3 COMMON HEALTH MISTAKES AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

We all make smaller or bigger mistakes, regarding our health. Some are well-known and we usually are aware of making them, but just don’t give it much importance at the time – either because it is not a habbit, or because we don’t have a better solution at the moment … or even because we are too lazy to be in a healthy-mood.

Those aren’t the real problem – the ones that you might not know of are!

So here are a few common mistakes that you may not know you are commiting – and how to avoid them, creating healthier habbits:

1) Having a snack before a meal

This is probably the most common one. Especially made by women – while cooking dinner, when the appetite starts pumping. So all day long she didn’t eat any of the delicious-looking chocolate donughts on the office’s bar showcase, she cut the sugar on her coffee and she even ate just an apple during the afternoon. So, she spared on calories, right? And a diet cracker won’t hurt, since she is about to eat… and besides, it’ll reduce her appetite before dinner, right?

WRONG…

All the day’s effort when toilet-flushed! By having that innocent-looking cracker, you just shoot a spike of insulin (an anabolic hormone – which means it makes your body absorb nutrients), which will last for about 1h30min, making all you eat get in right away!

So, if you really must eat something before a meal, than make sure you will only eat again in about 1h30 … if you know you won’t, then just wait a while… it will be worth it!

2)  Having a sweet for a snack

The rationale for this choice usually is: ” This is sweet, I know, but if I don’t eat anything else this afternoon, it kinda balances off…”.

WRONG…

The only time you should eat sweets is after a meal. That way your body won’t absorb most of it, because you already had what you needed to nourish yourself.

3) Having just a soup for lunch

Terrible!

Leave the only-soup-meal for dinner, because if not you will be starving 2 hours later and devour anything you can get a grip on!