This is part 2 of our series, and I may decide to do part 3 if I deem that necessary. I believe I stopped at Reason # 3 so we will start with Reason # 4 which is lack of sleep or lack of proper sleep. When you sleep, your body rejuvenates and produces IGF-1 and also HGH (insulin-like grow factor and human growth hormone) both of which are critical to allow the body to burn fat, and if you are not getting enough quality sleep (about 7 to 8 hours) your body and health efforts will suffer. One of the worst things you can do to your body is to work the night shift, because this throws your whole biorhythm system out of whack and can also throw your hormones out of whack. You must get good quality sleep, especially when trying to loose weight.
Reason # 5: You don't exercise enough, or you exercise too much, or you do the wrong kind of exercise. This one is a tough one because you basically have to consult a book or good video on YouTube about body types to see what kind of exercise is right for your body type. I can tell you that the most advanced exercise is HIIT (High Impact Interval Training) but anyone with a health condition or severe obesity cannot do that until they regain health. I do HIIT for only 12 minutes 3 times a day. The best time to exercise is 30 minutes after a meal, because you get dual benefits from that. By exercising 30 minutes after a meal, you get the benefit of lowering the blood sugar from your meal you just ate. If you are healthy and want to do HIIT you can do any high intensity exercise for 90 seconds (like mountain climbing or jumping jacks or doing sprints (I do sprints right inside my house) then after the 90 seconds, you rest for about 2 to 3 minutes, then do the 90 seconds again with all out intensity. Caution and Disclaimer: Do not do HIIT if you are in poor health or under a doctors care. Always consult your doctor before starting any exercise program. To get started with HIIT, you must find out what your resting heart rate is by taking your pulse and counting the beats for 15 seconds then multiply that by 4 (to get rate for 60 seconds) then when you do the 90 seconds, take your pulse again and see what it is after exercise. Then just walk for about 2 to 3 minutes and make sure your pulse rate is back to within 30 beats of your original resting heart rate, and if it is, you can start the 90 seconds of intensity again, if it's not, wait until it is before you do the intensity.
Reason # 6 You are eating the wrong foods. This one can get quite complicated. Some people have food allergies and don't know it. I can tell you a simple test to see if you have food allergies. It is called muscle testing or Kinesiology. This takes 2 people to do, so you need a partner. What you do is you raise your dominant arm parallel to your body (hold it straight out in front of you) and the other person will take 2 fingers and try to push your arm down. The person pushing your arm should say to you "resist" right before they push your arm and you should be able to resist them pushing it very far. They do not need to apply a lot of pressure. Then take something into your hand like a loaf of bread or some cheese, and do the same process again. If they push your arm down further while you are holding that item (the bread or cheese) you should not be eating that food. You can possibly fix that issue by taking a good probiotic. I recommend Pro EMC-1. You can get it on Amazon. Stop eating sugar and don't eat anything that is processed (anything that comes in a box, like all the stuff in the middle isles in the grocery stores) All that food is processed and has numerous chemicals in it and it is destroying your health. Stick to the outer isles in the grocery store while shopping and eat only grass fed beef and hormone free meats if possible. Do not eat low fat meats, as these raise your blood sugar. Eat full fat meats like hamburger, bacon, ham, ext. Fat is good. All low fat products have extra flavor enhancers and they also spike insulin.
Reason # 7: You are insulin resistant (which in doctor terms means you are pre-diabetic. If you eat lots of carbs and you have a pot belly or a little pooch belly, you are insulin resistant, and you will have to work extra hard to loose that fat. I know, because I was insulin resistant, until I discovered the Keto diet. Now, I know I just opened up a can of worms, because there is a lot of confusion about Keto diets and people get them confused with Paleo and the Adkins diet, (all of which I have tried). Let me demystify this for you. What you want to do, is you want to do a modified version of the Keto diet. What do I mean. Let me explain. First, let me tell you why you want to do a Keto diet. When you do a Keto diet properly, (and the key word is properly) your body goes into what is termed ketosis, which means that at that point, your body is no longer burning sugar for fuel and it starts burning fat, just like it was designed to do in the first place. Our cave man ancestors ate meat and veggies, no grain, no sugar, and they lived in very harsh conditions and were very strong and very buff, and you can be too if you eat like they did. Now, I know what your thinking, OMG, I can't eat bread or have sweets or potatoes, or starchy foods anymore. Oh, but you can, you just have to do the Keto version. I make keto bread and pancakes, and ice cream and fudge, and cookies and they all taste good. There are many sites out there that have excellent Keto recipes now, so you don't have to deprive yourself. And if you want to eat a potato which has almost your entire days worth of carbs in it, you can just eat non carb the rest of the day and be fine. You can have up to 50 carbs a day and still go into ketosis. Once you go into ketosis, your body becomes a fat burning machine 24 hours a day and you don't even have to exercise much at all. And, the best thing about being on a Keto diet is that once you are on it, your hunger decreases tremendously because keto stops the cravings and also lowers your leptin levels (leptin causes hunger).
I also recommend that you take a good liquid multi-vitamin/ mineral supplement and maybe a good green powder formula, especially if doing Keto, because the main thing in doing keto, is to keep the acid flushed out of your system (because meats and cheese and some fats can cause to much acidity in the body without veggies and vitamins and minerals to flush out the acid) but really, everyone, regardless of diet, should take a multi because 70 % of vitamins and minerals have been stripped out of the soils in North America, and so that means you are only now getting about 30% of the nutrients that were originally in the food supply, and this includes organic. The vitamins and minerals come from the soil, so whether it's organic or conventional does not matter. If you don't believe that, you can read this scientific research article: https://www.bestfoodfacts.org/nutritional-difference-organic/ I really and truly hope this post has cleared up some things for you on why you might not be able to loose weight. If you need further assistance, feel free to email me at leorebel5@gmail.com and I can answer any questions you may have. I also just recently discovered a weight loss product that really works that I have been using and you might be interested in that also. What it does is suppress your appetite and it also helps balance hormones and blood chemistry. I have lost 20 lbs and 4 1/2 inches using it. I have been on it for 2 months.