Do you make these common weight loss mistakes?
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Do you make these common weight loss mistakes?
Don’t jeopardize your journey. Many don’t realize that they follow myths. Common weight loss myths find their way into diets and other programs. As a result of the spread of these ideas, people make mistakes that can either make it more difficult to burn fat or possibly harm their health. Hence, it’s important to avoid making these mistakes when starting your weight loss journey. Here are three major fat loss mistakes that could be stopping you from losing weight:
Eating smaller more frequent meals
The idea behind eating smaller meals leads to a calorie deficit. And, although there are circumstances (like bodybuilding) where having smaller meals leads to positive outcomes (muscle building, consistent energy for workouts), these often make fat loss more difficult.
Why this is the case:
Improper digestion: One of the several reasons that this is not a sound meal timing plan is it prevents the body from digesting the food properly. Every time you put food into your digestive system, it has to work to digest it.
Insulin spike: Some people may not be aware that the reason behind the body storing or burning the calories from the food is governed by hormones not just by the amount of calories we eat. Insulin is among these important hormones——when it rises as a result of eating, your body goes into fat storage mode. Meaning every time you eat, even if you do not eat much, your body goes into fat storage mode.
Constant Hunger: Satiety is crucial to maintaining a diet. If you cannot stay full, and feel hungry the majority of the time, you run the risk of hurting your body. Or, like most people, you might find that you cannot continue with this meal structure and you relapse to your old eating habits.
Eating refined/unrefined carbohydrates
Carbohydrates can be beneficial also for bodybuilding, and strength sports or intense exercise. However, this harms your progress with fat loss and makes it unnecessarily difficult.
Why this is the case:
Insulin spike: Carbohydrates and sugar of any kind will cause a sugar spike in your body. This will raise insulin which in turn puts the body in fat storage mode. This is an oversimplified explanation, however, no amount of sugar or carbohydrates helps you with weight loss.
Energy dip: As insulin goes up, sugar levels go down. This causes you to feel tired and exhausted. This is what we call ‘sugar crash’ or reactive hypoglycemia.
Cravings: Carbohydrates do not satiate your body. Eating carbohydrates will cause you to crave eating frequently——especially carbohydrates and sugar.
Calorie counting
Calories have little to do with weight loss. Counting calories is among the most common and unhelpful practices in weight-loss. Many coaches, and nutritionists spread the ideas of tracking our macro nutrients and their calorie content as a method for weight-loss even though it can be harmful.
Why this is the case:
Nutritional ignorance: counting calories tells you nothing about the nutritional content in the food——you don’t know what the food will do to your body if you only look at calories.
Harmful caloric deficit: when you only focus on calories and ‘eating less, moving more’, you ignore how your body responds to the food you eat. If you eat primarily carbohydrates, and eating less than your body burns per day in calories, you may lose muscle. This is without mentioning the hunger, exhaustion and just how unsustainable this is.
Harmful foods: when only counting calories, this means that eating any food is allowed as long as it is less than your daily caloric maintenance. What this does is encourage unhealthy eating habits, instead of fixing the root problem behind weight gain and weight-loss.
Who else wants to avoid these common mistakes and lose up to 50lbs?