4 Possible Reasons Why You're Not Losing Weight On Your Healthy Diet

          4 Possible Reasons Why You're Not

          Losing Weight On Your Healthy Diet

Nothing. I say, nothing is more frustrating then bust your ass all week long sticking to your diet and working out like a champ then hopping on the scale on Monday morning and not losing a freakin pound one or worse gaining a pound or two. AGHHH!!!! WTH?

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 "How is that even possible I starved myself all week?" Well, that is actually the first possible reason why you're not losing weight on your healthy diet.

  #1 You are not eating enough Say what? I know, just hear me out. We all know it is calories in verses calories out, so you have to be eating at a deficit, but when we take that deficit to low our bodies think that we are trying to starve it to death, so it goes it to survival mode and starts storing fat for the long haul. Our bodies need food for fuel, so you have to eat healthy, nutritionally dense foods in the right amount in order to lose weight.

Which brings us to point number 2-Eating foods in the right combination

Portion Fix
Is a Meal Plan that teaches you how to
eat the right foods, in the right portions.

There are many diets that tell you to eat only carbs or to eat only proteins, but you should never exclude any food group from your diet. Why? Because you can not maintain that long term (are you really never going to eat another piece of bread for the rest of your life, really?) and when you start eating whatever it is that you cut out of your diet for all those months when you were losing weight guess what happens??? Yep, you gain the weight back( and usually you gain back more, just to let you know). 

Half of your plate at each meal should be veggies/fruits the other half should have some protein,healthy fats, and carbs. Try eating your carbs with your early morning and afternoon meals, so you get the fuel you need for the day. And at nighttime and dinner time consume more protein, so you stay full through out the night and your muscles have fuel to help them heal from your killer workouts during the day.

I know you don't want to hear this one, but point #3 Are You Drinking Enough Water?

Yes, the dreaded water, the 8-10 glasses of water per day, well actually your water requirement for weight loss is half of your body weight in ounces. So, if you weigh 150 lbs then you divide that by 2=75, which means you need to drink 75 ounces of water per day  (8 ounces=1 glass). Why do you need to drink all that freaking water?

• Water keeps you from being dehydrated, if you are dehydrated your body stores what water it has so you retain water, which makes you weigh more. Also when you are dehydrated your kidneys can't function properly, so they ask their friend the liver to help them out. The liver is suppose to be working on breaking down the fat in your body, but now it has to store the fat so it can help out the kidneys, get it?
• Water helps to remove waste from the body. All that awesomely healthy fiber you've been eating just sits in your gut, if it doesn't have water to wash it out of your system. So, basically your pipes get clogged up and water is the "Mr. Plumper" of your digestive system. For more on how water helps with weight loss check out this article Water and Weight loss. 

Checkout my post on Hydration & Weight loss

Lastly and point #4 Are You Eating From the Top of Your Food List?

Most of us who are on any type of diet or healthy eating plan have a meal plan, diet exchange list, or something similar that shows us a list of what foods we can eat from each food category. Most of the list are in a hierarchy with the healthiest (lowest in calorie/highest in nutritional value) foods at the top of the list and the foods that are not as health (higher in calories/lower in nutritional value) at the bottom of the list. If you are frequently choosing foods from the bottom of the list then technically you are stay in the guidelines of your plan, but you may not be getting the nutrition your body needs and therefore you're not getting the results that you are looking for. So, try picking foods from the top of the list and limit eating foods from the lower half of the list and see if that helps.

You're probably not going to like this suggestion, but try tracking what you are eating and DRINKING for a few days, a week if you can or will you just might find you are eating a lot more calories then you thought you were or particularly DRINKING a lot more calories. It is very easy to consume a large amount of calories, and not even realize it, by drinking. How? Adding fruit juice to your water to give it flavor, mixing your healthy nutrition shakes with fruit juice, whole milk, almond milk, drinking fruit juice instead of eating your fruit options and then drinking alcohol. Alcohol is bad on 2 fronts: 1. It lowers your inhibitions so you tend to drink more 2. It is high in calories with no nutritional value.

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