4 REASONS YOU ARE NOT LOSING WEIGHT

All I need from you is to evaluate true or false from the following. If any of them evaluates “false”, then work on it because it is where the loophole is.

1.      You are not having enough sleep

It is advisable that a normal adult should have at least 8 hours of sleep. Failure of this makes the body crave for fat and this in turn makes one eat about 300 more calories the following day; you know how hazardous this is. Therefore endeavour to have enough sleep.

2.      You are eating wrongly

If you are still drinking sugar filled beverages, energy drinks or even vitamin-water, don’t expect to lose any of that weight anytime soon. Those drinks make it very difficult to lose those extra pounds. Other people eat lightly, which is good, but the problem is the more you think about your meal as “light”, it makes the brain produce ghrelin which informs the body to lower down metabolism because “you have a low food supply” and this leads accumulation of fats. Focus more on lean protein foods, and indulgent parts of your meal for example cheese in your salad.

3.      Long sitting hours.

Especially in our offices. Sitting even for 30 minutes make the brain to stop producing the fat inhibiting enzyme, lipase. We all know what that means. It is recommended that you stand and stretch at least every hour because this increases metabolism by 13%.

4.      Overthinking about exercise

How? Some people tend to think that the exercise they are about to have allows them to have any snack because “it will definitely burn the calories in it”. This is so wrong however because it can make you eat up to 40% more. Make sure that the snack you take doesn’t have more than 150 calories.