Weight loss resistance is one of the most common health complaints I see.
This article is meant to be a starting point, not a manual.
Hating your body
you’ve got the option to’t heal a body you hate.
I often see patients who aren’t able to get healthy and lose weight because of years ofself-loathing.
Unconscious assumptions about yourself, that you are not worthy of love or good things, is a lie.
Failing to nourish your body
This goes hand in hand with self-loathing.
Do your body a favor and end starvation diets andfad diets.
Your body needs those nutrients to function the way it was intended to.
Shift your perspective on food.
By chronically restricting food, you tell your body that it’s in starvation survival mode.
Quit making your body so great at storing fat!
The washboard abs and sculpted muscles on the covers feed the desperation to be fit.
The minute you stop these unsustainable programs you gain all your weight back and then some.
There are no quick fixes or magic pills to buy online.
There is no replacement to finding out what works for you and sticking with it.
Making weight loss the ultimate goal
Losing weight is not equivalent with getting healthy.
Illness may make you lose weight, but you obviously won’t be healthier.
Iconsultmany skinny people with high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease.
You have to get healthy to lose weight, not lose weight to get healthy.
Sustainable weight loss will be a natural byproduct of regaining health.
If you get healthy, you will look great on accident.
Underlying physiological issues
Many times people have done everything right and still can’t lose weight.
That’s where functional medicine steps in.
When you are struggling with these issues you could look at food and gain weight.
This is not your fault.
Clinically investigating these underlying causes of stubborn weight loss resistance gives people answers to their years of struggle.
When you finally find out these root issues they can then be addressed.
