You almost not eating, doing exercise until exhaustion, but those extra pounds in no hurry to leave, and pointer on your scales treacherously frizzed. “Why am I not losing weight? Maybe I have broken my scales.”- such thoughts visiting everyone who is wishing to lose weight. And men have these thoughts as often as women. Where is laying the secret of losing weight? Although, the mistakes are not obvious, they can be identified.
Mistake 1. Your biggest meal is in the second half of the day
There are, of course, people whose weight is independent of meal times, but the rule “suppers give to your enemy” has not been canceled.
If, however, from dinner to give you do not want to or cannot, remember that all meals from dinner should be the “meager” and no later than 2 hours before bedtime.
Mistake 2. You eating by bits
You often have to try the food on taste, which is preparing for the family. You feel sorry for throwing food, and you eats it after the child. In the kitchen, your hands are stretching to nip off a piece of bread lying on the table. Stop! Your extra calories may be here! Surplus of calories, which prevent you from losing weight. To find out, maybe it is your misfortune, measure your energy consumption, carefully recording and analyzing all that you eat.
Mistake 3. You often eating while you reading or watching TV
Carried away by the process of reading or watching television, without noticing it possible to eat too much.
Mistake 4. Hidden calories
Despite the fact that fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads – are the diet products, they should not carry you away. Like any other product, they do contain calories, which in this case can be ‘taken in excess” without being noticed.
Mistake 5. Hidden Fats
To lose weight, we refuse to eat butter and milk, but forget about products that contain many hidden fats, because not always the presence of fat in the product is obvious. It is easy to be caught on it especially if you have you launch in cafeteria. For example, will never know how many spoons of butter were put into porridge, or how much it was poured into a salad.
Mistake 6. Hidden Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates can also be not noticeable. For example, a large number of it can be obtained in such dietary products as juices.
Mistake 7. Do not be scared of the growth of muscles
With intensive training fat “burns”, but at the same time muscles are growing. Although your weight may remain the same or even grow, you should not be panicking.
Mistake 8. You do not drink enough water
Water is needed to “burn” fat, synthesize protein, and wash away the products of metabolism. Therefore, you need to drink at least 2 liters a day.
Mistake 9. You do not sleep enough
Studies have shown that healthy people who slept for 6 days from 4 to 7 hours a day, their levels of glucose and insulin were above normal. Besides a deep sleep contributes to the development of growth hormone in the body, burns calories and reduces weight.
Mistake 10. You eat less than you need
Same amount of food eaten at one time or divided into several stages will have different impact on our figure. Do not forget that the split meals promote better digestion and less fat deposits. Infrequent meals can cause a constant hunger and more hearty meal, when you are finally eating. That is why you should be eating by frequent but small portions.
Mistake 11. You eat too fast
Increasing the speed of eating, you will not notice that you have eaten more. The slower we eat, the less amount of food we need to be full – a sense of saturation does not come same moment. Eat slowly, slowly chewing and savoring every bite.
Mistake 12. You eat same products
Monotonous diet leads to the fact that the body can start feeling deficit of variety of substances such as proteins, vitamins, trace elements. As a result, the appetite will be stronger, will always arise a desire to eat. Remember that you can lose weight and a balanced diet.
Mistake 13. Do not make corrections on the rate of metabolism.
All of us have different rate of metabolism. It also varies depending on age, time of day, state of the organism and other factors. The higher rate of metabolism, the faster is the loss of weight.
What will help speed up the metabolism:
- Bath, sauna, hot tub
- Contrast douche
- Sports, fitness, any movements
- Sun and fresh air
- Massage
- Vivid emotions, feelings
- Sex
- Stress standing
- Products such as: tea, coffee, hot peppers, grapefruit, lemon and seaweed, as well as folic acid in green vegetables with leaves, in yeast, liver, etc.