When you’re following your diet strictly to the last word and your exercise exactly to the prescribed routine. Chances are you’re very much excited to step on the scales and see how far you are from achieving the best bod.
Even if you haven’t shed that ten pound mark at the end of the week, a pound less would still be understandable. But when that tiny little hand keeps on edging up to higher numbers, you’re excused to think for a while that weighing your weighing scale just broke down, but after you’re slapped with the cold hard truth that it’s you all along, it’s high time that you trace your steps and point where did you go wrong.
To keep a profile of the things that may have contributed to the scales creeping up, here are the most probable activities you keep on doing.
LACK OF SLEEP
It’s the modern world people where sleeping at 6 pm even 8 pm is the thing in the past. Sleeping late at night could have been excused if we get hours to sleep. But when your schedules are tight and sleeping is out of the way, it’s here we get a problem.
Studies suggest that people who experience the lack of sleep is more likely to gain weight the lack of sleep will make one crave for food in order to make up for the low energy. You may think that the low-fat food you’re helping yourself right now will blot the fact that you’re having an extra meal contrary to just three.
Most likely not, since that this diet food may still have high sugar content and help it add up to your calorie intake. Apart from that, the lack of sleep may also contribute to mindless eating where you unconsciously dip at the bowl of popcorn while watching the TV.
One way to get you around is to be knowledgeable on the food labels. Another way is keeping track of your diet through food diary. However, the latter won’t work if you’re not truthful about what you’re really eating.
DRINKS
We’re a lot mindless of what we drink than what we eat. The count of “What-to-watch” when having a diet doesn’t end with solid food. We all know that fizzy drinks such as cold have high-calorie content. But apart from that are fruit juices and alcoholic drinks.
In an article about weigh gain shocker in WEBMD, two glasses of white wine can content 380 calories and that can equal to four chocolate biscuits. Even if you just have one, that’s still 175 calories in a few minutes.
STRESS
That is another factor that can lead to weight gain. But what makes stress “more problematic” pun not intended is we can’t keep falling for it. There are times that situations would arise and trigger some stress.
Emotional eating can be triggered by stress. It helps bury the overwhelming situations for a while; so even if we’re not hungry, we keep searching for that stash of food. Apart from that, research also suggests that stress can make us feel low on energy. In order to cure that, we tap on food to keep us afloat during those days.
A more direct link of stress to gaining weight is when the extra energy in our brain and muscles is stored as fat. Stress fuels an adrenaline rush in our brain and muscle activity while reducing the activity in our digestive system slowing your metabolism.
Stress can also keep you up at night, resulting to more eating.
You can avoid stress eating by relaxing in the different way like a trip to the spa. If you can’t resist eating apply your knowledge on what treats should you more pounds and skip those. Just make sure you don’t eat every minute; it still pretty much defeats the purpose.
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