Unable to Lose Weight? Discover the Cause You’re Weight Loss Resistant
If you are you unable to lose weight in spite of eating to lose weight and exercising regularly or if your results are insignificant (under 2% of your weight), you might want to take a look at other possible causes you are weight loss resistant, things that you can control.
Here are the 4 main possible reasons you may have gained a lot of weight quickly and have been unsuccessful at stomach fat reduction:
Chronic stress
Hypothyroidism
Candida overgrowth
Hormonal imbalance, especially at menopause
If you experience any of the things mentioned above, you are most likely weight loss resistant, which makes you unable to lose weight even at the slightest rate.
In this section we look at each one of these and suggest solutions that you might want to try. For example...
1. Chronic Stress
Impossible to ignore, stress affects your body and mind more than you’ve ever imagined. These days, simply being alive and functioning is a sure recipe for chronic stress. Your brain, immune system, heart and metabolism are all dramatically affected by the physiological effects of chronic stress.
Being unable to lose weight - especially in the abdominal area - is one of the most common symptoms of high cortisol, the stress hormone that helps regulate your blood sugar levels and signals your body to either burn or store fat. Learn here 10 fun ways to relieve stress and 2 practical ways of reducing cortisol levels >>
2. Hypothyroidism and Weight Gain...
... go always hand in hand. After all, sudden – even unexplained - weight gain is the biggest, most visible (and perhaps most upsetting) of all low thyroid symptoms. Losing weight with hypothyroidism can be close to impossible – unless you follow the guidelines of a hypothyroidism diet to increase your thyroid function and metabolism, which are described in detail in our best diet for hypothyroidism >>
3. Candida Overgrowth
Are you surprised to learn that being unable to lose weight may be one of the symptoms of Candida overgrowth? Don't. A type of fungus naturally present in the intestinal tract, its presence alone is never a problem, but when this fungus spreads out of control upsetting the natural balance of your system, the symptoms become very troubling.
In fact, sudden weight gain, resistance to losing weight, intolerable food cravings, mood swings, chronic fatigue are just a few of over 30 symptoms of Candida overgrowth. That's why you should know about the foods that cause Candida, how to control the other causes of Candida overgrowth and the basic Candida diet guidelines >>
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