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Why
You Will Never Lose
Weight
Unless You Avoid These 3 Bad Diet Mistakes At All Cost
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Dr. Steve -
Dr.
Steve,
I
have been on
numerous diets and never seem to keep the weight off.
What
am I doing wrong?
Jennifer
T.
Kalamazoo,
MI
Jennifer,
Over my
many years of
patient care I have seen that many people trying to lose weight appear
to make
3 common mistakes in their quest to be slimmer. So
here are the 3 most common mistakes made by
people on a diet.
3
Bad Diet
Mistakes To Avoid At All Cost
Even
though there is
so
much information available about weight loss, the same diet mistakes
are being
made over and over every day. We are not talking here about little
slipups
where you ate a slice of pie that was not on the plan, but big mistakes
that
lead to failure to lose the weight that you want to lose. Understanding
these
errors can help you develop the attitude that will lead to permanent
weight
loss for you.
Diet
Mistake #1.
The All or Nothing Attitude
All
or nothing dieters
will often pick out a complicated diet that is almost impossible for
them to
maintain. Before beginning, they will search the kitchen for anything
that does
not fit the plan and throw it in the garbage. They are planning to be
the
perfect dieter, and so they will be, for one day, three days, seven
days or
even a couple of weeks. Then, inevitably, something happens that means
they
cannot keep to the diet one time. Immediately the whole thing is ruined
in
their eyes and the diet is over. They go to the store and buy all the
things
that went into the garbage last week and proceed to gain back all the
weight
that they lost, as fast as possible.
If
you are this kind
of dieter you need to ask yourself some tough questions. Do you really
want to
lose weight permanently, or just lose a few pounds so that you can
enjoy
putting them back on again? The way forward is to make small changes to
what
you eat so that you have a slow but steady weight loss.
Diet
Mistake #2. The Attitude of Sacrifice
Another
common mistake
is to view your diet as a period of sacrifice. You do not allow
yourself the
foods that you enjoy most while you are on your way to your target
weight. You
may have a great diet plan and be very successful in losing weight, but
what
happens when you reach your goal? You have not learned to eat 'bad
foods' in
moderation so as soon as you start, you are likely to go out of
control. It is
better to include a little of everything in your diet and learn to
enjoy it in
small quantities. Yes, even chocolate!
Diet
Mistake #3.
Goal Failure
Setting
achievable
goals is vital in any weight loss plan. Goals should be clear,
realistic and
set out in writing. While you probably do have an ideal weight in your
mind,
unless you are only very slightly overweight it is probably too distant
to be
useful. A more useful diet goal would be to lose two pounds per week
for the
first five weeks and then one pound per week after that. Some weeks you
will
lose more and some less, some weeks you may even gain, but if you track
your weight
loss progress on a graph you will see that ups and downs are natural
and do not
stop you from progressing steadily toward your major weight loss goal.
style="font-family: Tahoma;">If
you have been
making these mistakes, do not worry. The most important point in
dieting as in
so many other things is to move on. Learn from your failures as well as
your
success and do not use a mistake as an excuse for giving up. The only
way to
achieve your weight loss goal permanently is to make a commitment to
become a
healthier person. Remember that eating normally includes eating more
some days
and less others. Learn to enjoy food in moderation and you have every
chance of
avoiding these bad diet mistakes.
Dr.
Steve has over 25 years professional experience
guiding thousands of people to live healthier and happier lives.