5 things that inhibit weight loss

Many people who have a target to lose weight are willing to do a lot of effort. Starting from diligent exercise, healthy eating, maintaining calorie intake, and other businesses. Despite doing a lot of effort, but often the target of weight is difficult to achieve. Don't get frustrated right away, knowing what is the barrier, you can do the right strategy. Certified nutritionist celebrities, Dr. Daryl Gioffre, DC revealed the cause.

1. Sports are not balanced by healthy eating 

Maintaining food intake is as important as the discipline of doing exercise. This is called a healthy and balanced lifestyle. By exercising, we will achieve a series of positive benefits. Starting from maintaining metabolism, improving mood and immune system, and inspiring other healthy lifestyles. Like not eating too much sugar, salt and fat. Avoid foods that contain lots of sugar and refined carbohydrates. This type of food will store fat, making us easily tired, increasing inflammation, and even makes us lazy to exercise. Dr. Gioffre recommends small portions of exercise every day on a regular basis, as well as applying an 80/20 diet, which is 80 percent alkaline foods such as green vegetables, broccoli, avocados, berries, coconut oil and others, and 20 percent of foods that increase the production of acid in the blood such as meat, processed foods, artificial sugar, flour, and caffeine.

2. Eat more than 6 times a day

When we eat every few hours, the body will stimulate the release of the hormone insulin to reduce the level of sugar in the blood. Insulim makes our body store fat and is also the main trigger for chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation not only makes us feel tired, but also decreases the body's metabolic ability and makes the body vulnerable to heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Try applying a regular diet of three large meals a day with sufficient pauses at each meal.

3. A strict diet

Not a few people intentionally skip breakfast and lunch so they can consume lots of calories for dinner. Too tight limiting calorie intake per day has the potential to slow down the body's metabolism and make efforts to lose weight more difficult. This is different from the intermittent fasting (IF) or fasting diet that is applied by many people. When applying IF, we still consume daily calories but consume them in shorter meal periods. For example, eight hours (noon until 8:00 p.m.). When the body is in the fasting phase, the body uses all glucose for energy, then moves to fat. Also maintained insulin levels remain low. This will trigger the body to use the fat stored in the body as "fuel".

4. Avoid fat completely

For decades, many people believed that fat was something very bad and became the main enemy of a weight loss program. In fact, our bodies need fat and the right type of fat can even help reduce weight because it can suppress our appetite and increase the body's metabolism. We are recommended to consume seven to 10 servings of healthy fat per day. Choose foods such as avocados, almonds, macadamia, and others. Avoid consuming vegetable oil and use olive oil, coconut oil, or avocado oil.

5. Eat foods labeled "diet"

Don't be fooled by foods labeled "diet"! When sugar is removed, artificial sweeteners will be mixed into it (usually, aspartame and sucralose) Artificial sweeteners will increase appetite and make us hungry for sugar and carbohydrate. That will make us end up eating excessively. Of course the ideals of losing our weight will be more difficult to achieve. The same is true for foods labeled "low carbo" or "fat free". Sugar and sodium are often found in the list of ingredients that will be added back as a taste. Making these foods become unhealthy and keeps us feeling hungry. So, prioritize foods that are not processed or to a minimum the processing process.