Top 10 Diet Mistakes That Prevents Women From Losing Weight

Do you feel like you are in an endless struggle to drop your dress
size or squeeze into that sexy date night dress? Are you perplexed
that your consistent diet and exercise efforts have yielded less than
optimal results? You may think you are doing all the right things but
it's possible that the diet and fitness protocol you are following is
actually preventing you from reaching your goal weight and getting the
body you want. Read on for the 10 most common diet mistakes that
prevent women from losing weight.

1. Dieting Without Resistance Training

What is the most common way women approach weight loss? Crash dieting.
If crash diets worked, all women would be healthy and fit.

There are two huge problems with crash dieting. One, a lot of the
weight lost is muscle tissue. That means that even if you weigh less
and fit into smaller sizes of clothing, you are still flabby.

The second problem is even worse. Dieting slows down your metabolism.
The longer you diet and the less you eat, the slower your metabolism.
Muscle is your body's metabolism - when you lose it, you reduce your
metabolic capacity.

When you eventually get off the diet - and youwillget off - you are
bound to gain all the weight back in the form of fat. Worse, you will
likely end up gaining more weight than you lost.

2. Focusing On The Scale

What do you see in the mirror and what does the world see at the
beach? Do they see the way your body looks or the number that shows up
on the scale? Most women focus on the number on the scale even though
it isn't always representative of the way they really look.

If you exercise properly, you will build muscle and lose fat at the
same time. If you lose five pounds of fat and build five pounds of
muscle, the scale won't move, but you will look much better in the
mirror and your clothes will fit much better because muscle is more
dense and takes up less room than fat. The truth is, how you look and
feel has little to do with how much you actually weigh.

3. Focusing On Cardio

When you do decide to do some form of exercise, is it invariably some
form of cardio? Well, guess what? Cardio is the least important form
of exercise for getting a sexy shapely body.

The key to getting and keeping a great body is to increase your
metabolism. In other words, you need to focus on activities that not
only burn calories during the workout, but also cause you to burn
calories for hours and days after your workout.

4. Skipping Breakfast

You've heard it before. Breakfast is the most important meal of the
day. But did anyone ever tell you why?

When you wake up in the morning, you have been fasting for eight or so
hours. Your body is starving for nutrients. When you don't give it
any, it starts breaking down muscle for energy. This is bad because
your muscle is your metabolism. So you are literally destroying your
body's ability to burn calories.

Studies have also shown that if you eat a balanced healthy breakfast,
you are much less likely to overeat later in the day. And when you
start your day with a healthy meal, you are more likely to make good
nutrition choices from that point forward.

5. Relying on Pills

Diet pills are another common approach that women take to lose weight.
There are many different categories of diet pills, but few to none of
them actually work. The only time you see women who have gotten in
great shape thanks to a diet pill is on the advertisement for the diet
pill. A natural, common sense approach is the most effective, safest,
and longest-lasting strategy to losing weight.

6. Eating Too Little

Eating three square meals is just the bare minimum for a healthy and
fit body. You should be eating three meals and at least two healthy
snacks each day.
Most women eat too little. They skip or skimp on breakfast and then
often do the same with lunch. This leaves you running on fumes all
day. By the time dinner comes around, you are ravenous and likely to
overeat.

You end up having your heaviest meal at the end of the day when there
is little opportunity to burn off the calories. This is the perfect
recipe for gaining fat.

7. Eating Out Too Much

If your busy schedule or desire for convenience has you eating out
most of the time, you have little to no control over the foods you
eat. And simply put, you have little to no control over what you look
like and how you feel.

If you want to look and feel your best, you need to start cooking.
This doesn't mean you spend hours cooking gourmet meals - it meals
finding a delicious variety of recipes that you can put together in
cinch.

8. Emotional Eating

Food can evoke both good and bad emotions and it is also a go-to when
women feel anxious, depressed, angry, sad, or even elated. Women
experience a variety of psychological attachments to different foods.