Top 5 Reasons Why Women Over 30 Dont Lose Weight And Keep It Off
Have you heard about it lately? Everywhere you look, women over 30 can find one hundred excuses for not being able to lose weight and keep it off.
Blame it on your thyroid, cortisol, menopause, your hectic lifestyle or even your genes. But, the real reason you find yourself battling those last 15 or 20 pounds all comes down to how you handle five major issues.
#5 Not Understanding How Diets Work
Atkins, South Beach, The Zone, Dr. Phil?You could spend a lifetime trying the over one thousand diets on the market. Have do you simplify things? How do you know you’ve found the "magic" diet?
Even though this fact may burn the ears of many women, the truth remains that if you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. Ouch! I just heard some lady scream from the pain of realization. But that’s how a diet works.
Just like you can find medical documents that praise and persecute popular diets, you will always find that most medical studies prove that this weight loss formula is just as effective as it was some 3.5 million years ago when Lucy used it- eat less, exercise more.
So don’t put so much power into the name of your diet as to the nutritional content of the diet. In short, each and everyday you need to eat proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
#4 Not Exercising Enough
Your personal trainer told you and now the FDA is barking down your throat, "Exercise more!" The only way to divorce cellulite from those thighs is to create a fat deficit. That’s the only way your body will utilize those excess fat globules.
My favorite way of knowing that I vacating unwelcome cellulite, or encroaching cellulite, is feeling the tingle in my legs as I exercise for 40-50 minutes at a time. You don’t need to run yourself dogged, just exercise smarter as researchers at the University of Pittsburgh suggest.
After monitoring 201 overweight women using various exercise methods from high-intensity and long, to low-intensity and short, this study featured in the Canadian Journal of Health & Nutrition found that women who exercised briskly for at least 50 minutes, five times a week while using a sensible diet, lost an average or 25 pounds in six months.
#3 Giving Up Too Quickly
You’ll hear it in gyms and offices all across America. "I didn’t lose 20 pounds in two weeks so that diet obviously sucks."
As shocking as it sounds, too many women believe that weight loss should be fast. While "Cosmo" and "Star" will promise to divulge the starvation secrets of how models lose mounds of weight in days, don’t buy it.
That stuff might work on Mars, but if you want to see real results, you need to give your body at least eight weeks, or ideally 12. This is because, when you diet, your body wholly resists this change and it is actually going to test your dedication to sticking with the diet.
While you can try to trick your body with get-skinny-quick-diets like ketosis induction or protein diets, you can’t stay on such diets for life. Eventually your liver will exhaust from handling excessive amounts of protein. Plus your breath will stink. Yuck!Remember, patience, while repulsive to some, is a dieting virtue.
#2 No Focus
In a world of too much to do and too little time to fit it in after soccer practice, how are you going to stick with a diet? You have priorities. You wake up everyday, maybe go to work, eat somewhere and collect a paycheck somehow. You will only "do" the important things.
Moreover, you will only do what gives you visible pain or pleasure. If your diet is not actively moving your away from pain and etching you closer to pleasure, you’ll relegate you diet to the trash, because the diet proves psychologically useless to you.
Priorities on the other hand, give you real benefits or punishments if they’re not respected. For example, wouldn’t it suck this weekend if you couldn’t buy those Nine West shoes because you ditched work on Wednesday and Thursday.
The same applies to your diet, won’t it suck when you can’t fit into that $250, two sizes too small dress you caught on sale at Neiman Marcus?
#1 Weak Self-Confidence
There’s a great line in Don Miguel Ruiz’s Beyond Fear, "We only need to protect ourselves from ourselves." This is certainly the case when dieting.
Whether or not you maintain your self-confidence and self-trust while dieting will determine your dieting success. Don’t base your self-confidence on outside events or those mean people that call you "fat" behind your back. Safely house your confidence within, and base it on who you are, not on what you succeed or fail at doing.
Ruiz, penned another cool line, "The normal state of the mind is hell." I just heard an "Amen!" from the audience. Dieting will be hell if you let your self-confidence slip.
Ok, so go get your pen and jot down these five dieting keepsakes and place them in your purse as a reference.
