Why Can’t We Lose Weight? Part 1

Hi everybody, Darrin your starting over coach back again.

We are in confusing times.  Our desire for weight loss is being overloaded with an excess of information on how to lose it.  There are workout DVDs like P90X, Insanity, and Zumba, just to name a few.  Their style is to put you through a high intensity workout to challenge your body to its highest levels.  Your body has no choice but to lose weight, which is very popular and fun.  Next are weight loss clinics like Weight Watchers, Physician’s Weight Loss, and LA Weight Loss; these brick-and-mortar systems focus on calorie reduction and pre-packaged meals that control what you eat on regular basis.  Major franchise gyms give you many options from various cardio classes, to resistance equipment, swimming pools, racket ball, etc.  Last but not least, Personal Training Studios have a one-on-one personal approach to weight loss.  There are plenty of other options out there, but these are some of the most popular.

With so many options, weight loss should not be such a challenge, yet we still have too many people failing at it.  I am not a doctor or a psychologist.  I am a Personal Trainer and Fitness Consultant who has spent 17 years evaluating the fitness levels and eating habits of both men and women.  In that time, I have come up with a simple understanding of why we don’t lose weight. 

I call it selective programming.  

Our minds tell us that easy is better.  This pill, that ab-blaster, this fitness DVD, or that one-time-workout sheet will solve all of our problems!  The infomercial that says you can go from overweight, to completely toned in a matter of weeks is our answer to everything!  Success comes in no time!  (No matter what the body fat percentage)  Look at our most popular show, The Biggest Loser, where morbidly obese people lose a large amount of weight in one season. We believe the fix should happen overnight, even though no one has ever gotten out of shape and overweight overnight.  If it doesn’t happen overnight, we panic and give up.   That is why people feel they can’t lose weight.