Unfulfilled dreams
Most women dream about how they want to look like long before beginning their diet. Often, they tend to cling on an ideal image that can’t be obtained. Short, solid legs will never become long and thin deer-legs. Also a broad shouldered woman will never look like a sylph by wearing a tank top even if she is 20 pounds thinner. The deception is imminent and so is the food eaten out of frustration.
The Solution: Be realistic. Your body structure won’t change because of your diet nor will your life become any easier. The sure thing is that you will look and feel better. Proper clothing will emphasize the parts that advantage you before even finishing your regime. Turn to a stylist for help or ask a friend who you trust to go shopping with you.
Pounds don’t evaporate easily
Your pants are not fitting you anymore also you can’t zip up your dress. That’s it: starting today you begin a severe diet. However, the day afteryour body gets stressed, your stomach is rumbling and after 10 minutes you’re eating more than you would eat in an entire day. The silhouette you dreamt about is gone.
The Solution: Habits can be changed from one day to another and without planning!Try to imagine then how life will change and how you will look in your old suit buttoned down and zipped up. And never forget: the fat on your hips settled in time, perhaps in several years, so it will not easily dissolve, either by clapping your hands or by using non-orthodox methods.
The scale seems to be jammed all of the sudden. Is that all?
Typical situation: After several weeks of treatment, nothing happens. That’s because the body got rid of the accumulated fluid, but is still dependent on its fat reserves. In addition, your metabolism got used to “modest” nutrition and restricts your energy needs.
The Solution: Don’t exaggerate with your exercising in order to burn more fats and also don’t check the scale every single day. Alternation is always pleasant and will help pass the stagnating part of the regime. You should try, for example, other sports. You should always think of everything you have done so far in order for you not to give up.
A trick you can try: make a chain out of paper clips. For every pound less you hang another clip to the chain. Put the chain in your wallet and keep your hopes up!
The Jo-Jo effect
The five kilograms you planned to eliminate are gone, you’re eating normally again, but you realize that you put back in place the fats one by one. Jo-Jo is the classic effect: at 8 weeks after finishing the diet, the body consumes more energy than before you started! He “interprets” your diet as a state of crisis and stores the fat. You can think of this as “money for rainy days.”
The Solution: You should begin another regime all over again, choosing feasible meals every day and eventually this can turn into your normal diet. It still remains valid the fact that your diet should contain more fruits and vegetables and less fat and quick meals. And those of you who do more and exercise regularly for example by swimming or cycling three times a week will maintain their weight even if they indulge from time to time.