Loosing weight is not as easy as it sounds. We
all fall prey for all these seductive fad diets. We all start these
diets with high spirits but after a week or two we find, that we don't
loose weight as they claim. Like the General motors diet planners claim
that you can loose from 4-7 lbs in only one week!!!! 4-7 lbs????? I
didn't even lost 1 lb after a whole 2 weeks.
It's not that I'm negating all these diet plans. The fact is that
these diets somewhere has worked for someone. They really did. Similarly,
you might have tried a few diets and must have observed that one or
two of them made a major difference in you, in just a few days. What
I'm trying tell you is that it is not necessary that you try any diet
that sounds good to you, and it really do works for you. Any diet
that might have made your friend loose stones might not even let you
loose only 1 lb. There are many factors involved in why we don't loose
weight the way we want to. In this article I'm going to highlight
a few possibilities. I'll give you an insight of you with a hope that
the diets start working for you.
1. It's your body, your requirements and your metabolism:
It is practically unfeasible for two people to have cent percent
same ideas; equivalent is the case with the body. Every one is different
from every other person. Reason behind is that every person's routine,
working timings, sleep patterns, food likes and dislikes, activities
and physical caliber is different, and this determines your metabolism.
So you don't have to blame your stars for that, you actually need
to change your habits and your routine.
2. Diets can never work alone:
Dieting will only help you not to gain more. But what about all
those fats that you have stored in your body over ages. There are
generally two methods told. Either to get lesser calories than you
require for your routine or to burn more calories than you eat. But
I tell you the golden rule that worked for most of the people including
myself, which is to combine both the ideas. This is the best way to
loose faster than anything else. Eat less calories and burn more than
you burn in your routine.
3. Low calories never means No calories:
People have this misconception that a low calorie diet is not harmful
at all. Low calorie diet do means that it doesn't have as much calories
as their normal counterparts have but it never means that it has no
calories. Once a friend of mine started a low calorie diet plan, by
the end of the month she gained 4 lbs. Then finally she told me the
reason for that, she started eating more than normal. She thought
she can eat as much as she can. So better look at the total calories
you are taking per day rather than checking calories for individual
food item.
4. Your medical status needs attention:
At times there are few medical conditions that thwart us from loosing
weight. Right now I'm giving a brief account how do these health conditions
prevent from loosing weight.
a. Hormonal imbalances tend to put weight in few cases. Insulin, Estrogen
and Thyroid hormones play important roles generally. Insulin helps
the cells to uptake sugar from blood and burn in cell activities.
So in Diabetes lack of Insulin can cause weight gain. Estrogen is
a female sex hormone. This hormone has particular ability of water
retention and weight gain. Moreover this hormone tends to preserve
fat in body and this fat is particularly deposited over the belly
area and hips. That's the basic reason why females have the pear shape
fat pattern in a body. In last Thyroid is one of the major causes.
Hypothyroidism makes a person fat, lazy and lethargic all the time.
b. Some health conditions like kidney failures, heart problems and
pregnancy also makes person to gain weight. Pregnancy is a normal
physiological condition, whereas other two are pathological. In heart
and kidney problems there is usually water retention which makes the
body swelled up and edematous.
c. In stress, either mental or physical, the body system automatically
gets into "flight or fright" condition. It starts preserving
fat for energy usage in future. So you need good mental and physical
relaxation to let your diet work at its best.
So, by now you might have pointed out a problem or two, which tends
to prevent you from loosing weight. Once you're done with fixing the
health problem you will start enjoying the results of your hard work.
