.
Weight Loss Bad Habits
These 3 May Be Responsible for Your Failure
.
Finding it hard to lose weight? Sometimes, no matter how strict your diet is and how hard you keep on working out, losing weight can still be an uphill struggle.
.
However, this shouldn’t be a reason to give up on all your health and fitness goals for the year. Quite the opposite! This should, in fact, give you a lot more drive to achieve all the goals you have set yourself.
.
Losing weight and getting leaner isn’t impossible – but it does take quite a bit of time and effort! If you break the following habits, you will find that you start losing a lot more weight.
.
.
.
.
Weight Loss Bad Habits #1
Stop Being Unrealistic With Your Goals
.
When we first think about the goals we want to set ourselves, we think of ones that are totally unrealistic and unobtainable.
.
For instance, you are never going to lose two stone in a month, so there is no point telling yourself that you will!
.
Sure, you will be highly motivated once you start your new healthy lifestyle, but that is no reason to give yourself ridiculous targets. There is no way you will achieve them, and that will only make you very frustrated.
.
Instead, set yourself smaller goals that you know are totally achievable. Each time you hit a small goal, your confidence will be given a nice little boost to motivate you even more!
.
.
Weight Loss Bad Habits #2
Stop Underestimating How Much You Eat
.
.
If you haven’t lost any weight at all, there is probably one big reason why that is.
,
And that will be because your diet hasn’t changed all that much and you are actually underestimating how much you are consuming each day.
.
Are you checking the calories for everything that you eat?
.
If not, you need to start doing so right away! You might be surprised to find that it is a whole lot higher than you had been telling yourself!
.
.
If you find it incredibly difficult to shrink your calorie intake on your own, you could always speak to your doctor about the possibility of getting a mini gastric bypass.
.
.
Weight Loss Bad Habits #3
Stop Sitting Down All Day
.
.
Most of us lead very sedentary lifestyles these days. That is because we all work in offices and just sit in front of a computer all day. This is not good for your body at all!
,
Did you know that all the non-exercise movement that you do all day can go towards 30% of the calories you burn off through the day?
,
As you can see, it is very important to get as much non-exercise movement as possible! So try to take a break from sitting at your desk every hour. Even if it is just to walk over to the water cooler and grab a drink, every little helps!
.
And rather than having lunch at your desk, why not leave the office for your lunch hour? The fresh air and walk will do you a lot of good! You will come back to work feeling very refreshed, and will have burnt a lot of calories!
.
.
.
