3 Reasons DIETS ‘stop working’ and how to FIX them
- You’ve confidently started the 'new and exciting diet revolution’ programme
- Lost a few (or even many) kilos
- Slowly started losing less and less weight every week
- Reverted back to your old eating habits because the diet ‘stopped working’
- Put all of the old weight back on again (and sometimes some extra!)
Why does this happen? Why doesn't the diet keep working?
There are many factors that can stop you from losing weight, and no matter what you do food-wise, if you don't sort these out, your progress will be limited.
Here are three of the most common things most people don't consider when they diet:
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1. Stress
If you know anything about human biology this one should be quite obvious.
Stress (emotional, physical, spiritual, relational etc) releases cortisol - the stress hormone - into our bodies.
Cortisol is a storage hormone
It's the one the body uses to protect us from famine or extreme cold. When we are stressed out our brain makes decisions to keep us safe, and it knows (from our cave-man days) stress means scarcity of food or freezing.
It sends out a signal to the body that storage is first priority. So anything we eat when in this state goes into reserves (fat cells) to get us through the coming time of scarcity or build a shield against the cold.
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