Weight Loss Tips: Why The Conventional Approach Doesn't Work

It doesn't matter if you're a man, woman, going through perimenopause, or a young gal. What we've been led to believe is largely false.

For decades we’ve heard the weight loss tip that we need to move more and eat less if we want to lose weight. An entire industry is built around these two concepts of weight loss workouts and counting calories for weight loss.  

When it comes to reaching your weight loss goals counting calories for weight loss isn't a winning plan. Weight loss workouts that work aren't what you likely think they are.

Think about it, how many times have you counted calories and exercised vigorously only to end up right where you started? You can’t exercise at maximum intensity every day for the rest of your life to make up for a bad diet.

Yes, those people on The Biggest Loser lost weight but how many of them regained the weight? How many people do you know who have dieted by reducing their calories and exercising more, only to see all of the weight, plus more, return the second they stop what they’re doing?

It's a great business model. You see results while you're following their weight loss tips but you get tired of the monthly fee and/or you finally get burnt out and you stop doing it. Then you gain all of the weight back. Deciding to double down on your efforts you likely back to the people who "helped" you before.

Or you try something with a different name that's really the same thing with a new name. Most people think that in order to lose weight they need more workouts.

Lather, rinse, repeat and after each diet, you've gained the weight back plus a little more. Do that 5 times and that's 5 plus "a little mores".

The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing and expecting a different result. It’s not your fault. The media, the medical community, and Hollywood have us convinced this is the way.

We have more apps, fitness trackers, and gadgets yet our collective health and waistlines continue to show it’s not working.

It isn’t how many calories you eat; it’s how many calories you store. When it comes to weight loss workouts, the wrong types of exercise will make you gain weight and I speak from personal experience.

In my 20's I belonged to a gym where I'd go to a one-hour step-aerobics/kickboxing class and then I'd lift weights afterward. During that year I gained 30 pounds. At that time I worked in a laboratory conducting experiments so I would say that I was on my feet for at least half of a workday; it wasn't a sedentary issue. When my clothes began to get too tight I decided to stop working out because I didn't join the gym to buy new clothes. I returned to my normal size without a workout routine.

Burning Calories For Weight Loss Is Not Effective Long Term

On the surface, it seems that the weight loss tip of calories in vs calories out should make sense. I eat calories and I burn calories with a weight loss workout but there is much more to this equation.

Your body is an interconnected biochemistry lab, not a bank.