Diet saboteurs: foods and habits to avoid to really lose weight
Are you perpetually on a diet, but can't lose a pound or do you feel like you're regaining pounds in a flash? There is obviously something wrong with your diet or your eating habits, and you may not necessarily be aware of it.
Here are 8 diet saboteurs: foods and habits that may not seem all that harmful, but that turn out to be the number one enemy for those who want to lose weight in a healthy way!
1. The balance
Are you convinced that keeping your weight under constant control can help you lose weight? You are wrong! Constantly checking the scale is counterproductive and generates only anguish and nervousness (which, you know, will be easy to unload again on food). Our weight varies for many reasons and fluctuations of even a couple of kilos between one day and the next can have different causes. Weigh yourself only once a week and at the same time!
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2. Light foods
Here are the great saboteurs of the diet: light foods. These foods, sold as dietetic, contain artificial sweeteners that stimulate the brain's craving for sugar and are addictive. The foods, then, considered "diet" are often processed and lead to an increase in blood sugar, as well as containing many very unhealthy additives.
3. The fruit
Fruit seems to be a friend of the diet but, if consumed in excess, it becomes completely counterproductive! As it is known, in fact, fruit contains a lot of sugar, as well as very useful mineral salts, water and vitamins. So try never to consume more than a couple of portions a day and substitute them for sugar or in place of dessert ...
4. The salt
Salt makes you thirsty, sure, but it also makes you hungry. Very hungry. According to scientists, the increase in salt in the body would activate a particular system of preservation of internal fluids, which allows it to be eliminated without dehydration. The energy required by this process is a lot, and hence the increase in hunger. to flavor your dishes by giving up an excess of salt? Bet everything on spices!
5. Lack of sleep
If you sleep badly, or at least too little, the hormones responsible for weight gain are affected: hunger increases and so does the desire for high-calorie foods. On the other hand, if you have not recharged your batteries sufficiently, it will be necessary to find an "other source to recover energy" and get to work ... So try to defeat insomnia and chronic fatigue and recover the right hours of sleep! The line will thank you.
6. Skip meals
Are you convinced that skipping breakfast or lunch will help you reach a healthy weight sooner? You are wrong: the only effect you will have will be to make your body even more in need of sugar and salt, resulting in a good binge in the next meal. Better to eat little, but frequently and - above all - on a regular basis On the other hand, what's better than eating weight loss? Here are some food-breaking tips:
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7. The alcohol
What will a glass of wine be like as an aperitif? Then maybe I eat less for dinner ... Nothing more wrong: alcohol is extremely caloric, brings about 7 calories per gram, causes water retention and fat accumulation in the area abdominal. If you are really willing to lose weight, replace the glass of the aperitif with a good tomato juice!
8. Haste
Haste is the saboteur par excellence, in everything. Diet included. If you set yourself impossible weight loss goals, you will end up discouraged: do not expect to lose 7 kilos in a week, as certain bogus diets promise ... it will not take you anything to recover them like nothing had happened! Slowly losing weight, on the other hand, will help you maintain the results you achieve longer.
