5 Reasons You're Not Losing Weight

5 Reasons You're Not Losing Weight

1) You're eating more than you think

You're eating real natural food, getting plenty of protein, but you're still not losing enough weight.
If you need to be eating under 1900 calories to lose weight, but are eating 2200 a day you're not going to lose the body fat you need. Even if everything you're eating is natural, organic, full of protein, etc.

Lots of foods can sneak up on you too. A slice of Ezekiel bread is filling as far as bread goes, and healthy too. But 3 slices come out to almost 300 calories. An entire cup of oatmeal is around 300 as well and is way more filling and has much more protein. But calories can sneak up on you that way.

Nuts, seeds, avocados, raisins, all kinds of healthy food can sneak up on you. This is especially important for people trying that last piece of stubborn body fat.

Chips may not look that fattening but easily add up to lots,and I mean a lot, of calories.


Whole wheat pasta may be healthy but has a lot of calories.

2) Your diet's good, but you're not active enough

The diet that works for you when your active all week, will not work while you're working hours and making excuses why you can't get to the gym. Weight gain doesn't caer about excuses.

So that means you either have to lower calories or become more active. If you have the choice, choose for being more active. It only takes 30-60 minutes a day. You don't have to go crazy, you're not training for the Iron man.

3)  You're active, but not lifting

Skinny Fatitis

You're doing a lot of cardio, and keeping your calories in check but still don't have the body you want. Well, have you ever been to a marathon or triathlon. Lots of impressive athletes, not a lot of impressive bodies.



Lifting weights may make you weigh more because of the increased muscle mass, but you'll actually look much better, and have a higher metabolism by the increased muscle. Therefor making you look leaner, and keeping you leaner.

4) You're losing but now aware of it

a) You've lost weight, but due to homeostasis your body has retained water weight and you think you haven't lost weight. So you get pissed off and just eat bad anyway because whats the point. Now you actually messed up, but you think it's because you can't lose weight. Stick with the plan for a while and follow through.

b) You've lost body fat everywhere but your main area, so it makes your stubborn body fat look even fatter in comparison with your lean body.

5) Your calories aren't low enough 

Some people go on a diet but only cut a few calories and need to cut far more. Even if they are losing weight, it's so slow they barely notice it and think it's impossible and give up. If you'd like to lose it slowly, go for it. But I've rarely met anyone that does.

6 Reasons You Can't Get a 6 Pack

1 You Rely off Ab Workouts to Get you your Abs.

You can do all the ab workouts you want, all you'll end up with is a sore stomach and slightly stronger core.

Abs are small muscles, the only way to see them is to lose the fat covering them up.

2 You're Body Fat isn't Low Enough

Unless you're at a very low body fat level of around 10% or lower as a man, or around 15% as a woman, you're going to have some body fat.

Unless your E. Honda, you can't have high body fat and abs

3 You don't Count your Calories.

Nutritionists were tested to guesstimate how many calories they were eating without tracking, and

they were 80% off. So what chance do you have?

Finding out what your maintenance is staying 15-30% under to cut body fat is the only way to get there.

4 You don't Weigh and Measure Yourself.

To tell if your diet is working you need to weekly update your progress to see if your program is working.

How will you know if you're making progress if you're not tarcking, you could be wasting lots of time.

If it isn't cut more calories, or at least do more cardio

5 You Only Lose Water Weight and Muscle

You're fasting, (starving yourself) doing stupid things like juice cleanses, over training, under eating.

Use a proper program where you maintain muscle and lose fat and you'll be good.

Most people would rather work hard than think for a few minutes.

6 It's Normal

That's where most body fat is stored

If you're a man, you usually store fat in your gut, and your man boobs.

If you're a woman, you'll usually store it in your thighs or arms, but women are increasingly storing it in the belly now (not sure why, scientists still researching that)

Doesn't mean you don't look good, just accept that's normal for humans to have a certain level of body fat. If you want an elite body, you have to live a different life.

What's more important to you?



The version of the Rock on the left can almost get as many girls as the one on the right...almost.