A woman on a diet has many suitors. The weight loss world is full of companies and self-appointed experts competing for her attention, often spreading misinformation and making impossible promises. It’s so predictable. They just want to get into her… pocketbook. If you’re a woman struggling with weight loss, there’s a good chance you have heard some unreliable information, causing you to make a mistake or two. Just a bit of misinformation can make weight loss seem like a hard code to crack.
It doesn’t need to be as complicated as it seems. By learning about these mistakes, you can quickly unlock your potential and get back to getting results.
Let’s look at 6 need-to-know weight loss mistakes.
1. Starvation Diets.
If 1400 calories are good, 1000 must be better, right? Wrong. Your body needs fuel to burn fat properly. As strange as it may sound, if you cut your calories back too far, your body will actually begin conserving its store of fat.
2. Overdoing Cardio Training.
If there’s one mistake that most women make in common, it’s hours spent on cardio machines. While some smart cardio training (such as sprint training) can be beneficial for fat loss, there’s no need to chain yourself to the treadmill, bike, or elliptical. In fact, doing so can do more harm than good.
3. Overcomplicating The Process.
This is a big mistake that many women fall prey to is overcomplicated programs. Diet plans with a million rules and regulations only lead to confusion, demotivation, and eventually giving up.
4. Focusing On The Scale.
What do you see in the mirror and what does the world see at the beach? Do they see the way your body looks or the number that shows up on the scale? Most women focus on the number on the scale even though it isn’t always representative of the way they really look. If you exercise properly, you will build muscle and lose fat at the same time.
5. Emotional Eating.
Food can evoke both good and bad emotions and it is also a go-to when women feel anxious, depressed, angry, sad, or even elated. Women experience a variety of psychological attachments to different foods.
6. Eating Fake Health Food.
When health-conscious women hear that they need more protein or fiber, many will go to the store and load up on fortified packaged foods. More often than not, these fake health foods are appetite-inducing sugar bombs. What many women don't realize is that sugar is listed under a ton of different names and they all do about the same thing in the body, even earthy sounding ones like coconut crystals and organic agave nectar syrup.
Likewise, fat-free, sugar-free, high fiber, organic, and gluten-free foods can still make you fat. And because these products appear healthy, they're easier to rationalize eating in excess.
This presentation contains images that were used under a Creative Commons License. Click here to see the full list of images and attributions:
0 Comments