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Why Women Can’t Lose Weight for Good Obese Woman Detects 59 Possible Causes of Weight Gain in Women Millions of women are desperate to lose their extra weight, but all they know is dieting/ calorie restriction and exercise. Many even hope for a magic pill, or worse, choose gastric. We are nearing the end of the year, and in a little more than two months, millions of women will start dieting all over again....
— BY ANGELA BUHRI They will see hundreds of articles about the
Nobody tells them that extra weight is a message
newest diet or exercise program and, once again,
from the body (a signal) and that maintainable
give it a try. However, they are just the same
weight loss is all about eliminating the root
diets and exercise programs with a new cool
causes. Once the causes are taken care of, the
name and ‘wrapped’ in a new nice ‘package.’
weight will take care of itself.
But they have hope and think, “Now I will succeed. This sounds great. I can do that.” Come
I became overweight at the age of 5 (after
February; they realize that once again, such a
having been molested by a male relative) and
weight loss plan didn’t work.
struggled with my weight until I finally overcame the abuse at the age of 26. Within only a few
The worst thing about this is that all these
months, I went from 84kg to 55kg, without
wonderful women who fail with their diet
dieting, without exercising, and without anything
blame themselves. They think they lack the
weight loss-related. It simply happened. I kept
necessary willpower or just don’t have enough
that weight off for 16 years, leading a normal life
discipline. But it’s the opposite: weight loss diets
and eating normally (three-course menus, wine,
failed them. Diets don’t work – can’t work –
dessert). Then, at the peak of my success as a
because they are against our body’s own nature.
weight loss coach, when I desperately needed
Maintainable weight loss can’t be achieved with
staff, I hired two women. Later, it turned out
willpower, and it requires much less discipline
that they were friends of a woman who saw
than most of us think.
me as a competitor. Within three months, they NOVEMBER 2021
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