6 Things That Can Affect Your Weight Loss
It's difficult to lose weight. It's not simply about what you eat or how much you exercise. You might believe that your body is betraying you, that your metabolism is slower than normal, or that you'll have to live on boiled chicken and vegetables for the rest of your life if you can't lose weight despite several tries.
None of these assertions are correct. It's not a good idea to track your weight loss solely in terms of calories. Other factors that affect your capacity to shed and maintain weight include hormones, sleep, inflammation, the gut bacteria, medicine, unexpressed emotions, and DNA.
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Rather than being daunting, the process of losing weight should be empowering. Except for your DNA, you have control over all of these variables. However, because of how your environment interacts with your genes, they play the least effect in weight loss. A healthy diet results in healthier genes. Some inherited genetic abnormalities, on the other hand, can lead to obesity. If you have one of them, you should seek therapy at a weight reduction centre.
Here are some weight-loss facts you should be aware of in order to maintain a healthy weight for the long term.
- Medications
It's important to remember that some drugs, particularly antidepressants, might cause weight gain. If you've gained weight after taking medicine, talk to your doctor about switching to a different prescription or reducing your dose.
- Gut microbiome
Weight loss might be slowed by a bacterial imbalance in the stomach. High amounts of harmful bacteria have been discovered to extract more calories from the foods you eat, create constipation, interfere with fat-burning enzymes, affect appetite levels, and change the genes that express how rapidly your body burns fat.
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If you're constantly bloated, it's possible that your gut bacteria is out of balance. Taking a probiotic supplement on its own won't help because gut microbiota abnormalities are rarely resolved. Examine your gut microbiome with a dietitian or nutritionist, and if necessary, use antifungal herbs and enzymes.
- Sleep
Sleep problems might make you hungry and cause you to eat more. According to one study, women who slept for only four hours for four nights ingested 400 calories more than women who slept for eight hours.
This could be due to how the brain reacts to carbohydrates and fat after not getting enough sleep. There was higher activity in the reward and hedonic parts of the brain and less activity in the prefrontal cortex, which helps govern impulses, when scientists used MRI equipment to examine brain activity in response to food and less sleep.
Overeating can be exacerbated by a lack of sleep. Sleep for at least seven hours each night. If you have trouble falling or staying asleep, you can try taking magnesium glycinate pills.
- Hormones
You might conclude that your thyroid hormones are to fault if your weight suddenly increases for no obvious cause. Of course, they can become unbalanced, but this isn't always the case. Thyroid hormones play a big part in metabolic speed, but there are other hormones that affect your weight as well. Insulin, glucagon, leptin, ghrelin, cortisol, adrenaline, and the sex hormones oestrogen, progesterone, and testosterone are among these hormones.
Insulin
Insulin is a hormone generated by the pancreas that aids in the transfer of sugar into cells. It delivers sugar to the liver and muscle cells, providing them with the energy they need to function. If your body is storing fat all over the place, your insulin levels are too high. As a result, it's critical to keep these levels under check.
What is the best way to accomplish this? You should minimise your intake of starchy and quick carbs and eat smaller meals (large meals increase insulin levels as well). Eat more vegetables instead of grains, lettuce wraps instead of wraps, less cereal, and more seeds in your diet. Insulin sensitivity affects a small percentage of the population. If, on the other hand, your body feels as if it has a covering of fat all over it, you should consider making these nutritional changes.
Estrogen
If you've observed that your body is storing fat in your upper thighs and buttocks, your oestrogen levels may be too high. This usually indicates that your body is unable to properly detoxify oestrogen, or that you are consuming too many carbohydrates, causing more oestrogen to circulate throughout your body.
Because fat cells create oestrogen, the more fat cells you have, the higher your oestrogen levels will be. Every day, consume a cup of cruciferous veggies. Because these vegetables contain indole-3-carbinol, a phytonutrient that helps the body absorb and remove oestrogen more efficiently, this can help lower oestrogen levels.
Cortisol
If you have a lot of belly fat, it could mean you have a lot of cortisol, which is a stress hormone. Reduce your stress levels to lower your cortisol levels. You can attempt meditation to assist your body's cortisol reaction reset.
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- Unexpressed emotions
The most intriguing input into the fat loss/gain equation is unexpressed emotions. Because emotions cannot be measured, this is often overlooked; yet, when people gain weight for no apparent reason, the first thing to consider is whether there is something unexpressed.
It could be a lingering notion from a fight with a loved one, a tough connection with your mother, or something embarrassing from your past. When investigators looked at persons who were referred for bariatric surgery because of their obesity, they discovered that 75% of them had had at least one ACE (adverse childhood event). Emotional neglect, emotional abuse, divorce, sexual abuse, physical violence, and having a family member go to jail are all examples of ACEs.
It's critical to communicate your dissatisfaction with something. You can write it down or talk to a friend or a physical therapist about it. You won't be able to lose weight if you don't get rid of the emotions that are inside of you.
As you can see, a variety of things can influence your capacity to gain weight. There is, however, always hope. Please don't give up. Choose the most likely explanation from this list and start working on it right now. It's not always simple to lose weight in a healthy way, but it's preferable than hating your body for betraying you or feeling hopeless about your weight.
- Inflammation
Chronic inflammation is caused by a poor diet, an imbalanced gut microbiome, and untreated food sensitivities. The most important thing is to identify and treat the source of general inflammation. Increase your vegetable consumption while reducing your junk food intake. Check your mercury levels, see if you have any food sensitivities, and balance your gut microbiota. Mercury could be the problem if you have amalgam fillings and eat tuna many times a week.
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