What Are The 10 Bad Habits Of Overweight People?

Hey Everybody

   
The majority of the people who are overweight got to where they are today by living and practicing poor lifestyle habits.

Awareness of what these habits are may help you want to lose weight.

 Identifying all of the bad habits we practice each day will  help us reverse them.

 

Below is a list of the 10 most common bad habits and a few suggestions on how to change them.
 
Habit 1.   BEING INACTIVE

Weight gain, loss and maintenance are  all based on a very simple and basic principle.

If you consume more calories than you need over any period of time, you’ll add weight (approximately ½ kilogram per extra 3,500 calories).

If you consume the required number of calories that your body needs to perform your normal activities for each day, you’ll maintain the same weight. The opposite of this
statement is true.  The fewer calories you take in required by your body to perform it’s normal activities will result in weight loss.

It sounds so simple.  But as most things in everyday life; it’s always easier said than done.  In the real world, if it was really that simple there would be a lot less
people with weight problems.  Biggest problem is, that most of us can’t figure out why or what they need to do about it.
 
So, if you’re overweight, inactive and do one or more of the remaining 9 habits; you need to get very serious about exercise and maybe take an appetite suppressant to help.  I’ve included a link for your convenience.    http://www.behealthyandslim.com

It doesn’t matter what you do. The fact is: YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING: ANYTHING!

The very thought of exercise scares most people.  Don’t feel alone.  There are millions feeling the exact same way.
Just start off simple. Walking around your block each day. when you can do that with ease increase to 2 blocks, then 3, then 4, then 5 and so on until you’re walking for at least 30 minutes per day.

When you accomplish this and you do not increase the amount of calories you currently consume, then you will lose weight. That’s the goal.
Keep in mind the body wants to maintain its current weight or status (homeostasis) This means, the body has become comfortable with the way things have been and doesn’t want to change easily.

So you’ll be burning extra calories and your body will tell you that it needs more food. Don’t give in. I promise you will start to lose weight and you’ll feel great.
It will just take a little time to begin to see the results. Be patient, kind, loving and forgiving to yourself.

Once your self-esteem and enthusiasm for life begins to return, you’ll find yourself becoming more adventurous than you ever imagined you could have been in many years. Pretty soon, you won’t even recognize yourself.

Habit 2.  THEY EAT OUT A LOT

Concerning weight gain; there are 2 major evils that come into play.

1.  Restaurants serve very large portions (a lot more than need)
2.  Restaurants serve food that appeals to our taste buds.They are not in business to help us lose weight. They are in business to make money.

Competition is at an all time high in all restaurants. So they serve home cooked meals with larger portions (value for money) and sacrifice everything else for taste.
This keeps people coming back to them over and over.

Here are a few suggestions if you continue to eat out a lot:

• Have a salad instead of an entree
• Have an entree sized meal in place of a main course
• Have a glass of water during and before your meal
• Limit the amount of alcohol you consume with the meal
• If you have to have a dessert, share it with everyone else at the table
• Add vegetables to your meal as a side dish if they’re not included
• If your meal comes with a high calorie sauce, ask to have it on the side and only use half of it on your meal
• Bread should be limited (especially white bread)
• If your portion is large, save half for the next day’s lunch or dinner or just don’t eat it.
• Vegetarian meals are good for a change or some Asian dishes using rice, veggies or fish is a good substitute
• Always choose grilled, baked or broiled whenever possible over fried

 

Habit 3.   THEY EAT TOO FAST AND PORTIONS ARE TOO LARGE

Most people think the correct amount of food is whatever it takes to cover their plate. This is WRONG.

We need a lot less food to live than most of us think. Combining larger portions containing higher calories is easy to see why most of us are overweight.

Suggestions to help you reduce your portion sizes:

• Serve yourself less. This is the easiest.
• Use smaller plates. This is a mind game but works well.
• Reduce the size of your portions over a number of weeks instead of all at once
• Accept the fact it is ok to throw uneaten food away. You Do Not Have To Clean Your Plate Because of Starving Children in Another Part of the World.
• Change the ratio of food (increase vegetables and decrease the amount of meat or chicken)
• If there aren’t any vegetables on your plate then make room for some
• Do Not eat seconds
• Put away all leftovers as soon as the meal is finished (avoids temptations)

Habit 4.    THEY ALL MISS OBVIOUS CALORIE BURNING OPPORTUNITIES

You may ask yourself why all the parking spaces closest to the door fills first or why people get upset when the remote is missing?

It’s very simple.  Nobody wants to walk any further or exert any more energy than is absolutely necessary.
 

If you really want to lose weight, you have to have a different outlook and approach. you need to look for and create opportunities
to walk more and exert as much energy during your day as possible.

Instead of being a couch potato watching TV or whatever, you may thing about doing other things such as: 

• wash the car
• walk the dog
• mow the lawn
• do the dishes
• walk to  shops or to a friends place
• take the stairs instead of the escalators 
• Office Workers: go for a 10, 20 or 30 minute walk at lunch
• conduct an odd meeting walking around the block instead of sitting in a stuffy conference room
• walk to the shops for lunch instead of driving
• catch the bus or train once or twice a week instead of driving

Habit 5.         THEY EAT A LARGE AMOUNT OF HIGH CALORIE FOODS WITH LOW NUTRITIONAL VALUE

This is very plain and hard to hear:  They just can’t say NO to a candy bar, chips, birthday cake or donuts. (You got the picture)

Most overweight people eat a lot of junk food in between meals.

