Health & Weight Loss – 3 Traps To Avoid
Even With most of your thinking in order, will still be possible to go off track from healthy weight loss.
There are many pitfalls which should be side-stepped, to ensure you maintain your healthy weight loss progress.
I have heard many times that many people really believe the following. The reason I put on weight is because I’ve got a slower-than-average metabolic rate. Put simply, my body uses less food as fuel, so more is stored as excess fat. This makes losing weight more difficult for me.
This might possibly be for a very tiny percentage of people. Research has shown that for nearly all us, it is just a maximum of an excuse.
Take in fewer calories as food, use-up more calories in activity and you will probably lose weight as surely as night follows day.
The second trap is very easy to fall into. We simply under estimate just how many calories we are taking in! This could be true of people that are totally honest in every other aspect of their lives.
It is only that when they reckon up how much they have eaten a habit of under counting has been developed.
The simplest way to combat this is to keep a detailed journal, including every single mouthful of food – and drink!
Just about the most common examples is the error when counting up the amount of calories taken in as alcoholic drinks. For instance, how big is ‘glass’ of wine? It is only too easy to consume up to double what you believe you have.
Keeping the journal can also help with the third mistake to avoid – skipping meals! This could seem like logical way to decrease how much food eaten.
It could be wrong on two counts: firstly, you will likely take in, at the next meal, at least as much extra as you avoided. This is natural, just to feel better.
Secondly, if it becomes a habit, then the body will soon make allowance, by ‘slowing down’ and using less of the food fuel you do take in.
You then continue to store the excess as fat and gain rather than lose weight.
I have known examples where each of those traps has spoiled real attempts to do what’s right.
If several are combined, they can totally ruin your efforts.