The change in your weight is highly related to your lifestyle. So if you find yourself ticking every box from fitness books and diet charts and still not lose weight, these might be one of the reasons.
Not Checking The Labels
Always check the labels of the food you buy. Keep a track of the calories, carbs and protein going into your body. Oftentimes, ‘healthy’ companies can mislead you into buying unhealthy options. ‘Low Fat’ food items usually have extra added sugar in them to improve their taste. So simply buying food items is a no-no, always check the labels.
Not Varying Your Workouts
Doing the same workout over and over again gets your body used to the exercise and burns lesser calories every time you repeat it. Vary your workouts to work on different parts of your body and at different intensities to get your body worked up and burn that extra fat.
Not Watching What You Drink
What you are not eating, might be what you are drinking! Does that yogurt smoothie have too much sugar? Or did you have two soft drinks with your salad today? Drinks usually go unnoticed but add a lot to your diet. Watch what you drink and how much drink.
Not Sleeping Enough
Having a restful 7-8 hours of sleep is vital for weight loss. The lesser you sleep, the more tired your system will be and a habit like that could have adverse effects. A tired system results in a tired digestion, tired metabolism and hampered health. So make sure you get those Zs.
Taking Too Much Stress
Now everybody stresses on something or the other every day. But prolonged stress or chronic stress can affect your weight loss journey and your health adversely. According to Luke Coutinho, the founder of ‘You Care’, stress leads to a rise in cortisol levels (stress hormone) and adrenaline, which sends instructions to several parts of our body to equip with a fight or flight response. Over time, due to the overuse of cortisol, our body runs out of it, leading to adrenal fatigue. This leads to a hormonal imbalance, which has every connection with body fat, gaining lean muscle, fertility, conception, sustenance of pregnancy, loss of bone density, and most importantly, estrogen dominance – the main reason behind stubborn belly fat.
Life is too short to be stuck on stressful relationships, people or events, break out of them. Eat well, Exercise good and keep your mind healthy. I promise you, you’ll be just fine.
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