Why your diet doesn’t work!

Have you ever find your self on some sort of diet and yet none works at all? Here are few reason that your diet doesn’t work.

1-You are picking the wrong diet

The diet that leaves you feeling resentful and frustrated is never going to work long term.
•Anytime you are picking a diet or someone asked you to follow a meal plan, you need to ask what about maintenance phase?

– Any diet/plan does not come with a maintenance phase is a quick fix; always check out the long-term maintenance phase.
If there isn’t one or you can’t see yourself sticking to it forever, power walk away. Saying that you can’t reach to your goal eating fast-food and chocolate bars, in order to change your body you have to exchange some of those bad habits to good ones, to you might want to give up on sodas and replace them with water.

Is it easy? Absolutely no. Does it worth it? YES.

2-You have eat too many cakes

Meaning you eat WAY too many cakes and candies.
It’s not bad to have your cake and sweets but remember they are treats NOT FOOD.

Get your proper nutrition first, stay active during the day, do your exercise and when you all done that treat yourself.

3-You are not realistic

•Don’t go from zero to hero.
Dropping 10kg in 2 weeks, or being able to go to gym twice a day every day of the week when you have a big family to look after is not realistic,
Know your schedule and plan accordingly, a healthy life style is there to make the other aspect of your life enjoyable, not to leave you miserable and exhausted.
It won’t work, and if it does its not sustainable, you will end up tired and disappointed, learn every step slowly and by heart.

The best is to start with basic such as: Drinking more water,
Eating less junk food,
Being more active.

Take progress photos, you will be surprise how much they can help, not only that but they are a great motivators when you are feeling tired and disappointed.
At the end of the day no one can motivate you better than knowing how far you have come.

4-You are switching plans too fast.

Jumping from one diet plan to leap straight into an other will throw your body in to confusion and set you on a destructive downward spiral of YO-YO dieting.
Studies show this often leads to more and more weight gain over time as the body clings onto calories and the mind gets caught-up in an increasing sense of failure.

Take progress photos, on weekly bases, if your body doesn’t react start with changing one thing at the time, if you have a coach ask her/him to advise you, and make sure you are following 100%.
You should at least give a plan between 2-3 weeks to be able to see if it works or not, remember 2-3 weeks of full commitment to the plan is key.

5-You aren’t moving enough

Apart from burning calories during exercise, there are multiple benefits and one of them is keeping active. Even a 30 min walk each day will really make you more likely to stick to your diet.

6-You don’t understand food

Small amount does not mean fewer calories all the time, understanding your plate mean you need to understand what your body needs. If you are new in this you might ask professionals to help you with that.
Take sometime to learn all the food and their benefits once for all. When you look at your food in a way that they should provide more than just taste, the way you pick them will be completely different.

7-You are binging

You are on a rabbit diet – you eat only salad – on the weekdays, and all the pizza and beer and donut on the weekend. Learn how to have balance.

If you like a certain food learn to include it to your daily intake, 20g chocolate a day never hurt anyone and to be honest it might actually stop you from eating a whole cake on the weekend.

8-You don’t need diet at all

It’s so easy to get caught up in the spin of wanting to look model-skinny and to be prepared to jump through all sorts of dietary hoops to get there.
If you are not making these changes for yourself you might actually dig a little deeper and ask why you’re not making YOU a priority?

Ask yourself:

“Is weight gain a real problem for you or could you be chasing an impossible ideal?”

Be sensible about what you consider to be your ideal weight. Everything changes as we grow older and it is healthier – mentally and physically – to aim for happy and sustainable body weight and shape rather than some random number you remember being happy at when you were in your teens or early twenties.

The goal should be to feel energetic, strong and flexible rather than being hungry. You can learn to find and adopt a realistic mindset by making a few well-advised changes such as cutting back on alcohol and increasing your vegetable in-take. Sometimes all you need is a little self-correction.