Why is it so hard to lose weight?
More than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight—that’s 150 million people. Are you one of them? You try to eat right and exercise. But you can’t lose the pounds. You blame yourself—“I’m not trying hard enough; I don’t do enough exercise; I don’t have enough self-control.”
The eat-right-and-exercise approach sounds so logical. If eating too many calories makes you gain too many pounds, then taking care of the calories should take care of the pounds. But it does not, either for you or almost anyone else. Here’s a thought—if the eat-right-and-exercise approach is not working for 150 million people, could it be the approach is wrong?
It is.
The eat-right-and-exercise mantra does not work for so many of us because it ignores the real problem. We don’t need to be told to manage our calories—we know that already. But we can’t do this except for short periods, because food talks to us. Food has power over us. Food tempts us until our cravings overcome our self-control and the weight comes back. Telling us how to manage our calories is not enough—we need to be told how to manage our cravings.
In the next post we will start by asking a very simple question: Why do we eat?
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