Five Reasons for Obesity

Actually, there are reasons other than simply overeating. Granted, overeating is the prime reason most people are fat. Overeating does need to be reeled-in to the reasonable constraints of what our body needs. But what does it need? These statements about “being fat is not your fault” are nonsense. Accountability and truthful awareness is crucial for success.

Most “educated” fitness and weight loss experts unanimously agree that Obesity (over 30% Body Fat in most cases) is a result of the following five factors in order of importance:

1. Obsessive/Compulsive behavior. This, if agreed to by you as being a partial cause, can be remedied by sound practices of Behavior Modification. Habit breaking is required, and is a part of this program. Countless numbers of previous clients, who felt they were destined to live in huge bodies, have made remarkable progress. However, the first step is being honest with yourself, agreeing that you have a compulsive eating problem, and then committing to a new lifestyle. An “eating disorder” is usually referred to as being the skinny person who purges, but even more than that it is the very overweight person who simply can not control themselves around food. If you think that you don’t eat too much, and you can cut back any time, go surf the web for another gimmick plan. This program is not for you.

2. Lack of education. How many times have we heard that “I know all I need to do is push back from the table to lose weight”? That can’t be farther from the truth. In simply pushing away from the table, you often deprive your body from the essential building blocks it needs to be strong and fit, and you create a carbohydrate craving that can only be satisfied by continued eating. This program is focused on making you an expert on nutrition. Lack of nutritional knowledge is another reason we CHOOSE to eat the wrong foods, if you can call them foods. Not knowing the ramifications of what food “can do to you” instead of what food “can do for you” generally ends up with our making the choice to eat what makes us happy. However, by the end of this program, you will be nutritionally educated to the point where you will understand all of the fad diets, how they work, why they won’t work for you, and best of all, what will work for you!

3. Exercise. Although 85% of fitness is nutrition, exercise is the other vital 15%. This program offers guidelines for performance that can only be reached by having a properly designed exercise program that is specific to you. We will point you in the right direction. We’ll also give you guidelines on how to hire an educated, informed, personal trainer who wants you to reach the same realistic goals you want to reach for yourself.

4. Hormones. If you are within 80% of the population, and are a female over 40 or a male over 50, hormones are a factor. Don’t you ever wonder why you used to be able to eat more and not exercise, yet you were fitter and thinner than you are now? Or, why does one man who eats 5,000 calories a day grow to 350 pounds, and another man who eats the same amount of calories per day, grows to 600 pounds? What happens to men’s bellies after 50, and why do their arms seem to shrink? Women, what happens to them after 40? They exercise, think they are eating right, yet can’t seem to stop gaining weight? They add more and more aerobics to their exercise plan yet continue to gain. At the end of this program, you will understand exactly what part hormones play in your body. You will know exactly where your hormone levels should be, and how to get them to the point where they maximize your energy, fat loss and muscular gain. Yep! You are going to understand it all. On the other hand, if you are one of the unfortunate 5% of the population, hormones are the primary reason you have been fat for most, if not all of your life. That can be fixed as well.

5. Genetics. It is a mitigating factor in the caloric assimilation process, but probably not the reason you are fat.