Are you always going on diets but you never seem to lose any weight? Did you ever sit down and take the time to do a bit of basic research about eating and dieting? To find out how the normal routines of your everyday life are impacting on your body's ability to control its basic fat levels.

Was it the type or quantity of food that you were eating that caused the problem? Was it your lifestyle or the type of job you did that meant you didn't get enough exercise?

Are you getting enough rest and do you understand how lack of sleep can affect the way your body functions. This all reflects on your body's ability to know how to burn calories at night.

Until you are clear in your mind about what was the initial cause of your fat gain, you can not and will not succeed in losing weight. You must understand the fundamental reasons why your body gained fat in the first place. Only then can you take the essential steps to help your body to lose that fat.

There are 3 basic aspects to our way of life that affect our existence and are primarily responsible for our body's ability to gain or lose weight. These are: The type and quantity of food we eat, the exercise we get and the sleep we get at night.

No 1. To manage and control what you eat you must have a properly prepared diet program. You must know how to calculate your calories and fat intake to suit your dieting program.

For the average female on a diet the recommended calorie needed are 1200 to 1400 per day. The average male on a diet should consume 1500 to 1800 calories each day.

The increasing availability of convenience food is a problem for everybody nowadays. If you are trying to get to grips with a dieting program, this tempting option for a quick meal is not the solution. You must resist the instant gratification and easy option that these meal outlets offer you and concentrate on eating healthy food options at all times.

No 2. Physical exercise is a key component in any weight losing program. If you have never been a regular exerciser, a sensibly organized and simple routine is best. At the beginning, you will need to get the benefit of the exercise without putting too much strain on your body.

Then as you progress you can increase the intensity and duration of whichever type of exercise you opt for. Lots of exercise activates your metabolism. This will keep your body energized and give it the command that will tell it how to burn calories at night.

No 3. Sleep and rest, or rather the lack of them, will have a major bearing on the way you eat and your enthusiasm for exercise. This in turn will have a vital affect on your weight loss ambitions. The reason for this is because lack of proper rest causes the two hormones Ghrelin and Leptin that regulate your appetite to malfunction.

The hormone Ghrelin causes you to feel hungry when it thinks that your body needs food. Leptin does the complete opposite. It signals your brain when your stomach is full so that your body can stop feeling hungry.

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