Are you happy with your weight? The majority of people aren’t, and would prefer if they lost a few pounds, but there’s a problem. A lot of the information about weight loss is confusing in the best case, and outright contradictory in the worst.
If you’re struggling with your weight, you’re probably falling into one or more of the common weight loss “traps” described below.
Fad Dieting
It’s easy to understand why.
When you don’t see immediate results, you start looking around for the next fad diet, and you usually don’t have to wait long before it appears. Then, you move to that one, which totally changes your eating style, and the cycle begins again.
Finally, after a couple months worth of diet hopping, you just stop altogether, and your body pays you back by making you crave all the foods you’ve been denying yourself while experimenting with the fad diets. Whatever weight you lost gets put right back on and in a few months, you try again.
Extreme Dieting
When this happens, your body goes into crisis mode, and starts converting whatever calories you DO give it into fat, which is exactly the opposite of what you want to happen!
Not Enough Exercise
Diet is important, sure, but exercise is just as important. Unfortunately, that’s not what most people want to hear, because let’s face it, exercise just isn’t very much fun!
There’s an easy way around that problem though, and it amounts to flipping the script.
Don’t think of exercise as exercise. Instead, pick some activity you enjoy doing, or something that you’ve never tried before, but sounds like it would be fun. The only catch is that the activity in question must have a physical component. It could be just about anything though. Hiking. Walking. Swimming. Tennis. You name it. As long as it’s got a physical component and is something you enjoy doing.
Then, just start doing more of it. You won’t rebel against it because it’s fun, and you won’t actually think of it as “exercise” even though it is!
If you can avoid the Big Three most common dieting pitfalls, you can hit your ideal weight with ease, and keep the unwanted pounds off in the long term.