You Should Avoid These 3 Bad Diet Mistakes
No matter how much information you read about weight loss – and you could read all day and every day if you wished to – many people tend to make the same mistakes time after time. Whilst some of the mistakes are small mistakes some are often very basic and fundamental to you ability to be successful in shedding the pounds. You need to understand these basics if you are to achieve the change of attitude necessary to lose weight that remains a permanent loss of weight.
1. It needs to be All or Nothing
All or nothing dieters will often pick out a complicated diet that is almost impossible for them to maintain. Before beginning, they will search the kitchen for anything that does not fit the plan and throw it in the garbage. They are planning to be the perfect dieter, and so they will be, for one day, three days, seven days or even a couple of weeks. Then, inevitably, something happens that means they cannot keep to the diet one time. Immediately the whole thing is ruined in their eyes and the diet is over. They go to the store and buy all the things that went into the garbage last week and proceed to gain back all the weight that they lost, as fast as possible.
If you perceive yourself as an all or nothing type of dieter then you need to re-affirm to yourself that the changes you will need to make you can stick to. Perhaps more accurately if you occasionally fail to stick to your own tough targets then you won’t see it as a failure and subsequently a return to the old habits. Frequently smaller changes that you know you will achieve will often lead to a less dramatic but permanent weight loss.
2. A statement of sacrifice.
Many dieters regard the dieting period as a time of sacrifice. To achieve the diet you have to give up just about everything you enjoy eating and drinking – you know the feeling. If you take this route and successfully reach your target weight then what happens? It is far better to make some compromises and include a little of your favorite items in your diet and gradually educate yourself to eat less of the more damaging items than make drastic changes which are just too much of a sacrifice to maintain.
3. Failing to meet your set goals or objectives.
Setting achievable goals is vital in any weight loss plan. Goals should be clear, realistic and set out in writing. While you probably do have an ideal weight in your mind, unless you are only very slightly overweight it is probably too distant to be useful. A more useful goal would be to lose two pounds per week for the first five weeks and then one pound per week after that. Some weeks you will lose more and some less, some weeks you may even gain, but if you track your progress on a graph you will see that ups and downs are natural and do not stop you progressing steadily toward your major goal.
If any of the above sound familiar to you then don’t worry too much – just regard the whole process as part of the learning process. Move on from your mistakes and implement what you have learnt. If you understand the mistakes you have made then you stand a chance of correcting them and make your own weight loss program work for you. I may be making a too general statement here but being determined to be healthier by eating and drinking with more awareness should lead to a healthier life and a more sustainable target weight.
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