Are You Making Any Of These 3 Diet Mistakes?
Have you tried diet after diet only to find that you aren’t losing the amount of weight you expected to? If you find yourself caught in a cycle of yo-yo dieting then you’re probably making big dieting mistakes without even realizing it!
The best diet plan in the world means nothing if your attitude towards your diet is wrong. That’s why today you’re going to learn the 3 biggest dieting mistakes that can stop you from losing weight and getting in shape. After reading through these suggestions take some to consider the impact they may be having on your own dieting attempts.
Aiming For Perfection
With so much media influence and the depiction of the “perfect body” strewn all over papers and magazines it’s easy to see why people feel they need to meet a certain standard. However, this way of thinking is flawed! It can mean you take the all or nothing approach to losing weight and getting in shape.
This means you end up pursuing a diet which is heavily restrictive and demanding. On top of this you place huge emphasis on yourself to meet your targets. The problem is when you’re pursuing a heavily restrictive det you’re going to feel deprived meaning you give into your food cravings which then leaves you with a sense of worthlessness.
Avoid this by pursuing a sustainable diet and not being to hard on yourself. Avoid going from one extreme to another and remember that nobodies perfect, it’s OK to make the occasional dieting mistake. If you find yourself on a diet that you can’t stand then it simply isn’t the diet for you. You want a flexible diet that doesn’t leave you feeling deprived.
Diets Are A Temporary Fix
Another common dieting mistake is only turning to diets as a band-aid! It may be that someone just wants to lose lots of weight fast for an upcoming event, or party and don’t plan to sustain that diet after the initial weight loss. Whilst this is OK, it’s not the best approach to your diet plan.
The problem is when you pressure yourself to lose weight as a temporary measure you may find that you end up picking a heavily restrictive diet in a mad bid to lose weight. However, when you’ve completed the diet you’ll soon find yourself slipping back into old habits and piling back on the pounds.
