What Are the Real Drivers of Healthy Weight Loss?
You’ve upped the workouts. Cleaned up your diet. Maybe even cut back on the wine, sweet treats and ‘just this once’ extras. You’re doing all the ‘right’ things, so why isn’t your body getting the memo?
At a certain point, weight loss stops being a simple equation – move more, eat less – and starts feeling like a negotiation. One where the harder you push, the less that your body seems to co-operate.
“When it comes to optimising your health and particularly weight management, we must move away from the reductive view that weight is simply a matter of ‘calories in, calories out’ or a test of willpower,” explains Dr Emilie Steinbach, neuroscientist and author of Your Optimal Health. “I view the human body as a complex, vibrant ecosystem – much like a forest – where every system is interconnected. If you feel you are doing everything ‘right’ but aren’t seeing results, it might be because one of the invisible communication pathways in your ‘forest’ is disrupted.”
Excerpted from Body + Soul
