Health Tips

Have you fallen for one of the many dieting fallacies that sound so plausible yet stop your weight loss program in its tracks? Checkout my top five below:

One. Eat less and lose weight faster.
Sounds very logical and it’s easy to skip breakfast to shed weight quicker but it doesn’t work. Eating too little sends your body into starvation mode causing it to shut down fat loss and burn muscle for energy which is the last thing you want. Know how many calories you need as a minimum and don’t drop below it!

Two. I’m fat because I’m wicked so I have to punish myself to get thin.
There’s nothing wicked or wrong about being fat, it’s just that you hadn’t learned how to eat healthily then so don’t punish or abuse yourself and don’t be too strict either. Have fun, follow a diet you like and treat yourself when you can.

Three. Eating late at night puts more weight on.
I don’t know where this comes from but it’s not true: it doesn’t matter when you eat, it’s what you eat that counts.

Four. Exercise is for losing weight fast, you don’t really have to do it.
Exercise, even simple walking, burns calories and is vital for losing weight, keeping it off and for a healthy body. It is not an add-on to a diet, it is a vital part of it.

Five. Eating fat makes you fat.
Find out about ‘good’ fat that you need to eat and ‘bad’ fat that you don’t. Eating fat will not make you fat, as such, but don’t eat too much because it packs in the calories and saturated fat is bad for you. But remember, some fat, like Omega-3, is vital to stay healthy.