So you are eating healthy, exercising and still not losing any weight. It's so demoralising doing the right things and not seeing any results but could you be falling into one of the common mistakes people make when trying to lose weight? Keep reading as I dissect the most common errors people make and then you can decide where you're going wrong. The main focus on this article is that you're doing the right thing wrong; changing your lifestyle and diet is massive. But fine tuning this to ensure success is a small change that shouldn't put off your weight loss ambitions. You've done the hard work now just adjust it to get your body burning away that fat!
Firstly let's have a look at diet. You are eating healthy, getting enough fruit and vegetables, you have reduced your sugar intake and are eating lots of healthy fats. But are you still keeping track of what you eat? Healthy fats still contain a fair amount of calories. One gram of fat contains approximately nine calories compared to four calories for one gram of protein and carbohydrates. So if you simply swap in fat for carbs but don't adjust the amount you eat you will be over doubling your calorie intake! But don't despair; firstly it is unlikely that you have swapped fat for carbs at the same weight you are probably just not checking the label well enough, and secondly fat will make you feel fuller - so there's no worries about remaining hungry.
Staying with diet; are you keeping track of what you drink? If you drink anything other than water you are consuming some amount of calories (or chemicals if you're drinking "Zero Calorie" drinks). Think about that coffee with milk and sugar, what about that fizzy drink with lunch, or that pint after work. All of these add up.
Do you eat out a lot? This is another very common mistake. Although there is a shift in behaviour from restaurants and they are becoming far more transparent about the contents of their food, particularly calorie content, there is still some degree of guess work involved in ordering from a menu. Next time you eat out check out the calories at home after (if they don't have them available while ordering) you'll be surprised!
Now exercise... There is one of three things you could be doing and they include; over doing it, under doing it, and doing it right! If you're doing it right, bravo. If you are under doing it then simply do more or eat less! The real and most common is over doing it. Doing too much exercise and not eating enough will result in you losing weight initially but as your body starts to break down lean muscle for fuel and store what you eat as fat, at some point you will stop losing weight (or at least it won't stay off). The best way to correct this is to monitor it more, be really honest, and only try to drop 500 calories from what your body needs per day.
So hopefully if you have been struggling to lose the weight you have now identified yourself a being in one of the brackets above and can now make the small changes needed to really kick your weight loss into gear. Personally, if you take anything away from this article it is don't give up just because it's not working straight away. You've done so much hard work changing your lifestyle and diet just persevere a little more and you'll soon start seeing results.
Pav Bryan - Owner & Coach
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