30/05/2026
“WHY YOUR NOT LOSING BODY FAT”
A lot of the time when a client isn’t losing bodyfat, it’s due to one or several of these reasons below 🙈
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NOT TRACKING ALL WEEK
Tracking calories perfectly from Monday to Friday can be overruled by a weekend if not tracking by simply cancelling out the calorie deficit you created. you need to be tracking ALL week.
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ESTIMATING CALORIES
I’m sorry, but you can’t look at a meal and estimate the calories on that plate and say your being accurate with tracking calories. Two meals which look similar could be 300-500 calories difference.
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GUESSING PORTION SIZE
You are not a human weighing scale, so unless the portion is written on the product or you have an actual set of kitchen weighing scales quit the guessing games.
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SELECTIVE TRACKING
Tracking the low calorie/healthy foods but hiding the abundance of snacks and treats from your guilty conscience and your PT...we know.
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ALCOHOL
Yes, unfortunately alcohol counts as calories too and this is where a lot of people can slip up at the weekends. Having 8 pints, when you think you had 4 and staggering off for a 2am kebab isn’t in your best interests for fat loss.
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HIDDEN CALORIES
Counting your bowl of Cheerios is great, good job. But what about the milk (yep there’s another 200 you didn’t count) butter on toast, cooking oil, sugar in tea, coffees... all the calories you forget about.
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STRESS EATING
Okay, we all do it...but just because you are stressed doesn’t mean you don’t track the calories. Your thumbs still work under stress - take out phone, open fitness pal, enter the calories.
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CHEAT MEALS
Firstly, not something I would advise when trying to create a healthy balanced relationship with your food. But if you have a ‘cheat meal’ and decide not to track it...the only thing your cheating is yourself. These are still calories, you still have a goal, your still paying a damn PT.
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Genuinely write down everything you put in your mouth, come the end of the day calculate the calories. Compare with your recommended calorie intake you’ve been advised on to achieve your goal. You’ll be shocked at how far off your goal you actually may be.