Weight-Loss Never Goes From A -Z
Wouldn’t it be brilliant if losing weight was really easy, and weight-loss simply followed a straight line in a downwards direction. Oh God, don’t you just wish! But unfortunately we don’t live in a utopian world. We have to work hard to achieve what we want, and sometimes, especially with weight loss, it’s kind of like, 3 steps forward, one step back. Which can be heartbreaking if you’ve worked hard at the diet all week.
Realities Of Weight-loss
As we embark on a weight-loss journey it’s important to understand right from the start, that our weight will fluctuate up and down throughout. Even on a daily basis, your weight will be different in the morning, afternoon and evening. Everything you eat and drink has weight. Yes the body processes these, but it takes time. Therefore fluctuations are inevitable. It’s just how the body works, and it’s not something to worry about.
Diets And Sustainability
There’s many diets available to utilise for weight-loss. EG:- Paleo, Ketogenic, The Mediterranean diet, Meal Replacement Products, High Protein diet, Vegetarian, intermittent fasting, Noom, and Plant based diets, the list is exhaustive.
Most of these diets work well in varying degrees, there’s no right or wrong, it’s what works best for you. But the diets themselves are not the problem. Its what happens after it ends! Is the weight you have lost sustainable and maintainable? Or will you steadily regain it in the coming weeks or months?
Too many diets simply concentrate on just one goal, that of losing the excess pounds and inches. Whilst ultimately that is the aim throughout your journey, the question I would ask, “Is it sustainable”?
Lifestyle Changes
When embarking on a weight-loss journey I would challenge you to reconsidered what your ultimate aim of the journey was all about.
- Is it to lose excess pounds long-term or short-term?
- Do you want to do this over and over again? (Yep… YOYOING)
- Would you like this to be the last diet you ever do?
- Is a lifestyle change a better option for you?
Dieting is all well and good, but rarely sustainable. Whereas lifestyle changes are not only sustainable and easy to maintain, they often offer a greater freedom to everyday living!
Use Diets As A Vehicle For Weight Loss
If you accept the premise that a lifestyle change has so much more to offer long-term, then climb aboard the diet vehicle! If you simply use your weight-loss journey as a diet vehicle to get from A to Z, but learn about nutrition and sustainability along the way, then you’ll never need to repeat this journey ever again. But let me say that again.
You must learn about how nutrition really works, and how to fuel your body correctly, as your journey progresses from start to finish. Is a bit like sitting on the train from Sunderland to London. You can sit and stare out the window the whole journey, and learn nothing. Or you could read and/or study throughout the journey and be better educated upon arrival in London.
Healthy Living
Nutritional education allows you the freedom to live your life healthy and without restrictions. It would be no fun living on just chicken and rice from a plastic container day in, day out. Life is for living and having as much fun as possible.
Eating out, induldging in pizza, wine and a few treats along the way is important. So by building healthy habits throughout your journey, learning what real nutrition is all about, will give you that freedom to live life on your own terms, without worrying about weight gain.
Lifestyle change does not mean that you have to be starving yourself either. Foods that provide the right nutrients, will nourish you and keep you well satiated. Keep your focus on lean proteins, with ample greens and pulses, at the same time reducing sugar and processed carbs.
Strength training, lifting weights or using resistant bands is 100% the best way to build lean muscles, and raises your metabolism, which in turn burns more calories at rest. Building lean muscle will get your body working for you, not against you. Burning excess calories at rest, by increasing your overall muscle mass, really helps in maintaining your weight at the level you want, without any additional effort on your part.
In addition it is a well know fact that exercise, any exercise, improves both physical and mental health as well as helping to reduce anxiety and stress.
Diet or Lifestyle Change? It’s your choice!
There’s a number of choices you need to make. Firstly you’ll need to decide ‘WHY’ you’re embarking on this journey. Then decide where you want to end up, and roughly how long you’re prepared for this to happen.
Then you’ll need to decide if it’s going to be just another diet, or is it going to be a more sustainable lifestyle choice this time!
Once those choices have been decided, it’s time to decide upon which vehicle you’re going to climb aboard.
There’s no journey that’s going to run smoothly from start to finish. So if you chose wisely, your vehicle of choice will come equipped with a co-pilot. Your very own One2One Support Consultant, to help, guide and cheer you on from start to finish. It’s like a shoulder to lean on when the going gets a little tough.
The best advice I can give you, is to choose very carefully. Look for someone who has travelled the same journey that you’re about to embark upon. They’ll understand the process clearer and be in a better position to offer advice, help and direction.
Should you wish to discuss an upcoming jouney, or just to see what your options are for a future date, I’m available most days for a chat.
Philip Eley – The 1:1 Diet by Cambridge Weight Plan – Sunderland📞 07827447247
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