Your weight loss won’t always be a chore. Your mindset determines how you perceive weight loss or any other endeavor in your life. Once you begin to see the rewards of making healthy changes and solidify healthy habits, it will become second nature and much easier.
Losing weight can happen at different rates. You tend to lose weight quicker if there is more to lose. However, weight can fluctuate by a few pounds for many reasons. If you weigh yourself every day and don’t see the results you’re looking for you may be tempted to give up. But that’s a mistake. Try to take an average over five days or so to get a true picture. These issues, and more, are common weight loss mistakes that can cause you to give up on your weight loss goals.
Let’s look at 10 more mistakes that can slow down your weight loss.
Free Report: Top 5 Exercise Mistakes10 Mistakes That Slow Down Your Weight Loss
1.Not Eating Any Carbs
It’s true that cutting out carbs will help you lose weight. However, carbs exist as a food group for a reason and are essential for a healthy diet. Complex carbohydrates found in oatmeal and wild rice provides slow release energy, helping you to get through the day. Often, people who have been on no carb diets put the weight back on once they stop.
2. Avoiding All Fats
Foods such as salmon and almonds contain essential fatty acids that we need to fight disease. These foods are high in the right fats, so the key is to choose healthy fats, like avocado, fish, nuts, seeds and olive oil. It’s trans and saturated fats that will slow down your weight loss. These fats are common in fast foodand are the ones to avoid. Additionally, it’s important to understand there is nothing special about fat that makes you fat on its own. The main consideration is that fat has more calories than any other macronutrient, and since weight loss occurs when there is a calorie deficit, the fat portion of your plate should be the smallest.
3. Never Eating A Snack
Actually, it’s not the snacking that’s bad, it is the food chosen. A healthy snack that can satisfy your appetite between meals will prevent you from craving unhealthy foods and keep blood sugars stable. As long as it’s healthy, and in line with your daily calorie intake, snacking can help you lose weight. It does this by keeping your hunger pangs in check. This will allow you to make wise choices around your diet, free from the impulses that can lead to a mindless binge on unhealthy food. It’s always best to plan your snacks. Being prepared will help you avoid reaching for the vending machine!
4. Not Eating Chocolate
Chocolate can actually help with weight loss. Avoid the milk varieties and go for a dark type with a cacao content of at least 60%. Dark chocolate can help aid weight loss as it contains flavanols that help to lower blood sugar. It can satisfy a sweet tooth in a healthy way, and it can elevate mood.
5. You Only Eat Salads
Many salads have dressings that are high in fat, especially the mayonnaise based types. Additions, like bacon, cheese, and croutons can quickly escalate the calorie count. Again, be mindful of calories and consider these in your salad choices.
6. You’re Skipping Meals
To lose weight you need to reduce your calorie consumption, but not by skipping meals. When you do this, you’re depriving your body of essential nutrients, slowing your metabolism and this affects your ability to make mindful eating choices when you become famished. There are also negative health effects of skipping meals such as excessive tiredness. It is best to eat small meals every 3 hours.
7. You Only Buy Low Fat Foods
Just because something is labeled as ‘low fat’ or ‘reduced fat’ doesn’t mean it’s healthy. Weight loss is all about a calorie deficit. You have to burn more calories than you consume and many of these so-called “low fat” foods are not low in calories but are high in additives and artificial ingredients. Additionally, many people are psychologically tricked into overeating these foods because they think they are healthy.
8. You’re On A Rapid Weight Loss Diet
Any lasting weight loss is usually gained from hard work and behavior change. Rapid weight loss often occurs when a drastic change has been implemented in the diet. This is rarely sustainable and most people will gain back the weight and more once that drastic diet is abandoned. Sustainable weight loss is more likely to occur when loss is gradual.
9. You Exercise So You’re Eating What You Want
Only in conjunction with a suitable diet will exercise be good for weight loss. You can spend 3 hours a day working out, but if you also eat burgers, and chili fries all day, you won’t likely see the results you want.
10. You Blame Your Genes
Although it is sometimes linked to genetics, there is little evidence that obesity is inherited. Some aspects of metabolism are inherited alongside a tendency to be a certain body shape. However, environmental factors are much more likely to cause obesity. A healthy diet and exercise can help overcome combat genetics.
Top 5 Exercise Mistakes (Free Report)
Knowing what not to do is as important as knowing what to do when it comes to burning fat and losing weight. Being healthy is about taking action to do more of the right things, and fewer of the wrong things every day. Did you know your exercise routine may actually slow down your weight loss? There are certain mistakes that are easy to make which can even cause you to gain weight! Download my free report, Top 5 Exercise Mistakes to help you avoid more common fitness mistakes so you get the results you deserve.
