1. Forget to track what you eat and drink. One of your kids has used your measuring cups to mix paint, your kitchen scales are broken and you’ve lost your food journal. What’s a woman to do? It’s just too much to manage, so you continue to guess your serving sizes and don’t track how many portions of food you have each day.
2. Ensure that at least half your diet consists of junk food. You just haven’t had the time to buy fresh food from the supermarket. And, even if you have, you’re too tired to cook. In fact, you’re more tired than not and what’s wrong with a quick snack of pizza and some full fat ice cream between friends?
3. Refuse to exercise. After all it’s too hot, too cold, too humid, too foggy, your exercise gear is in the wash, the dog’s sick and you don’t want to leave him on his own… What more is there to say?
4. Exercise inefficiently. What technique? Why bother to build muscle? Surely the fact that you’re lifting the weight is enough! The muscle you’ve already got will burn any calories you eat. For that matter, why bother to change your exercise routine around, either? You’ve always been happy with what you’re doing, so why mess with a good thing? After all, you’d have to give up reading your magazine if you had to sprint on your exercise bike. All in all, it’s far better to just peddle away slowly.
5. Forget to drink water. You like caffeinated coffee anyway, the stronger the better. You’re also fond of your glass or two of wine each evening. After the day you’ve had, you deserve a treat.
6. Eat your kids’ leftovers. Waste not, want not. In any case, you still remember your mother telling you about the starving children in China…or was it Africa or India? Somehow, eating everything on your plate was going to make a difference to the amount of food they had for their meals. Why should you change anything now you’ve grown up?
7. Snack on high GI carbs particularly at 4 pm. You’ve had a rotten day..a disgusting week, in fact, and you need a sugar hit to stay balanced on the mental and physical merry-go-round you’re on. You’ll just have another cup of caffeinated coffee to carry yourself through the slump after you’ve metabolized the sugar.
On the other hand, if you’re seriously into eating healthy to lose weight, you may like to check out these online resources:
Strip That Fat contains a very good diet with an exercise regime plan. The program also includes an excellent online menu generator. Check this post for my review.
The Fitness Model Program and Truth About Abs also cover fat loss diets but have an additional focus: developing noticeable muscle tone. Both programs include comprehensive notes and DVDs.
