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YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A BAD DAY(S)
I'm hoping that the title of this wasn't quite what you were expecting. You came here hoping there might be more to the step process, but I can assure you that this is the fifth and final step.
Realizing that you are going to have bad days and it's OK
Throughout life we are constantly trying to change ourselves (hopefully for the better). We have good days and bad days. It's no different with losing weight or getting your nutrition on track.
In reality if you go into this as I had mentioned before thinking of this as a FOR-LIFE change, then I think you have the right frame of mind.
If, however, you came into this post hoping to just have a quick fix or quick weight loss I think you are coming into it with the wrong frame of mind.
I mentioned as a part of this that you would hit a plateau in your weight loss. Let me tell you a little about mine. (If you want to read more about diet plateaus see the link in the Tips menu!)
During the first 4 weeks of my lifechange I lost 19 pounds. That's right 19 pounds!
I know what you are thinking. But Brandon, you just mentioned that you should not lose any more than 2 pounds a week and you lost an average of 5/week the first month.
You are right, but here's some encouraging news - you will do the same, at first.
The reason I underlined at first, is because this drops off at some point. Between weeks 5-6 I lost 0 pounds. It was disheartening, but as I had said before I finally came into this diet with a lifechange in mind so I kept going.
Guess how many pounds I lost week 7? 2. Week 8? 3.
I had to look at it all differently. If my caloric intake was in fact the 3000 that it said it was supposed to be in order to maintain and if I was taking in 2000 calories per day I was then losing 2 pounds of fat a week like my other post had mentioned. After week 8 I had lost 16 pounds of fat. Notice I had lost 24 pounds. I would say at least of that was the 8 pounds of water!
That's where these crash diets come in that say they can lose you 10 pounds in a week. They take all the salt out of your diet, lower your calories, and Bam you lose 10 pounds the first week. Of course you did, but you only lost as much fat as you didn't intake in calories!
People who continue that trend eventually can end up burning muscle instead of fat, in turn, this causes them to lower their overall caloric intake! So if they quit they gain back the weight faster then ever. What a vicious cycle.
So do it the right way - come into it with the right frame of mind, and NEVER quit!
That's the greatest part of all this. After you've kept track of your calories long enough to lose all the weight you will have great insight into what your body needs to be taking in each and every day. That's why this is a lifechange and not just a diet. Everyone needs tp do this.
Thanks for sticking with me through the five steps. If you'd like to read more about each step, I will be posting tips for each step in my personal blog posts. You can also read more about me and my family's personal journey to health.
I'm hoping that the title of this wasn't quite what you were expecting. You came here hoping there might be more to the step process, but I can assure you that this is the fifth and final step.
Realizing that you are going to have bad days and it's OK
Throughout life we are constantly trying to change ourselves (hopefully for the better). We have good days and bad days. It's no different with losing weight or getting your nutrition on track.
In reality if you go into this as I had mentioned before thinking of this as a FOR-LIFE change, then I think you have the right frame of mind.
If, however, you came into this post hoping to just have a quick fix or quick weight loss I think you are coming into it with the wrong frame of mind.
I mentioned as a part of this that you would hit a plateau in your weight loss. Let me tell you a little about mine. (If you want to read more about diet plateaus see the link in the Tips menu!)
During the first 4 weeks of my lifechange I lost 19 pounds. That's right 19 pounds!
I know what you are thinking. But Brandon, you just mentioned that you should not lose any more than 2 pounds a week and you lost an average of 5/week the first month.
You are right, but here's some encouraging news - you will do the same, at first.
The reason I underlined at first, is because this drops off at some point. Between weeks 5-6 I lost 0 pounds. It was disheartening, but as I had said before I finally came into this diet with a lifechange in mind so I kept going.
Guess how many pounds I lost week 7? 2. Week 8? 3.
I had to look at it all differently. If my caloric intake was in fact the 3000 that it said it was supposed to be in order to maintain and if I was taking in 2000 calories per day I was then losing 2 pounds of fat a week like my other post had mentioned. After week 8 I had lost 16 pounds of fat. Notice I had lost 24 pounds. I would say at least of that was the 8 pounds of water!
That's where these crash diets come in that say they can lose you 10 pounds in a week. They take all the salt out of your diet, lower your calories, and Bam you lose 10 pounds the first week. Of course you did, but you only lost as much fat as you didn't intake in calories!
People who continue that trend eventually can end up burning muscle instead of fat, in turn, this causes them to lower their overall caloric intake! So if they quit they gain back the weight faster then ever. What a vicious cycle.
So do it the right way - come into it with the right frame of mind, and NEVER quit!
That's the greatest part of all this. After you've kept track of your calories long enough to lose all the weight you will have great insight into what your body needs to be taking in each and every day. That's why this is a lifechange and not just a diet. Everyone needs tp do this.
Thanks for sticking with me through the five steps. If you'd like to read more about each step, I will be posting tips for each step in my personal blog posts. You can also read more about me and my family's personal journey to health.
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