Stick to Your Calories Loss Diet with these Simple Secrets
By Rowena French | February 1, 2010
Even with the best of intentions, most people who start a calories loss diet generally give it up during its early stages. They do this because they are unaware of a number of very common pitfalls that stop them from succeeding in their quest to lose weight and get healthy. Learning to spot these early so that you can avoid them or work around them is a way to make sure that you stay on your diet and reach your weight loss goals.
Making radical changes to your eating habits happens all the time on diets, especially fad diets. If you go on a diet where you can only eat fruit, or only eat protein, or you must cut out all of one of kind of food it will be very difficult for you to stay on that diet. When you make changes to the way you eat you should make them gradually. If you make an extreme change to the way you eat and you do it fast then you will deprived and you will start to crave foods, making it more likely that you will go off your diet.
Setting unrealistic goals is tempting especially as, when you first start dieting, you might lose anywhere from five to ten pounds in the first couple of weeks. When that happens, of course you feel like the diet is great and you want that kind of weight loss to continue but most of the time early weight loss is all water weight. Real weight loss does not happen that fast. Experts say a healthy rate of weight loss is one to two pounds per week. So if you tell yourself that you want to lose ten pounds a week every week you are setting yourself up for disappointment. If you begin to feel disappointed and believe you are failing on your calories loss diet, you are more likely to give up on it and go back to your unhealthy lifestyle.
Using food as a reward is a real pitfall to be avoided because one of the most common ways that we all reward ourselves is food. How many times have you told yourself ‘I stuck to my calories loss diet all week so one cheeseburger will not hurt me’? Well that cheeseburger will hurt you. In the long run, it will be just more calories that you need to burn off. Instead of rewarding yourself with food for a job well done, take the same amount of money that you would have spent on a food treat and spend it on a new blouse, a new lipstick, a book, a new CD, or something else that will motivate you to keep going on your weight loss journey.
Rowena French has lost weight and wants you to warn you of dieting pitfalls. Tired of falling into traps on your diet? Want to achieve your weight loss goals? My free gifts explain how how calories loss is the simple answer. Read my guide, listen to my audio book!
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Stick to Your Calories Loss Diet with these Simple Secrets
By Rowena French | February 1, 2010
Even with the best of intentions, most people who start a calories loss diet generally give it up during its early stages. They do this because they are unaware of a number of very common pitfalls that stop them from succeeding in their quest to lose weight and get healthy. Learning to spot these early so that you can avoid them or work around them is a way to make sure that you stay on your diet and reach your weight loss goals.
Making extreme changes to your daily menu is a common pitfall, especially on unreliable diets. If you start an eating program where you eat only one type of food and eliminate everything else it will be very challenging to remain committed to this diet. The modifications to your eating plan need to be introduced gradually and in a balanced way. This will mean that your diet will impact on your body in small ways and you will avoid the kinds of cravings that can tempt you to give up on your diet and fall back into unhealthy eating habits.
Seeking unattainable goals in your enthusiasm to succeed at the beginning of a calories loss diet is not uncommon. Many of us set goals that are achieved during the ‘honeymoon’ period of a diet within the first week or so, but because our weight loss then is largely water loss these can not continue to be achieved. Rapid weight loss at the outset of a diet is encouraging but you should not expect this on an extended basis. Weight loss professionals nominate one or two pounds weekly as a realistic and healthy weight loss so a weight loss goal of more than two pounds each week is unachievable. Make sure that you set realistic goals so that you can avoid the disappointment that always goes with aiming too high.
Using food as a reward is a real pitfall to be avoided because one of the most common ways that we all reward ourselves is food. How many times have you told yourself ‘I stuck to my calories loss diet all week so one cheeseburger will not hurt me’? Well that cheeseburger will hurt you. In the long run, it will be just more calories that you need to burn off. Instead of rewarding yourself with food for a job well done, take the same amount of money that you would have spent on a food treat and spend it on a new blouse, a new lipstick, a book, a new CD, or something else that will motivate you to keep going on your weight loss journey.
Rowena French reached her goal weight and wants you to warn you of dieting pitfalls. Tired of falling into traps on your diet? Want to reach your weight loss goals? My free gifts explain how how calories loss is the simple answer. Read my guide, hear my audio book!
Article kindly provided by UberArticles.com
Topics: Diabetes | No Comments »
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French, Rowena "Stick to Your Calories Loss Diet with these Simple Secrets." Stick to Your Calories Loss Diet with these Simple Secrets. 1 Feb. 2010. uberarticles.com. 31 Jul 2010 <http://uberarticles.com/health-and-fitness/diabetes/stick-to-your-calories-loss-diet-with-these-simple-secrets>.
APA Style Citation:
French, R (2010, February 1). Stick to Your Calories Loss Diet with these Simple Secrets. Retrieved July 31, 2010, from http://uberarticles.com/health-and-fitness/diabetes/stick-to-your-calories-loss-diet-with-these-simple-secrets
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French, Rowena "Stick to Your Calories Loss Diet with these Simple Secrets" uberarticles.com. http://uberarticles.com/health-and-fitness/diabetes/stick-to-your-calories-loss-diet-with-these-simple-secrets
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- What Are The Different Types Of Glucose Plasma Levels And Why Are They Unhealthy?
- Why You Should Be Taking Usana RESET
- Diabetes- Free Related Guide For Diabetes Medicine
- Best Ways Of Controlling Sugar Diabetes
- Planning Meals For Those With Diabetes
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