Stop holding yourself back to get happier
By My Fit Foods
We’re not saying you need to lose weight! But if it’s a goal and it’s not happening, you’re unhappy. Here are sneaky reasons you’re NOT losing weight—tackle ’em and get happier about your progress!
Top 20 Reasons You Are NOT Losing Weight
- You are skipping meals, especially breakfast.
- You are eating two large meals a day, even if healthy, and not eating 5 small meals a day.
- You are eating too many carbohydrates because you try to eat too low fat.
- You are eating too much fat because you are trying to eat too low carb.
- You are over doing the cardio, causing a spike in cortisol, causing you to burn muscle and store fat.
- You are not sleeping 7 to 8 hours.
- You are dependent on more than 2 caffeinated beverages a day.
- You are taking a medication that is interfering with your metabolism.
- You are dealing with an intensely stressful work or life situation.
- You are one of many women and men silently suffering from hypothyroidism or lowered metabolism and don’t know it.
- You are on thyroid medication and it’s not working.
- You are suffering from hormonal imbalance in midlife and are in estrogen dominance.
- You are struggling with food intolerances that you are not aware of.
- You have too many toxins in your environment and diet which are overwhelming your detox organs.
- You are chronically dehydrated and don’t drink water.
- You have low serotonin and cannot stop binging at night on alcohol or carbs.
- You don’t do regular resistance training, and you have become skinny fat.
- You have “yo-yo” dieted for many years and your metabolism is confused.
- You are sleeping with your TV or lights on and disrupting your body’s melatonin supply.
- You have poor digestive health.
We know all the reasons you are not losing weight and we see them all the time in our new clients. Thankfully we have many tricks and secrets to our program: the 21 Day Challenge. We pride ourselves on being in tune with the cutting edge nutrition research that shows that:
- Extreme low fat or low carb diets do not work, and that a balance between protein, carbs, and fat is essential. Fit the ratios to your specific lifestyle and hormone state.
- Focusing on protein based meals is important. We shoot for protein to be at least 30% of your calories.
- Resistance training and interval training are essential to stimulating gaining muscle mass and human growth hormone.
- Proper sleep is imperative to lower stress hormones and control blood sugar and insulin.
- Certain supplements and deficiencies make all the difference in the world to your metabolism.
- A majority of hormone balancing can be achieved with our 21 Day Challenge, when followed consistently.
- People need convenience and constant support to truly achieve their weight loss goals, as well as positively change their lifestyle.
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