4 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight

When Libby Weaver was studying dietetics and later biochemistry at the University of Sydney in Australia it was the late 90s and the prevailing wisdom on weight gain and loss was calories in, calories out. But when she started practicing, she found clients who were running marathons or calorie counting obsessively would be gaining rather than losing weight.

Thirteen years, ten nutrition books  and hundreds of clients later, she is convinced there are lesser known but powerful reasons people can’t lose weight.

‘I wanted to help my clients but calorie-controlled diets weren’t working for them,’ says Weaver. ‘That led me to go back to my biochemistry textbooks with the question in mind: what leads the human body to get the message to either burn fat or store fat’.

Weaver says that while eating too much and exercising too little contributes to weight gain, other factors play a major part too.

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