Living Healthy: Reasons why your not loosing weight

Weight loss is something that most people strive to attain probably on and off for years. Insome cases maybe even most of their lives. We often hear about the frequent promises made for instant weight loss, all the lotions, potions, pills and seemingly endless products that are available on the market, all claiming quick, easy weight loss.We also hear about numerous tips, tricks and techniques from people all the time who profess to know, the miracle of how you can lose ten pounds in a week or two stone in a month, unfortunately the majority of these allegations are empty, unrealistic and often even wildly exaggerated.Yet we try them anyway, with all the best intentions and in the vain hope, that this time you may have found something, that might actually work.

However the sad truth is that although you stick to the diet rigidly, follow all the rules religiously, fully embrace the diet and follow it to the letter. Rather depressingly and inevitablyit seems the second a morsel of food passes your lips, after the diet is over. Not only do you quickly gain the weight that took an eternity to lose, you also find yourself weighing more thenyou did before you started the diet in the first place, leaving you feeling that all your hard work and deprivation has gone to waste. It's allvery depressing and frustrating.If you can identify with this, you are in good company, it is not unusual and you are by no means alone in this experience with dieting.

It is estimated that as many as 80% of people that diet regularly say this is true in their previous participation of diets and in their pursuit of weight loss.You can lose weight.Although there are a lot of unsubstantiated and unfounded dietary claims made, that's not to say that this is true in all cases.Fortunately there are a lot of very good solutions to not only help you to lose weight but also to keep it off, for good. It's all about finding out what's right for you.I have listed below a few of the more common reasons why people generally can't lose weightor find it difficult, and that might just be whats holding you back from discovering your ideal weight. You can achieve the body you want and be comfortable with the numbers on the scale
.*.Your not drinking enough water
This is a very common inhibitor of weight loss, for a few reasons. One is that if you are dehydrated your body may trick you into thinking your hungry, so you eat. When in fact it's because your thirsty and needed a drink. If you feel hungry try drinking a glass of water first and wait to see if you still want to eat, you maybe surprised to find that most of the time you won't.If you're dehydrated you will also feel tired and energy zapped. Again this will lead you wanting to reach for food, only this time you will crave something sweet, as your body will want for a quick energy fix, in the form of sugar.Water also helps to expel toxins from your body and will improve the appearance of your skin.So how much water should you drink? It's recommended that you drink, eight pint glasses or two litres a day.

.Your bodies gone into starvation mode.It's advised by the government and experts that for optimal weight loss, to eat little and often.Most of us skip breakfast, which means we arerunning on empty right from the beginning of the day, this puts our bodies under added pressure and tricks your body into thinking it's in starvation mode.When we leave lengthy amounts of time in between meals or snacks, are body thinks we are unable to obtain food, or it is in limited supply and prepares us for a famine. This means that it holds on to the fat reserves we have and slows our metabolism down. Making it increasingly difficult to lose weight later on.This are just a few reasons why you are not loosing weight.If this are not the reasons why you are not loosing weightclick hereto go to my next article which highlights more reasons