3 Bad Diet Mistakes That You Should Avoid

Although there's so much info available about weight loss, the same diet mistakes are being made over and over daily. We are not talking about little slipups where you ate a slice of pie that wasn't on the plan, but big mistakes that results not to loosing the weight that you would like to lose. Understanding these mistakes can help you develop the attitude that will lead to lasting weight loss for you.

1. The All Or Nothing Attitude

All or nothing dieters will often choose a complicated diet that's almost impossible for them to maintain. They will search the kitchen for anything that doesn't fit the plan and throw it in the garbage before beginning. They plan to be the perfect dieters, and so they will be, for one day, three days, seven days or even a few weeks. Then, inevitably, something happens that means they can't keep to the diet one time. Instantly the whole thing is ruined in their eyes and the diet is over, going to the store and buying all the things that moved into the garbage last week and going along to gain back all the weight that they lost, as fast as possible.

You need to ask yourself some hard questions, if you're this kind of dieter. Do you really want to lose weight for good, or just drop off a few pounds so that you can enjoy putting them back on again? The way ahead is to make small changes to what you eat so that you have a slow but steady weight loss.

2. The Attitude of Sacrifice

Considering your diet as a period of sacrifice is another common mistake. You don't allow yourself the foods that you enjoy most while you're on your way to your target weight. You may have a neat diet plan and be really successful in losing weight, but what happens when you achieve your goal? Shortly after you start, you are likely to go out of control because you haven't learned to eat 'bad foods' in moderation. It's better to include a bit of everything in your diet and enjoying it in little quantities.

3. Goal Failure

Arranging achievable goals is critical in any weight loss plan. Goals should be clear, and naturalistic. Although you probably do have an ideal weight in your mind, unless you are only very slightly overweight it's probably far from being useful. A more valuable goal would be to lose (2) pounds per week for the first five weeks and then one pound per week after that. Some weeks you will lose more and some less, some weeks you may even gain, but if you track your progress on a graph you'll see that ups and downs are natural and don't stop you shaping up steadily towards your major goal.

If you have been making these mistakes, don't worry. The most significant point in dieting as in so many other things is to move on. Learn from your failures as well as your success and don't use a mistake as an excuse for giving up. Making a commitment to become a healthier person is the only way to achieve your goal permanently. You have every chance of keeping off these bad diet mistakes by learning how to enjoy food in moderation.