5 Mistakes That Might Be Preventing You From Losing Weight

If you've been trying to lose weight, you've probably started to eat less, exercise more, choose "diet" foods, avoid fat, or eat breakfast. Maybe you've done all this and you're still not happy with what you see in the mirror. Or you've had short-term results, but the weight keeps coming back and you feel stuck. To be able to lose the weight for good, it's important to understand that both well-intentioned diet advice as well as lifestyle habits can really hinder your success, sometimes on a very subtle level. Here are five common mistakes that can easily undermine your best weight loss efforts. 1. Eating processed or artificial foods instead of whole foods It is very common to go on a diet and still eat lots of processed foods. You've probably heard many times that losing weight is about eating less. But if what you eat less of are still the same processed foods, you'll have a hard time losing the weight. In fact, some studies have shown that a given amount of calories from processed foods will lead to about 50 percent less calories burnt after the meal than the same amount of calories from whole foods. This means diets that feature a high proportion of processed foods may be a contributor to weight gain and may be preventing you from losing weight. Similarly, it has been recently suggested by research that artificial sweeteners modify the microbiome in our gut. And even though these sweeteners contain zero calorie, these changes in the gut are responsible for both hi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news