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Can't lose weight - why?

The desire to quickly lose weight is very often accompanied by a number of problems that remain beyond the understanding of the reasons that inhibit weight loss. Regular physical activity and cutting back on your diet sometimes do not give the expected effect in the near future. For this reason, many people ask the question: “Why can’t I lose weight?”

The work of the endocrine system, which is responsible for maintaining a person’s body weight, increasing body weight or losing body weight, is not as simple and straightforward as it might seem at first glance. Therefore, reducing food portions and increasing physical activity may not affect a person’s actual weight.

This happens for many reasons, some of which a person can consider and correct on their own.

The first reason for the inability to lose weight quickly is associated precisely with the increase in physical activity on the body. Excessive physical activity itself requires additional nutrition, as it consumes a person’s energy reserves. Therefore, instead of losing weight and switching to a moderate diet, a person is faced with an increase in appetite.

The second reason for the lack of expected weight loss is that regular and understandable food intake at intervals is disrupted. Human metabolism is designed in such a way that the body is able, if necessary, to extract the necessary components of substances that are not available to it due to malnutrition from the reserves of useful substances that are pre-deposited in the tissues. Therefore, for some time (several months), the body will simply make up for the lack of useful substances from the already existing arsenal of nutritional reserves, using biochemical synthesis reactions. And only when these reserves decrease significantly will a decrease in the volume of tissues containing these reserves (for example, adipose tissue) become visible.

The third reason for the lack of body weight loss results is directly related to sleep patterns, since during sleep the metabolism also continues to work, but in economy mode. If the sleep time is not enough for the health of the body (a person sleeps little or sleeps with disturbances in the sleep process), it will begin to require replenishment of nutrients, which will mean the appearance of a feeling of hunger that will have to be satisfied.

The fourth reason for the lack of weight loss results is associated with increased intellectual work, nervous overload and prolonged stress, which enhance the functioning of certain systems in the body, which require additional nutrition.

The fifth reason for unsuccessful weight loss lies in excess water in the body tissues, which looks like excess weight, but is actually tissue swelling. With edema, the tissues become so saturated with water that they swell and increase in size. Water is not removed from the body, does not participate in metabolic processes and is not spent on the needs of the body. It accumulates in tissues, adding volume and weight to the human body.

These reasons that slow down the process of losing weight require adequate solutions:

A gradual, rather than sudden increase in physical activity, so that the body does not notice changes and does not require increased nutrition.
Switching to a precise eating regimen at a strictly specific time, which teaches the body not to require food in the intervals between meals.
Aligning the time for sleep in relation to the time of wakefulness in order to provoke your body to additional meals.
Dosing of intellectual stress and distancing from stressful situations that provoke appetite.
Removing excess fluid from the body using gentle methods, for example, including plant foods with a diuretic effect in the diet.

All methods of counteracting the natural processes of weight gain must also be natural for the functioning of the body, so that the regulators of the endocrine system can smoothly rearrange their activities for the benefit of losing weight in a person.