Why Losing Weight is So Difficult

These days, everybody wants to lose a few pounds and may ask themselves Why Losing Weight is So Difficult. We must realize we are facing the greatest foe, our brain.

The brain does not want anyone to lose weight. Since the beginning of life, it has been charged with inducing us to eat and then monitoring all systems to be sure we had enough energy to keep operating. It takes energy to reproduce and that is one of Nature’s prime goals.

The Main Mechanism That Fights Weight Loss

The mechanism we face when we start to lose weight is our metabolism. As we lose weight, it starts robbing various systems of energy to keep digestion, the heart and brain functioning. It gets our body ready for a long winter of scarce resources (food energy).

So, in losing weight we face the metabolism’s effort to make it more difficult and the brain’s effort telling us we are starving and trying to induce us to eat high calorie dense foods. It takes a strong will to fight these build in mechanisms to resist weight reduction.

A few more difficulties are the heavier a person is the less the satiety hormones ghrelin and liptin affect the brain. A leaner person has an easier time because the satiety hormones registers with their senses.

The Role of Insulin Resistance

More difficult is insulin resistance. This is a factor for people with type 2 and type 1 diabetes. The cells will no longer absorb glucose because they reject insulin and so glucose from carbohydrates goes to fat. Type 1 diabetes requires injection of insulin because the function of the pancreas has ceased.

As we lose more weight the metabolism slows and gives us less credit for exercise. It becomes super efficient. The difficulty of keeping weight off after we have lost it is the metabolism stays slow and any additional calories increase our weight. This is when exercise becomes even more crucial .

While you are studying diet plans and trying to increase exercise to lose weight, keep in mind the underlying factors that will fight you .The beauty of beginning a negative calorie regimen is that after a month or two our cravings disappear and it becomes easier. A bland diet is the most efficient way to lose weight because it turns off the brains push to eat.

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