Reasons Why You're Not Losing Weight: The diet aspect

Diet

1) We delude our actual intake- We're often not honest in how much we eat. Just because we're not eating fast food we usually tend to over indulge in other areas. If you're eating a salad, but it has croutons on it or fatty dressing by the time all the condiments are added on, you might as well have opted for the hamburger, with out the bun of course.

2) We trick ourselves in to believing something is good for us- (this always gets my skin crawling) Just because it's fat free, diet, lean, 100 pack calories, or whatever absurd slogan the food companies have come up with DOES NOT MEAN IT IS HEALTHY FOR YOU!!! Those 100 calories frozen chocolate cakes are absolutely no good. They still loaded with sugar.

3) We skip breakfast- Skipping breakfast is not skipping calories. Choosing to eat a healthy breakfast will keep your hunger down through out the day. Don't over indulge though. Grain cereals oatmeal fruits and plain yogurt are a great way to start the day. *There is a diet that is very popular in the RKC community called the Warrior diet which is a complete contradiction to this. If you are burning considerable amounts of calories through intense training on a daily basis, this may be a diet for you to consider.*

4)We are not getting enough calcium- or correction we're not getting enough low-fat dairy. An article posted on Web MD studying three groups of mice on restricted calorie, high intake of low-fat dairy resulted "Body fat storage was markedly reduced by all three high-calcium diets,"

5) We eat way too much sugar- (this is a no brainer) The average American women consumes 158 pounds of sugar annually. The yogurt with the fruit at the bottom, the granola bars, the diet shakes, are packed with sugars. Again back to #2 don't be fooled by the gimmicks. Really understand what you are consuming.

6) We don't drink enough water- Besides curbing appetites, it also is shown to increase metabolism up to 70%. 8 glasses of 8 oz of water daily, more if you're highly active!

Foods we think are good for us, but really are not:

Diet Soda- you skip the calories, but your adding artificial sweeteners that are not naturally processed by our body. In addition caffeine in linked to hyperactivity, high blood pressure, and can affect your blood sugar. Drink flavored sparkling water for carbonation.

Granola bars- the only way those suckers are staying intact because they are bind with sugar and corn syrup, and once the chocolate is in there well you have yourself a candy bar. Make them yourself or just don't eat them at all.

Yogurt with the fruit at the bottom - 20 grams of sugar per half cup. Same with frozen yogurt. Get plain yogurt and add fruit yourself, if you need a little more sweetness add organic honey.

Fruit Juice- loaded with sugar! Eat or squeeze the real stuff on your own.

Fast food salads- anything fast you might as well consider not healthy. Some contain as many calories as the hamburger on the same menu. Cesar Salad dressing are 100% fat in most cases. Eat salads with olive oil dressings.

Peanuts and peanut butter (even the organic)- Besides high in fat and calories, the omega-6 fatty acids distort the Omega- 3 fatty acid benefits. Go for organic but pour off the oil that is separated at the top. If the remaining is too hard pour olive oil over it to loosen it.

Anything made with soy (this was a shocker to me)- "soy is linked to lower testosterone and increased estrogen in males, and is also linked to increased breast cancer in women. Soy also promotes hypothyroidism, thyroid cancer, and infertility just to name a few additional disorders. Phytic acid, trypsin inhibitors, toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines are all highly present in soy products. Infants in particular can be adversely affected in many negative ways from exposure to soy, including premature development in girls, and underdevelopment in boys. "

Educate yourself in what you are putting in your body!