Make better progress by avoiding these common mistakes.
Quite often, people start their weight-loss journey with the right motivation. Before long, motivation begins to fade and commitment drops. One of the biggest reasons why this happens is that results don't show. Here are three common mistakes people make when trying to lose weight.
1. Exercising excessively
While exercising is beneficial for weight loss in that it helps increase energy expenditure (or burns calories), exercising excessively doesn’t speed up the process of weight loss. In fact, it can potentially affect your recovery rate and negatively impact your performance. Exercise to stimulate a metabolic response, not to annihilate the muscles.
“Stimulate, don't annihilate.”
2. Cutting calories too quickly
Make small adjustments and allow your body the time to adapt. The body is very sensitive and can detect slight changes just as well as it detects large changes. Small adjustments allow for better control over your progress, whereas large changes require greater compensation which may result in no further weight loss, i.e. a weight plateau.
3. Dropping calories too low
This is another mistake a lot of people make. Unfortunately, this has a drastic impact on your basal metabolic rate (BMR). The body actually down-regulates its BMR and lowers the amount of energy it uses for metabolic processes. To lose weight efficiently, it is ideal to have a higher BMR. After all, BMR accounts for the largest percentage of daily energy expenditure.
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