If you're spending hours in the gym to no avail on the scale, it's time to change your game plan. Here, things you'd never suspect could be making you fat.

Your Reading Comprehension
We all know that person, the one who eats burgers
and still loses weight while you eat salad and yogurt
and can’t shed a pound. Turns out the problem may
not be your appetite; it could be your reading skills.
According to a study published in the Journal of
Consumer Research, healthy-sounding labels are duping
dieters.


Your Diet Soda Habit
Put down the pop! Studies have shown that subjects
who drink two or more diet sodas a day have waist
size increases up to six times greater than those of
people who don’t drink diet soda. These insidious sodas
may be free of calories, but they're not free of
consequences!


Lack of Sleep
New research suggests sleepless nights don’t just ruin
your mood the next day—they could also damage your
waistline. Researchers at the New York Obesity
Nutrition Research Center at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt
Hospital found that while sleepy folks seem to burn
the same number of calories as well-rested people, they
consume about 300 more calories a day.


The Room Temperature
Trying to lose weight? Turn down the thermostat. A
cozy home could be contributing to making you fat,
suggests research in the journal Obesity Reviews. When
our bodies are cold, we shiver, causing our muscles to
contract to generate heat—and burn calories.


Your Overweight Friends
A New England Journal of Medicine study declared
that people can actually ''catch'' obesity from close
friends. When researchers followed 12,067 people over
32 years, they concluded that those of us with very
close friends who are obese have a 171 per cent higher
chance of becoming obese too. The theory goes: you're
influenced by your friends, and if they overeat, you
may unwittingly follow their lead. Surprisingly, spouses
have less sway over the belly than close friends of the
same sex. The good news is that it may also work in
reverse. Hang out with thin people and you might lose
weight.


Eating Too Much
If you prescribe to the idea that eating small meals
frequently throughout the day makes it easier to
reduce overall calories, you could be doing yourself in.
Turns out we're programmed to think that a meal is
a perfect combination of proteins, carbohydrates, and
fat. In reality, the mini-meals in some studies are
much more like small—very small—snacks. How small?
Check out the story below for a reality


Toxic Chemicals
While you may never have heard of phthalates—a
family of chemicals used to make plastics flexible—new
evidence linking these and other so-called “endocrine-
disrupting” chemicals with obesity has been growing.
In fact, researchers have taken to calling many of
these substances obesogens (obesity-promoting
chemicals). A healthy immune system can help ward
off the dangers of these chemicals, but why not boost
your body's efforts by not packing your produce in
plastic the next time you buy groceries?


Your Stress Level
When you have chronic stress, your body steps up its
production of cortisol and insulin. Your appetite
increases, and so do the chances you’ll engage in
“hedonistic” eating in the form of high-calorie sweets
and fats. When you try to combat stress with food,
you activate the reward center of your brain. After
that initial feel-good spell wears off, you’ll reach again
for the same thing that made you feel good, calm, and
relaxed in the first place: more food.


SOURCE: http://www.thebeat99.com/blogs/8-things-you-may-not-know-are-making-you-fat-08-05-13

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