10 Diet Mistakes and How You Can Avoid Them |

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D is for Diet When you first start out on your quest to lose weight things can seem quite overwhelming, where to start what to eat what exercises to do which diet might be best for you and the list goes on.

Here is a list of mistakes that you need to be aware of so that you can avoid them yourself.

1. Not allowing yourself to have a treat once in a while, this is likely to play havoc with yourself if you don’t at least have one treat every now and again so,don’t think that you can’t have one. A treat will make you feel good just be sensible is all.

2. Skipping important meals, lots of people automatically assume that when you first start to try and lose weight that aggressive calorie counting, is the way forward this won’t help matters at all avoid doing this at all costs.

Make sure that you eat regularly even have snacks throughout the day as long as they are healthy, that is all that matters snack on things like fruit and vegetables.

3. Thinking that slashing calories without doing any exercise will help, cutting down on your calorie intake is one part of the equation, you still need to incorporate exercise into your diet programme, main reason being is it will kick start your metabolism and build muscle which is essential for sustained fat burning.

Try to aim for 20 to 30 minutes per day of exercise if you can. If you prefer you can break it up into two, intervals throughout the day 15 minutes per exercise. Make sure though it is quite intensive exercise that you do, this will burn fat far more effectively.

4. Thinking that all foods are equal in their content, you could buy something and think it’s healthy when it’s not there is far more fat in chicken these days than you realise especially as far as the skin is concerned, some salads contain high fat dressing or may be in sandwiches that you can buy without being aware of it.

5. Not realising the amount of food your eating have you ever noticed, that when you use large plates for your meals that without thinking you tend to out of habit fill the plate up with food.

I used to do this myself until I became aware of it, and now use small plates. When I look at those big plates now I tend to think why did I need to use them in the first place.

6. Eating To quickly in retrospect this tends to be something that we do again without even thinking about it, such is the way that society is these days what with our hectic lifestyles. We never seem to have enough time for anything and do everything in such a frantic hurry, and we even tend to apply this to eating our food.

But the problem with this is it’s so very easy to overeat without even realising it because you’re eating habits become permanent habits over time, you probably don’t even consciously think about it.

From the time that you start eating food it can take 20 minutes for your brain to receive the full signal from your stomach. So if you eat your meal quickly your mind doesn’t have enough time to know that you have over eaten.

If you eat your food slower then you will eat far less, this theory was proven in Sweden when obese people in a study were monitored as regards to their eating habits. The first thing the participants did was eat a plate of food as they would do normally.

The next thing they did was they were blindfolded and then told eat their next meal as they did before but surprisingly this time they ate less food. So what this proves is that if you have less than you will eat less.

7. Not realsing that drinks can tend to have a lot calories in them as well, believe it or not alcohol can tend to have a lot of calories in itself, also alcohol tends to make you eat more food which is another double whammy. Try to avoid it when you go to a restaurant for a meal, have a glass of fresh orange or something else.

Specialist coffee’s that you buy from coffee shops can have lots of calories in. Drinks filled with sugar won’t do that much good either so that is something else you may need to look at.

8. Weighing your self every day this isn’t a particularly good habit to be into the main reason being is, when you don’t see yourself losing any weight you can tend to get frustrated but, the thing to remember is it will take time to lose weight it is not going to happen overnight.

It is far better to weigh yourself once a week or once a fortnight just try make, sure you do it on the same day every week if possible.

9. Thinking that after your lose your weight you can eat what you want, this is a mistake that a lot of people make once they have lost their initial weight, the problem with being on a diet it almost insinuates that you are on a programme. And once it has finished then everything will be okay but the problem is it would be so easy to put it all back on again which is what a lot of people do.

10. Unconscious eating this sort of eating tends to happen when you are not really consciously thinking about it what so ever, this is how a lot of bad eating habits are formed without us ever thinking about it, over a long period of time you could have to give a typical example of this, started eating foods at certain times I would say probably more likely say when you’re doing some kind of leisure activity.

say for instance whilst reading a book or watching television people very rarely these days eat foods at dining tables you may have noticed that you like to eat something like a bar of chocolate, or some Pringles anything like this is likely to be high in fat and in calories also so really you need to become consciously aware of what you’re eating and when.

this doesn’t mean to say that you shouldn’t snack but you need to be aware of what you are eating. Substitute fruit or a vegetable instead of chocolate or cake or any other foods that are high in fat and sugar.

When you start to lose weight , then you must stick to what I would call a healthy eating plan. For the rest of your life otherwise you will tend to put back on all your weight which is something you don’t want.