5 Common Diet Mistakes
by Mary Jones - March 21, 2010
The common diets mistakes are not the small slip-ups but big mistakes that often lead to failure in maintaining healthy diet and losing weight.
Some Good Diet Habits
1. Always eat your breakfast and keep it simple.
2. Do not drink on an empty stomach.
3. Try not to miss your daily exercise.
4. Set realistic targets for yourself.
5. Try to note down your calorie intakes daily.
6. Make veggies an important part of your diet.
7. Check your weight regularly.
Interestingly, the same diet mistakes are made over and over every day by health-conscious people. Understand the following five diet failures and keep a healthy lifestyle:
1. Skipping Breakfast
This is one of the foremost and most common mistakes made by most of us. Never skip breakfast or you will end up eating a lot of unwanted stuff till the lunch time.
Maybe you are trying to cut down your calorie intake or are just in a hurry, but try never to leave your house without a full breakfast.
2. Taking In Liquid Calories
What you drink in your breakfast will play an important part in your weight loss. Glasses of orange juice or a frothy coffee drink may provide more calories than a plateful of food. Moreover, these liquid calories will not keep you full like real food does. So, avoid sugar-sweetened sodas, bottled drinks, and sweetened coffee beverages.
Instead eat fruit, low-fat yogurt, or string cheese, which will keep you full for a longer time. Resist junk food and go for the right energy bar that can also do the trick.
3. Depriving Yourself of Food
Staying away from food will be OK for a few days, but one day, you will lose your will power and start eating everything left in the house that isn't a fruit or vegetable. You will then experience strong cravings for the treats you are accustomed to.
4. Blaming Your Genes
You compare yourself to your mom and put the whole blame on the genes you have inherited, thinking you can’t do anything about it. But this is not true at all. Everybody is different.
5. Making Unrealistic Goals
Setting unrealistic and hard-to-achieve goals can only de-motivate you further from keeping a good healthy diet. Make sure your goals are clear and realistic.
For, example, a more realistic goal would be to lose only a little per week. Remember that some weeks you will lose more and some weeks less.
Last edited by Harpreet Bhagrath on March 28, 2010 - 17:01 | Write to author: Mary Jones |
