Why It Is Hard To Lose Weight - How To Fix It

     Most people who are overweight know how hard it is to lose excess body fat although the weight loss industry feeds us with misleading information that would have us believe otherwise. Just take this pill, follow that diet or buy this piece of exercise equipment and all that fat will melt away in a flash.

In fact, we spend billions of dollars each year on weight loss products and services and yet two thirds of us are still overweight. What gives here, is it really that simple?

We have been told that the concept of losing weight is to burn more calories that you eat. This can easily be accomplished by a few changes to our diet or adding some sort of physical activity. Sounds pretty simple and easy right? But if it is that simple why are we not achieving easy weight loss?

Here are two good reasons why it is not a happening thing for some people:

1) Not doing the right sort of exercise. The old fashioned way to exercise for fat loss was to add in lots of low intensity endurance type activity. Hours would be spent doing 'cardio' type activity that may mean a few calories are burnt at the time but little to nothing is done to increase fat burning after your exercise session.

We have more understanding now about how our metabolism (our body's engine) works and how important our muscular system is and how its health and condition determines whether we are overweight or not. What we do in the gym now is not to simply burn calories but make healthy changes to our metabolism for long term weight loss.

Our modern sedentary world has a lot to answer for as we collectively become more and more overweight and face dangerous health issues because of it. Yet it is so easy to get some proper exercise in just 2-3 times each week to counter this.

When we do muscle building and maintaining exercise such as strength training it works our muscles effectively and efficiently in a very short time. Even sessions of 30-40 minutes done with enough intensity (degree of effort) is all it takes to speed up our fat burning motor - our metabolism. Once we have an increased metabolic rate, we can burn off fat every minute of the day and night. This cannot be achieved with 'cardio' activity.

2) Next what we eat is important for fat loss. The old fashioned restrictive food methods have been replaced with healthy eating for the best fat loss results. Small healthy meals each balanced with the macro-nutrients which are protein, carbohydrates and fats are the ticket to losing fat.

These meals are eaten every 2-3 hours throughout the day to keep blood sugar levels stable and stop spikes in insulin levels which put the body in fat storing mode instead of fat burning mode. To get even faster fat burning ditch as many processed foods from your diet as possible.

Chemical laden 'so called' foods mess up our delicate appetite system hormones so it is hard to know when you are truly hungry or are suffering from intense cravings that are stimulated by these chemicals and additives.

Just these two strategies can help you reclaim your slim trim body as well as keep your energy and strength levels high so you can enjoy your life to the maximum.

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