- Staying up late
This causes a hormonal chaos in your body, and especially affects leptin and ghrelin.
The first sends signals to the brain reminding your body that you are full, and ghrelin stimulates the feeling of hunger. Sleeping deprives both hormones of what they require to protect your health. This may be the reason why you tend to eat that late, and to avoid this try to sleep at least 7 hours a day.
- Excess caffeine
Excessive consumption of caffeine increases the secretion of corstisol, known as the stress hormone. It causes sugar and fat cravings. Can you imagine what does this cause? If your answer is gaining weight, yes, you got that one right. Be careful with your caffeine consumption, cause it sure does more than keeping you awake.
- Excessive consumption of processed foods
Your obesity may be a result of your excessive consumption of processed foods. These products are high in fat and sugar, which sure do not help in losing weight. Cookies, chips, cakes, and frozen foods will only make you gain even more weight. Avoid these and you will sure notice some difference on the scale and in your hallway mirror.
- Ignoring your thirst
The major reason may be the fact that you simply do not drink enough water. People do not believe that their bodies need water the most and drawn themselves in sugar laden beverages that only increase their weight. Make sure you drink 2 liters of water. This will boost your metabolism and of course, leave less room in your stomach. Water has shown to reduce the risk of heart attack, headache, and it also detoxifies body. So, drink more water.
- Shopping in the centre aisle of grocery stores
This is where all the processed food and drinks are. Well, we have a tip for you — stay away from center isles. Avoiding fatty isles at grocery stores will help you melt pounds, and this is only because you do not consume unhealthy foods and drinks anymore.
Quit these bad habits and you will see some amazing results. Any physical activity is more than welcomed. And that is the perfect recipe for getting the body of your dreams.
