If you are currently on a weight loss diet, there are some important things that you need to think about. While many fat loss diets will work well enough, there are some that throw up some major red flags. While the promises it makes to you in terms of weight loss may be tempting, if the overall diet lacks certain requirements, the results you experience are going to be short-lived.
Here are the top weight loss diet red flags you need to make yourself aware of and avoid at all costs.
cutting out all the foods you enjoy
First of all, and this is a big one in terms of following a weight loss diet, if you remove all the foods you enjoy, you will not be successful.
Let’s face it – deprivation sucks. Duration. If you can’t seem to eat any foods that you enjoy – or even find some that are delicious, then you’ll have a hard time following the diet as it’s prescribed.
Either you will cheat it from time to time or you will give it up completely and put back the weight you already had.
Unless the diet includes food that will make you feel satisfied, it is better to skip it.
diets that eliminate complete food groups
As far as your diet is concerned, next on our list of problems are diets that eliminate entire food groups.
This goes hand in hand with the above to some extent, but consider the more nutritional side of things.
Even if you’re trying to lose weight, if your weight loss diet cuts out entire food groups, chances are high that you’re not getting the nutrition you need.
While getting off those five pounds is obviously something you want to do, if it’s at the long-term sacrifice of your health, you might want to reconsider.
diets that do not provide enough protein
Third, if you aren’t getting enough protein in your diet, it’s your best to stop immediately.
When we diet, we are at great risk of losing precious muscle mass; Muscle mass is what’s going to increase your basal metabolic rate, therefore allowing you to eat more calories each day and still maintain your weight.
Ideally you should be taking in 1.5 grams of protein for every pound of lean body weight you have, but I recommend one gram per pound as a minimum. If you can’t find it, you better make some changes – fast.
Diets That Don’t Allow For ‘Life’
Ultimately, the last thing a diet needs to be effective is an allowance for just a few occasional indulgences. If you can never go out for a fancy meal with your significant other again or have a slice of birthday cake on your best friend’s birthday, that doesn’t really sound like a diet.
Sure, there will be those who choose not to and are perfectly fine with it – but any good diet will require you to only be ‘on’ 90% of the time, leaving the other 10% for ‘fun’ foods. Give
If you can’t get results without 100% adherence all the time, then the diet isn’t built entirely right.
So, take a look at your current diet, does it match the bar?
Source by Shannon Clark
