It is a common practice, and many of us are guilty of it. We forgo eating all day long, because we know we’ll be eating out that night, or that there is a special event coming later in the day and we want to be able to eat whatever we want. However, is this type of planning actually derailing your diet? Let’s take a look at just a few reasons why this mindset is not healthy, and may actually be counterproductive.
1. You’ll end up eating more.
If you don’t eat all day, and are suddenly faced with plenty of food, it is all too easy to eat way more than your recommended amount of calories, and worse, you may never even realize how many calories you’ve had. Remember, 3500 extra calories equals one pound of fat. At some special events or dinners, it is all too easy to get more than 3500 calories on a single night.
Because you went hungry all day, your body’s blood sugar levels are off. This can also cause you to eat more, simply to get regulated. There is no point in starving yourself for a day, and then try to make up for it at night, it’s just too rough on your body.
2. It puts you in the wrong mindset.
Right off the bat, you’re preparing to cheat, and in a big way. Many people feel that it is all right to have that big dinner, especially if they didn’t have any calories all day. But once again, we go back to the point that you do end up eating more, usually much more than you intended.
By sticking with that “it’s ok to cheat” mindset, you may be hampering your future progress on your diet. If you’re not making those lifestyle changes that will stick with you, the chances of future success and being able to keep your weight off do decline dramatically.
3. You can end up in a bad cycle.
Once your body gets used to fasting during the day, and eating whatever you want at night, it’s all too easy to get into a bad cycle. You may find that you’re tempted to do this more than once, and before you know it, you’re back to making excuses and falling into the wrong mindset. A diet is much more than food control, it’s also about being able to control your mind, and your food cravings.
By allowing yourself this much wiggle room, and setting yourself up for behaviors that are hard to change, you’re making your diet needlessly complicated, and chances are, over time, you’ll be disappointed with your results.
Instead of fasting all day, even when you have a special event coming up, eat as you normally would. You may even want to have a healthy snack before you go. Your blood sugar won’t be sending off signals that will make you want to eat everything in sight and you’ll end up being able to successfully avoid even the dessert tray. A way to fight eating too little during the day is eating many small meals during the day.
Photo Credits: 1
Originally posted 2008-10-27 05:58:26. Republished by Old Post Promoter
Related Posts - Review: Eat this, Not that! Thousands of Simple Food Swaps that Can Save You 10, 20, 30 lbs or More! by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding Title - Eat this, Not that! Thousands of Simple Food Swaps that Can Save You 10, 20, 30 lbs or More! Author - David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding Format - Paperback, 304 pages ISBN - 1594868549 and 978-1594868542 Publisher - Rodale Books Release Date - December 10, 2007 Can you......
- Saint Tropez Diet By Apostolos Pappas, PhD. The Saint Tropez diet has gotten it’s fair share of press, most likely due to the fact that it’s another one of the diets that claims that eating the right food will make your body do all the work so you don’t have to. But is that claim rooted in......
-
Five Ways to Start Eating Better Right Now Sometimes it is too easy to make excuses about eating the right foods. Whether it’s simply inconvenient, we feel that eating healthy deprives us, or the lure of unhealthy food is too strong, we end up putting off eating right until it may be too late. Here are five easy...... -
The Holidays Are Coming - How to Stay on Your Diet The most wonderful time of the year is almost here, but for thousands of dieters, this is no time for joy. This is a time of dreading holiday parties, of adding ten pounds or more to their frames and generally being miserable. The holidays don’t have to be synonymous with...... -
Why Do Diets Fail? The diet industry is a multi-billion dollar machine that keeps churning out new diets, new hope and new hype every single year. If diets were so effective, there would be no need to keep coming up with new methods and new diet plans, but the sad truth is, the vast......
Related Websites - Why P2P Lending is Not a Substitute for High-Interest Savings As with other money-making vehicles in this economy, high-interest savings has taken a major plunge. It's still much higher than what I was earning before, but it's not the impressive 4% returns that we were seeing even a year back. Because of its dip, some people are looking for other...
-
4 Things to Know about Pregnant Dogs [caption id="attachment_196" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Is your dog pregnant?"][/caption]If you've never owned a pregnant dog before, the new challenges can seem a little bit overwhelming. Not only do you have the specter of a dog in your house, you have the added twist that your dog will be producing puppies within...... -
Money diet Bubelah had a funny idea the other day as we discussed diets: saving money is basically like dieting. You try to deny yourself something in the present for the sake of future gain. With money, it's saving now for security and independence in the future. With dieting, it's avoiding more...... -
How to Become Prosperous the Easy Way For many, the concept of prosperity is foreign and unreachable. If you are stuck in a dead end job or your bills haunt your sleep, it’s easy to feel as though you will never be able to break free. As the baby boomer generation nears retirement, it has become essential...... -
Lladro Collectibles Collectibles -> Decorative Collectibles -> Lladro-> Figurines When you look at the beauty and grace that is customary with Lladro collectibles, it’s hard to believe that the company originally specialized in jugs and basic kitchenware. It wasn’t until the mid 1950’s that the three original founders of the company, who......
Time the change your life? No longer content to live a sedentary lifestyle and revel in couch potatoism? Click here to download the 31 page the 100% FREE eBook "How to Lose Weight and Maintain a Healthy Lifestyle."
Categories:
Meals, Weight Loss Journal, diet, food, healthy eating
Tags:
0 comments ↓
There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.
Leave a Comment