{"id":579,"date":"2017-06-11T00:24:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T04:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2022-12-21T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T00:40:24","slug":"why-cant-i-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/holistic-nutritionist\/why-cant-i-lose-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can\u2019t I lose weight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container fusion-parallax-none hundred-percent-fullwidth hundred-percent-height hundred-percent-height-center-content non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" 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fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-center\" style=\"--awb-padding-right:5%;--awb-padding-left:5%;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:30px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1><span style=\"color: #fff; font-weight: bold;\">Why can\u2019t I <\/span> <span style=\"color: #3bafbf;\"> lose weight?<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-margin-right:10px;\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat 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imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-zoomin\"><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/holistic-nutritionist\/nadine-allaham\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Nadine Allaham, Holistic Nutritionist\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1018\" alt=\"Nadine Allaham, Holistic Nutritionist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Nadine-Allaham-Certified-Nutritional-Practitioner.webp\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-50834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Nadine-Allaham-Certified-Nutritional-Practitioner-400x400.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Nadine-Allaham-Certified-Nutritional-Practitioner-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Nadine-Allaham-Certified-Nutritional-Practitioner-800x800.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/Nadine-Allaham-Certified-Nutritional-Practitioner.webp 1018w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-1 fusion_builder_column_inner_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:30px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><strong style=\"font-size: 28px;\">Nadine Allaham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">CNP, FDN-P<br \/>\nOakville Certified Holistic Nutritionist<br \/>\nHealth &amp; Lifestyle Coach<\/p>\n<\/div><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-medium button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-span-no fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"Book with Nadine Allaham\" aria-label=\"Book with Nadine Allaham\" href=\"https:\/\/nhchalton.janeapp.com\/#\/staff_member\/47\/treatment\/117\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Book Online<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\">Are you more confused than ever about what to eat? Do you find you are eating substantially less, exercising a whole lot more and not shedding a single pound? This is a recurring theme in mid life, and sadly even in youth today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\">The average North American consumes nearly a\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creditloan.com\/blog\/food-consumption-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">ton of food annually<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">\u00a0&#8211; literally. So food matters. Highly palatable, lab-made food, with a long shelf life, is easily accessible around the clock. Not much effort is required to seek it, or prepare it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\">Ever notice that no matter how much you eat, there always seems to be a little room left for dessert? Highly processed, refined flour and sugar products never completely satiate us. There\u2019s always room for a little bit more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\">\u201cBut I eat real food, not packaged food!\u201d you cry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\">You\u2019ve tried every whole food diet, from\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/thepaleodiet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">Paleo<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/nutritionstudies.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">Vegan<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">, and while you experience an initial loss with any dietary change, eventually you gain it all back &#8211; and then some. It\u2019s just not fair! To make matters worse, you see your neighbour pig out on chips, fries, pop and pizza and not gain a single pound. What\u2019s the deal here?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\">Well, we all come in different shapes and sizes. There are many skinny fat people \u2013\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2006\/dec\/10\/medicineandhealth.health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">thin on the outside and fat on the inside (TOFI)<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">. That can be worse than obesity. Belly fat is more harmful to health than subcutaneous (under skin) fat. Because it is less obvious, it is also easier to overlook, failing to promote healthy change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\">There can also be another explanation though. That neighbour may not obsess about food. That neighbour may often forget to eat because they are so busy running around. They naturally produce a lot of adrenaline, constantly\u00a0<i class=\"\">\u2018running away from the proverbial sabre-tooth-tiger\u2019<\/i>, mobilizing stored fat and sugar for fuel. They spend a lot of time &#8220;self-eating\u201d \u2013 cleaning up debris and accumulation. Regardless, this too may not be sustainable. While some may be more resilient than others, heart and adrenal exhaustion sooner or later will afflict such people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\">A normal weight person has 1400-2000 calories of sugar stored in the liver and muscle tissue, and roughly 30,000-100,000 calories stored in fat cells. While prolonged starvation is ill advised, we should be able to\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">access stored fat daily<\/span><span class=\"\">. In fact,\u00a0in1965, a 456-pound 27-year-old man<\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2495396\/pdf\/postmedj00315-0056.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">fasted for 382 days<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">, under medical supervision, ending up at 180 pounds sustainably.\u00a0Besides water, he was only given yeast, a multivitamin and potassium as needed.\u00a0<\/span><i class=\"\"><span class=\"\">(Please do<\/span><\/i><i class=\"\"><span class=\"\">\u00a0not embark on an unsupervised prolonged fast.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b class=\"\"><span class=\"\">How can we safely access stored fuel daily?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\">A prolonged overnight fast depletes a lot of the easily accessible sugar stored in the liver. To deplete the sugar stores in muscle, recruiting and activating all muscle fibers with short bursts of highly intense exercise, or lifting very heavy weights slowly and to muscle exhaustion, is most effective. You\u2019d be surprised how short the duration and frequency of this type of exercise needs to be to achieve results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Obesity-Code-Unlocking-Secrets-Weight\/dp\/1771641258\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1486573299&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=fasting+jason+fung\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">To access fat stores<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">, again I encourage prolonging the fast between dinner and breakfast, while eating most of your food earlier in the day, when you are most insulin sensitive (insulin is the main fat storage hormone); not snacking; avoiding refined starch and added sweeteners; adding a lot of colourful non-starchy vegetables, garnished with very high quality protein and a sufficient amount of healthy fats. Current science is moving away from the old advice to eat every three hours to prevent blood sugar issues and prevent over-eating.<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"\">In fact, a\u00a0Japanese molecular biologist, Yoshinori Ohsumi won the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/medicine\/laureates\/2016\/press.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"\">Nobel Prize in medicine<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">, for his work on \u201cautophagy\u201d or \u201cself-eating\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42919,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,26,27,28,40,44],"tags":[63,72],"class_list":["post-579","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-exercise","category-fitness","category-food-diet","category-healthy-lifestyle","category-nutrition","category-weight-loss","tag-lose-weight","tag-weight-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/579\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhchalton.com\/oakville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}