Are You Making These 8 Mistakes With Your Weight Loss Routine?

Losing weight can be challenging for some people. What if you still do not get the result you want after carefully going through all the routines? It can breed a lot of frustration.

It could be that you’re not making the best fitness decisions to help you lose weight. You might trivialize certain critical habits or follow misguided or outdated advice.

Here we will discuss common mistakes people commit in their quest to lose weight.

Before highlighting some common mistakes, here is an important tip. Weight loss demands constant motivation, dedication, and commitment. You can only succeed in your weight loss goals with discipline.

Effective weight loss routines drive on two main things: dieting and exercise. A good lifestyle routine for these two will give you the required weight loss goal.

If you’re interested in learning more about how to lose weight, let’s discuss eight more prevalent mistakes people make when they desire to lose weight.

Let us consider these points:

1. Focusing too much on the scale.


More often than not, beginners in weight loss focus mainly on the changes in the numbers on the weighing scale. They are quick to check the scale but not notice that they’re becoming more fit.

* Hence, their motivation comes from seeing a difference in the numbers on the scale. Weight change depends on several factors; water and food retention, hormonal change, fat deposit, etc.

* Although the numbers on the scale may not be changing, you may actually be looking and feeling healthier.

2. Over-exercising or under-exercising.

While regular exercising helps in fat loss and increases metabolism, it’s important for it to be regulated to yield the best results.


* Forcing your body to burn more calories through extreme exercise may not be healthy. It may cause you to feel extremely tired which can cause you to break down. Eventually, you’re likely to fall back into your old habits as you’re not setting up healthy and sustainable exercise and eating habits.

3. Exercising means you can eat whatever you want.

You must focus on burning more calories than intake. Many people deceive themselves by taking in too many fatty foods with the idea that working out is enough.

* Walking on the treadmill for an hour does not mean you can eat cheeseburgers and fries every night and still lose weight.

4. Eating a lot of sugar.

In their attempt to lose weight, several people try to reduce sugar intake. That’s a good attempt, but they mistakenly take in more sugar than they could think of. How?

Most packaged and processed foods contain a higher sugar component than we realize. Pay attention to what is in your food because even “health” foods can sometime contain a lot of sugar.

5. Denying yourself enough sleep.

Giving yourself the 8 hours of recommended sleep is necessary for weight loss. Give yourself a relaxing and calm night to ensure sound sleep.

6. Staying in a constant state of stress.

Excessive stress can add some extra pounds to your weight. Excess release of adrenalin as part of the body’s stress control mechanism enables fat storage to increase weight gain.

7. Ignoring protein intake.

Protein plays a significant role in weight regulation and facilitates thermogenesis.

Thermogenesis is a metabolic process of generating heat in the body to burn excess calories. It helps to reduce excess fat deposits and enables weight loss.

8. Not reading food labels.

The best and healthiest food choices can be made when you pay attention to the ingredients in your food.

It will enable you to know if the things you’re putting in your body will be healthy and helpful to staying fit.


Losing weight is good for yourself and your happiness. To lose weight, aim to put your body into a shape that enables you to carry out your routine roles. Commit to good eating habits, exercise, and avoid weight loss mistakes.

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Warren Tattersall has been a full time nutritional consultant for over a decade and works with people all over the world to help them improve their health, increase their personal energy levels and to use supplements to assist with diet related health issues.

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