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You are ticking all the right boxes, including working out. Yet the scale refuses to budge, in fact, you could be gaining back the weight you lost. What could be going wrong?, Who could be the hidden enemy? Let’s take a sneak peek!

You Drink Your Calories:

Calories that sneak in through beverages are usually forgotten and they could easily be one of the reasons, you are not losing weight. This is especially true when we are talking about alcoholic or sugary drinks, including fruit juices and soda. These drinks can be found anywhere, tempting you at bakeries, schools, movie theaters, airports, your workplace, even at the gym. The average person drinks 400 calories on a daily basis!
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Our bodies are most efficient when drinking water. Plus, you’ll feel much more satisfied and “full” if you eat your calories rather than drink them. “Don’t Drink Your Calories” is an easy and quick mantra to help you make good nutrition choices.

You Eat The Wrong Type Of Carbohydrates:

Primarily there are two types of Carbohydrates that we should know about, Natural and Processed. Of the two it’s the Processed Carbs which is the enemy of weight loss and healthy eating. Processed carbohydrates are high in sugar and are refined making them devoid of any nutrition that their natural counterpart may have. Refined and Processed Carbohydrates like refined white sugar, bakery products, and colas are the curse of the modern lifestyle and could be one of the reasons, you are not losing weight.

The bottom line is to try not to eat anything that comes out of a box and to try and eat anything which is closest to its natural form.

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You Depend on Low-Intensity Cardio Exercise:

While LICE(Low-Intensity Cardio Exercise) is injury-proof, great for warm-ups, and for the leisurely exercising days, when you don’t feel like it, they rarely get your body in the zone to fire up the fat-loss and body composition. Hours and hours on the treadmill are just that, not really boosting your heart-rate high enough to cause tangible damage to the fat stores, whereas a session of burpees or clean and jerk in three digits will carve up your body as easy as a hot knife running through the butter. Consider this.

Some Examples of Low-Intensity Cardio Exercise:

Walking, Jogging, Swimming, Cycling, Tai-Chi

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The Afterthought:

Once you have figured out what is going wrong with your weight-loss program and taken steps to rectify, your goal becomes approachable and the journey fruitful. Mostly, a tweak here and a tweak there is all that is required to make the difference.