24/01/2024
Weight loss stops working because you stop working!
Reasons for weight regain after a diet:
• Not building a healthy metabolism after finishing with your deep calorie deficit.
• Not developing a healthy relationship towards food and a sustainable maintenance program.
• Thinking you have to continue low calorie with high cardio forever to sustain what you’ve achieved (fear of eating more/doing less) which isn’t sustainable long term, or enjoyable.
• Reverting back to your old lifestyle - being inactive and sloppy with portioning/weighing your food.
Diets do work - or I would rather refer to them as “calorie maintenance programs” to remove the negative connotation with “diet” - as that’s all we’re doing is managing our calorie intake and calorie expenditure.
“Diets” shouldn’t be an exhausting process that you’re going to punish yourself with for a few months, then give up and think the results are going to stick.
Losing the weight can be an intense process, yes. But maintaining it is easy with the right habits.
And throughout the whole thing - the taste of the food should be enjoyable - just the quantities will vary depending on what phase you’re in.
There is a lot more that goes into this as we aren’t robots - lifestyle/routine, habits, cravings, self discipline, stress management, mindset.
This is why online coaching is overtaking personal training, and PT’s who aren’t providing these interventions need to up their game.
And trying to do all of this by yourself reduces your chances of changing yourself even more (you know this because you’ve probably tried already.)
Having a coach goes so in depth and covers all these areas - all optimised towards the current scientific research.
If you’re struggling to achieve your desired body shape - drop me a DM and we can discuss your goals and how I can help you ✌️
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