One of the vital frequent questions we get requested in RevFit is “Why haven’t I misplaced weight but?”.
Usually it comes from a member who’s been with us < 6 months, and is exhibiting as much as most (or ALL) of their coaching classes persistently and doing a fairly good job consuming Monday-Friday.
They’ll usually confess they’re maybe not doing AS good on the weekend, nevertheless it isn’t THAT dangerous.
…how they understand it’s not “that dangerous” is anybody’s guess as they’re probably not monitoring it both, so are principally going off really feel. Which is a harmful proposition in terms of energy and meals!!
So, they weight loss program exhausting Monday to Friday, prepare their ass off and find yourself actually annoyed as a result of they haven’t made any progress. OR any weight they do lose by Friday has been regained by Monday.
It’s annoyingly frequent.
I hate seeing folks attempting actually exhausting and getting nowhere, when one easy little tweak is all that’s actually wanted.
The tweak is that this – ask your self the Q…
Is what you’re doing working?
For those who answered sure – don’t change something, hold doing what you’re doing
For those who answered no – CHANGE SOMETHING
It IS that straightforward.
For those who’re proud of the progress you’re making doing what you’re doing, bloody hold at it.
For those who’re NOT joyful, then it’s time to alter one thing.
And for many everybody (if their objective is fats loss) that first change is to start out protecting a very good trustworthy monitor of what you’re consuming on the weekend.
I’ve stated it 1000x earlier than, however I’ll say it once more – I truthfully don’t care what you eat on the weekend. Like, actually don’t give a shit. Couldn’t care much less. I’m not gonna chortle, scold or silently decide you for it. For those who noticed considered one of MY weekends you’d perceive why.
…. BUT for those who’re not joyful the place issues are going, you should make an correct evaluation of why that’s, and step 1 is monitor what you’re consuming and see how dangerous it’s.
If it’s NOT dangerous, that’s nice information – you’ll be able to have a look at one thing else.
But when it IS dangerous (and dangerous on this context merely means exercise not according to your targets), then it’s time to alter.
A very good instance of it is a week 3 examine in from Keith on our 6-week vitamin and coaching transformation plan.
It was his missus birthday. The Friday earlier than he was 77.3kg. By Monday he was 78.2kg and by the subsequent Thursday, he was again all the way down to 76.9kg.
Know why? As a result of regardless of consuming about 1,400kcals over his goal consumption on Saturday, he saved monitor of issues and adjusted to ensure that it didn’t have an effect on his week.
See you don’t lose or acquire weight in a day. You do it over weeks and months, and it’s so vitally necessary to recollect (and for those who take nothing else from at the moment’s message take this) as soon as your energy common out over every week, fortnight or month to match your targets, a single day or a few “dangerous” days DO NOT MATTER.
Severely. Cease beating your self up in case you have a foul weekend. Simply get again on the horse and make the subsequent one higher. You didn’t get through faculty or faculty by exhibiting up for the final lecture of the 12 months and hoping to study all the things.
You received’t acquire or drop extra pounds primarily based off a very good or dangerous final day on a weight loss program.
Time and consistency trump all.
Now go kick the shit outta your week xoxo