Five Ineffective Ways to Lose Weight

1. Using chopsticks- Seriously, ya'll, just because you replace your fork with chopsticks to eat that mac and cheese does not mean you will miraculously shed pounds! Although it may be a good way to make yourself eat slower, (as with the suggestion to hold your fork in your left-hand if you are right-handed), it will probably just be frustrating and lead you to emotional eat. Backfire!  

2. Skipping breakfast- If you are one of these people, I'm sorry, but I just cannot relate. Breakfast is my absolute favorite meal of the day!! Research continually proves that it is imperative to eat a healthy breakfast (eggs, turkey bacon, oatmeal, fruit, etc.) in order to get your metabolism goin'. Furthermore, skipping breakfast only makes you more ravenous towards the end of the day and, therefore, much more likely to indulge on dinner.

3. Shaking a weight- Okay. If you have purchased one of these, I do not mean to pick fun. It's just, well, this is really not an effective way to build muscle tone and lose weight. No further comment.

4. Popping pills- Don't buy into the lie that diet pills will make your weight magically disappear...at no cost to your health! Educate yourself before you take the risk and most importantly, avoid pills that contain ephedra like the plague! 

5. Drinking Diet Soda- In an attempt to lose some extra pounds, you sacrifice your real soda drinking habits to diet soda, and Voila! The weight falls right off, right? Wrong. Research has shown consistent evidence that ingesting that potent, chemical-filled liquid will actually do the opposite. Check out what Dr. Mercola has to say about the issue on his website here, and sign up for his daily newsletters, if you haven't already . I know getting off soda may seem daunting...it definitely was for me, too. Equip yourself with reasons why you need to avoid it and it will make staying away from it a whole lot easier. 

Do you have any ineffective ways to lose weight that you would like to share?

Take care of your bodies, ya'll!
~Charity~