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What are the biggest mistakes women make when attempting to lose weight?



  3. Binge eating before going on a diet
  4. Slower is Better. One of the first mistakes dieters make is having unrealistic weight loss expectations. You can safely lose between half a pound and two pounds per week. Studies show that individuals who rapidly lose weight are more likely to gain it back. So if you’ve lost a few pounds this month—excellent! Don’t discount that because you see someone on T.V. losing 15 pounds in two weeks.
  5. Doing too much cardio and too little weight training thinking that they are going to get huge muscles. While it's true that cardio does involve muscles, it's not designed to "build" per se. Most women look at images of 'fit' females who are not only in shape but have a nice feminine muscle quality about them. They want to achieve this by doing cardio but completely forgetting the model in question probably does a fair amount of weight training as well. Fact is that women do not produce the amount of testosterone necessary to look like an Arnold Schwarzenegger back in his bodybuilding competitive days for instance. Some women hit the weights as hard as men and they look very fit and feminine, not big. So having said that, please do not be afraid to hit the weights hard! The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolic rate and the higher your metabolic rate the more fat you can burn.
  6. Not eating enough. You have to eat in order to increase your metabolism and prompt your body to lose the body fat and gain the muscle. Otherwise, your body will rebel in response to the low caloric intake and instead will retain body fat and lose the muscle. Instead of eating 3 big meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner), or eating all day all the time, spread those calories out over 5 smaller meals. Eat one meal every 2 and a half to 3 hours. Doing this will speed up your metabolism.
  7. Obsessing about weight. Remember that muscle weighs more than fat so sometimes when you start a body sculpting program the scale does not move but inches do. So focus on inches lost and not on weight as the scale alone does not give you an accurate picture of what’s going on. Weight is a poor indicator of progress. You can lose fat around the midsection, your clothes will feel and fit looser and you might actually weight more because you are building muscle and burning fat. This is cause for celebration. Maybe going down a size or two but gaining 10 lbs should be cause for a party.
  8. Thinking of any food as 'bad' or 'forbidden.' Food is food - anything in excess is bad for you, anything in moderation is okay.