You are sticking to your diet and exercise routine , still you are unable to lose weight. This situtaion must be frustrating and demotivating as well. If you are going through the similar phase, try to take stock of your situation and see if you are not doing one or many of the following:
Lack of Sleep: When you are dieting and exercising, don’t compromise on sleep. Take the required hours of sleep otherwise, instead of losing weight, you will add extra pound to your body. Sleep deprivation increases appetite and even after dieting and exercising, you tend to gain weight. Lack of sleep also slows down your metabolic rate so calories you are consuming are being burned at a slower rate. Therefore to make your diet and exercise program successful, develop healthy habits too. Taking required hours of sleep is one of them.
Fixation With The Scale: We often think if the scale is not budging, our diet and exercise program is unsuccessful. Many times its untrue. Scale doesn’t show everything. Instead of running to weighing machine, try to feel for a change. Try to feel, if your are more energetic? Your movements are less labored? You are getting up from your chir easily and without thinking? You are more hydrated? Your clothes are a bit loose? All this are telling your success story with diet and exercise. So stay motivated and remove your fixation from the scale.
Eating Too Much Without Realizing: Exercising improves metabolism and hunger as well. Without realizing we might be drinking those calorie loaded sugary drinks to keep ourselves hydrated after exercise. Here we need to be careful. Instead of going for manufactured drinks go for some homemade drinks or smoothies. Homemade drinks don’t have preservatives and added sugars. Also pay attention to your portions on plate. Due to exercise, you might be eating a lot more than required of. Don’t remain hungry but add healthy top ons. Add a serving of fruits to your lunch to feel full. Instead of having processed food, go for fresh ones.
Starving Yourself: Our body has its own inbuilt defense mechanism. If we are starving ourselves in the name of dieting, it gears up for the challenges thrown by eating less. Our body preserves fats and calories and slows down the metabolic rate. And you keep wondering why God why me? Why this is happening to me only? Therefore the key is not to starve yourself. Go for healthy eating. Feel full and satiated so that body doesn’t get the wrong signal.
Level Of Expectations: Sometimes our mindset becomes a great problem for our weight loss program. Sometimes we raise the bar too high or too low for ourselves resulting in frustration. We should be realistic and keep realistic goals for ourselves. Every individual is different and loses weight in different manner and requires different time frame. People having high BMR loses weight quickly and people having low BMR go through different experience. Decide your goals keeping your medical history, BMI and BMR. This will stop your harboring unrealistic expectations from your weight loss program and you won’t feel demotivated.
Consult Your Physician: If you are doing all the right things and being unsuccessful to shed weight, you might have a medical problem. Certain medicines, thyroid problems and hormonal imbalances cause weight gain and make it difficult for you to shed extra pounds. Therefore don’t delay. Fix your appointment with your physician immediately to find out the nature of exact problem.
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