Hypothyroidism Diet Info

Hypothyroidism Diet Mistakes

We’re not speaking about little stumbles where you ate a bowl of “Cookie Dough” ice-cream which probably wasn’t on your program, but the big 3 mistakes that lead to being unsuccessful at losing the weight that you want to lose.

Realizing these booby traps can assist you in developing the proper attitude that can lead you to permanent weight loss.

1. The All or Nothing mental attitude

All or nothing hypothyroid dieters will frequently choose an elaborate diet that is just about impossible for them to maintain. Before starting out, they’ll hunt the kitchen for anything that doesn’t conform to their program and throw it in the garbage. They’re planning to be the perfect dieter, and so they shall be, for a few days or even a few of weeks.

But then, inescapably, something occurs that keeps them from staying on the diet. Right away the whole thing is “done for” in their eyes and the diet is over. They’ll go to the store and re-purchase all the food that went into the garbage just prior to starting the diet and then they begin to gain back all the weight that they initially lost.

If you’re this sort of dieter you have to ask yourself a few difficult questions. Do you truly want to reduce your weight permanently, or only lose a couple of pounds just so that you can put the weight back on again?

You have to remember that you’re fighting with a medical condition that by its very nature can cause you to gain weight without any extra help from you. Don’t adopt this all or nothing strategy.

2. An Attitude of Sacrifice

Another common mistake is to consider your diet as a period of sacrifice. You don’t permit yourself to eat the foods that you love most while you’re on your way to your goal of a healthy body. You might have a great dieting plan and be very successful in slimming down, but what happens once you accomplish your goal? Will you go back to your old habits?

You’ll have to learn to eat ‘bad foods’ in moderation so as soon as you start your diet, or you’re likely to lose control. It’s always best to include a little of everything in your diet and learn to enjoy them in limited quantities. This is the staple of any good diet. Give yourself a day to “cheat” on your diet.

This doesn’t mean that on that day you eat like crud at every meal but give yourself one meal out of the day to enjoy yourself.

3. Goal Failure

Setting achievable goals is critical in any weight loss program, especially for the person suffering from hypothyroidism. Goals had better be clear, realistic and whenever possible, set out in writing. While you in all likelihood do have an ideal weight in your mind, unless you’re only very slightly overweight the time frame for achieving this goal probably too far out to be of value. A more effective goal would be to lose two pounds per week for the first few weeks and then one pound per week thereafter, consistently week in and week out.

Some weeks you’ll drop off more weight and some weeks it’ll be less, some weeks you could even gain weight, but if you track your progress on a chart you’ll see that ups and downs are normal and don’t stop you advancing steadily toward your goal.

In closing, if you’ve been making these mistakes, don’t stress about it. It’ll only make things worse. The most significant point in any hypothyroidism diet is, as in so many other things, to move on. Learn by your failures as well as your successes and do not use a slip up as an alibi for giving up.

The only way to accomplish your goal for good is to make a commitment to become an all in all fitter person.

Learn to enjoy food in moderation and you have every chance of avoiding these mistakes.

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