Usually, diets are real sources of frustrations. This is why they tend to be considered useless, especially if you want to stay healthy and have a harmonious long-term silhouette. Numerous women who were on a certain diet for a specific period of time, they finally realized that a diet causes a lack that the body tends to compensate in different ways. Therefore, it is important to adopt a balanced diet and have healthy habits in order to avoid diet frustrations. Moreover, it is known the fact that low-carb diets don’t work on long term, as eliminating carbohydrates from your diet makes you crave for more. Besides, in time, a low-carb diet leads to stress, depression, and even weight gain.
Having a healthy diet means finding out what foods to eat, making the right choices not only for losing weight, but to maintain ourselves healthy and beautiful, not just for a few weeks or months, but for the entire life. In this context, it is crucial to change our lifestyle and eating habits in order to avoid an unwanted feeling of frustration and obligation. As frustration means depriving, this leads to a certain lack, while lacking has a direct influence upon our brain. Well, it is not a positive influence, but a rather negative one that not only makes us feel unhappy and sad, but on long term we realize that the diet has no results.
One really unpleasant thing in any diet is the fact of always feeling hungry. In order to get the sensation of satiety choose foods that have a high water content, such as vegetables, fruits, and soups. Besides being poor in calories, you’ll fell full more rapidly. Moreover, you don’t have to have only tasteless foods, such as the morning plain yogurt. In order to enjoy it you should add some fruits into it. You’ll feel happier!
As we have seen, removing carbohydrates when wanting to lose weight is not a smart step one can make. Carbohydrates are directly related to frustrations as most people love carbohydrates and they crave for them. Depriving means feeling frustrated of not being able to taste carbohydrates, as their consumption encourages the secretion of substances that reduce stress at brain level. Therefore, the best thing is to consume them, but with moderation. In fact, moderation is the key to anything. Keep in mind that in a healthy diet we should pay attention to the quality of foods.
As dieting is not a thing one could love, it is important to keep a calorie diary. Well, this doesn’t mean you have to become obsessed, but if you are one of those people who cannot stick to one piece of cake or chocolate, it is better to count the calories. In order to make your task easier, you can take photos of what you had throughout the day. This way, in the evening you can count and see where you went wrong and improve the situation.
Chocolate is usually one of the forbidden foods in diets. However, it is not absolutely necessary to gave up 100%. You are allowed to one treat weekly. Still, don’t buy a whole box of chocolate, otherwise you know what happens! A piece of sweet chocolate cannot harm anyone. Or, if you want to eliminate it completely from your diet, when you feel like eating chocolate, take a common sage candy as it contains substances that stops uncontrollable appetites.
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