Why do so many people continue to struggle to lose weight?

Obesity continues to worsen in US.

5 states were at or above 35% obese in 2016.

In 2012, no state was over 35%.

This brings with it a lot of suffering with health problems, costs, medications, and just a loss of ability to enjoy life to it’s fullest.

In this post, you’ll discover a lot about why so many people have trouble losing weight.

Clearly, we’re moving in the wrong direction.

AND the advice we get defies all logic, eat less and exercise more. This is not helpful at all and somehow implies it’s just laziness that makes someone gain weight.

It’s not will power or laziness.

The source of increased obesity is the same as the source of so many chronic health problems.

It’s driven by multiple lifestyle factors including diet, lack of exercise, sleep loss, stress, and environmental exposures to various things including plastics which can disrupt our hormones.

It’s also driven by appetite which adds another whole new level of complexity into the equation.

Appetite is controlled like so many things in our bodies through certain processes.

It’s often manipulated by the junk food industry so they can sell us more junk and make more more at our expense.

Gaining weight and having trouble losing it is not ONE factor.

If it were, it would be very easy to correct.

However, one thing is very closely linked with gaining body fat, high insulin levels.

This begs the question, what drives insulin levels up?

The short answer is primarily carbohydrates are the cause of higher insulin levels.

Over time a high insulin level leads to a lot of damage in your brain and body with the development of type 2 diabetes and much more.

The 2 primary sources of carbohydrates in most people’s diets are sugar and grains. Yes, including whole grains.

Insulin is a ‘storage‘ hormone.

It will help you store calories as carbs in muscle/liver glycogen and store fat in bodyfat.

Since glycogen storage is very limited and most people are in a perpetual state of high glycogen, it causes fat storage.

Unfortunately as many people have found and the CDC data supports, storing bodyfat is relatively easy and unlimited.

Interestingly, high insulin levels also prevent you from accessing your bodyfat stores making it exceptionally hard to lose weight.

There is so much more to health and wellness than most people realize.

Everything we do counts towards moving us closer to wellness or further away.

Healthy habits move us closer to looking, feeling, and performing better.

Unhealthy habits move us away.

 

Reference:

www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html

 

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