Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Habits Are Dieting Challenges

When it comes to dieting there are several challenges that want to prevent you from succeeding. One of those is your habits. Habits have a nasty way of interfering with your weight loss goals. You can break the habits!

Habits are a good thing as long as they help you reach your goals. Unfortunately in many areas of life you may have developed some habits that do not benefit you. Since we are dealing with dieting and weight loss here we will focus on habits that make it more difficult to reach your dieting goals.

Maybe you can identify with this habit – watching TV or movies for hours. Hum, this does not contribute to fat lose or the building up of muscle but rather leads to muscle loss. Muscle loss further slows your body’s metabolism which reduces your bodies ability to burn fat.

Now do you just sit there or do you eat while you watch. You know the munchies, something to keep your fingers busy and your jaw a chewing! Yea, well that is another habit that does not lead to further weight loss.

You likely have other habits that will limit your fat loss goals also. If you stop and think about it for a few moments you can probably put your finger on at least one or two more areas that your habits control. Even if you do not identify with the above habits think about your own – yes you do have them – be honest with yourself.

These types of habits are major road blocks when it comes to losing weight. When you start the diet you have some initial will power and you do okay for a short period of time. But before you know it your habits start getting in the way again.

To be honest with you this is probably the biggest reason diets fail. Yes diets usually fail because of you! Bummer, the truth about yourself does not always make you feel better does it.

The biggest challenge is finding a system that can help you achieve your goals but even beyond that you may find that you need help with bigger issues like making mental changes that can lead to new habits.

A great diet you can follow for quick weight loss is a calorie shifting diet. It is a strange diet but if you want results that is what it offers. You can also learn about beating your habits at lose 15 pounds fast.

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