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certain medical and nutritional experts, weight loss is a science.
For the rest of us, the challenge of losing weight necessitates
understanding nutrition. It exceeds following a diet free of carbohydrates.
Review the top weight loss blunders everyone commits:
1. Following
a diet that is NOT a weight management program geared for the
rest of one’s life. For example, the low carbohydrate diet is
not nutritionally balanced enough to follow as a lifetime eating
plan.
2. Obsessive weighing
in may lead to disappointment which triggers ditching a diet.
Try to weigh yourself once a week.
3. Calorie counting
miscalculating serving sizes. Aside from natural foods like
fruits and vegetables, it is a challenge to keep up with the
caloric value of many cooked or processed foods.
4. Over-indulgence
of starchy foods like breads, potatoes, pastas, proteins, lean
meats, fruits and vegetables
5. Consuming pre-packaged
foods, processed foods opposed to fresh ones
6. Forgoing breakfast
7. Consuming inappropriate
fluids coupled with i Insufficient doses of water and consumption
of sugary beverages (sweetened iced tea, lemonade, gourmet soft
drinks, and juices high in fructose) are serious diet saboteurs.
8. Over-indulgence
in food portions.
9. Depriving the
body of food all day as a means of losing weight
10. Consumption of
second servings of foods and meals
11. A negative attitude
about dieting
12. Failure to follow
a healthy weight management plan
13. Lack of nutritional
knowledge – failure to learn about the benefits of a well balanced
diet or modifying eating habits results in the cycle of yo-yo
dieting
14. Eating salads
and vegetables with excessive salad dressings and oils
15. After breaking
a diet with a bad food, binging and deferring the diet for another
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