4 Reasons Why You Can’t Lose Weight Even If You Exercised More

People start to exercise for a variety of reasons: some do it to build muscle mass, get healthier, lose weight, or everything in between. However, there are times when people train as hard as they can and see no results in weight loss.

If you’re the one who experiences problems with losing weight or want to speed up your weight loss process, here are four things that you should remember to enjoy fast weight-loss results without having to worry about gaining fat once again.

1. You Don’t Cut Calories

To lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you consume. You can do it by training more, but in most cases, it gives tiny weight loss results or none at all. But if you burn more calories while exercising as well as cut the number of calories you consume, you have a lot more chances to become fit.

How much you should decrease your calorie intake varies from person to person, but most often, athletes don’t decrease their calorie intake by more than 500 calories daily in order to avoid losing muscle mass and to make sure that they stay healthy by providing their bodies with enough calories.

If a person tries to decrease the number of calories even further, it often results in food cravings and sometimes too little energy levels to feel satisfied and able to exercise fully.

2. You Believe in Everything Everyone Says

You can hear a lot of contradicting information, so contradicting that you may think that people offer you to do completely different things to lose weight. Most often, it’s not because somebody is trying to fool you, but because there are many different methods that work.

But what works for others may not work for you, so don’t be surprised to see even the best tips to be useless to you. Also, there are some fitness gurus who really don’t know what they’re saying and just want to make easy money.

It’s easy to determine whether the one selling/offering advice is a professional or a cheap guru by what they to offer. If you find that they say that you’ll lose 20 pounds in one week, it’s most likely a lie. And if you find that they say that you can lose two pounds per week, it’s most likely true.

3. You Don’t Get Enough Sleep

Did you know that nearly a third of Americans are sleep deprived? So, there is a high chance that you don’t get enough sleep too. If so, it means that you have a slower metabolism than those who get enough sleep each night. Also, lack of sleep may make you less energetic, so you may not get the best out of your training.

All of this combined creates a situation in which you aren’t able to lose weight, but you can always fix it by getting more sleep. In the beginning, you may not feel better by sleeping more, because your body will still be in a state of sleep deprivation.

But after one, or in worst cases two weeks, you’ll feel a lot better as well as capable of losing body fat. If you don’t feel better after more than two weeks, there may be other problems, so it’s useful to visit a doctor.

4. You Eat Too Many Cheat Meals

A few cheat meals are okay and won’t stop you from losing weight, but if you eat as much as you like of whatever is edible, there is a high chance that it hinders you from losing weight. To avoid this, the first step is to count the number of calories you ingest from these products.

The second step is to eliminate the unhealthiest products, and instead, choose healthy alternatives that contain fewer calories. Make changes in your diet slowly because even the greatest athletes rarely stop unhealthy food cravings in one day. But if you steadily move forward, you’ll be able to eliminate junk products and enjoy healthy meals.