11. Being too focused on dieting
Diets almost never work long term. If anything, studies show that people who diet gain more weight over time.
Instead of approaching weight loss from a dieting mindset, make adopting health-promoting habits your primary goal. Examples include eating a nutrient-dense, balanced diet, exercising as much and as often as possible, and doing those things that make you happy on a regular basis.
Focus on nourishing your body instead of depriving it and let weight loss follow as a natural side effect.
Dieting is not a long-term solution. If your goal is to lose weight and keep it off long term, focus on adopting health-promoting lifestyle habits.
Also Recommended: Three Reasons You Should Never Diet.
12. Lack of motivation
Ahh this old gem, and one that I doubt any of us could say isn’t an issue, at least some of the time. What might help is to understand that motivation isn’t so much a result of a lack of willpower as you might think, but instead is affected by a huge number of other factors such as our blood sugar levels, how much sleep we had, how much we have worked good decisions into our regular routine, what resources are available to us, and how many other decisions we had to make that day.
Some great strategies to keep motivation chugging along consistently are to take care of your body, eating nutritious low GI foods, and moving on a regular basis. You also want to automate as many things in your day as you can so that you aren’t reaching “decision fatigue”.
An example of this might having a set meal plan, plus making the decision to walk every morning at 5:30 am no matter what, so that you aren’t going through the whole “should I get up now or later?”, “should I exercise today or tomorrow?”, “should I exercise this morning or this afternoon?” dilemma every morning. That’s three decisions you’ve just saved yourself.
Recommended Read: The Ultimate Guide To Morning Habits!
