Wednesday, August 28, 2013

How To Stop Worrying About Weight

By Rey Vetangelo


Many looking to lose a lot of weight are looking for a one time fix all. They want a diet that will work no matter what. They want weight loss surgery. They want liposuction.

One of the first roadblocks to losing weight is not having enough muscle. While both fat and muscle burn calories throughout the day, muscles consume more calories than fat and the lack of muscle tissue in the body means that calories are not being burned at the same rate that they could be if there were more muscle tissue present in the person.

Typically, men have more muscle tissue than women and that is why men can burn more calories than women on average. But for both genders, overcoming the first roadblock to losing weight will be to put on more muscle through strength training and weight lifting.

Another common inhibitor to weight loss is genetics. Genetics, contrary to some belief, does play a sizable factor in a person's ability to lose weight.

These people are in luck, because there is hope. You can train your brain to not worry so much, and help teach it to calm down. If life is looked at from a positive perspective, than the habit of excessive worrying can be broken. One of the most difficult parts of worry is that sometimes people think their worrying is helping them.

For one, it keeps up your calorie usage. The best way to burn your stored fat is to get active. Your body will burn them up over time with consistent effort. For another, your body will often speed up its metabolism to keep up with the demand on calories.

One of the big reasons it slows down in the first place is because it's not needed. Your body is an efficient machine that will only expend as much effort as is necessary. When you refuse to exercise, your body won't expend the effort to burn the fats for energy it'll never use. Instead, it'll slow itself down to a comfortable pace.

As activity in the home and in the work place fades, so too does a person's ability to burn fat and lose weight. For this roadblock there is no substitute for regaining an active lifestyle and getting up and moving.

The availability of food itself is actually one of the major inhibitors for many people who are trying to lose weight. Because the human body is designed to survive starvation, the presence of regular food only increases the bodies signals to itself to increase food intake as a precaution against the times of little or no food, which rarely happens in the days of supermarkets and convenience stores.

While these inhibitors to weight loss are among the most common for individuals who are striving without success to lose weight, there may still be those who are unable to lose weight due to other factors and who may wish to consider weight loss surgery. Weight loss surgery should be considered as a last measure, but for those who have tried unsuccessfully to lose weight and who need to lose weight to maintain a healthy lifestyle than weight loss surgery may be the right choice to consider.




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