DO YOU FIND IT HARD TO KEEP THE WEIGHT OFF?

DO YOU FIND IT HARD TO KEEP THE WEIGHT OFF?

Are you tired of going through the same old yo-yo dieting process of losing weight and gaining it back?

Losing weight is tough, maintaining your hard earned body is far harder.  Studies show 90-95% of people gain their weight back within 2 years of losing it all and many far sooner. There is strong evidence after you lose the weight your body does everything in it’s power to regain that weight back.

Once you lose the weight your metabolism changes, since you need fewer calories per day to maintain your new body weight. With each pound lost you require 8 calories less than before.  Your new leaner body may need fewer calories to sustain it, but your craving for food intensifies, making it increasingly difficult to

maintain your hard earned lean body.  Another problem is that once you’re overweight, your body assumes that state to be normal and it does everything it can to get it back to the previous “overweight” state once you’ve lost weight. Your body is designed for survival, and so innately it functions to protect it from weight loss and starvation.  It’s part of the survival mechanism.  What is not yet known is how long it takes your body to accept its new weight as ‘normal’.

But not all is lost, where there’s a will there’s a way.

Amongst the estimated 5 – 10% of the successful people that lost weight and kept if off on a long term basis, there was one constant that really made a difference in helping them keep the weight off…EXERCISE.

Rather than just trying to consume fewer calories by eating less, these people exercised more.  Scientific research has shown exercising helps control your body’s instinctive biological mechanism to regain the lost weight – such as re-sensitizing your appetite controlling hormones like leptin, ghrelin and insulin, so that it can help you keep the weight off. The second major factor in the fight to maintain your weight loss, is stabilising your blood sugar levels .A key tip in achieving this is to eat low glycemic foods and foods with high fiber content along with lean protein and healthy fats.  Eating 5 – 6 smaller meals through out the day will also help keep your blood sugar level even.  Another important tip is to eliminate all processed foods, and replace it with real whole foods instead.  Processed foods have hidden sugars that’ll spike your insulin and trans fats that are very toxic to your body.  Just by eliminating processed foods and ready-made foods you’ll have much better success keeping your blood sugar levels even.

Combining a well balanced eating plan consisting of real whole foods along with an effective, comprehensive workout program that you can easily follow is your best solution to both losing weight and beating the odds of regaining it.