Why are so many people unsuccessful at weight loss? The different causes are: they are idle, they are more addicted toward food, and they are not good at exercising.
Failure at weight loss stems from a few main factors given below: People do not really understand the risks of being overweight.
The majority would say they would like to look better.
Looking better certainly is an advantage of losing weight but this should not be the sole reason to weight loss.
Being overweight for a long period of time kills thousands of people every year.
There are thousands of studies that have shown and proven without any doubt that losing body fat will improve and lengthen your life.
There are different e-Books which will give you a picture of the dangers of being overweight.
Knowing the dangers of being overweight is a tremendous motivator to not only lose fat but to keep it off.
People do not commit to permanent lifestyle changes.
So many people consider a diet as something temporary.
When they are on a diet they control themselves so much that they are miserable.
Sooner or later failure is unavoidable because of the unreasonable demands of most diets.
Some of these diets force you to only eat definite foods (e.
g.
, no crabs, special soups etc).
You talk to them who have probably tried them before.
The key to weight loss long term is to make regular lifestyle changes you can stick to forever.
The majority of individuals are not provided the truthful facts of losing weight and becoming healthier.
With the conflicting information in the media and all of the different quick fad diets; it is understandable why so many people really do not know the truth about losing fat and keeping it off long term.
We will go over the no-nonsense fact.
The majority of people do not understand they are constantly gaining fat or losing fat.
Nothing in between will be there.
A number of people justify binging or giving up because they hit a small road-block.
For example, when someone was overweight, if he ate an unhealthy lunch, he would go ahead and eat an unhealthy dinner since he already "messed up" the day.
Or he would say, I will start eating healthy on Monday since I have already eaten poorly this weekend.
There are times when we eat to much.
The successful people will not let a road bump entirely or derail their entire lifestyle change.
If you are not employing positive lifestyle changes with weight loss then you are gaining weight.
And there is no in-between.
Most people do not realize what they consume each day.
So many overweight people eat thousands of additional calories and fat without realizing what they have eaten.
There are weight loss plans that you don't' have to watch what you eat and still lose weight.