Health Talk 3

 If you have been doing everything possible without seeing results for your efforts, it could be that you are making some of the mistakes that is inhibiting your weight loss goals.

Are you exercising regularly?

Are you also dieting?

What could make doing any of the above not yield the expected outcome?

We are going to look at 7 reasons why all your “right” methods to weight loss may actually be wrong.

Here are the top 7 mistakes women make that stops them from reaching their goals.

1. Dieting – Starving Yourself

The most common way most women who wants to loose weight follow is by starving themselves of the foods they love. The truth is, initially you loose weight dieting. The downside to this method of weight management is that the fat that you seek to burn is not what you burn when you diet.

Instead you burn your muscle tissues thus making you flabby and not strong. You feel weak as a result of this method.

When you diet and loose muscle, your fat burning comes to a half as the muscle is the mechanism that helps in fat burning. When most of it is lost, you develop a very weak metabolism for fat burning and thus you tend to gain weight over a prolonged period as you will be forced to go back to the foods you have left. This time you will grow fatter than you were.

2. Doing Only Cardio Exercises

What type of exercise do you engage in? Is it just light exercises like running, jogging, and brisk walking? Cardio exercises are the least effective form of exercises that works.

If you want to get good result, then you must increase your metabolism more than the output that cardios give. In order words, you must engage in exercises that will help you burn more calories while you are doing the workout and will also continue to burn calories off your body several hours or days after you stop exercising.

Such exercises are high intensity exercises designed to work up to 48 hours after your last workout. An example of such exercise is squats. You can do several squats per minute. This will get your heart beat rate high and keep burning calories long after.

3. Skipping Breakfast

I’m sure you have heard it before that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The reason is this. When people sleep for eight hours or more, they have been fasting for that eight hours period. At that time, the body is starving for food nutrients to continue it’s metabolism, when it doesn’t get any, because you skip breakfast, it starts breaking down the muscle in the body for energy.

This is bad because the muscle is the number one organ for fat burning. When this happens, the body’s ability to burn calories is limited and slowed down such that other efforts to loose weight is minimised..

However, when you start the morning food with a healthy meal, you are less likely to overeat later in the day.

4. Dependence on Slimming Pills

Another approach that many busy women take is taking weight loss pills with the believe that these pills have the capacity to “miraculously” burn all the extra fat in the body. The industries promoting these pills have become so good with their advertising that the truth is shrouded by enticing promotion.

Truth is, there is no miracle weight loss pill that have the capacity to burn all the fat in your body without any form of activity on your own.

The only time you see women who have gotten in great shape thanks to a diet pill is on the advertisement for the diet pill.

5. Eating Out Most Of The Time

One of the problems of busy executives striving to loose weight is getting a good choice of a restaurant where healthy meals that enhances weight loss are served.

Most times, these food outlets don’t exist in your work place. To avoid the problem of eating junk while outside your home, you need to learn how to cook and bring it to your place of work in your flask. And in the few cases you can’t help it, ensure you watch the amount of calories you take and be selective in the foods you choose.

6. Eating Too Little

Three small meals a day is just the bare minimum for a healthy body. To succeed, you need to add 2 in-between meals of healthy snacks. This makes it a total of 5 meals per day. This doesn’t mean you are eating too much food, it simply means you are taking care to satisfy your body with all the healthy nutrients it needs to keep the fat burning muscles working optimally each day.

Of course, each course meal should be average size meals that you can eat without getting bloated. The 3 square meals should be regulated and shouldn’t be skipped if you are to achieve results.

7. Not Sleeping Enough

Did you read my last article on how sleeping late can affect you? Well little sleep, late night sleep and stress cause one not to lose weight. Have you watched your sleeping patterns lately?

Sleeping and having enough of it can help your goal of weight loss. If you are doing everything you can to lose weight but not getting the results you seek, use this list to cross check your activities to see if you are guilty of any of these mistakes.

The list above is not exhaustive, there are still more mistakes women make in their efforts to lose weight, that will be published in a future article.

From henceforth, commit to eliminating these mistakes one after the other and at the end of the day, you will come out with the dream size you have always wanted.