Why You Won't Achieve Weight Loss

Weight Loss Exercis Is Not Enough!

“Are you putting on weight?” Marie’s boss queried, his eyes marauding her body line which was looking so robust. Marie was shocked, she never noticed the recent changes until that comment descended, and it took her a moment or two to work out which threw her off balance; the fact that a second ago they were engrossed in a vital business discussion or that people were beginning to notice the resultant effect of rushing out of the house early without doing her body magic.

Defensively, she murmured something about eating too much fatty foods of late, all in an effort to deceive the innocent boss, and he answered back, “Don’t go eating fatty things Marie, if you won’t control it; we need you looking smart remember that was one of the criteria that made us hire you?” Marie spent the rest of the day glued to her seat and wondering why the body magic she had been using had refused to suppress the urgent weight she was gaining recently.

Marie had been a sexy looking slim belle, which was one of the major reasons she got the receptionist’s job at a first class airline company, but for the past seven months or so, she had been adding weight day after day, she knew it from her personal gauge. She went berserk the very first day she checked her weight and it read 60 something…Jesus! She exclaimed. And ever since that day, she had been looking out for ways to lose weight, but as the months rolled by, it seemed she just added extra pounds. Her little secret, which she got from a weight loss therapist, proved to be perfect at first, but now, she is just tired of it. But Marie forgot the truth I told her sometime ago, ‘you are what you eat’.

You Are What You Eat!

Oh yes! You heard me right…you are absolutely the outcome of what you consume and the number of calorie you devour daily, because they have a way of affecting you. Should you start starving? No!

You don’t need to starve yourself because every human being, supermodel or yoga practitioner, all need energy to survive, breathe, catwalk, and pump blood around their body system, and this energy is gotten from food, and the potential energy that food possesses is expressed in calories.
What Is Calorie?



A calorie is a unit of measurement, not for weight or length, but for energy. If for instance, a food or drink type contains 100 calories, it is a way of describing how much energy your body could get from eating or drinking that food/drink.

Are Calories Bad For Human?

No! No! No! Calories aren’t bad for you, because like I said earlier, your body needs calories for energy production. But consuming too many calories, and not burning just enough of them through daily activities, can lead to an uncontrollable weight gain…probably, that was Marie’s problem, let’s see.

How Do I Know The Amount Of Calorie Contained In A Food or Drink?

You can work out the amount of calorie contained in a particular food or drink by getting the actual weight of the food or drink. This may prove impossible to achieve with already processed and maybe packaged/canned foods. What do you do then? Look closely at the nutrition facts label on the food. The label supposedly, should describe the components of the food, how many grams of carbohydrate, protein, and fat it contains. Therefore, do not consume any processed, canned or packaged food/drink which the manufacturer refused to spell out the contents of the food or drink, oh yes, don’t!


For instance, a serving of wine (125g) has less than 2 calories and 0 calories of fat. Other drinks, like the fruit flavored drinks contain a lot of calories, so consuming them in an effort to stop weight loss is a waste of time. 120g of flavored drink has 225 calories and 0 fat calories. Supposedly it is made like it was supposed to be made.

In brief, here’s how many calories contained in 1 gram of each:

- Carbohydrate equals 4 calories

- Protein equals 4 calories

- Fat equals 9 calories

It then means that if you know how many grams of each nutrient in the drink or food, you can work out mathematically the total calories contained in that food. To do this, you will need to multiply the number of grams by the number of calories in one gram of that food nutrient or component. For example, if a serving of turkey (2909g) contains certain calories, of which 2100 g of its total weight is from fat, then the total calorie content from fat alone is 2100g × 9 calories.

Why You Haven’t Achieved Weight Loss- You Eat Junk!

Have you been spending so much money which you were supposed to pump into investments and other financial development projects to safeguard you from the unpredictable global economy that now melts down so frequently like the arctic ice on weight loss? Have you become a frequent customer patronizing everything that has to do with weight loss? Have you tried weight loss drugs, gyms, body shape equipments, to slimming down pills, and even to an extent gone extra mile of starving yourself just to lose weight, and still no result? Remember this obvious truth, one thing you will never hear the so called weight loss company say is the blunt truth, they might talk about it in part, but not the complete truth. Anyway, we don’t expect them to go out of business by exposing the whole truth of how everyone can lose weight or better, stop to gain weight. Now the simple truth I wanted to tell you is that the calories you take are still very much high as those you took before the weight loss exercise.

Suppose your weight loss trainer tells you to watch your eating habit, and you decide on a new eating or dieting plan: a half meal in the morning and a full meal at night. So in order to lose weight, you take four slices of bread, with butter and maybe a cup of coffee. It might interest you to note that a slice of bread contains about 200 calories while butter contains 36 calories per 5g, and a cup of coffee has just 1 calorie per serving (without milk). Just get out your calculator and work out the total calories contained in four slices of bread and butter and a cup of coffee without milk. If you calculate it well, you have consumed 1341 calories.

Then you go starving during the day while at work and decide to eat 3 chocolate bars containing 532 calories, giving you a total of 1873 calories. It happened that night befall and you are really famished, so you decide to give yourself a treat with a heavy meal, after all that is all you will have for the day. You indulge in a roasted turkey (3432 calories), fruit drink (17 calories per serving), with other additional food varieties to wrap it up at say, 1320 calories. You have inadvertently indulged in 4769 calories. And then you go to bed, less activity in the day (sitting in a glossy chair at office glued to a flat screen monitor), and no activity after your heavy night meal. So what do you expect? The mama body is happy; it is storing enough unused calories for future use, making your body fatter than it was before you started the weight loss exercise. You see why you won’t achieve the weight loss?

I also hear a lot of people on weight loss exercise plan say “I am not eating much because of my weight loss exercise, I just take a bottle of coke and biscuits,” but let me also warn you that these have high calorie contents too. The last question I am going to leave you with is: are you burning it off? Do you just sit down at your office all day, and do less at home, taking some sorts of magic calorie burning concoction and hoping to burn the calories off? No, it won’t!

Anyway, let me rush back to the lab now to separate the vials before they get burst and ruin my months of effort, I am trying out some new things to help you achieve that desired weight loss, meanwhile, keep in touch. Bye for now, and good luck!

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