The Most Common Mistakes Made With Diets For Weight Loss

We should probably start from the fact that we perceive diet only as a restrictive diet aimed at losing weight. Diet is actually a type of diet, tailored to certain features of the body, built for a purpose: for example, weight reduction, weight maintenance, avoiding the bad effects of certain foods due to a health problem ...

What are the most common myths about diets, aiming to reduce our weight and how much truth can there be in them in short?
 

1. Skipping breakfast will make me lose weight

Here lies one of the most serious misconceptions of those seeking to lose weight. By skipping meals, especially breakfast, we leave our body without "fuel", which is why it reaches for its own tissues to meet the energy needs of the brain. Even if such a restriction in the short term leads to weight loss, in the long run it will accumulate physical exhaustion, which will form a feeling of severe hunger and, accordingly, more abundant nutrition. In the long run, the body will begin to look for a way to protect itself from starvation and will use every calorie of food to accumulate reserves. What's worse is that in this process, there are major breakdowns in blood sugar levels, which causes insulin resistance, damage to blood vessels, inability of the body to expel harmful substances from the blood,

Statistical studies unequivocally show that when skipping a meal for the day, people reach out and eat mostly high-carbohydrate, fatty and high-calorie foods, so the effect of the missed meal is doubled or tripled. On the contrary, those who eat breakfast have and maintain a healthier weight than those who avoid breakfast.
 

2. Restriction in nutrition

Yes, you will really lose weight if you eat only two tomatoes a day for a week. But, apart from the fact that such a diet is extremely unhealthy, it is also ineffective, as we soon get tired and return to our old diet. Then, in addition to the previous weight, several additional ones are added.

These modes that work do not exclude types of food. Their essence is to correct certain elements in the diet, which in a longer-term effect achieves the desired body weight. It is true that it takes more time, but weight loss is not at the expense of health, it is more permanent, it is devoid of the negatives of drastic diets such as dehydration, loss of tone, the appearance of wrinkles and sagging areas.
 

3. Forbid your favorite foods

Most people love chocolate. Giving up chocolate and other sweet treats, french fries, cheese and sausage at the same time, you will feel punished. The truth is that very few people would survive in such a position and will soon reach out to them again uncontrollably and in large numbers. The correct diet does not exclude them at all, but only limits their amount to the permissible, distributing it at the appropriate time for consumption. For example, it is not a problem to eat chocolate once a week, but about 30 grams, and this portion is one of the two portions of products containing simple sugars for the week.
 

4. Do not eat after 20.00

In fact, it doesn't matter when you eat your overeating dinner - calories are your calories and they will stay in your body. The only advice from the point of view of the health of the digestive system is not to eat heavy foods before bedtime. A light dinner, even after 8 pm, cannot produce more calories and fat in your body than the one consumed earlier.
 

5. Some diets help to lose weight more than others ...

Unfortunately, there is no escaping our genetically transmitted structure. With our diet we cannot achieve purposeful weight gain in one part of the body and weight loss in another. When we lose weight, the process affects our whole body. If we aim to sculpt a certain part of it, we will get the effect with targeted specific exercises to improve muscle tone in this area, although this will not contribute to "melting" more fat there. In this case, you need to combine a good diet and proper exercise.
 

6. There are foods that melt fat

There are foods that absorb more energy from the body than they supply themselves. Such a product is cabbage. However, this does not mean that it or any other product will help reduce body fat. Instead of consuming certain products, it is right to focus on reducing the amount of calories consumed.

7. It is filled with carbohydrates

In general, one gram of carbohydrates gives twice as many calories as one gram of fat, for example, which in itself compromises this statement. It is very important when consuming carbohydrates, which are the main energy source for the body, to take into account two important features.

• It is not so much the carbohydrates themselves that can lead to weight gain as their combination with other nutrients, in particular fats. The delicious desserts offered by the food industry contain a high number of simple sugars and fats, hence the problem. But there are combinations that can work in our favor: for example, the combination of carbohydrates and fiber in the dessert provides slow breakdown and gradual release of energy, which maintains the feeling of satiety for longer, respectively, and eating is less frequent and the intake of calories total - reduced.

• A distinction must be made between types of carbohydrates. They are simple and complex. The simple ones are absorbed immediately by the body. Complex - on the contrary, which is again associated with prolonged release of energy and maintaining satiety for a longer time.

8. Exclude full-fat products ...

In fact, there is a significant subtlety here. Even if you exclude full-fat products, this does not guarantee you the intake of less fat. The amount of fat you consume is also important here. For example, it is not very useful to lose a bucket of 3.6% yogurt, for example, if you swallow two instead of even 1.5%.
 

9. You can't eat between main meals

On the contrary, snacks between main meals keep blood sugar levels stable and protect against "wolf hunger" - they help control and limit the amount consumed at once, ie the intake of extra excess calories. However, fruits, vegetables, unprocessed natural foods - such as a block of oatmeal, and low-fat lactic acid products - are suitable for this purpose.
 

10. Intensive training

It is true that a serious training regimen burns a lot of calories, but this can only make you feel more hungry and eat more. Moderate physical activities such as walking, including activities such as housework, yard and garden care, etc., are more effective for weight loss.