7 Reasons Why You Can’t Lose the Weight — & 7 Fixes to Turn it Around

Remember those New Year’s resolutions you made with such optimism just a few months ago?

If you’re like most people, you’ve abandoned your vows to lose weight and get in shape. (Which explains the barely used NordicTrack treadmills on Craigslist, fitness DVDs still in their original packaging and all the low-carb diets dumped by Day 4.)

We asked Michelle Segar, a motivation scientist and the author of “No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness,” to help us get on track while there’s still time to crush our goals before 2017 rolls around.

Excerpted from latimes.com

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