7 Mistakes Keeping Your Leaner Body Away

Common diet misunderstanding can derail your best efforts to get back into that preferred pair of jeans. If your weight drops off only to bounce back up, there’s a high probability you could be making one of these 7 weight loss mistakes.

1) Betting on a Crash Diet
Bent on losing 10 pounds quickly, you turn to a deprivation diet. Perhaps your plan calls for eating nothing but grapefruit or cabbage soup each day. You decrease your daily calories to fewer than 1,200 and sure enough, the pounds melt away. But when you consume such a low number of calories, you train your metabolism to slow down. Once the diet is over, you have a metabolism that burns calories more slowly and gains weight faster than ever before.

2) Not Eating Breakfast
Not Eating breakfast seems like a reasonable way to reduce calories, but the outcome can be an insatiable hunger throughout the day. This may lead to carefree snacking at the office, making your calorie count soar. But breakfasts that are high in protein and fiber can reduce your hunger throughout the rest of the day. In fact, studies show people who eat breakfast every morning are more likely to have a healthy weight.

3) Drinking Too Many Calories
When counting calories, many of us tend to overlook what is in the drinks. This can be a huge mistake when you consider that many alcoholic beverages contain more than 500 calories. Even the calories in soda will add up quickly. What’s unfortunate is that liquid calories don’t reduce hunger. You are not going to eat any less after a high-calorie drink.

4) Drinking Too Little Water
This is the simplest diet gaffes to fix. Water is needed for consuming calories. If you let yourself get dehydrated, your metabolism drags and that means slower weight loss. Researchers show adults who drink an ounce of water for every two pounds of weight of water per day burn more calories than those who drink less. Add a glass of water to each meal and snack.

5) Ditching Dairy Products
Milk, cheese, and ice cream are not allowed for many dieters, but removing dairy foods may be undermining to your efforts. Some suggests the body consumes more cellulite when it gets enough calcium and produces more cellulite when it’s calcium-deprived. Calcium pills do not appear to yield the same benefits, because dairy products have other compounds at work as well. Most dietitians recommend sticking to nonfat or low-fat milk and yogurt.

6) Jumping on the Scale Every Day
Jumping on the scale daily is a recipe for frustration and doesn’t yield useful information. It’s more important to look for a long-term trend with (bi-weekly weigh-ins. If your goal is to lose 1 pound a week, you will be satisfied to see those full-pounds drop when you step on the scale. The outcome is more motivating than the confusing swings that may accompany less than weekly weigh-ins.

7) Not Exercising
Not exercising will place the entire burden of weight loss on your diet. If you become more active, you can eat more of the things you like and still lose weight. It is important to find an exercise you like. If running around a track seems tedious, try biking or dancing, all consume more calories than walking. Try several different activities until you find one you can do regularly.

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