If you've been following my blog posts since the very beginning, then you'll probably get some of the mistakes that people often do in their diet. This time, I'm gonna list the most common mistakes, that might seem to be ordinary, but can be fatal to your body.
1. Deliberately Starving Yourself
People generally think that eating too much food can make them gain weight, so to lose some, they will cut back on their eating. Sometimes they even hold back their hunger and not eating. The truth is, starving can decrease your metabolism, which - and I've said this so many times before - will slow down your fat-burning process.
This will also cut off your energy, and make you feel like you're not fit and limp. Starving also means that your stomach is empty and your blood sugar has wear off, while at the same time, your brain needs it. This is why most people get dizzy, or - if it gets worse - they faint. The same thing happens to people who only eats once or twice a day to lose some weight. You should eat five to six times a day (yes, you're reading it right), with three meals and three snacks in between so that your metabolism stays high. You can read the meal plan to lose weight here.
2. Skipping Breakfast
People usually just skip it for several reasons, either they have no time to do it, or not used to eating in the morning. The fact is, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. After sleeping for about 8 hours without any nutrition, our body needs it on breakfasts and to get through the day with full energy. Skipping breakfast can make your body go catabolic, in which it gets the energy from our muscles.
3. Skipping Dinner
People do this under the assumption that they don't need to eat before they sleep. Well of course our body don't need many calories - especially carbohydrates - when we sleep. However, we need some proteins while we sleep, because at this time our body will produce growth hormone, and will automatically "fix" the broken cells within. It's better if you consume some protein about 2 to 3 hours before you sleep. Carbs only good as long as it's 4 hours before you sleep.
4. Not Eating after Sports or Workouts
People usually assume that eating after sports or workouts is a waste, because they burn so many calories already, right? What they don't know is that eating after workouts are the most important meal for our body to get the results! Imagine you're tearing down the wall in your room to repair it (working-out), and when you call a handyman to fix it, you don't prepare the bricks and the cement (not eating). If this goes on, your body will break down. It's highly recommended if you drink some protein and carbohydrate at least 15 minutes after a workout, and get some real food 1 hour after a workout to "repair" your body.
5. Not Drinking Enough Water
Fact is, not enough water can make your body hold back more water which can add additional weight into your body. It can also interfere with your metabolism and digesting system. Drink 2 to 3 litres of water daily.
6. Crash-Dieting
These kinds of diet are the ones that deliberately omitting one component to reach its goal, such as no-fat diet, no-carbs diet, or high-protein diet. This is not a balanced diet, and can be fatal to your body. The fact is, fat has got an important role in our body, which is to help the absorption of vitamins A, D, E, and K. If we don't consume any fat at all, then our body will run short of these vitamins, and can lead to some serious diseases. Not eating carbohydrates at all is also dangerous because our body needs it as energy sources, as does our brain need it to think. The best diet is the balanced diet, not the ones that omits one kind of nutrition that our body needs.
7. Have a Cheat-Day
Some people on diet have a cheat day to eat freely, and this usually happens on Sundays. Having these cheat day, is as if you're rewarding yourself after you overcome the six days of dieting. Diet is actually a lifestyle, and having a cheat day will program your brain that the six days before are days of hell. If you gone through this pattern, you will get tired of dieting, and eventually stops dieting. See it as some kind of lifestyle, and not as a requirement.
Well that's a long post, isn't it? Have you done any of those things? If you do, then change it RIGHT NOW. Simple mistakes in dieting can lead to some serious disease, and that's definitely not what you want.
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