Sweetheart, its not your fault (well mostly not)! It’s not that you have low- self-control or are not training hard enough. But here are some reasons because of which you might not be seeing the scale moving:
Inflammation
In an inflamed state, your body tends not to recover quickly, and instead, you end up gaining more weight. You could quickly determine if you have inflammation by doing a C Reactive Protein (CRP) blood- test.
If you think you are doing everything and yet not seeing results in your weight loss, it is probably because of overtraining. The solution here is to reduce the number of workout sessions you have per week and let your body recover.
Like I always tell my clients, “The goal should be the minimum amount of training and eat the maximum number of calories to see the fastest results.” Drop calories only when needed and add the extra sessions only when you plateau.
Insulin Resistance
Strangely enough, extreme calorie restrictions and diets that exclude important food groups cause insulin resistance. If you are one such individual who has been on multiple fad diets, temporary diets, or a very calorie-restricted diet (anything below 1500 calories), this may lead to insulin resistance in your body.
As a result, in such cases, it would not matter whatever you eat, whether it is excess proteins, carbohydrates, or fat, because everything ultimately stores fat.
One way to know if you have insulin resistance is the sign of dark crease lines around your neck and armpits.
Moving towards a healthy plant-based diet to reverse insulin resistance and patiently increasing the calories you need will help you lose weight.
Alcohol Consumption
Whether you intake just one glass of wine, just whiskey with water, or only a little bit of vodka with soda, none of them will work positively towards your weight loss goals.
It is because it is never about the calories in the alcohol. So even if you avoid beer and consume other types of alcohol, it will still hamper your weight loss program or diet.
The effects of alcohol reflect in hormonal fluctuations and gut dysbiosis caused in the body. Every time you drink alcohol, you're wiping out a massive chunk of the good bacteria from your body.
The good bacteria are essential as it leads to insulin sensitivity, indicating that your body is not storing as much of the food you're eating. However, by the time your body rebuilds the good bacteria, which require quite some time, it is again wiped out with another session of you drinking alcohol.
Solution: Do not drink.
Wait for my newsletter tomorrow for a few more reasons that could be holding you back. Make sure to check your promotions folder for my older newsletters.
Hope this helps,