If You Want To Lose Weight, Avoid These 3 Mistakes

Looking to lose weight? Slimming down can be a great way to feel better about yourself. Just imagine yourself zipping up your skinny jeans effortlessly, looking in the mirror and thinking 'Wow!'

In order to get there, you'll probably want to choose a diet and change your eating habits, at least for the first few weeks. While the diet you choose is up to you, dieters can easily make certain mistakes that sabotage their weight loss.

In order to lose weight fast and avoid weight loss pitfalls, here are 3 common dieting mistakes to avoid:

#1 Avoid Getting Overly Hungry

Ok, maybe a little stomach rumble isn't bad. But there are some diets that are so low in calories you are constantly stalking around feeling like a lion, ready to pounce on anything that looks edible.

Getting overly hungry can lead to binge eating and breaking your diet. It's not just a lack of willpower. There is a physiological reason behind it. Your body thinks it's starving - and it sets up powerful cravings and urges to eat to try and force you to feed it.

If you want to lose weight, you will have to cut back - but avoid cutting back too much or you may break your diet and end up binge eating.

#2 Avoid Fad Diets

We all love to read those crazy fad diet promises: "Lose 20 pounds in a week!", "Drop 3 Sizes Overnight!", "Lose 3 lbs of Belly Fat in 3 Hours!".

The problem is that these claims are not physiologically possible. So you have to ask yourself - what kind of crazy tricks do you have to do in order to get these results?

Will you be losing water weight (and get overly dehydrated)? Will you have to go on an ultra-low calorie diet that will cause your body to burn lean muscle mass instead of fat? And will you be able to maintain this diet for any length of time?

Fad diets can be dangerous physically. But not only that - they can seriously mess with your head. They can distort what you know to be 'normal' eating and make you think that taking a few pills with lemon water is 'normal' or that drinking nothing but juice all day is a sustainable diet.

While it may be fun to read about fad diets - if you are serious about losing weight, it's best to avoid them and stick with a balanced, safe diet that has been proven to work.

#3 Avoid Choosing A Diet That Will Take A Lot of Time

We all know someone who's done it - they read the latest diet book and decide to change their entire way of eating. Maybe they decide to eat all raw foods or maybe they stock their freezer with the latest low carb ingredients and prepare to become a low carb gourmet chef.

But you see them a month later and they are back to their old ways. Why? Not because the diet didn't work - but because they didn't have the time to spend learning these new ways of eating.

There are tons of diets for you to choose. And each one is different. If you have lots of time, you can certainly choose a diet that is very different and requires a lot of your time to learn.

But for most of us, we just don't have the time. While we may have grand ideas of becoming a raw food gourmet or a vegan chef, it's not realistic. And it's far too easy to slip back into your old ways.

So instead of choosing a diet that requires a lot of time to shop and prepare the food - or a diet that requires you to spend an hour writing down what you ate, etc. choose a diet that disrupts your life as little as possible.

That may mean choosing a diet delivery service where the food is made for you. Or it may mean taking the way you eat now and making small changes over time to healthier versions of your favorite food.

But the easier a diet is - and the less time it takes - the more likely it is you will stick to it and have success. Then you'll be zipping up those new skinny jeans in no time!

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