Weight Loss Troubleshooting

You're exercising and eating right, and yet you are not losing weight. Of course, eat less and exercise more, but the number on the scale still will not budge. What is happening? After all, it seems that those calories you are expending more calories than you consume. Why do not you lose weight? There are several reasons for fat loss resistance. This article will briefly present the different causes, and future articles will discuss each reason in more detail.

Hidden (and not-so-hidden) stress

Stress can actually do the tough fat loss. How? When you're under stress, release a hormone called "cortisol". Cortisol raises blood sugar, which in turn increases insulin. Insulin is a hormone that is not yet two things: it tells the body to stop breaking down fat, and that tells the body to open up their stations as the krvi.Očito source of stress is what most people think, mental / emotional stress. But this is only one kind of stress, and there are others. They have too much exercise (especially long-duration cardio such as running, swimming, cycling, etc.), eat foods that are sensitive (and sensitive does not necessarily mean "allergic"), electromagnetic stress, poor nutrition, infections, and many other. This is assessed through something called "salivary cortisol ."

thyroid failure

thyroid hormone the body is a key manufacturer, producing hormones that are responsible for how fast your metabolism going. If your thyroid is suppressed, May you have a difficult time (or impossible time) weight loss. If your doctor ran a test of thyroid panel, chances are he / she does not run all the necessary tests. Chances are, they ran a TSH and T4 (in rare cases, T3). However, there are 9 different things that can go wrong with the thyroid, and more blood work just to check 2 or 3 If you feel sluggish, if your hands and feet are cold when most people are not, if the outer third of your eyebrow is thinning, then you May have some problems with the thyroid.

Poor insulin sensitivity

As mentioned earlier, insulin is a hormone that tells your body to stop breaking down fat, and start getting into what is in the blood (whether it be fat, sugars, amino acids, or something else). Even if you eat mostly "healthy" diet, but a good number of its food starch and high in carbohydrates (which include grains, even whole grain / whole wheat), you may have trouble losing weight. If you have family or relatives who have diabetes or prediabetes, chances are that insulin sensitivity is not great either. Lucky for you that there is something you can do about it, and it's very simple (though not necessarily easy). Eat a low carbohydrate diet

poor digestion

Believe it or not, the calories are not everything. There are some vitamins and nutrients in foods that help with the breakdown and metabolism of food. If it is indigestion, you May not be the absorption of nutrients, so you have problems digesting the food. As a result, through a complex series of reactions within your body absorbs more calories than you normally would.

These are some of the most common reasons for problems with fat loss if you do everything else right. There are also other reasons, but they have to discuss a future article. So what can you do about these problems, 4? Read the following article to find out.