4 Reasons You Can’t Lose Weight
July 28th, 2010 | 
Author: So you can’t lose weight even though you’ve been following your weight loss plan faithfully.
It’s so frustrating! Let’s take a look at your weight loss plan and see where you can tweak it to get the results you want.
1. Are you dieting but not exercising?
Steady, permanent weight loss requires a combination of decreasing the number of calories you take in and increasing the number of calories you expend. Exercise revs up your metabolism to keep your body burning calories efficiently.
2. Are you exercising but not dieting?
Exercise is great for your fitness but will not help you lose weight if you continue to overeat between workouts. It takes a lot of exercise to burn just one pound of fat so, if you want to see results, you need to reduce the amount of fuel coming in so your exercise efforts can work on burning fat that is already in storage.
3. Is your diet too restrictive?
Your body requires a healthy balance of carbs (50% of your daily intake), protein (15%) and fats (35%) in order to keep working like it should. If you give it the wrong fuel, it will become sluggish and unable to do it’s work of burning calories. And if you limit yourself to too few calories, your body will go into starvation mode and cling to every single fat cell. You will feel weak and miserable, plus your weight loss will stop.
4. Are you doing the wrong exercise?
For optimum weight loss, you have to include a combination of cardio and strength training in your exercise plan. If you are using cardio alone, you are missing out on the calorie burning benefits that building muscle provides.
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Excellent point, Clint. Thanks!
Another reason would be that you aren’t allowing yourself a reward on the weekends.
Too many people restrict themselves to the point where there is no ‘outlet’.
If you’re good 75% of the time with your diet, you can eat a pizza on the weekend and know that you deserved it.
This will actually trick your body and throw it a ‘curve ball’ improving fat-loss when you return to your ‘good eating habits’.
Chelsea and Joanna, you are right! I used to think a workout would forgive anything I ate. But it always catches up with you in the end – or in the tummy!
You are all over it! It’s true what they say, “You can’t out train a bad diet”…I guess you really can’t out diet a bad training plan either!
The one that took me the longest to learn: #2. You can’t “out-cardio” a bad diet. And what’s the point in doing one part of a weight loss/fitness program instead of the whole thing?
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