When it comes to losing weight, we want to try every trick in the book to shed all the extra pounds and flab. But there are certain roadblocks which can make it completely difficult to lose weight, and they can rightly be called as “enemies of weight loss.” The best thing is that these roadblocks or enemies can be easily rectified, and once you have actually identified and pinpointed the enemy, it’s easy to overcome and conquer it/them. But let us be very clear, there can be just one or more than one of such enemies that might be preventing you from hitting the goal weight. In this post, we list down enemies of weight loss and how to conquer them.

1. Dehydration: When the body is dehydrated, various chemical reactions including the fat-burning process slows down, and that’s why it’s important to drink at least 2 liters or a minimum of 8 glasses of water each day so that all the processes inside the body run smoothly. We often replace plain water with calorie-rich fruit juices or soda, and instead of hydrating the body, they often create surplus calories which get converted and stored as fat inside cells. Lack of water also affects the release of human growth hormone (HGH) which binds to the fat cells, breaking down stored fat, and mobilizing them. Also, the activity of the enzyme “lipase” that is necessary to metabolize fat slows down with dehydration. Most importantly, since the body cannot properly differentiate between hunger an...