5 Bad Habits For Weight Loss

Even if you consider yourself a healthy eater, chances are you have some habits that are doing you wrong. Many of the habits you consider the healthiest are actually keeping you from losing the lat ten pounds. Here are a few well-intentioned things that you may be doing which are keeping you from weight loss :

1.You are a calorie hoarder.  Monitoring your calorie intake is absolutely essential to lose weight, but if you count your calories through the day and then splurge at night you are doing yourself harm. Even if you stay within your allotted amount of calories per day, eating a large amount of them at night has been proven to prevent weight loss and may actually be making you gain weight. A better strategy is to eat your calories throughout the day so that your blood sugar levels are stable and your body has time to burn off most of the calories before you turn in at night.

2.You aren&undefined;t accurate when counting calories. People consistently underestimate the amount of calories they consume. We tend to think that if we are having a healthy snack such as fruit, nuts and yogurt that we are only eating a hundred calories or so and tend to write it off as a “healthy snack”. By doing this you may be consuming as much as 500 or more calories a day without even knowing it. In the course of a week you could be gaining a few pounds instead of losing. Try keeping a detailed food journal with an accurate calorie count of every single thing that goes in your mouth.

3.You set short term weight loss goals . Although goals are always good, short term ones aren&undefined;t ideal. It has been estimated that only 20% of dieters successfully keep weight off for more than one year. This is usually because after people reach their goal, they let their healthy habits slide and put weight back on. By having long term goals and changing your way of life for good you will lose weight and keep it off.

Although you may have good intentions, some habits are not always pointing you in the right direction. Set long term goals instead of crash dieting, make sure you have a realistic and accurate portrayal of what you eat, and eat smaller portions more times throughout the day to see weight loss results.