating in |
| If your exercise routine is not challenging then you | | | | moderation, our body is able to burn the excess |
| shall not be burning the fat that you need to in | | | | reserve fat and facilitate weight loss. By eating as |
| order to lose weight! | | | | much as you want just because you have been |
| Lack of sleep... | | | | exercising, you do not count your intake of |
| As strange as it may sound, lack of sleep plays | | | | calories and end up consuming as many calories |
| havoc in wrecking weight loss programs. Research | | | | that you have burnt. |
| also shows that in some cases, lack of sleep has | | | | You shall have to eat less to create the calorie |
| led to weight gain. This is probably because lack | | | | shortage in your body by eating small meals. Don't |
| of sleep can reduce metabolism and make it slack. | | | | starve yourself but don't overeat as well just |
| Less sleep also tends to make you "feel" hungry | | | | because you are exercising! |
| even when you are not! This is also a major | | | | |