27/05/2026
“I’ve lost the weight before. I always just put it back on. What’s going to be different this time?”
Honestly, this is the most important question anyone can ask before starting a programme.
And most coaches hate it because they don’t have a good answer.
Here’s why it keeps happening.
You do the 12 weeks. You follow it properly.
You lose the weight, your clothes feel better, you feel like yourself again.
Then the programme ends.
You drift back to eating the way you did before, and within two months you’re back where you started (or In a lot of cases, further back than ever)
And the conclusion you draw is that something is wrong with you.
You fu**ed it.
Let me tell you, nothing is wrong with you, you didn’t f**k it.
The programme you were in simply didn’t have a stage two (oooo, whats stage two, I hear you cry - let me explain)
Here’s what actually happens to your body during a calorie deficit:
Your metabolism adapts downward to match your intake. So by the time you’ve finished, your body is running efficiently on less food than it was before. The moment you stop tracking and drift back to normal eating, there’s a gap between what your metabolism expects and what you’re giving it. That gap is why things rebound so fast.
The fix isn’t more willpower at the end or sticking on dogsh*t calories.
It’s a structured reverse diet.
Essentially, bringing calories back up deliberately and gradually, week by week, so your metabolism trends back upward with it. Done properly, people often end up leaner at the end of this phase than they were at the end of the deficit whilst eating way more food.
Most programmes skip this entirely because a good before and after photo is easier to market than a good maintenance strategy.
But, IMO, it’s the most important part.
Results are f*cking useless if you can’t keep the,
We have three stages in The Balanced Body.
1/ Get the result
2/ Safeguard the result
3/ Build something sustainable enough that you never have to do the restart again.
If you’ve been stuck in the loop and you’re tired of it, come and have a chat & lets do things properly (for good)✌️