Example:  Going through a drive thru on the way home for a burger & fries before eating dinner
You don’t have to give everything you like.  Anything and everything is OK in moderation. This is a key to getting weight off and keeping it off.

Habit 6.     THEY ARE MOSTLY EMOTIONAL EATERS
 
Their moods are regulated by intake of food.
 
Symptoms of an emotional eater:

• Eats even when they’re not hungry
• Food is a personal reward
• Over eats when they are upset
• Bottles up their emotions, especially negative ones
• Continues eating after they are full
• Usually has low self esteem

Suggestions to help overcome the problem of people who eat emotionally are:

• Become more aware of their motives for eating
• change the reward system (go to the movies or for a walk)
• Be honest with themselves and others.
• Express any negative emotions and try to discuss them with a friend or clergy
• Eat slower and consider the portion controls suggested above
• Learn to love yourself for who you are

Habit 7.     THEY SKIP BREAKFAST

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I’ll say it again: BREAKFAST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY.  NOW YOU GOT IT? 

Overweight people almost always skip breakfast. They seem to think this will help them lose weight. The opposite is true. In fact, there is proven research confirming
if you skip breakfast, you may increase the chance of gaining weight.
 

When you skip meals, there are two evils at work again.

1. our body thinks it is starving and it slows your metabolism down
2. When you do finally eat, you make up for the missed meal and then some. So the question is: Do you really want to lose weight? If the answer is yes:
start eating small meals more often (every two hours or so) and never, ever skip breakfast

Habit 8.    THEY DRINK TOO MUCH ALCOHOL

 
This is a little more common in men that women on the whole. Regardless; people often forget that alcohol is very high in “empty” calories providing absolutely no nutritional
value to the body but drastically increases our total calorie intake for the day.

Simply cutting down on the amount of alcohol consumed some people will reduce their weight significantly. The question you should ask is: Are you drinking a little too much?

Habit 9.    THEY LOOK FOR EASY AND QUICK FIXES

The bottom line is; There are no magic potions, diets, drinks or weight loss pills advertised that don’t add in at the end (works well when combined with exercise and a well balanced diet)

It happens all of the time!

Quit waiting for a quick, easy fix or even something magical. You need to shed weight today. The only successful way for you to do this for the long term is to follow some of the suggestions above,  start moving your body more and controlling what you eat.

Of course this doesn’t mean that you can’t get help to lose weight. That’s what this website is all about. I want you to get the help you need. You may think about using an appetite suppressant along with your diet and exercise routing.  I’ve included a link for your convenience.   http://www.behealthyandslim.com

You could also check with a nutritionist, personal trainer, etc to help get you on the right track and prevent and unwanted injury that could postpone your new beginning.

Habit 10.    THEY ALWAYS USE EXCUSES AND DENIAL

I’ve seen people who have lost a large amount of weight talk about their success and state when shown images of how they used to look ;that “I had no idea I looked that bad”.

This is very interesting to me. While I’m certainly not a trained psychologist, it sounds to me to be a full blown case of complete denial.

One of these ’success stories’ is about a man, who at around 160 kilograms (352 pounds), said that he thought he used to be a “picture of health”. Can you believe that? A “picture of health”.  Most of his weight was around his waist!

I’m not making light of his situation: But; simply to highlight the fact that some of us don’t see ourselves as we really are. It would help us if we saw ourselves the way others do and then it would probably help.

It’s not just how we look, but more importantly; it’s about what’s going on inside of us that we don’t see. Many overweight people have very weak hearts, high blood pressure and other cardiovascular and coronary problems or diabetes that could make them an invalid or eventually kill them. In these instances, the old “it will never happen to me” saying is just not good enough. These illnesses and threats are real and people lose their lives each day due to one or several of them 

You wonder just how many of us are in denial about how big and unhealthy we really are?  This is a reason overweight people view themselves only from the chest area up in a mirror.

When we see pictures of ourselves we can certainly see it, but we don’t look at our own pictures everyday to remind us. Whenever our doctor tells us that we are getting into trouble and heading into dangerous territory;  Do we really believe them?

For our health’s sake and our family, we should believe them in both circumstances.

In addition to living a life in denial, many overweight people use excuses to protect their self esteem from further damage and to provide themselves with permission to refrain from taking action.

If this sounds like you, maybe it’s time for you to stop looking for excuses and start looking for solutions to what in some cases is a life-threatening problem.

Conclusion

Most people who are overweight got to where they are today by living and practicing poor lifestyle habits.

The list above of the 10 most common of these habits and the following suggestions about how to change them have been written to help those who are overweight identify and reverse the unhealthy lifestyle habits pertaining to them.

There is always the availability to use an appetite suppressant to help as well.  http://www.behealthyandslim.com

Remember, you can become happier and healthier if you really want to.   Good Luck to You.