What Made Me Gain Weight?

How Did Your Gain Weight In The First Place?

There are many ways that people gain weight.

Maybe you’re thinking: "Of course I know why I gained weight. It’s just from eating too much and exercising too little!” But you would be wrong.

New research is coming out daily that is finally breaking the lock-hold on MYTH-information from the Diet Industry that makes BILLIONS of dollars convincing you that something is wrong with you because you weigh more than others.

This is how the Diet Industry blames you for being fat:

Actual Facts About How You Gained Weight

This is what UNBIASED research is showing:

If you look at the foundational problem of weight gain that unbiased newer research is showing, it boils down to this:

You were unhappy with your body
and you started to restrict certain foods or limit your food intake. Hating your body is stressful and puts you in a revolving door of dieting and weight gain. 

Diversity in Body Shape and Weight

Dieting From Low Self-Esteem

We are ALL different – and that diversity is what is interesting about each one of us! You don’t need to conform to what society’s preference of the decade is. Be yourself: everyone else is taken!

“I have to be on a diet” mindset lowers your self-esteem and contributes to a victim mentality. “Needing” to lose weight puts your mind into a belief system that something is wrong with your body and you! That negative self-esteem contributes to stress which then sabotages your metabolism! And stress alone can make you GAIN weight!

I’m a BIG tennis fan. I'm sure  that most people will know about the famous Williams sisters: Venus and Serena. I am telling you that Serena (the shorter, muscular sister) could diet for the rest of her life, but she will NEVER have Venus’ ectomorphic tall, slender more boy-like body!

My mother-in-law was always heavy. She would tell me so often that she never over-ate. Every time I touched her hand she was cold to the touch. Are your hand and feet frequently cold? Do you always feel cold? You may have a thyroid problem that has never been properly diagnosed. My mother-in-law did have hypothyroid! But even being treated properly for thyroid disease will not assure that you will lose weight.

Needing to be Thin

Women have to realize that there are more important things in life than your appearance. Men are falling into that trap as well. And the Diet Industry is laughing all the way to the bank. 

Some people can eat all they want and never gain an ounce. I write about my friend Yolanda who can eat more than a Sumo-Wrestler and never gain an ounce. Other people eat nothing and seem to be pudgy to fat. Our bodies are all different. And you read above how most of the shape and size of our body is due to genetically inherited body type! You can't fight Mother Nature and win for long! You can lose weight, but you will regain it, no matter how hard you struggle. It's natural, and the sign of a healthy body bringing you back to a weight set point. The more you diet, the higher that set point becomes!

STRESS is a Major Cause of Weight Gain

With this information, I hope you will realize that blaming yourself for gaining weight, or not being able to maintain weight loss is NOT YOUR FAULT.

Most people can remember a stressful time or event that occurred in their lives at the time when their weight started increasing. You don’t get overweight because you eat too much, you eat too much because you are stressed! Eating “comfort food” is our body’s attempt to deal with stress – it’s just a symptom you are stressed.

If you had terrible headaches from a migraine and kept taking pain killers, you realize that NOT going to make the headaches go away. Painkillers are treating a symptom- not the cause. Just like dieting is treating the symptom (binge eating, emotional eating) and not the cause- which is STRESS! In order to stop emotional eating, you MUST deal with the stress that’s causing it! 

Is Chronic STRESS making you overweight?

Everyone has stress sometimes. But some people cope with stress better than others. For those people who can’t manage stress, their lives can be filled with both physical symptoms, unhappiness- AND even WEIGHT GAIN!

What triggers your stress? Your body’s emotional and physical reaction to stress was designed by nature to be short-term to save your life and escape from predators and danger. But then the stress reaction was supposed to stop quickly! The problem is that the way we live our modern lives, stress has become chronic and never turns off: worrying about paying bills on time, relationship problems, working with a boss that’s driving you crazy; caregiver burnout, lack of sleep, listening to the news, driving in traffic, hating your body… Your response to stress can end up being worse that the actual thing that is causing your stress! Chronic stress will make you sick and even fat!