Related Problem: Not eating enough food. DO NOT try to restrict portions or calories. Eat till you are full, and eat as much as you like of the approved foods. If you don’t, you will either down shift your metabolism and thus make it more difficult for yourself to lose weight, or cheat between meals with banned food snacks. Eating less can also make you irritable.

Mistake No#3. – Not drinking enough water. This is more common among women.

To ensure optimal liver function for fat loss, increased hydration is a must, at least 8 glasses a day. (See – ‘Need for Proper Hydration’).

Drink room temperature or even slightly warmer water, preferably flavoured with lemon juice or ginger or drink tea all through the day (See – ‘Non Conventional Treatments and Folk Remedies’). This has a vasodilator effect, allowing for easier blood flow, which in turn aids digestion and other metabolic processes. Of course there are times when chilled water has its advantages. (See – ‘Need for Proper Hydration’). Avoid carbonated drinks, especially with meals.

Make a special effort to drink more water on your feast / binge
day, as the carbohydrates in the food will pull water to your digestive
tract and muscle glycogen. Insufficient water results in headaches.

Mistake No#4. – Over eating snacks / nuts etc. There are certain foods that, while technically fine to eat on the diet, are prone to portion abuse. Eating one portion leads to over snacking.

A few almonds or walnuts (10-15) is fine, but no one eats only that few. Self discipline is over rated and undependable. Don’t eat anything that requires portion limitations. Keep such items out of reach, even out of home.

Mistake No#5. – Over consuming ‘Artificial’ (or ‘All-Natural’) sweeteners (See ‘Artificial’ and ‘Natural’ sweeteners).

Even with no calories, most artificial and natural sugar substitutes provoke increased insulin release. Surprisingly ‘Aspartame’ shows little effect on insulin, but it is often paired with acesulfame-k, which has a host of negative effects. Both low-calorie and no-calorie sweeteners are associated with weight gain and are likely to stall your fat loss.

“All-natural” sweeteners are based on the role of fructose, having
arguably worse effects in metabolic disorders, than even high‑fructose corn syrup, (HFCS). So called “sugar-free” health foods are full of sweeteners such as ‘concentrated apple and pear juices’, which are two-thirds fructose. Even the latest of such sweeteners have negative efforts. Raw agave nectar is as high as 90 percent fructose and shows no better anti oxidant content than refined sugar or HFCS.

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