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Challenges Encountered When Trying to Lose Weight

Most people are more conscious about their weight. Hence, they have adopted a healthier lifestyle. A lot of individuals are engaging in better eating habits and exercises.

Losing weight is a lonely tough journey that will involve changing your diet and is met with lots of challenges. Below are some of the common problems women face while trying to lose weight:

Lack of Family Support

Most family members and friends around you are not usually supportive. They raise their eyebrows as soon as you mention that you are starting your dieting. Sometimes they will object your plan directly by jokingly making comments that out place. Some people won’t respect your choice of food; they might impose on you to take something that out of your diet plan. Some people may not come on board to help you get rid of the high-calories foodstuff from your house and introduce healthier food. The family members around the women, either their parents or partners do not offer them the support, in most cases, they undermine their determination to lose weight.

Media Ideal Beauty

When someone is trying to lose weight, there is a significant tendency to compare oneself with magazine models Whose body could have undergone surgery or photo editing which result in these slender bodies. The media is full of images of the ideal beauty which is false and can discourage women to lose weight if feel she can’t attain the slender body.

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Family Balance

When adding extra weight after pregnancy, with the kid around it can get you busy all the time. This busy daily schedule can interrupt your losing weight plan. To help deal with this, you can organize yourself and introduce a home workout program that will enable you to work out without going to the gym. Women especially those in labor force have limited time to take care their household chores and their child. Hence weight loss does not come as a priority. While trying to work on the multiple commitments in the family and society, they can get stress up.

Energy

Women have challenges falling and staying asleep, with new mothers being deeply affected by this lack of sleep. This lack of sleep interferes with other systems like the production of cortisol, which is a steroid that will lead to increase weight. To Lack of enough sleep leads to a person getting stressed which in turns stimulates overfeeding.

Finances

Weight loss has been commercialized, making the whole fitness process. This has discouraged many people though the only thing one needs is a plan and determination. There is a common perception that fresh produce such as fruits and vegetable are expensive.

Hormonal Influences

They are several hormones that influence our eating habits. Ghrelin hormone makes one feel hungry, and its production increases in women after work. Leptin Hormone will lead to decrease appetites. This leads to women eating after working out. Increase in weight affects the hormones and the change in hormones will lead to further growth in influence. Estrogen decrease as women age, this decrease will slow down the rate of metabolism resulting in loss of muscles and addition of extra fat, especially around the waistline.

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Emotional Influences

Women are emotional eaters, once they are emotionally stressed they tend to eat more to activate that part of the brain known as a reward center. These comfort food that they use to deal with emotional stress usually contain high-level sugar and fast food, which will lead to weight increase.…