Body Perception and Effective Weight Loss

5 Signs You Need a Weight Loss Reality Check

Snap out of it! Step on the scale, lace up your sneakers, and stop fooling yourself with common diet and fitness fallacies
By Hollis Templeton fitbie
 

A Grand Illusion

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If you think you’re calorie-conscious and active enough, you may be kidding yourself. Things like gimmicky diet plans, your friends’ expanding waistlines, and even your own faulty assumptions about “good-for-you” foods can weaken your handle on what it means to be fit and healthy. In fact, recent studies call Americans out on overly generous self-reporting of diet and exercise habits, and suggest that we’re blindly putting ourselves at risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other obesity-related illnesses—not to mention distancing ourselves from the results we desire.

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There’s no denying that this is a complicated issue—your social environment, misinformation in the media, and your own self-image can contribute to a skewed sense of what’s healthy. “People hear others say that they lost 8 pounds in a week, so they think that there’s something wrong with them for not doing the same,” says Ruth Frechman, RD, a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. But before you get frustrated, get real—and ask yourself if you’ve ever fallen victim to the following five diet and fitness scenarios. You may just discover that what you thought you knew was holding you back the whole time.

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