Why losing weight is so hard? If you wonder in amazement or disgust about the asked question, take a little bit of comfort in the fact that you are not alone. Pay attention to the formula written below:
Calories taken by You = Your Basal Metabolic Rate + Your Physical Activity
If your daily routine consists of less physical activity and more calorie intake then it will definitely result in weight gain. But weight gain is simply not an equation. Weight gain is a sum total of environmental, genetic, metabolic, behavioral and cultural factors. We love to blame our genes but genes are not that powerful most of the time.
Why we find it so hard to lose weight?
Changing Anything in Life is Hard: Actually issue is not confined to why it is so difficult to lose weight only. If you want to change one thing about yourself, you will find it extremely hard to change. For example try waking up early than your usual hours, it will not be a cakewalk. If you are an introvert, try being an extrovert. If you fear public speaking, try to go on stage and speak for five minutes. So making changes in your life is hard. We take comfort in familiarity. That’s why losing weight is also hard.
Our Modern lifestyle: More often than not, our modern lifestyle permit us to sit behind a desk or a wheel. Most of us work in a office, in front of a computer, it hardly demands any physical activity. We go for shopping, not by walking but sitting behind a wheel. We hardly have time to cook and conveniently located street food corners are bursting with delicacies that have high amount of fat, salt and sugar. We often feel trapped in this lifestyle.
Home Cooking: We can hardly squeeze in enough time for home cooking. Either we have mastered the art of opening cans or we love those take aways. It seems all the time we are doing one chore or another. So its time to compromise on cooking. But if we somehow lean to cook a decent meal, it will do wonders to our weight loss and waistline. But again, we have to change our habit and instead of grabbing a bite at someplace, we have to relearn simple cooking, with fresh ingredients. Otherwise we will always find losing weight extremely difficult.
Emotional Well Being and Food Carvings: Losing weight is so hard because we fall prey to our emotional upheavals. Whenever we feel emotionally isolated or low, we tend to enjoy food a lot. Eating a high sugar and fatty food gives us comfort for the time being though the main problem remains at the same spot, but we feel good and satiated for a while. This tends to form a vicious circle which becomes extremely difficult to break.
Difficult To Make A In Change in Habits: What we are used to make it difficult to lose weight. Its easy for us to diet and exercise for few months lose weight. But we tend to revert back to the same old lifestyle and weight gain. This again forms a vicious circle that is difficult to break. Most of us are used to our morning coffee cup. Imagine, if someone puts a ban on our morning coffee and gives us lemonade else to drink every morning? How lost and disoriented we will feel and how long it will take to drink lemonade every morning. The same goes with weight loss.
So losing weight is difficult as giving up alcohol for an alcoholics. As an alcoholics craves for his drink, we too tend to crave for our ingrained lifestyle. As giving up alcohol requires a great amount of will power and self discipline, so does a healthy lifestyle.