Diet and exercise , a combination considered essential to be able to lose weight. It may be true, but for others, because diet and exercise have done little on you, and you’re wondering why.
You tell yourself you’ve done everything others normally do, yet your excess weight hasn’t decreased. Sometimes you lost weight, but then quickly regained it.
So what are you doing wrong? You may not have made any mistakes, except one of evaluation.

You haven’t considered that while diet and exercise work for weight loss, there are other important things to consider that have affected your weight. In this article, I’ll list a few according to nutritionist Susie Burrell, taken from his latest book. 

DIET AND EXERCISE: THIS IS WHY THEY ARE NOT ENOUGH

1. The mental approach counts. It may seem like a fool, but when you want to change your lifestyle, you have to believe it, and trust what you are doing. You don’t have to be discouraged if the scale doesn’t go down right away, nor do you have to feel like giving up everything. In some cases, losing weight takes time, and sometimes the first few weeks aren’t your friend. But maybe you have taken the right path. To understand more about how your mindset negatively affects your weight, check out this video of mine.
2. You must like it. Both the meal plan and the activity plan must be in line with what you love to do, and you must not feel them as an imposition from above. For this reason, the more you choose a varied diet, which allows you even small anti-stress tricks, and a workout that does not upset your habits, and leaves you time to do more, the greater the chances of continuing in the long term. I therefore advise against choosing a random diet, or embarking on long and exhausting activities that are not for you. Choose a flexible diet, and look for physical activity goals that you are sure you can push forward.
3. Think about the positive things in your new lifestyle . Never focus on the sacrifices you are making and don’t start thinking that dieting means saying goodbye to the foods you love forever. The more you set yourself on the limits of diet and exercise, the more all of this will weigh on you, and the more, of course, your body will experience it all with great stress.
   Instead, try to write down on a sheet of paper the reasons that prompted you to change, and remember that you are always the one to choose.
4. Learn to self-regulate. Try to identify the weaknesses in your eating behavior or lifestyle that have led you to gain weight over time. Maybe there are foods you can’t control yourself over, and one option may be not to keep them at home but to occasionally consume them outside. Or you eat absent-mindedly, or the diet you have chosen does not satisfy you enough. In this article , I’ll explain how you can get full and easily vary with low-calorie foods without betraying your meal plan. Here, instead, I’ll explain some tricks to save the lines .
5. Your hormonal picture. Having an idea of ​​our hormonal picture is really useful to understand how to lose weight and with which strategy.If, for example, you suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome, you must follow a low glycemic index diet to avoid insulin peaks (and not to follow high-protein diets ). If you are a woman with an estrogenic excess , you must avoid soy, chicken, foods that are too high in fiber and too stressful workouts that can lead to easy exhaustion and ovulation problems. Same thing if you have an excess of cortisol. If you already have a struggling thyroid gland, and you have symptoms of subclinical hypothyroidism, you can’t think of losing weight with too drastic diets, or cutting out carbohydrates. If you suspect that your hormone level is not optimal, I recommend that you get a prescription for a hormone dosage  to see if fertility is okay, and an analysis of cortisol and DHEA (made from a saliva sample), insulin, blood sugar, thyroid hormones T4 and T3, TSH (these through blood tests), pregnenolone.
   
   If you are a man , I recommend that you test for cortisol, DHEA, insulin, pregnenolone, thyroid hormones, blood sugar and bioavailable testosterone instead. 

   This way you will know if your endocrine picture is interfering, and how, on your weight loss.