During January 2009 Google search result for the words “weight loss” is 12.100, while people only typed “weight gain” for 1.300 times. What doest it mean? It means that people are desperately seeking the fastest, the easiest, and the most effective ways to lose their weight, but at the same time, they forget the root of the real problem: weight gain. We can successfully lose some weight after certain period of time, however without knowing the real problem of weight gain, we will regain the weight we have desperately tried to lose, probably even faster than when we lose it!

So, what is the real problem here?

We already know that eating habit has the biggest influence in overweight problems. That is why, the main component of weight loss program is diet or eating management. These are ten wrong eating habits that can regain your weight if you don’t try to change it,

Habit #1 - Eating as an obligation

How do you spend your meal times? Do you sit on a table, eat your food slowly while enjoying the taste? When you see eating as an obligation, you tend to take any food available at that time, and you must eat it without spending too much time, cause you have a lot of more important jobs to do than lunch! No more consideration about the food quality, nor the quantity. This will lead to excess eating or unhealthy food intake.

Habit #2 - Fast foods

At this digital era, things seems to be faster and faster everyday. We all must move quicker than before to catch the world. Eating becomes a time-consuming activity, and people simplify it with fast foods. We all know how bad fast foods are! No matter how busy you are, stay away from fast foods! You can prepare your own lunch from home, some sandwich with whole wheat bread, tuna salad, yogurt dressing and cucumber will be a tasty and healthy choice. See...it’s not that difficult, you just need to improvise.

Habit #3 - Eating for pleasure

There are people who make eating as a hobby. They eat to chase the satisfaction. This kind of people always know the best restaurants and cafe in the town. They get satisfied after having a very delicious meal. On the other hand, delicious meals usually use fats and other unhealthy ingredients, which will affect your health. Anyway, restaurants run their business by tempting you to keep coming to their places for more delicious foods!

Habit #4 - Big portion of healthy food

When you have change your diet to healthy food, it doesn’t mean that you can eat those foods without counting the calories. Don’t forget that even fruits and vegetables do have calories. The best diet is a balanced quantity of carbohydrate, protein, fat and vitamins.

Habit #5 - Fat can be burned with hard exercise

Have you heard your friends or you yourself said after having a big meal at a party: “I got to go to the gym after this to burn all the fat I have had”. Sounds familiar? If you think that you can just have one sweaty session of aerobics to get rid of all calories and fat from your last meal, then you’re wrong! The only way to maintain your weight is to maintain your healthy diet. No other ways! If you want to have those ice creams or cakes sometimes, take just a small portions of them.

Habit #6 – Alcohol

Alcohol decrease the ability of our muscles to contract. Beer belly is usually associated with excess alcohol drinking.

Habit #7 – ‘All you can eat’ restaurants

Be careful when you dine in a ‘all you can eat’ restaurant. Basically, we are greedy, when we know that we can have everything, we tend to take more than what we really need.

Habit #8 - Bulk buying

Another bad effect of F & B business, discounts and promotion tend to force us to buy foods in bigger portion. Buy 1 get 1 free, or 25% discounts for a dozen donuts, etc.

Habit #9 - Garbage-type moms

At many cases, children are wiser that adults. They stop eating when feeling satisfied, which is our body’s way to instruct our brain to stop eating. But when moms see that there are still a lot of foods on their child’s plate (which cost quite expensive), they tend to finish it.

Just remember, that the food cost does not worth your health cost and your weight loss program!

Habit #10 – Television and snacks

Interesting TV shows attract people to sit for hours in front of television with (guest what?...yes!) snacks. Sitting for a long time plus high calories snacks are weight gain! From now on, place a treadmill machine in front of your TV, and let your legs get busy, not your mouth! Or, if you want to enjoy your TV show, let only fruit or salad with olive oil dressing accompany you.

By applying the right and healthy eating habits, not only you can achieve your weight loss target, but also prevent you from gaining the weight back after that. Support your weight loss program with a healthy and fun weight loss exercises.

Healthy Eating Resources

These two books will help you to achieve a better and healthier eating habits. A lot of readers like you have read and get the benefits from the books. Here are what they say in their reviews,

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

"This is great info about how we really respond to food and how appearance, smell, ambiance, etc impact our relationship to food. The author's research is interesting and useful."

"This is not a diet book, it is a well written look into the subconscious psychology of eating. I love how it approached the way we all make assumptions and decisions about food (how much is enough, why sometimes there is never enough, how no one can be perfect about making appropriate food decisions subconsciously). There was a great mix of research, anecdotes, and a humble author sharing his own behaviors. A book we could all use a look through. I recommend the book "Fast Food Nation" as a compliment to this piece."

Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food

"Eating Mindfully provides an excellent guide to people who are serious about learning about themselves and their relationship with food. This book does not promote diets; instead it focuses on true self-awareness. The book explains that through self-awareness one can understand how and why he/she has certain eating behaviors. Buddhism stresses the importance of awareness, and Dr. Albers utilizes some of the most useful facets of Buddhism to help her organize an effective guide.

Dr. Albers explains that if you understand yourself and why you eat the way you do, a balance will be reached and a healthy relationship with food will result. Anyone can lose weight through dieting, but to become the person you want to be and stay that way, a permanent change in behavior is required -- anyone who is honest with himself/herself knows that. Dr. Albers provides a guide to anyone who wants to and has the determination to make this change in his/her life.

After reading the book, I found myself more aware of my eating patterns. In several instances it helped me to not stuff myself silly, which I tend to do on occasion.

I would highly recommend this book. "

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