Have you just started a diet? I’m sure you’re excited, because you know that this time you’ll lose weight and keep it off. Let’s look at three mistakes you should avoid to achieve success.
1. You Weigh Yourself Often
Throw away your scales. Your scales are not a gauge as to to whether or not you’re losing weight.
Not only can your weight fluctuate every day and every week, it can also seem as if you’re gaining weight, when you’re not. This is because muscle tissue weighs more than fat. So if you’re starting to exercise, you can be losing fat but this doesn’t show up on the scales because you’re actually gaining muscle.
Measurements are a much better gauge as to whether or not you’re losing weight. Get a tape measure and measure your waist, your hips, your chest, each thigh, and the top of your arms. Write these measurements down.
Measure yourself once a week, and you’ll see that the measurements will start to go down.
2. You Don’t Use a Food Journal
Studies have shown that dieters who use food journals lose more weight, and keep the weight off for longer, than those people who don’t.
You can keep your food journal on your computer, or in a notebook. Write down everything you eat and drink, as well as your meal times, and what your emotions are.
Just writing down what you eat will make you conscious of your consumption — you’re less likely to over-eat by snacking without realizing.
3. You Want a Fast Fix
It took you a certain amount of time to gain the weight, and it will take time for you to lose weight. There is no fast fix which works. Going on fad diets usually ends up with you weighing more than you weighed before the fad diet.
Choose a sensible, healthy diet with a good eating plan, which encourages you to eat all foods rather than a subset of foods, as with low-carb diets, for example. While these diets are effective in the short term, they’re not successful in helping you to keep the weight off permanently.
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