Not Losing Weight – 2+2 Reasons To Check
What if your weight isn’t decreasing? Check the following four reasons after you have honestly counted all the sneak eating here and there. Keeping a food diary in a small pocket sized notebook can help you see what you are eating and help you to commit to self improvement.
Life’s little habits can be adding to your food intake. If this sounds like you, then increasing your awareness can help you put a stop to the calorie sabotages.
1. Too much T.V.— a 2006 study published in the journal Preventing Chronic Diseases found that more than two hours of television watching per day was associated with a high body mass index in men and women, which translates to being overweight or obese.
2. Not enough sleep — People who sleep less than 7 hours a night are more likely to gain weight than those who sleep more, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Sleep deprivation causes a cascade of physiological effects, including changes in the hormones that regulate hunger. Research author Sanjay Patel, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio shows that regular exercise helps you fall asleep and stay asleep. (Exercise can help reduce anxiety.)
3. Your spouse or significant other rebels against healthy eating—May be you can’t change another ‘s eating, but you do share meals. Make the meals healthy and ask your mate to exercise with you. Research shows that couples who exercise together are healthier and keep their weight balanced. Any way you look at this, your partner’s eating habits greatly affect yours. University of Minnesota research revealed that married couples share similar body mass indexes. You can make a difference by asking and inspiring change.
4. You continue to skip breakfast— Ann Yelmokas McDermott, PhD, LN, a nutrition scientist at the USDA Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University states, “When you skip a meal you start setting yourself up for starvation mode. Then you start just wanting to grab anything, and you lose that ability to register when you’ve had enough.” Be aware that this style of eating becomes a habit and gabbing food causes a weight gain. Those that have this style often times say when finally ready to eat, “I am starving.” With this attitude overeating follows. 3,000 people who had lost at least 30 pounds according to the National Weight Control Registry, found that they kept the weight off for more than a year by staying with the habit of eating breakfast.
2 + 2 reasons are challenging as life is. Nothing works out the way you planned. Obstacles present themselves and force us to question everything and even give up on eating healthy. The dream of the perfect weight once held seems foggy and obscure. Each day situations arise that force you to figure out what choices are the best for you and how you will continue to handle the above reasons.
Life creates stress, self doubt creeps in, sisters get cancer, fear takes over, husbands disappoint and friends let us down. What do you choose to do? This is the defining moment for you r choice. Will you make a healthy choice to further the quality of your life or will you give in to passive activity of your old habits and failures?
Take the opportunity in this very moment to motivate in a positive and healthy way. Go for it!