Quick Tips: When You’re Not Losing Weight - 3
7. Too Many Liquid Calories?
Many times when we’re doing well with the food intake, the calories in beverages manage to fly under the radar. A bottle of beer or a can of coke can add 150 calories each. Make sure you’re counting all the calories in your beverages right. Additionally try these two tricks to reduce calories in what you drink:
- In cold beverages: Add lots of ice
- In hot beverages: Skip the Cream
8. Are You Reading the Labels Right?
Food labels are often confusing. What we think is the calorie information for the entire package, may only be the details for 1 serving out of a possible 2 or 3.
Zlimmer! Recommendation: Check out our guide to reading nutritional labels to ensure that you’re getting the right calorie information.
9. Overestimate Your Calories:
If you’re not losing weight, it can only mean one thing - you’re eating as much or more than your daily calorie requirements. This may reflect that you’re underestimating some of the calories in your foods.
Zlimmer! Recommendation: Put down about 20% more calories for whatever you eat and see if this helps.
10. Is it really a problem?
See if one of these applies to you:
- Is there a chance that you are weighing yourself too often? If this is the case, try to weigh yourself after a fixed period like every 20,000 calories. You may well find that although it’s taking you longer to lose those 20,000 calories, you are still losing weight at the same rate per calorie.
- Depending on the type of exercise you have been doing, you may have gained muscle. Track your waist measurements along with your weight for a month. If your waist is still getting smaller, there is nothing to worry about.
11. Keep going:
Don’t stop when you face such an issue. Whether you try one of the methods above or come up with something yourself, stay the course. There is every chance that something is going wrong with how much you are eating, the amount of exercise you are doing or any problem that you will inevitably discover and remedy.
But if you quit, things will only get worse. Whatever you do, keep going and you will reach your weight goals.
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