Mistakes you are making that are keeping you fat

1. SKIPPING MEALS OR SNACKS

Not eating can wreck with your body’s ability to control your appetite. But it also destroys willpower, which is just as harmful.

If you skip breakfast or a healthy snack, your brain doesn’t have the energy to say no to the inevitable chowfest.

So skipping a feed helps turn us into gluttons at night. Your starving brain “just doesn't have the fuel it needs to keep you on track, monitoring your diet.”

2. SPEED-EATING

Use the nondiet approach: you’re not denying yourself food, you’re just eating it more slowly. Savouring it. Allowing your body some time so you don’t keep eating when you’re full.

3. EATING OUT ON WEEKENDS

Within 3 days, the saturated fat blunts or blocks the ability of leptin to regulate food intake and body weight, So a Friday to Sunday of burgers, fries, and wings may signal your brain to overeat on Monday.

your reward for a healthy week should be one cheat meal, not an entire weekend of them.

4. HAVING SALTY SNACKS

Sodium causes us to eat unconsciously. It adds up fast: popcorn at the movies, crisps during the game, peanuts at the pub.

Try small amounts of low-sodium chips. As you’re cooking a dish, skip the salt and, if you want, add just a dash at the table.

5. DRINKING 

Alcohol, that is. Here’s an exercise to start tonight: write down how much beer, wine, and other drinks you consume in a week.

Calculate the calories and expect another surprise. A reasonable-sounding two beers a night can mean more than 2,000 calories a week – almost an extra day's worth. It can take more than 2 hours of running to burn that off.