She explains the reasons why a particular group of women finds it difficult to lose weight permanently.
There is a stark difference between the wiring of a woman’s brain who enjoys lasting results and the noggin of a woman who regains her pounds at record speed, according to a weight-loss coach who claims to have assisted 10,000 people in getting fit and staying trim.
Aesha Karunakaran, a health expert from Beverly Hills, California, expressed it best in a viral TikTok eye-opener titled “The #1 Reason Losing Weight is Hard for You.” “There is one thing that separates women who successfully lose weight and keep it off from the ones that don’t,” she added.
“The ones that can, can take a compliment, and they accept compliments,” she said. Women who are uncomfortable with compliments are the ones that struggle with weight reduction the most.
Karunakaran, whose five-ingredient cookie dough recipe recently went viral for her assertion that it “works like the natural version of Ozempic,” continued by outlining how a few good words can help someone achieve the physique of their dreams.
“When you’re able to accept compliments about yourself, you believe good things about yourself — and you don’t self-sabotage,” she said.
Karunakaran cautioned, however, that those who consistently refuse praise run the risk of creating a mental barrier that prevents long-term weight loss success.
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“Unless you believe that you’re worthy of that transformation,” she added, “your mindset will always look at yourself as a flawed person and you will never really, truly believe that you deserve to lose weight and to have that transformational life.”
And according to recent Cleveland Clinic studies, Karunakaran’s advice is sound.
According to Heinberg, “when we tie our self-worth so directly to our food choices and combine that with a restrictive diet, we’re setting ourselves up to fail and feel guilty, which in turn produces overeating behaviours and then more guilt.”
Write down positive improvements you’re making every day (such drinking more water or going for walks) in a journal, and avoid referring to your eating habits — and yourself — in terms of “good” and “bad,” Heinberg said.
A 100-pound weight loss was achieved and maintained, according to 42-year-old body-positive advocate Rachel Williams, who told The Washington Post in 2022, by resetting her brain for success and “thinking thin thoughts.”
Start rewarding yourself, she advised. “Receive compliments graciously,” the adage advises.
“Start counting your wins,” Karunakaran continued, “because you’ll start doing more right things when you rewire your brain to start thinking about all the things that you do right.”
And she pleaded with the persistent haters not to waste any more time whining during their attempts to lose weight. She urged, “You can start doing this right now. Start teaching your brain that you are deserving of your transformation
