7 Reasons why we can't lose weight

1. Sleep derivation

When you lack sleep, you prevent your self to lose weight. Sleep deprivation slows your metablosim. It affects the hunger hormones Leptin and Ghrelin.
Leptin tells your brain to stop eating, whereas ghrelin, produced in the stomach, stimulates hunger. Research suggests inadequate sleep is associated with low levels of leptin, high levels of ghrelin and weight gain.

How to solve this: Don't use gadgets when you're about to sleep or when you're already in bed. They will prevent you to go to sleep. Sleep and a cool and dark room. Of course you have to get to bed early if you wanna sleep early.

2. Sugar

The biggest culprits include muesli bars, breakfast cereals, sports drinks, sauces and spreads – even certain peanut butter brands contain sugar. Added sugars are now
considered to be more damaging than dietary fat to your weight and overall health, contributing to conditions including dental decay, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

How to solve this:  Read the labels of the packs of food you buy. You can also drink water instead mo drinks with sugar. Drinking plenty of water has many benefits.

3. Fast food, slow weight loss.

Grabbing breakfast from restaurants is not good. You lost the touch of cooking healthy foods. Especially in our busy life, we intended to just get what's convenient. Not healthy.

How to solve this: Buy ingredients from the market on your way home. Instead of eating out which also consumes time, why not buy something more healthy and cook it at home. It is more special when you're the one who makes what you eat.

4. Be nourished

When we want to lose weight, we intend to look for the calorie content and not on the other vitamins and good stuffs from the label. This is a terrible way to maintain your body. Calories come and go in our body. But if we forgot to think of what our body needs, then losing weight is meaningless here.

How to solve this: Choose nutrient-dense food and nourish your body with the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants found in fruit, vegetables and wholefoods. Think of the quality of the food.

5. You're dealing with a hormonal condition

Hormone conditions such as hypothyroidism, polycystic ovarian syndrome and insulin resistance can cause weight gain and make it hard to lose weight.  

How to solve this: Talk to your GP and get tested. If you have one of these conditions, diet may help. Exclude refined carbohydrates and increase good-quality protein, vegetables, seaweed and essential fatty acids.

6. We never notice we eat extra food

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are the main meal we eat everyday. But we also eat extra food! And we don't notice at all. Eating more than the 3 meal we eat everyday means more calories.

How to solve this: Eat more breakfast. That will give you the strength you need just until lunch. Or if you're still not hungry during lunch, you can eat small amount of food and gradually just until dinner. Don't eat more on dinner!

7. Sitting down too much

If you're too busy to exercise, then you're in bad shape. Sitting too much facing computers and gadgets will make you bigger overtime. We have joints so we should move.

How to solve this: Schedule an exercise weekly. It has to be done regularly. Or if you're really busy, there's a lot of 10-minutes or less exercise program on youtube. You can check them out. Now stop sitting around and get moving.