4 Eating Habits That Could Be Preventing You From Losing Weight

Are you not seeing the results of your personal training program? Here are 4 eating habits that could be undermining your weight loss efforts.

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Achieving and sticking to a healthy body weight is crucial for maintaining both physical and emotional well being, as well as disease prevention. In fact, excess weight has been associated with an increased risk of:

• Heart disease
• High blood pressure
• Diabetes
• Sleep apnea
• Osteoarthritis

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4 Habits That Are Undermining Your Weight Loss Efforts

If you’re trying to lose weight, you’ve probably started to eat less, work out with a personal trainer, and avoid fat. Maybe you’ve done all of this and you still aren’t reaping the benefits of your hard work. Or perhaps, you’ve had short-term results, but the weight keeps coming back and you feel stuck.

Here are 4 common mistakes that can easily undermine all your weight loss efforts:

1. You Eat Processed Food Instead of Whole Foods

It’s a well-known fact that losing weight is about eating less but if what you eat less of is still the same processed food, then you’ll have a hard time shedding those pounds. When you’re on a weight loss journey, many personal trainers advise that you stay away from processed foods because they’re:

• Loaded with sugar
• Low in fiber
• High in trans fats and oils
• Addictive

In today’s busy society, resorting to convenient and processed foods allow individuals to feed their body in a time crunch. Although such foods provide energy, they are not nourishing and can hinder all your hard work when it comes to weight loss.

 

2. You’re Depriving Yourself

It can be very easy to fall into the food restriction trap when embarking on a weight loss journey, but recognizing realistic expectations is key to slimming down. Don’t deprive yourself of everything you love, just keep your little splurges in moderation.

REMEMBER: Dieting isn’t about perfection, it’s about balance. So if you love chocolate, eat a little. If you love wine, drink a little. Just make room for the calories by passing on something else, such as bread. In other words, it’s about prioritizing, not depriving yourself.

 

3. You’re Not Watching Your Portions

Portion control is an important part of any healthy diet and eating a proper amount of healthy food will supply your body with all the essential elements without exceeding your daily requirement of calories.

There are other benefits of watching your portions including:

• Reduces your tendency to binge eat
• Improves your digestion
• Saves you money
• Makes you feel full faster
• Helps you achieve a healthy glucose balance

 

4. You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep

It has been found that sleep deprivation could hinder fat loss and lead you to feel hungrier because of higher levels of the hormone ghrelin. This means that you’ll manage to lose more weight when you get enough sleep because:

• You’ll feel less hungry
• You’ll have fewer cravings for junk food
• You’ll be less tempted to overeat

REMEMBER: Poor sleep dramatically alters the way your body responds to food and along with eating right and exercising, getting quality sleep is an important part of weight loss.

 

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