Three Secrets to Losing Weight and Keeping it Off: College Station Chiropractor Dr. David Bailey Reveals It Now!

What secrets? It is obvious! Just eat less and exercise more and you will lose weight. Almost everybody from the CDC on down believes this balance beam theory.

The problem is this: there is abundant scientific evidence that fifty years of weight loss interventions based on this theory have been remarkably ineffective.

Low calorie diets and exercise programs can get you rapid weight loss. But your success is short-lived.

Nearly everyone winds up gaining most or all of the weight back, if not more after 1 to 2 years.

The Three Secrets: Why It Is Not Your Fault

Secret #1: Put Out the Fat Fires

Fat cells just love inflammation. Fat cells thrive on it, and even make more inflammation on their own. Fat cells make so much inflammation that it causes blood sugar problems, cardiovascular disease, and even mood and memory problems.

The inflammatory nature of obesity makes it resistant to typical weight loss methods of diet and exercise. Any weight loss program that does not cool the fat fires of inflammation is doomed to failure in the long run.

Secret #2: Fix the Fat Brain

There are regions in the brain that are involved with taste, hunger, food cravings, anticipation of reward, memory of eating experiences, digestion, and food sensation.

In an obese person, these brain areas react to food in a more powerful way when compared to lean persons. So in obese persons, their brain is wired to eat. This can make them more susceptible to eating behaviors. Their brains are set for fat.

What is also important is that these same areas of the brain are still highly active in persons who had lost weight and were no longer obese. Even after losing weight and keeping it off for some time, they still had "fat"brains.

Studies have shown that your brain and nervous system controls your weight using complex, interactive, redundant pathways and thousands of genes. A brain set on "fat" will use all the resources of your body to keep you fat.

That is why you can diet, exercise, and lose weight, only to see the weight come back over time.

Secret #3: Metabolic Threats

Studies have shown that there is a wide variation in the response to weight loss attempts. For example, in a study of 17 overweight persons, in a 12 week supervised aerobic training program, the goal was to increase the resting metabolic rate. Most were successful, but five of the participants actually developed a lowered metabolic rate.

Most people get the expected result from exercise, with an increased resting metabolism or weight loss. But some actually have the opposite result, a lowered metabolism or weight gain.

How does this happen? In some persons, their metabolism is set up where exercise and/or diets are perceived by the body as a threat to survival. This threat invokes layer upon layer of protective metabolic responses that automatically oppose and resist weight loss.

So more exercise may not be the answer for you and it may actually make weight loss more difficult.

What To Do?

If you have a history of multiple failed weight loss efforts, it probably is not your fault. You simply have powerful hidden forces that act on you, beyond your control, to keep you overweight.

Your next weight loss program needs to take into consideration inflammation,"fat brains", and metabolic threats. That way you will be more likely to be successful, allowing you to lose weight and keep it off.