Why People Fail At Weight Loss

Problem solving is when you want to obtain a specific goal however; you are not sure how to accomplish this goal without knowing or understanding all of the details that go into acquiring the goal according to Matlin (2013).

Many Americans struggle with difficulties of weight loss, not only losing the weight but keeping it off. Different methods are used for losing weight, such as, exercise, various types of dieting and some medically needed procedures. Even though weight loss is vital to many people’s careers and futures, it doesn’t mean that it’s easier for these people than it is for you and me. The difference is that most people have a state of mind that they can’t afford to fail. So they are willing to pay thousands

An overweight lady walks up and down the magazine aisle in hope to find something interesting to read. She noticed that all of the fitness magazines have one thing in common: stick-figure skinny, tall, small breasted, and blonde models on every cover. In the Western society this “perfect image” is used as bait to trap women. According to Susie Orbach’s essay, “Fat Is a Feminist Issue”, promotes the idea that being overweight is a way for women to rebel against societal pressures to be thin (452). On the one hand, Orbach is right that women should rebel against society.

“…So many people want to know about diets because so many people are going to try them, but they don’t work … some weight will be lost temporarily.” Harvey Diamond, author, was speaking. “But let me ask you something – do you want to be healthy temporarily? No. But you want to lose weight temporarily. They’re – They have failures built right into them.”

This action from human metabolism makes it harder for people to control their weight. “Losing weight has proven to be extremely difficult for large numbers of people,” even with major weight loss programs, such as weight watchers, a program used internationally, “people shed pounds but regain them and many situations gain even more,” this is called “yo-yo dieting” or the constant loss of weight only to gain it back at a later time (CDCP 54). According to Sally E. Smith in her article, “The great diet deception,” weight loss diets and products, very rarely produce long lasting results. Less than five percent of people that go on strict diets accomplish losing weight and actually keeping that weight loss off for over a five year span (Smith). Ninety percent fail, and regain a lot of it back, even all of it in many cases (Smith). A third of that five percent regain more than they had ever lost (Spake).Since dieting is so hard, healthy professionals encourage exercise or a good amount of moderate physical activity, as a way of losing or maintain weight (CDCP 54).The determination of one’s diet is based on a balance of “energy in,” “energy out” difference (Mypyramid.gov). In other words, the amount of calories that are taken in minus the calories burned. For instance, if someone wants to lose weight, the calories that are burned through the whole day need to be greater than the calories that are absorbed that day.

This chapter deals with dieting and why going into a diet program is important for a person. The chapter touches on the misconceptions about diet are discussed which, as experts claim, is one of the reasons why losing weight fails.

In the Ted Talk called, “Why Dieting Usually Doesn’t Work”, by Sandra Aamodt. Her thesis was that hunger and energy use is controlled by the brain and therefore regular dieting does not work. One of her claims was that dieting doesn't usually work because if you do try to lose a lot of weight by dieting then your muscles use less energy which slows down your metabolism, which will make you feel hungry all the time. Another one of her claims was about the human body being like a thermostat , because “your brain has its own sense of what you should weigh, no matter what you believe.” This is what she called the set point, it usually a range between 10 to 15 pounds. You can make lifestyle choices to move your weight up or down within the range

According to Alyssa Brown, “51% of adults want to lose weight, [but] barely half as many (25%) say they are seriously working towards that goal. This discrepancy between Americans’ weight-loss desires and behaviors has existed for years”(Brown). According to society, the definition of a healthy person is someone who exercises often and eats healthy foods. Even though people want to be healthy, becoming healthy is a hard task. Surely it is much easier to lay around at home and eat chips than to work out at the gym. Maybe this is why obesity rates are on the rise. A medical study estimates that “75% of the U.S. population will be classified as overweight or obese or obese by the year 2020” (NewsMax). People wonder, what is the solution to this

Losing weight required realistic goals. I had to learn to not think a one-time fix was all I needed to lose weight. I had to learn true patience. I ate apples and carrots for a day and I enervated myself through as many pushups and situps as I could in 1 day and never picked it up again. In hindsight, my goal shouldn’t have been to lose fat, but follow a diet and routine that I won’t get frustrated with.

Because it requires so much from an individual, many people are likely to give up before the finish line and the result will not be there. In order to maintain the exercise and diet at the highest level your motivation needs to be high enough. Sometimes that means we need to have a helping hand, sometimes it means we have to kick ourselves in the butt but sometimes it just means we need a new perspective.

You can’t concentrate on “losing weight”. You have to concentrate on losing FAT. You also have to make sure you are

I'm going to be honest and say that I've tried basically every weight loss program available. Most of them work..for about a week then I get bored.

The success lies is moderation, dedication, realistic expectations and sustainability. Many diets can help you to lose weight but they are not realistic and they are what they say a diet not a healthy lifestyle. Not many people can stay on a diet that restricts certain food groups or has an unrealistic, unhealthy reduction in calories.

We can conclude that there are two ways of losing weight, and it is up to each individual to follow one or another. Everyone is responsible for its own health, and sometimes we won’t feel able to wait, so we will try to find the easy way to lose weight, that will definitely not be the best

The first argument as to why dieting is more effective for weight loss than exercise is that a good diet is better for overall weight control. A better diet quality has been associated with less weight gain over time and one study looked to compare changes in diet quality in overweight and obese adults during a weight loss intervention (O'brien et al. 2014). Groups consisting of a standard weight loss program, an enhanced version of the weight loss program, and a wait list control group were tested to see if their diet quality improved their weight loss. The results found that the basic weight loss program and the enhanced version of the weight loss program lost  significantly more