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The title is self explanatory but here are the top 10 ways to destroy your diet:

1. Overeating away from home: Eating out poses a special challenge when calorie counting because restaurant portions are overgenerous; your best bet is to drink more water to fill you up and ask for a to-go box and put half your order away before you start eating. You can always save the rest for later.
2. Not reading labels: The most important number you need to pay attention to is the serving size, and fat grams. It’s easy to eat too much if you aren’t aware of how many servings are in a bottle or box and you consume the whole package, thinking it’s a single serving.
3. Eating too fast: If you eat quickly, your brain won’t get the message that you are full in time. Take your sweet little time and enjoy your meal.
4. Denying yourself your favorite foods: Be it chocolate, bacon, soda or french fries totally banning a favorite “unhealthy” food from your diet sets you up for temptation. Instead, use your calorie-counting skills to build in a small indulgence now and again.
5. Guilt over mistakes: If you are out with friends and get talked into dessert, don’t beat yourself up, over the smallest portion. Even if you did enjoy your indulgence, put it in perspective — it’s just one mistake compared to all your good diet choices yesterday, today, and the ones you’ll make tomorrow. If worst comes to worst, put in some extra time at the gym to compensate.
6. Putting too much “weight” on the scale: Hanging all your feelings of success on the numbers on the scale can be a diet disaster. You should only weigh yourself once every 2 weeks. Tracking other short-term health goals, such as eating more veggies, walking daily, or drinking water instead of soda, that will give you a sense of accomplishment and reward.
7. Not exercising enough: Even if you could achieve your diet goals by calorie counting alone, you would be more successful (and healthier) if you were physically active. Remember by working out, you create more of a caloric deficit which in turn will burn more calories from fat.
8. Eating in response to sadness, boredom, or stress: This wrecks your calorie counting for at least one day. When you become aware of your urge to eat in response to emotions instead of hunger pains, find something else to do that will distract you for 10 or 15 minutes, such as taking a walk, shopping, or googling obese images.
9. Thinking of your diet as a diet: There is diet fatigue if you go on a diet because most people want instant gratification. Most people can stay on a diet about three months and then they are done with it because they can’t stand it. Instead, focus on making healthy lifestyle and nutrition choices that you can live with for a long time.
10. Letting one mistake start you on a downward spiral: If you make a mistake, admit it, forgive yourself, and get back on track right away.

So now you know the top 10 ways to destroy your diet – hopefully you should be able to avoid them! To find the best diet that will work for you, read my comprehensive diet reviews of todays top mainstream diets that will get you results and hold you accountable.

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