Even if the genetic and metabolic components involved in weight regulation are mostly beyond your control, the environmental factors ARE controllable and can have a significant impact. It has been proven that family and friends contribute to our growing weight problem, as do attitudes and emotional responses to food.
By manipulating the controllable factors to your advantage, you can successfully lose weight, and keep it off, without a ton of potions and pills.
Factors That Affect Body Weight
Controllable factors—for example, a high-calorie diet, emotional responses to food (such as eating when anxious or bored), and a lack of exercise—play a critical role in the development of obesity.
Yet research confirms that more is involved in losing weight and keeping it off than just a lack of willpower, emotional upset, or a sedentary lifestyle.
There are also the factors that can’t be changed, and deal us a hand with regard to our body type and weight which can be difficult to overcome.
