Hidden Fatteners
3 common calorie traps in everyday life
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You actually pay attention to your diet and go to sport – but you still don’t lose weight? Maybe you fall into these common calorie traps in everyday life!
Breaks between meals, little fast food, regular exercise: actually, we all know what we should look out for if we want to lose weight. Nevertheless, it does not want to work as desired for everyone who wants to lose weight. One of the reasons could be the many calorie traps that we encounter in everyday life and into which we often fall without realizing it.
Beware of those calorie traps!
Are you also frustrated because losing weight isn’t really working? Then our list of most common calorie traps help – because we will also tell you in a moment how you can avoid them.
1. The wrong drinks
It is well known that our body needs a lot of liquid every day. And even if we spend most of the day on water or unsweetened tea, we still often unthinkingly indulge in a glass or two of juice or soda for lunch. And of course the milk coffee in the morning and in the afternoon should not be missing either! Unfortunately, this often goes under how many calories these drinks actually have. This also applies to smoothies, by the way!
So watch out for one conscious handling of these drinks and add them to your daily calorie count. Maybe you can also limit yourself a little: If you’ve had a latte or cappuccino in the morning, maybe a black tea will do the trick in the afternoon. It also contains caffeine! Another Tip: Juice can easily be turned into a spritzer – the higher the water content, the fewer calories.
2. Too little sleep
What many have always thought has now been scientifically proven: Too little sleep can not only prevent weight loss, but even cause us to gain weight. There are various reasons for this: For example, one showed US studythat 1.2 hours more sleep per night in test subjects led to them consuming about 270 fewer calories the next day. The satiety hormone leptin and the appetite hormone ghrelin also play an important role. Sufficient sleep ensures that more leptin is released and ghrelin is suppressed. That means: If we sleep enough, we are less hungry.
How much sleep we need varies from person to person. Most adults need about seven to nine hours of sleep a night, to be rested and fit. The right sleep routine helps: go to bed at the same time every day and get up at the same time in the morning, including weekends if possible. It should be as dark as possible in the room, and most people sleep best at a room temperature between 16 and 19 degrees.
3. Light lunch
Eating a salad for lunch is of course not fundamentally wrong, but very healthy. Nevertheless, such a light lunch harbors small dangers: On the one hand, there is a great temptation to garnish the low-calorie salad with ready-made dressings. However, these usually consist of a lot of sugar and fat. If there are additional toppings such as cheese cubes or ham strips, the number of calories for the finished meal climbs quite a bit. And on top of that, there is still the risk of being spoiled by the light lunch really hungry in the evening and then treats himself to a large carbohydrate-rich meal.
Ideally, you simply make the dressing for your salad yourself. One is suitable for this, for example Balsamic vinegar vinaigrette or a light yoghurt dressing made from low-fat natural yoghurt and some honey. A healthy side dish helps to avoid being very hungry in the evening – for example a small wholemeal roll.
Source used: science.orf.at