Ways To Fail Any Diet When Trying To Lose Weight In 2 Weeks

If you’ve decided that this time you aren’t going to let your weight loss plans fall apart and you are going to meet your goal quickly, effectively, and make it permanent. Congratulations are in order; obviously you now can magically keep that weight off forever even though you’ve failed several times before. Many of your friends or family members might tell you that the reason you’ve failed several times before is that you didn’t want it bad enough or you weren’t motivated to succeed. This theory is that if you make the commit then magically you now can, but it only gets things half right. If this isn’t your first time trying to lose weight it’s obvious that you DO care about losing weight and you are motivated. So why doesn’t the magic work for you? The reality is that there is no magic cure for weight loss but there are some great tips that can help you reach your goal. There are many little roadblocks that have likely gotten in the way of your goal before and you may not even know they exist.

Probably one of the largest reasons why your diets have failed to stick has been that you are just being too rigid. You can’t go from eating 3000 calories a day, with 3-4 cans of soda and a bag of chips, to only 1600 calories and no junk food ever, not even as a reward. It’s okay to be flexible and keep certain pleasures, in moderation, during your diet. If you want to treat yourself once a month to your favorite restaurant then go for it! You’ve been working hard and although one bad meal may put you behind a little it will not ruin the diet. If you sustain from occasionally eating the goodies you crave for months, then eventually you will decide you’ve had enough and give up on the whole diet. Using what you loved before your diet as a reward system can keep you from giving up on the diet altogether.

If you are trying to cut too much of your daily food intake you may also be sabotaging your weight loss goals. Your body needs a certain amount of calories in order to keep it out of starvation mode unless under the strictest guidelines by your doctor or Personal Trainer. It is generally recommended that if you are a male you consume no less than 1500 calories and 1200 calories for a female. It is also an important note that if you were eating 3600 calories a day as a male, it would be very hard and unreasonable to drop all the way down to 1500. Make baby steps so you don’t feel so hungry all the time and end up surrendering your goal.

Don’t look at this as another ‘diet’ but instead refer to it as a life change. Diets tend to have a connotation associated with them that they are temporary and that once you reach your goal you will revert back to old eating habits. This is why you often regain weight after a diet, you didn’t make a permanent change and so there was no way it was going to stick around in the long-term. The last bit of advice I will give you is to make sure you incorporate healthy exercise as regular routine to complement your change in diet, because without it you are not likely to succeed. Talk to a family member who exercises regularly or better yet get involved with a Personal Trainer who can help you make the positive health changes with exercise that will help your ‘diet’ succeed this time. Stop failing your diet plans and starting life your permanent healthy life change.