Today, Garry Y. Itkin addresses one of the most common and most pressing issues for people on their fitness journey – weight loss, or more accurately, the lack thereof.
People work as hard and as much as they can in the gym, but the weight’s not changing, or worse, they’re getting heavier. There might be a few explanations as to why this is happening.
They’re not sticking to the diet.
People exercise seven days a week, but they eat anything they want when they get home, including high amounts of carbs and sugar.
People try to justify their diet by working out, but it just doesn’t work that way. Weight loss (and weight gain) is 30% exercise and 70% diet. Remember, nobody can exercise their way out of a bad diet.
They’re not eating enough.
Garry Y. Itkin mentions that it might sound counterintuitive, but yes, it’s true. Eating too much will mess with the weight loss ambitions, and so will eating too little. When people eat too little, the body lacks the energy to burn whatever needs to be burned. It also keeps the body from functioning the way it should when they work out.
Eat the right proportions. It will help with metabolism.
They’re gaining muscle.
Muscle gain is one of the reasons why people are not losing weight. The computation is that five pounds of fat are equal to a pound of muscle.
So, if they find their clothes getting loose, the pants slipping off, and inches vanishing off several parts of the body, but the weight has plateaued, then odds are they’re gaining muscle.
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