What gets your diet off track? There are numerous reasons why a person can never seem to lose weight and here are a few of the most common reasons why:
- You skip breakfast. Studies confirm people who eat breakfast lose and maintain their weight more than breakfast skippers.
- You go on starvation or fad diets which puts your metabolism in starvation physiology, shutting it down and making it even harder to lose weight. Or you may just feel deprived all the time which usually ends up working against you.
- You eat for emotional reasons. No diet in the world fixes emotional eating. Only by recognizing and acknowledging your feelings and the underlying needs will you conquer this form of over eating.
- You don’t plan ahead. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." The healthy food items are not available and guess what choices you make?
- You don't keep healthy food in your immediate environment (including work and social situations). If your house has mostly junk foods around no one can resist tempting foods. If it’s there you will eat it. Even if you are buying these foods for your kids, do they really need these foods?
- You do not make your self a priority when it comes to getting healthy. The usual statement is you "don't have the time." You make the time for good health.
- And this is the hardest one to swallow. Are you simply just too lazy to do any of the work involved it takes to lose the weight?
In order to fix a problem you need to acknowledge it first.
I am lazy... that is my problem. I acknowledge it... but I don't know how to fix it =(
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