Skip the sweeteners whenever possible.

Plant derived products such as; Stevia, Mogroside – a Monk fruit extract, Yacon Syrup, Inulin, Miraculin and even Trehalose – are all better alternatives as they have been in use for hundreds of years without adverse effects.

You may use them or experiment instead with spices and extracts like cinnamon and vanilla.

Mistake No#6: – Hitting the Gym too often.

Do not try unsustainable over training as it results in ‘reward’ eating and may also actually cause you muscle loss and lower your basal metabolic rate and thus stall your fat-loss. Remember track body fat percentage or total inches and not just weight.

Doing too much will not only NOT help, it will reverse your progress, as it also leads to over eating, consuming sports drinks and other assorted self-sabotage actions. Remember – MED. Less is more (see “Exercising”).

Mistake No#7: –

Not making your environment diet friendly. Many of us are more susceptible to food cues than others and thus need to understand and remove all food cues dangerous to our diet, from our environment.

Two different systems in the brains govern our food decisions. Our homeostatic system regulates our need for food and regulates hormones that make us feel hungry or full and responds primarily to internal signals about our energy balance.

The other – our reward system – that is all about liking. It is complex and involves many parts of our brain and makes us want to eat, even when we are not hungry. It is triggered by food cues in our environment, the sight, the smell, the easy availability and exposure to food advertisements and free samples and so on.

So be aware of such traps, remove all such temptations in your domain and in an environment out of your control, exercise your will power to avoid such traps-.

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