I struggled with weight all my life. I constantly would get motivated to workout only to quit over and over again due to the lack of meaningful progress after t

I struggled with weight all my life. I constantly would get motivated to workout only to quit over and over again due to the lack of meaningful progress after the initial period. Even weight lifting I could only put on muscle but never lower my body fat below 18. After getting a scale that measures body composition and studying what I ate and how it affected me I was finally able to figure out the issue. The issue is metabolic syndrome and I suspect many people have this condition. Think of it this way, your body is constantly in either burn or store mode. When you move, you deplete energy reserves within the cell which must be replenished from the blood supply. Glucose is the basic energy block on the cellular level (ignoring intercellular ATP) for the human body. In order for glucose to pass into the cell and replenish reserves, it must pass through a gate that blocks out harmful material. The key to this gate is called insulin. When you eat a sugary diet, this gate mechanism becomes less and less responsive sort of like a tired security guard after the morning and evening rush. When the gate fails to open, two things happen: The first is that the cell becomes fatigued because its energy reserve hasn't been replenished, and second, the glucose stays in the bloodstream where it eventually is converted to glycogen and stores as fat. This is the problem that gets people. When you are in this state, you will burn less fat during your workouts and they will feel harder too. For the triple whammy, your body will catabolize energy-burning muscle instead of using what's already available. The only good time for sugars is after a workout so as to prevent catabolism. Keto and low carb diets work by reducing the strain on the insulin receptors allowing them to become resensitized. This is also why fasting diets work because they reduce insulin sensitivity so that your body more readily uses the energy it has when it has it. 3 Things Effect Weightloss and a change in any of them could make a "bad" food good or a "good" food bad in terms of losing or gaining weight. 1 - How much have you moved recently 2 - How much have you eaten recently 3 - What did you eat recently