Diet damage control tips
Diet damage control tips 
This article on diet damage control tips is all about undoing some of the damage after falling off the dieting wagon. Had a large meal or just succumbed to a chocolatey treat you just couldn’t resist? There’s no doubt about it, there is going to be one or more occasions when you eat more than you bargained for or started eating one thing and found it hard to stop. Following a diet can sometimes get dull and boring and with all the food choices and tempting options available you can easily fall foul of all your good intentions. Even having a little of what you fancy can all add up and you can end up polishing off a good 200 and more calories than you normally would and didn’t intend to eat. Then once you realise you have departed from your weight loss programme it seems easy to give on for one, or two…or three days….
So how can you undo the damage done so it doesn’t have such a negative impact on your body weight? What Diet looks at some of the main points to remember for damage control and rolls these up into our diet damage control tips to help you save the day.
Do not starve yourself for the next few days
The first of our diet damage control tips is this: do not starve yourself to try and rid your body of the extra calories from the indulgence and impose some sort of punishment on yourself. It will backfire. To cut drastically back after a heavy eating session is a knee jerk reaction for most people however it doesn’t work. If all of a sudden you drop your calorie intake way way down and sustain it at a low level for days this may signal to your body that there is a famine situation and your body will commence hanging onto all the calories it can get and slow your metabolism rate right down. It will also start using up muscle mass as a fuel source leading to possible weight gain in future.
This is exactly what you want to avoid. Instead use a gradual approach to cut your calories over the next few days to account for the over indulgence. Two to three days of a gentle decline in calorie intake will have a far greater impact on getting you back on track. Then adjust back up to your usual moderate calorie intake afterwards.
If you follow these quick diet damage control tips you should have no problem reducing the damaging effect of the excess calories. You could alos consider using a supplement to help boost your metabolic rate hence burning more calories over those few days. See diet products and diet pills for possible options.
Limit your Carbohydrate Intake For Two Days
The second of our diet damage control tips is to cut down on your carb intake for the following few days. We do not recommend reducing your protein consumption following an indulgence as protein maintains lean body mass helping to burn more calories.
Fat intake can be reduced but preferably not too much as that will cause hunger pangs to occur. Fat is a nutrient that helps regulate hunger control so makes maintaining a reduced calorie intake slightly easier.
Visit the gym
This will help burn calories if you hit the cardio machines but also great for a damage control exercise is to do a weight lifting session the very next day. Many people gravitate towards cardio training after a high calorie intake but this may not be the ideal solution. Weight lifting will use up excess carbohydrates much better than cardio training will so weights will help remove excess calories.
Plus, weight training elevates your metabolic rate for the hours after the training session is completed, helping to continue to remove excess fat long after the session.
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