I’ve had enough and I’m sick of you all so consider this blog a big telling off to all of you for being impatient and shit! Not really, but your silly little shenanigans have inspired me for the latest blog which I’m titling manage your expectations, and I’m choosing this subject because your all one of the following: deluded, gullible or impatient! I joke, we’ve all been lied to for years! Programs like the biggest loser has destroyed our expectations when it comes to fat loss, so its time I put things straight! Strap yourselves in guys, your in for a bumpy ride!!!
I honestly can’t blame you all for wanting results so quickly, no one wants to diet for an extended period of time, after all, you’re cutting out all of the best things in life, you have to compromise on your favourite food, your favourite drinks, and how you choose to spend your free time. All these things are your life, they are what you have done for years, and you keep doing them over and over, because, well, they’re your favourite things to do! They’re also indirectly the reason your sat on my website now reading this blog. These things that you love doing are what have led you to the place you’re in now, and therefore the compromise is necessary in order to drag you out of the hole you’re in! For more on this, you should read ‘stay in your lane’, there’s only so far you can go by making minimal changes to your life, and if you’re struggling to break through the current plateau that you’re in, it’s because you can’t cheat your way out of this spot, so further compromise is needed.
I’m going to say it early doors, you shouldn’t be losing more then 2lbs a week! “But Aaron, I lost 10lbs in my first week”, shut up, you swan dived into an all you can eat buffet the weekend before you started and are retaining so much water that we could all save the £2 a month we pay to charities to build wells and just send you instead. Also, if you do this, stop bragging about it on social media and ruining everyone’s expectations! If there’s one lesson I’ve learned in my time as a PT it’s this, people are stupid and will believe, and try, anything you tell them if it means they can lose weight with minimal effort. If you say, “I lost 10lbs in a week”, they want to know how its done and will copy you, and if they didn’t start with eating the harvest festival as a light snack, they’re going to feel disappointed with their results and feel like a failure, and probably stop. If I see one more lady (who is trying to lose weight) say they’re disappointed with losing 1lb (which is losing weight) then I am going to properly lose it, I might even have a hissy fit, and no one wants to see that now do they. You lost a pound, you did great, yes it means at that same rate it’ll take 14 weeks to lose a stone, but this is normal for people who lose weight forever, it just isn’t fancy and amazing, so people don’t brag about it as much or you don’t see posts or memes about it on social media. Who wants to read about the 12 stone lady who took a year to get to 10 stone? You would read that and think “fuck me that’s ages, anyone can do that”, not you though you fat fuck! You’ve been fluctuating at the same bastard weight for 6 months because you tried to cut too much fun out your life, rebounded back, and told yourself “My body just naturally sits at this weight” so you don’t feel bad, well I think you naturally talk out your arse, so grow up.
It’s sad really, and I can joke about and call everyone fat for a laugh to try and mask the deep routed hatred I have of my own past behaviours, but in reality we don’t want to change, we just want to temporarily give things up, look better, then get back to our normal fun lives and somehow the weight doesn’t fly back on. But this just doesn’t happen, we all need to slow down and take on the little victories in life that we find, your diet wasn’t perfect and you maintained? No damage done, keep going, you went on holiday and only gained 2lbs, that’s a win in my eyes, back to baseline in a week! You worked your arse off but only lost 1lb, your 1lb closer to your goal, celebrate it! By doing this we help to keep momentum and build a new way of life that’s balanced and is more about compromise then it is about struggle and torturing yourself with starvation and endless cardio. All these examples I’ve given work long term if you don’t repeat them every week, maintaining every now and then is normal, every week is not, killing yourself with cardio for every pound is not normal, your being a greedy bastard with your diet, going away is rare so don’t feel bad about small gains, just don’t lose momentum and certainly don’t go overboard trying to lose a 7lb gain in a week by going on a starvation diet. Speaking of starvation diets, I mentioned in the Lowedown this week the number 1 way to lose as much weight as you can as fast as possible, and that’s by not eating at all! How long would you last doing that? You know the answer yourself, so why treat temporarily starving yourself for 4 days to undo the weekend any different, you aren’t going to do that every week for the rest of your life and besides it’ll only take you so far before you found your new lane and the only way to stay at your new weight is to live like that forever! You’re a nut case if you do this, weight loss isn’t that hard if you just don’t rush through it!
Let’s shout this from the roof tops and make it normal to say, WEIGHT LOSS ISN’T THAT HARD! If you do it slowly anyway. If I was your coach, and for some of you I am, and I set you the goal of losing 4lbs in 2 months, no faster, how would that change your mindset? You’d think, well I don’t have to be perfect all the time, just a bit good, and I’ll still get there! EXACTLY! Do this 4lbs at a time and it soon adds up, you won’t even notice your dieting half the time because this struggle that your all putting yourself through just won’t be there, you’ll find a level of cardio that manageable, you’ll eat all your calories that you’ve been set, and if you just maintain for a week you don’t hate yourself, you move on and try again without the fuck it button being anywhere in sight!
I think we would all do a lot better on our journeys if we can just manage our expectations a little better and think long term, or even just more realistically short term, like 1 or 2lbs a week.
Big Love
Az
Ps. Start preparing now, for the holiday next year
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