10 Ways To Keep Your Weight Loss On Track and 10 Ways to Fail at Weight Loss.
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You might not want to hear this, but there are 10 sure-fire ways to blow your diet. Check the list for pitfalls that can make or break your weight loss efforts.
1. Don’t deal with emotional eating. No matter how much weight you need to lose, you simply must face any emotional eating issues you have. This may be as simple as identifying alternative activities or as intensive as seeking professional help.
- Don’t dive in headfirst into anything there are so many fad diets these days that promise that this and the other and in truth losing weight slowly is more safer than, losing it fast aim for 1 pound a week if possible that’s 500 per calories per day.
- Keep it real everyone either gains or loses weight at different rates no two people are the same, stick to what your doing and don’t worry if someone else is or has lost more weight it’s not a competition.
- Don’t go hell bent for leather on exercise some people go mad at first going to the gym everyday and the thing is you don’t give your muscles time to recover and tired muscles are no use at all, any exercise is better than none, if you have been living a sit about life style for ten years, a week or more on the treadmill won’t fix that.
- Watch the calories but don’t slash them down to nothing, if you do that your body will go into starvation mode and will hold on every last ounce of fat, and you won’t lose a anything.
- Whatever you do don’t skip meals another common mistake people make eat throughout the day fruit is good for eating in between meals and it keeps your metabolism ticking over.
- Weighing yourself no need to do it everyday why you ask well your weight can change from day to day it might be more one day,then less the next try weighing once a week or twice a week that way you can get a better reading.
- Eat with your conscious emotional eating can get the better of you at times when your bored depressed it’s all to easy to eat cake or ice cream your mind associates this with the feeling so you tend to do it more often when you feel that way. The only way to deal with this is don’t buy it, if it’s not there you won’t eat it.
- Going it alone, not always the best idea talk to people who are trying to do the same as you or join a forum based around weight loss where you can get support.
- Restriction just because you are trying to lose weight doesn’t mean you can’t have some treats just keep it to a minimum once in a while won’t hurt.
- Don’t rely on willpower alone keep a record of what you eat everyday and record your progress both these are a good motivator.
2. (Try to) follow a super-strict diet. When diets rely on one type of food or cut out entire food groups, they’re too difficult to stick to for any length of time. Ask anyone who tried the grapefruit diet.
3. Cut back too many calories. Calories in, calories out — the key to weight loss. But cut too many and you won’t lose weight at all thanks to the metabolism’s “starvation” mode.
4. Go it alone. We all need someone to talk to about the dilemmas that losing weight brings us. Whether online or in the real world, create a support system that will help you through the rough patches.
5. Skip breakfast. The old adage is true: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It will get your metabolism going and help you from getting too hungry and overeating.
6. Don’t Keep a Food Diary. How can you know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been? To get a real grasp on what, how much, and why you’re eating, keep an honest food diary for at least 10 days.
7. Set unrealistic goals. Avoid setting goals that even the most devoted dieter couldn’t meet. Can you really cut out all sodas if you’re used to downing a 2-liter a day? Is making it three times around the track doable when you just started walking last week?
8. Weigh in every day. Weighing in daily is a sure-fire way to give up on a diet before you’ve given it a chance. Weight fluctuates from day to day for reasons that have little to do with your efforts.
9. Exercise too much, too soon. Overdoing it will lead you to burnout and risk overuse injuries whether it be exercising more intensely or for too lengthy a duration. (A few minutes every other day is an excellent way to begin if you’ve been sedentary.)
10. Go cold turkey on your favorite foods. Swearing off your favorite foods is a definite pitfall. Doing so sets you up for binges and may leave you so frustrated, you give up your diet completely. All things in moderation (Have treats occasionally and in controlled portions!) will keep those cravings at bay… [read more]
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