Many of weight loss enthusiasts often get frustrated that even after regular dieting and some weight loss exercises, they are not losing weight as per their expectation. The reasons may be several, but in this article, we shall discuss about the common causes of not losing weight even after trying hard.

1. The first cause may be that you are having snacks more often. You may be not hungry, but the sight or thought of snacks compel you to open a pack of potato chips or chocolate. Drinking plenty of water after meal can overcome this condition

2. You may be going to late night parties more often. The metabolic system of your body slows down in the wee hours of night. If you eat late, the foods you had taken get little time to digest properly and stored as fat in the body parts.

3. Metabolism in the aged people also slows down. It is quite natural to gain some weight after you reach 35 years of age. Fat gets deposited in the abdomen, thighs and hips. Taking low fat dairy products, foods that contain less fat and oil, regular exercise can be of help.

4. You are not counting the portion sizes. The foods may be right, but the portion size you are taking is larger. While dining in a restaurant, ask the waiter about the portion size. You can divide a single dish among your family and if you are eating alone, pack the portion you cannot eat. While cooking at home, roughly calculate the total amount that would suffice your entire family member.

5. If your resting metabolic rate is low compared to others, your body will burn less fat even you exercise for longer duration. It is a genetic phenomenon and you cannot control it. Only thing you can do is to cut down the amount of food you eat.

6. Female are more prone to gain weight faster than their male counterpart. Blame to the female hormone. Fat is deposited around the thighs and bums. Men has more muscle mass than female and it helps in burning fat effectively than female.

7. If you do not like to exercise, you cannot lose weight. Proper dieting and adequate exercise, both are needed for effective weight loss. Skip any of them and you are a loser.

8. Proper exercise schedule is mandatory. If you do not exercise whole of the week and do it on the whole Sunday, it will not be of any help. Rather, it will make you exhausted. You should work out three times a week for better result.

9. Do not skip your breakfast. If you do so, you would surely feel hungry till you have time for lunch. And you will continue to take snacks in between which are, of course, full of saturated fat.

10. You may be much stressed out. In this condition, your body produces a hormone called ‘Cortisol’. Cortisol is notorious to produce more hunger.

11. You may be suffering from some diseases like hypothyroidism or cushing’s syndrome. In these conditions, people get flabbier.

12. If you are taking some drugs like antidepressants or on oral contraceptive pill, you may gain weight.

These are in a nutshell why you are losing enough pounds even when you are trying hard. The list is not exhaustive, but includes most of the common causes.

Overweight is a global problem. There are more than 800 million overweight people living across the world of which 20% are so morbidly obese that they need someone’s assistance to live a normal life. For those people who are either obese or overweight, losing weight matters more than just correction of appearance. A flabby person much above his/her normal body weight will definitely develop some diseases in any part of their lifetime, they will have downright low self-esteem. They will try to escape from the society and family gathering. They will not bear the full potentiality to live to the fullest. Here we shall discuss why normal body weight is so essential for throughout your life.

Health problems: - obese and overweight people will develop several health problems as the day progresses. Diabetes and cardiac diseases are closely related to increased body weight. Obese people bear more fat and this will lead to deposition of tiny fatty streaks inside the blood vessels. This will in turn lead to heart attack. Obesity is a proven risk factor for diabetes. Besides these two, overweight people will have brittle bones and this can lead to arthritis. Liver diseases, constipation, frequent attack of cough and cold due to low immunity, stone in gall bladder and cancer – these are some common but dangerous diseases that are associated with obesity.

Low self-esteem: - this world worships the beauty. And if you are flabby enough, you will not be recognized as a good-looking person. Although, this is not absolutely necessary, obese persons frequently count themselves among the herd of failures.

Social phobia: - due to the same reason mentioned above, obese people refrain themselves from any kind of gathering; be it family congregation or any other social assembly. Obese person does not find his size of cloths or boots easily in the stores. They require extra spaces in restaurants or public transports. Even some airlines charge extra after a certain limit of body weight. All these make them appalling from the society.

Many suicidal attempts have been tried by the flabby person. The reasons were only to get rid of from the ugly look that they bear in their mind. Human resource managers and other activists are trying hard to bring the obese people in the mainstream of the society. But how this can being rooted out from the society is still unsettled.

Can’t live to the fullest of life: - an obese patient cannot live to the fullest like a normal person does. They cannot run; cannot walk past a staircase; let alone walking on a hilly area. The thoughts of weight always come to their mind and become an obstacle to free thinking. You cannot play with your kids, not even sit on a couch that is just right for everybody.

Nobody wants these problems in his life. If you want your life is peaceful and at par with any other healthy man, you need to take some actions that will help you to remain fit all throughout your life.