7 Dangerous Eating Habits Destroying Your Permanent Weight Loss
Humans are creatures of habit. Some habits are helpful in reaching a goal, others aren’t- and this applies to lose weight permanently too.
There are 7 dangerous eating habits that will destroy your ability to lose weight permanently. When you are reading through these, rate yourself where you are on each of it. So here they come (*):
- Meal skipper: often skips meals
- Nighttime nibbler: munches at night
- Convenient diner: eats out often
- Fruitless feaster: skimps on fruits and vegetables
- Steady snacker: snacks a lot
- Hearty portioner: eats big portions
- Swing eater: swings between being a dietary “goody two-shoes” and then lapses
Many of my clients try to solve all problems at once. That’s understandable- and often a baby step-approach is more helpful in the long run. So just pick the habit you’ve rated yourself worst at, and improve this one over the next 2 weeks. Then work on integrating the second and so on. In the long run, this will help you to lose weight permanently.
(*)From a book written for professional dietitians: Counseling Overweight Adults: The Lifestyle Pattern Approach and Tool Kit, Blatner, Kushner, Kushner
2 comments
This is really great advice. I do think it is hard to change all of our bad habits all at once and it is much easier to break it down like this. I believe that I will be focusing on adding more fruits and veggies for the next two weeks. Thanks.
jh
http://www.bodaweightloss.com
Great advice. The ‘white knuckle/will power struggle/all or nothing’ approach dooms anyone to failure. Minor changes are better and can help train your mind to migrate from a concsious effort to an unconscious habit. If you read my book, ‘The Untold Secrets of Permanent Weight Loss’, you can gain much more insight into how to stay lean, happy, and healthy well into old age.
Jim Cabeceiras
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