Showing posts with label diet tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diet tips. Show all posts

Five of the Worst Diet Tips for People Wanting to Lose Weight

Nothing drives me crazier than seeing and hearing people be misinformed when it comes to nutrition.

In fact, it is dangerous that so many of us have been fed diet tips that are categorically wrong, have no context and are often purely designed to sell a rubbish product.

I hate the word diet as it is synonymous with a short term solution and something that is never sustainable. if you want it to work long term, it needs to involve real food and it needs to be something you can maintain forever.

We all need to stop looking for a quick fix or magic bullet that simply does not exist.

With this in mind, here are 5 pieces of diet advice I constantly see, hear and read that are absolute garbage.

Carbs are the enemy
Carbs get a pretty bad rap when it comes to weight loss, especially when diets like keto really grew in popularity. You don’t need to cut carbs out altogether if you want to lose weight and in fact, I highly recommend that you don’t.

Carbs are a macronutrient that give us energy, they’re our bodies preferred fuel source and complex carbs contain fibre and release energy slowly to keep our blood sugar levels stable.

You can out-train a bad diet
Unless you’re an endurance-based athlete or you train for hours every day, you’re probably not burning as many calories as you might think.

Especially if you sit at a desk from 9-5. Regardless of whether or not you smashed a morning HIIT session, if you then sit for the remainder of the day and make multiple trips to the pantry for a Tim Tam, you probably won’t be in a calorie deficit.

Shake diets are healthy
The reason shake diets work, short term is that they’re extremely low calorie. However, you’re usually not losing fat.

These quick fixes result in a loss in water weight and often muscle too which sucks people into thinking that they’re the perfect solution.

In many instances, you end up putting the weight back on... and then some.

Don’t snack
Mindless snacking can absolutely hold you back from achieving your weight loss goals, however eating small, healthy snacks can be a great way to curb your hunger, keep a handle on your portion sizes and encourage you to make better food choices

If you avoid snacking and end up completely ravenous, you’re far more likely to overeat at your main meal times or give in to less healthy options.

Fat makes you fat
The sugar industry did a great job in hiding the starring role sugar plays in weight gain, amongst other negative health effects.

Instead, fat became the enemy and clever marketing tools drilled into us that going low-fat was the way to go. That simply isn’t true. Low-fat options go through additional processing to make them ‘low fat’.

This often involves adding sugar or other additives to replace the flavor and mouthfeel of the fat. Good fats promote satiety, releasing hormones that give you that satisfied feeling and stop you from overeating.

All of these popular, quick-fix solutions never work long term. They’re restrictive, they’re not enjoyable and they’re simply not sustainable.

The good news is that you can lose weight, keep it off and actually enjoy the process without needing to go on a diet. Eat real food, be mindful of your portion sizes, move your body every day and remember- food is to be enjoyed, not counted.

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Article Resource: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/five-of-the-worst-diet-tips-for-people-wanting-to-lose-weight-c-1059724

8 mistakes I made while trying to lose weight

I went on my first diet around five years ago. Over the past four and a half years my weight went up and down as I tried every diet and exercise program under the sun. Nothing seemed to work for me. Until six months ago I enrolled in a weight workshop which taught me that I need to change the way I look at food. It was then that I realized that I had made many mistakes in my quest to lose weight.

In this article I’m going to share with you eight  mistakes I made on my quest to lose weight. I hope by sharing my experiences with others throughout the world via the internet I might be able to help people avoid the mistakes I made. So, here are the eight mistakes I made while trying to lose weight.

1. I started to skip breakfast
Most people trying to lose weight believe simply eating less and skipping meals helps shed that fat. And breakfast is a real easy meal to skip. This is one of the biggest mistakes you can make when on a weight loss diet. If you leave the house in the morning on an empty stomach you’re much more tempted to eat more at morning tea and lunch times. And, calories you eat at breakfast time are easily burnt throughout the day.

2. I would eat one day and not the next
I would literally eat about 2000+ calories one day, feel guilty, and end up eating about 700 calories the following day. If you “starve” yourself throughout the day you’re much more likely to eat more in the evenings, which is not going to help you lose weight. You should consume most of your calories in the morning.

3. I bought diet food
When I went shopping I always looked for the foods marked diet, low-fat, healthy etc. This is a good practice to get into, but I was buying these foods for the wrong reason. I bought these foods because in my mind it meant I could eat more. I would totally disregard portion size. If you eat diet foods in large portions you’re not doing yourself any favors.

4. I thought I’d always be on the heavy-side
This is mindset that you must break if you want to lose some serious weight. Sometimes it feels like you’re doing the right things and not making any progress, this is totally natural. You need to focus on being happy and healthy and achieving your goals. Try not to get caught up in “the big picture”.

5. I started eating salads as main meals
Eating salad is a good way of keeping your calorie intake down right? Yes, meal of salad has much less calories that a pizza but does it have the satisfaction? When you eat you mind needs to get some satisfaction from what you have just eaten. I found that when I ate salads for meals a few hours later I was back in the fridge looking for more food. I learnt that I was better off eating a balanced meal with slightly more calories than simply eating a salad and snacking afterwards.

6. I started my new diets on Mondays
When I found a new diet that I decided I was going to try I always started it on a Monday. This meant I would eat all weekend like I was never going to eat again. Doing this I was just setting myself up for failure.

7. I was to embarrassed to go to the gym
Taking the plunge and joining a gym was one of the hardest things I ever did. I was always worried that people in the gym would be staring at me and talking about me. I really thought I was too fat to join. My advice is to join a gym! You’ll be glad you did. I look forward to going to the gym now.

8. I set my goals to high
Setting long term goals is great, but these goals always seem to far off. You need to set smaller, more reachable goals that you can regularly meet to keep your motivation high. Set yourself weekly, monthly and three monthly goals. Once you meet one short term goal set a new one for next week.

So there you have it, those are the mistakes I made. I now look at weight loss from a totally different perspective and it has paid off. I now help others with weight loss and keeping healthy. I also like to recommend you check out the 2 week diet system - which has really helped me to eat healthy and burn fat at the same time without sarving myself.

Resources:

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