The Major Mistakes While Dieting

A recent study shows that many people had made many mistakes while dieting  

1.  Starting to skip breakfast  Most people trying to lose weight believe simply eating less and skipping meals helps shed that fat. And breakfast is a real easy meal to skip. This is one of the biggest mistakes you can make when on a weight loss diet. If you leave the house in the morning on an empty stomach you’re much more tempted to eat more at morning tea and lunch times. And, calories you eat at breakfast time are easily burnt throughout the day.  

2. Buying diet food.   When we went shopping we always looked for the foods marked diet, low-fat, healthy etc. This is a good practice to get into, but we were buying these foods for the wrong reason. We bought these foods because in our minds it meant we could more. We would totally disregard portion size. If you eat diet foods in large portions you’re not doing yourself any favors. 

 3.  Thinking that you are always  being fat   This is mindset that you must break if you want to lose some serious weight. Sometimes it feels like you’re doing the right things and not making any progress, this is totally natural. You need to focus on being happy and healthy and achieving your goals. Try not to get caught up in “the big picture”. 

4.  Eating salads as main meals   Eating salad is a good way of keeping your calorie intake down right? Yes, meal of salad has much less calories that a pizza but does it have the satisfaction? When you eat you mind needs to get some satisfaction from what you have just eaten. I found that when I ate salads for meals a few hours later I was back I the cupboard looking for more food. I learnt that I was better off eating a balanced meal with slightly more calories than simply eating a salad and snacking afterwards.   

 5. Setting high  goals    Setting long term goals is great, but these goals always seem to far off. You need to set smaller, more reachable goals that you can regularly meet to keep your motivation high. Set yourself weekly, monthly and three monthly goals. Once you meet one short term goal set a new one for next week.