Why Exercise Could Be Helping You To Gain Weight

Are you exercising as much as possible and still finding it hard to lose weight?

The typical weight loss advice is to eat less and move more - which can lead to exercising for hours on end in a bid to burn more calories.

I see this all the time with clients inside The Burnout Fix Method For Weight Loss and they are often shocked to find that exercising more is not the answer.

Why? Because weight loss isn’t as simple as calories in and calories out and following this advice can lead to weight gain.

What you’re going to read in this blog may surprise you. It’s certainly an eye-opener for so many women in The Burnout Fix Method For Weight Loss!

So let’s talk about why exercising more can actually lead to weight gain.

Weight loss blockers vs weight loss activators

When you can’t lose weight, it’s because something is blocking your ability to do so. Weight loss blockers can come in many different forms, including hormone imbalances, blood sugar imbalances, inflammation, gut/liver health, and chronic stressors (both emotional and physical stressors). It’s usually the case that there are several weight loss blockers present at once

To lose weight and keep it off, you need to release the weight loss blockers that are currently stalling your progress and switch on weight loss activators.

Weight loss activators aren’t quick fixes or miracle cures for weight loss. It’s simply supporting your body to lose weight and keep it off - as it would if weight loss blockers weren’t there.

Weight loss blockers can be very personal to you and there’s no size-fits-all approach that will work for everyone. This is why some people find it easy to lose weight while the rest of us try everything, only to find nothing works.

You need to identify and address your personal weight loss blockers to set your body on the right path for weight loss.

So let’s talk about overexercising, which is one of the most common weight loss blockers I see in women over 40.

Overexercising is a stressor

You might think that exercising is only going to activate weight loss. You’re burning calories and that has to be a good thing, right?

Wrong!

When you’re overexercising, you’re putting more stress on your body. It increases the production of stress hormones, especially cortisol, and acts as a weight loss blocker.

Elevated cortisol is a huge weight loss blocker and it usually goes hand-in-hand with fat storage, especially around the abdomen.

Overexercising can be a weight loss blocker in other ways too.

Elevated cortisol often increases your appetite, especially cravings for sugar and carbs. You’re more likely to struggle to control your appetite and as a double whammy, you’ll crave foods that are linked to weight gain.

Overexercising can increase systemic inflammation levels in your body, which is often linked to weight gain.

Then there’s the impact on blood sugar. Exercise can help to manage cortisol and blood sugar levels but not if you overdo it. Chronically elevated cortisol means chronically elevated blood sugar, paving the way for insulin resistance. Higher levels of insulin means much more potential to store fat and makes it harder to burn fat.

Yep, you guessed it - it’s another weight loss blocker and one that may be at least partly linked to how much exercise you’re doing. This is particularly true if you’re doing a lot of cardio in an effort to burn more calories.

But exercise is probably only part of the problem

The other problem is that overexercising often goes hand in hand with lots of other stressors and weight loss blockers.

Things like calorie restriction, poor sleep, money worries, looking after the family and the general stress of juggling busy modern life can all play a role in blocking weight loss.

We were never meant to live in such a constant state of fight or flight and it throws everything out of balance.

Are you ready to find what really works for weight loss in your 40s and beyond?

As a woman over 40, weight loss needs a different approach. What may have worked for you in your 20s and 30s has started to work against you and is blocking your ability to lose weight.

Exercise is only one of the weight loss blockers you need to know about. Whether you overexercise or not, struggling to lose weight means there are some weight loss blockers that need to be released to promote weight loss. It’s just a case of finding the ones that are working against you.

In my free masterclass, you’ll learn about some of the most common weight loss blockers for women aged 40+ and why they’re stopping you from losing weight.

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