As a Perth personal trainer, I get asked the question “Why am I not losing weight?” Very often than not, most people thought they’re doing great but in reality it is not so great. If you’re working with a personal trainer, at our boot camp or busting your butts at your own workout and not losing weight, it’s more likely due to nutrition 90% of the time. The following are 5 Reasons you’re not losing weight.
Bad Nutrition
This is usually the #1 reason why most people can’t seen to lose the weight or overcome a plateau. If you still hold the hope that exercise alone is going to help you lose weight, let me tell you that the truth is you can never out train a bad diet. And most people probably DO NOT know how to eat the right food and the right way to lose the weight. Sometimes, cutting back on your food intake and stick to unprocessed natural food is what you need to do. If you’re stuck, be honest with yourself and have a hard look at your nutrition by starting a food journal today.
You’re Drinking Too Much Alcohol
What most people do not realise that alcohol not only gives you the useless calories it actually STOP your body from using the existing fat stores
as energy. Put it this way; if your body can’t burn off the existing fat stores then more fats are going to stay in your body.
Let’s do the math. If you have 2 bottles of Toohey everyday which will give you about 300 calories. Multiply that by 365 days and that is going to give you an extra 109 500 calories per year. Based on the theory that 1 pounds of fat is equal to 3 500 calories, you will be gaining 32 lbs (or 14kg) of fat per year. Remember that alcohol not only gives you the extra calories it also stops the body from burning its own fat.
The worse is have alcohol with your meal! The body will have to burn the alcohol off first before it can start burning the food. As a result, you start gaining more fats on your gut.
You’re Not Doing Strength Training
Strength training in the form of weights or body weight exercises is the most underestimated strategy that will help you boost your already sluggish metabolism. It’s quite a common approach even in these days that many people often just do aerobics to burn off as much calories as possible. Man! That’s going to take you a long time.
First, doing aerobics activities help you burn calories only during the workout and second it does not have much of an effect on metabolism post workout. Strength training on the other hand builds lean muscle that directly affects your metabolism and get your body to incinerate fat all day long even while you’re asleep. Look! 1 hour workout can only help you burn so much fat. Strength training get your body to burn fat fast 24/7!
You’re Too Lazy to Push Hard
This is one of the common reason why people are not looking better. If you been to our boot camp in Perth, you will
know what a WORKOUT actually is. Well, we’re not some sicko who like to cause pain in people but it’s a fact that the body fat will not move if you don’t work hard enough. We train based on research-proven evidence and what has worked for our boot camp members. Too often, I seen people just been in the gym or just exercise for the sake of exercise. Fast walk and jog ain’t going to cut it!
If you’re not panting hard, sweating and feeling the tension in your muscles, you’re not going to look any better. PERIOD!
You’re Expecting Too Much
If you had watched and going to be watching the Biggest Loser, you know that they dropped like 4-6 kilos a week. That’s not going to happen unless you eat very little, work out 6 hours a day and confined to a area where you get all the necessary support. That’s not realistic. I mean it’s not going to happen in real life.
The number on the scale is not going to mean everything. Look at how you fit into your clothes. You can dropped dress size initially and not lose anything on the scale and that would indicate that your fat is shifting out and replaced by heavier muscles that takes up less space in the body. Let me tell you 3 facts you should know about weight loss.
Fact #1 – Your body tend to lose a lot of weight initially if you are very overweight but weight loss will slow down when you’re at a lighter weight
Fact #2 – Every 1cm3 of fat weighs 0.7g and every 1cm3 of muscle weighs 1.1g. What does this mean? You can look smaller initially when you replaced fat with muscles bit still weigh the same.
Fact #3 – You should aim for 0.5-1kg loss per week as a safe guideline according to research
Alrity! That’s all I have for ya today and I hope you had enjoyed this blog post. Have an awesome day ahead. Hey don’t forget to leave a comment if you have a question or something to say.
TC
Your Boot Camp Guy
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