Are you wondering why you're not losing weight?
While there may be dozens of potential causes, the truth is that every one of those causes will fall into one of three categories...
1. The first category involves the difference between "weight loss" and "fat loss." Specifically, the fact that it's possible to lose body fat WHILE gaining something else that counterbalances the "weight" being lost.
This most often happens due to temporary water retention which can occur for a variety of reasons (increased sodium or carb intake, a woman's monthly period, elevated cortisol levels, etc.) and last for anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks. Gaining muscle, being constipated, and/or an increase in food volume can also play a role here.
This most often happens due to temporary water retention which can occur for a variety of reasons (increased sodium or carb intake, a woman's monthly period, elevated cortisol levels, etc.) and last for anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks. Gaining muscle, being constipated, and/or an increase in food volume can also play a role here.
2 The second category is similar in that it also involves successfully losing body fat, only in this case, you simply don't realize it. This most often occurs due to inaccurately tracking progress or inaccurately interpreting that progress. A common example would be when people compare their weight from one day to the next (or one hour to the next) rather than weighing themselves daily, taking the weekly average, and then only comparing the weekly averages over a span of at least 2-4 weeks.
3. The third and final category is - wait for it - there's no caloric deficit present! Yes, even if you claim there is. This occurs most often due to some kind of mistake in the tracking of calorie intake (miscalculating, underestimating, under-reporting, lying, forgetting, etc.) that causes a person to unknowingly eat more calories than they think they are. This sort of thing is seen .
ALL THE TIME, in countless studies and a seemingly infinite amount of real-world cases. In addition, this can also occur in the form of a "plateau" where internal changes (e.g. successfully losing a bunch of weight) and/or external changes (e.g. a decreased activity level) require a reduction in calorie intake (or an increase in calorie output) in order for a deficit to exist again.”
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