5 ways you’re sabotaging your weight-loss resolutions - The Washington Post

Your diet and exercise must complement each other. It's impossible to sustain a diet that makes you consume 800 calories in a day with an intense workout session.

Exercising with no energy will make you hate it and eventually discourage you from doing it again. Instead, pick a workout routine or a sports goal and meet with a dietitian to customize an eating plan that will complement your lifestyle.

We see many celebrities go on these "diets" and think to ourselves that it could work for us. However, these diets are only effective on a short-term basis, they're usually hard to follow and you'll eventually gain the weight back.

Adopt an eating plan you can afford. It is important to have a healthy relationship with food instead of a fear-based one.

Those who eat what they want with guilt tend to have less control over their eating habits than those who eat to celebrate.

When we start our diets we tend to get excited about counting calories. It's not far off that we also overexercise but undereat.

Having a habit as such is unsustainable in the long run. You won't be able to manage your diet because of the excessive restriction we place on ourselves.

Baby steps are more effective. Make small dietary changes at a time and allow yourself time to adjust before making another change.