1.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• If I eat less, and walk more I'll lose weight.
• Yes, I know that.
• But why do I gain so easily, so much, so fast?
• One answer has to do with eating patterns habits that lead to insulin resistance.

2.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• Insulin metabolizes food into fuel for the body.
• Blood sugar goes up after eating.
• Insulin stores excess calories as fat.

3.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• When blood sugar drops, cells release fatty acids.
• These fatty acids become available as energy.
• That is the normal process for getting energy from food.

4.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• Insulin is the primary regulator of fat, carbohydrate, and protein metabolism.
• When we eat normally, insulin regulates the way we process fat,
carbohydrates, and proteins.
• Insulin metabolizes what we eat, so we have energy.
• Insulin keeps our bodies in a healthy state.

5.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• But the insulin mechanism can become defective -- go awry.
• Body tissues can become unresponsive to insulin.
• You get a condition called insulin resistance.
• Genetics, diabetes, and overeating contribute to the condition.

6.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• When insulin resistance takes hold, a vicious cycle is set in motion.
• In response to insulin resistance, the pancreas has to secrete ever more insulin.
• The more insulin the pancreas secretes, the more resistant tissues become.
• You have the urge to eat more.

7.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• As tissues become more resistant, more insulin is needed to regulate fat,
carbohydrates, and protein.
• As more insulin is secreted, you experience stronger urges for carbohydrates
and fats.
• You overeat to satisfy urges. A higher level of insulin is secreted. Your urges
intensify for sweets and fats.
• You get into a vicious cycle!

8.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• A companion theory is called the inflammation theory.
• It explains what happens when too much fat accumulates in cells.
• Fat makes cells increase in size.
• Too much fat can overwhelm the cell's capacity for fat storage.

9.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• Fat cells need room.
• If you were a house, you could add closets, finish a basement, add an attic to
add capacity.
• But your body can not build on to itself, or rent a storage unit.
• Instead you gain weight.

10.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• You don't feel it happening.
• But according to the theory when you overeat it you fill up the available
storage space in your body.
• The demand for fat storage overwhelms your cell's capacity to store fat.

11.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• Cells overloaded with too much fat, release inflammatory molecules.
• If you are seriously overweight, or become obese, according to the theory,
you may acquire a low-grade inflammatory response.

12.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• Having a low-grade inflammatory condition, due to being seriously overweight,
puts your health at risk.
• Inflammatory molecules affect insulin resistance, an unhealthful situation.
• Being overweight is linked to serious medical conditions.

13.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• Being overweight carries risks for hypertension, high blood sugar, Type 2
diabetes, coronary heart disease, and certain cancers.
• That's why weight management is really about your health.

14.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• You can use self-suggestion with your eyes open to make affirmations about
weight management.

15.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• Keep your eyes open. and concentrate your attention.
• Then, you can read the following affirmations aloud.
• Read these affirmations aloud at least three times until you have adopted
them as your self-suggestions.

16.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• "I will commit to my health."
• "I will commit to my body, to my self."
• "I can do this."
• "I can reach my goals."

17.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• Also read these affirmations aloud three times:
• "I can commit time to self-suggestion each day."
• "I want to protect my body and my health."
• "I can use my own powers."
• "My inner mind can hear these strong affirmations."

18.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• You might add these affirmations.
• "I can be patient with my slip-ups and appreciate my successes."
• "I can take action based on suggestions I give to my Self."
• "I can act on these positive affirmations in ways that I choose."

19.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• Why not consider this idea?
• Repeat a unit that would be useful to you right now.
• Go to the Table of Contents to find that unit by pressing the Table of Contents
icon.
• Press that icon now.
• Follow up on your conscious self-suggestion to do a unit now.

20.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• There is no audio guide for this unit. You have completed this unit when you
finish reading the affirmations aloud and make them your own.

21.
Why Do I Gain Weight
• If you prefer, you can go to the Table of Contents and pick a unit to review that
would be helpful right now.
• You can choose the best way to follow up on your conscious affirmation to
commit to weight management.
• Good luck!