subject: Quick Weight Loss: Why It Is Not Working For You. [print this page] When dealing with quick weight loss education is so important because there are two fundamental problems that need to be solved. One is to lose weight, the other is to keep it off. And when you understands enough about the causes of weight gain or why their body is not metabolizing their body fat, you do much much better over the long-term.
One of the keys is to understand the real reasons for weight gain in todays world. It is much more than calories. There are more health imbalances today than ever before and if this is not understood you are guaranteed to gain the weight back.
Despite encouraging unhealthy fad diets there are legitimate benefits to quick weight loss.
For most, the focus is on immediate and quick weight loss. The drawbacks here are that it is short term and the diets and methods used can also often cause a person to get even fatter, more tired and more sick later on.
If a person only focuses on longer-term weight loss, and if they do it right, they will feel better and have a generally more healthy body, however, the slowness can cause a lot of attrition. People can get discouraged and revert back to old habits. They will tend to lose sight of the overall goals and intentions and the everyday problems, stresses and temptations derail a person.
There is a way to get the best of both worlds. What will help is understanding that there are three categories that people can fall in.
The person who is doing the wrong things to lose weight and does not realize it. This person can have no metabolic problems but eat and exercise in a way to stop weight loss or actualy gain weight.
The second category is a person who is doing all the right things with diet and exercise and there is a health imbalance or problem with their metabolism causing the weight problem.
The last category is a person with a health imbalance and also doing the wrong things.
To develop a quick weight loss plan, you want to know where you fall because one quick weight loss plan will not work for another.
A quick weight loss plan for someone who has no health imbalance or metabolic imbalance yet cannot lose weight can be very easily resolved. They can get .5 - 2 lbs a day depending on how they do it. All their health indexes such as resting heart rate, ldl cholesterol, visceral fat, resting metabolic rate, arterial plaque ALL reduce DRAMATICALLY.
For the second category their body in some way, is set like a broken thermostat. Their metabolism will not respond to diet and exercise. They can eat the most fat burning foods and exercise exactly like they should but their nervous system will CHANGE to counter act it.
For this category, a different set of strategies are need. With these strategies, you will lose .5 to 1 pound a day and get healthier.
For the third category, you need to find out if you are really category 1 or 2. There are different ways of doing this.
The most obvious is to do all the right things and see what happens. There are also other ways of finding out. For example, if a person was thin and never had weight problems and then gradually gained a lot of weight and not cannot control it. Or there is a a person who was thin and had no problem controlling body fat and then there was a traumatic physical event such as an accident, surgery, exposure to radiation, etc. Then after that the body was never the same. Or there is the person that was always "the round one" or always the "heavy one." Each of these help discern the category you are in.
Once you have identified which category you are in, a quick weight loss plan can be tailored to your body and situation. Then once your weight is lost, you will learn how to keep it off for the rest of your life.
So dont worry if someone you know lost weight fast and doing the same things did not work for you. There are different reasons weight is gained. Learn more about these at my site.
