Where Did My Diet Go Wrong? Wrong Food
We’ve been talking a lot lately about what can go wrong with your diet, but one of the most obvious things I intentionally left out until now is avoiding the wrong food.
In any diet, you should have a good and organized meal plan,
But aside of the meal plan, you should be aware of the foods which can really harm your diet.
There are two main categories of wrong foods: The obvious ones and the ones you don’t know of.
With the obvious ones, there is the fast foods, the sweets, the snacks etc.
The problem with fast food is not the type of food you eat but the quality of the product and the way it is being cooked.
For example: eating a big hamburger in a whole meat bun, if you cook the hamburger in the oven instead of frying it, you use fresh lettuce and vegetables and you don’t use a lot of gravy, you have got a decent meal.
I’m not suggesting eating such a meal every day, but it is definitely a legitimate meal.
On the other hand, when you eat the same meal “fast food style”, you get a lot more calories, much more oil, lesser quality vegetables and white bread.
And this is how you turn a not-so-bad meal to a calorie bomb.
You have to really understand this concept of fast food and avoid it at all costs.
The problem is that consuming fast food is easier then cooking your own meal.
It’s not easy to change, but this is something you must cross it of your list.
The same goes for sweets and snacks. There are good substitutes for those, use them!
Energy bars, granola snacks and all kinds of low fat snacks are everywhere,
You just need to get those available to you when you crave a snack.
As for the wrong foods you don’t know about: this is a much bigger problem.
During a diet we sometimes need to improvise, especially when we’ve been at it for a long while.
You find yourself improving your meals and switching some ingredients around.
While this is a good idea which can help you enjoy your diet,
You have to be very careful with it.
There is always a good reason to why a meal plan is the way it is - so pay good attention to what you are adding and how it affects you meal or your entire meal plan.
For example, some people love eating everything with ketchup,
It’s not a problem as long as you know how many calories it adds to your meal.
I once found myself eating a specific sauce which that was as high in calories as a third of my main meal.
It took me a month to realize that I’m eating a lot more calories than I planned.
To sum up, try to be very aware of what you’re eating so you won’t make you diet harder with no good reason,
In a diet, the right information is priceless.
You can read more about dieting psychology HERE
Good Luck,
David
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