1. I eat less, and exercise more.
2. I exercise moderately five times a week for 50 minutes at a time.
3. I am giving myself at least six weeks to see results from my diet.
4. My diet is a priority and I know the long-term payoffs of my successful weight loss.
5. I am confident and trust myself to lose weight.
What’s that now? Silence? I don’t hear a single dieting excuse coming from anywhere. My work here is done.
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The Dirty Little Diet Secret
Have you ever wondered how actors stay in such great shape? You know they couldn’t starve themselves all the time, because you can see their weight fluctuate from movie to movie, depending on the role they’re playing. The fact is Hollywood’s slim and slender are hiding a dark secret from you, their adoring fan.
Why would these movie stars hide such an effective and powerful weight loss secret? Why not sign contracts for endorsements and make even more money while gaining more publicity? Why not share this information with the general public and put an end to obesity and weight-related diseases in America? Don’t they care enough about their faithful fans to share this secret?
These celebrities have their reasons. Think about it: what is a movie star’s most valuable asset? You might say "talent" but I disagree because some actors and actresses are successful with only a minimal amount of skill (have you turned on a television lately?) You might be thinking it’s their looks or physical appearance. I would argue that’s not it either, because some successful actors and actresses are able to maintain their popularity long after their physical beauty begins to fade.
An actor’s most valuable asset is their REPUTATION. See, reputation is a combination of popularity, looks, news and the star’s ability to entertain. Some stars maintain a scandalous reputation because it gets them more press. Some stars actually provide entertainment through their negative press. For the most part, your favorite actors and actresses try to protect themselves from bad press.
What does this have to do with the hidden weight loss secret?
Since they don’t want bad press, and since part of their job is to look good, who in their right mind would be willing to have their "before" photos splashed on the cover of the Enquirer or the National Star? Hollywood does not want you to know what they look like when they’re not at their best.
Have you ever noticed that when an actress is between movies, we don’t see very much of her in the limelight? When movie stars are between projects, they typically pack on some additional pounds. It’s not so much that we wouldn’t recognize them, but enough to turn up the pressure when they’re trying to impress directors, producers and casting agents. Five to ten pounds could make or break a big role, or even a smaller role that could lead to a starring role.
So what’s the dirty little Hollywood secret, and why hasn’t the Enquirer uncovered it yet? We already know these stars have personal trainers, and in most cases, they follow strict nutritional plans. We know they exercise for several hours every day, since being in shape and looking great is a requirement for the job. But what else are they hiding?
The answer is quite simple: supplements.
Most high-profile actors and actresses (and even some well-known musicians and professional athletes) use diet pills to supplement their cardiovascular exercise, nutrition and weight training efforts. Supplements are particularly helpful when these superstars are looking to quickly drop those unsightly "off-season" pounds. So why the big secret? Simple, these celebrities want to maintain their “larger-than-life” persona, and also don’t want to be perceived as “pill-poppers.”
I personally reviewed several diet pills, and two in particular stand out above the crowd. The first is an all-natural, yet unlikely combination of cayenne, ginger root, apple cider vinegar, bromelain and potassium, which provides immediate and impressive results. At first, I was skeptical to try a diet pill, but since the company offers an unconditional money-back guarantee, I tried it myself. I was thrilled with results and I also lost two dress sizes in four weeks. I found the product at www.NiteTrimDirect.com
The other product is Ma huang, widely known as Ephedra, a natural substance which has been used in Eastern healing methods for centuries. Ephedra sales temporarily ceased in the United States when a short-lived ban was enacted, but the ban has since been lifted and supplements containing natural ephedra are now considered safe for human consumption. This product has the added benefit of increased metabolism, energy and fat burning capabilities, and can be found at www.BetaFuelDirect.com This company currently claims to be the ONLY online source of ephedra since the ban was lifted.
These supplements are used by many Hollywood celebrities and are now available to you and the general public. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, you can finally have the Hollywood results that you deserve. No one guarantees that you will land any starring movie roles, but the makers of NiteTrim guarantee that you will lose weight and be satisfied with the product. Order your free 30-day sample today at www.NiteTrimDirect.com or order the natural ephedra supplement at www.BetaFuelDirect.com
Amy S. Grant is an avid fitness enthusiast who enjoys scuba diving, photography, and empowering people to achieve their goals.
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