Top Weight Loss Mistakes Made by Women Over 50

10. Trying To Lose Too Much Weight Too Quickly Can Make You Sick

Crash dieting has never been a successful way to lose weight and keep it off. It puts the body through much stress, more than it can handle. Furthermore, when you’re over fifty, you don’t want to risk your heart health either. Crash diets put much strain on all of your organs to keep functioning without providing any nutrition for them to work with. That’s why crash diets for those over 50 aren’t very successful.

Focus on losing a pound or two in a single week as an easy way to wean yourself into a new diet and exercise regimen. That gives your body time to adjust to this new habit and will slowly ease your metabolism into resetting itself. This gradual loss of weight will train the body into this new way of operating so that it gradually becomes easier and easier for you to lose weight. Cutting out entire meals altogether or a sudden change in your daily nutrition will tell the body that it’s starving, resulting in it holding onto every ounce of energy it has.