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Admit it: No matter how many times you read about how overindulging in fat, protein or carbs can make you gain weight, you still can’t perfectly balance your diet.  With that in mind we polled an expert dietitian for her take on some of the most problematic (and mostly overlooked) ways people unknowingly gain weight.  

This can make you gain weight: Eating mindlessly, even when you’re not hungry.
The fix? When you finish a meal, brush your teeth. You can also try chewing sugar-free gum to keep your jaw busy, or keep food out of your view completely. You’re more likely to overeat if there’s a basket of bread or half-eaten plate of pasta sitting out.

This can make you gain weight: Eating more diet foods because they’re supposed to contain less fat, sugar or calories.
The key to keeping the pounds off? Make sure you pay attention to how much you eat, factor each calorie into your daily allowance, and don’t turn to these types of foods as meal replacements.

This can make you gain weight: Eating richer, fattier meals once the cold weather hits. 
To avoid packing on winter pudge, act as you would in warmer months. Sign The bonus: Walking in bulky winter gear can add resistance (think of those heavy, clunky boots!) and help you burn extra calories.

This can make you gain weight: Skipping meals to lose a pound or two.
Every time you skip a meal, it lowers the flame a little further, meaning that when you do finally eat, calories aren’t likely to burn off as efficiently as they would with a constant supply of energy. To remedy the problem aim to eat every three to four hours.

This can make you gain weight: Buying food in bulk.
 After all, the more food you see, the more likely you are to eat. Either stick to regular-size packages, or pick up the bulk version but divide and conquer as soon as possible.

You probably expect to gain a number of things when starting a home business. You may expect to gain freedom or perhaps you expect to gain wealth. It is not uncommon to expect gains from your home business endeavors. Unfortunately many people gain something they do not expect or want when starting a home business. A number of home business owners are shocked to discover that a home business can cause them to gain weight.

Grazing Behavior

When you work at home, your kitchen is like a workplace cafeteria open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. If you are not careful, you can find yourself running to the fridge or the cupboard for frequent snacks throughout the day.

Grazing behavior can be devastating to a person’s weight maintenance. Many people really do not realize how easy it is to rack up hundreds of extra calories every day just by grabbing a few handfuls of this and a couple of handfuls of that. Those calories quickly convert to extra pounds, and the home business owner is suddenly wondering where the extra weight has come from.

While a handful of chips here and a few M&Ms there may not seem like a big deal, when you add up the handfuls eaten throughout the day, throughout the week and throughout the year, you start to see the big picture – no pun intended.

Unhealthy Eating Habits

When you are serious about starting your home business, it is only natural for you to be extremely busy with home business activities. Because of this, many home business owners do not follow a healthy diet. Weeks and weeks of fast food, frozen dinners and quick-fix meals can really take a toll on your waistline and you definitely do not want to see what it is doing to your arteries and heart.

Glued to a Chair

If your home business involves hours upon hours of computer work and no time for anything else, you are not going to get the exercise you need and you are going to start packing on the pounds. Home business owners who do not make time for healthy activities and exercise almost always experience significant weight gain.

Think about the extra calories you actually burned just from working outside of the home. You had to walk from your home to your car and walk from your car to your workplace. Most people also walk to various locations throughout the day, whether it is to a meeting, someone’s office, the printer, etc. Then, at the end of the day you walked back to your car. All of that activity can add up to quite a few calories being burned. Once you start working at home, you are no longer burning those calories.

Avoiding Unhealthy Weight Changes

If you want to avoid the weight gain pit so many other home business owners have fallen in to, there are some steps you need to take.

First and foremost, make sure you eat right. That means eating three square meals a day with healthy snacks in between each meal. For those of you wondering, just because a potato chip is baked and not fried does not mean it qualifies as a healthy snack.

When your schedule becomes so busy you can barely keep your head straight, it may be tempting to throw in a frozen dinner, grab a burger and fries or order pizza every night. No matter how tempting it is, do not give in. For your body and mind to be performing at their best, you need nutritional meals rich in the nutrients, vitamins and antioxidants your body needs.

In addition to a proper diet, you also need to make sure you get the exercise your body requires. If you are stuck in front of the computer, get up every half hour or so to do some sit-ups, push-ups, or jumping jacks. Some home business owners even invest in treadmills and work out once or twice a day to keep their bodies active and in shape.

By taking measures to avoid significant weight changes, you will be able to stay in good shape and perhaps you may even find yourself getting into better shape than you were before you started your home business.