12/08/2021
Slower 🐢 vs. Faster 💨🏃🏼♂️
We all want results quick.
No matter what the goal is.
I can assure you that the fastest way of getting there is going at a steady, flexible, but consistent pace.
Let’s take 2 people.
Person A 🐢 - slow, steady, flexible & consistent approach.
Person B 🏃🏼♂️💨 - fast, intense, strict & all or nothing approach.
They are both going to embark on a weight loss journey for 1 year.
Both want to lose 3 Stone (42lbs/19.1kg)
Person A 🐢 is losing 0.8lbs per week
Person B 🏃🏼♂️ is losing 3lbs per week
Both are doing really well with their consistency.
By 6 weeks…
Person A 🐢 is “only” 4.8lbs down.
Most of you who want to lose weight would be frustrated & upset by this result.
Person B 🏃🏼♂️ is 18lbs down.
Most of you who want to lose weight would be elated by this result.
Let’s fast forward to 12 weeks.
Person A 🐢 is still plodding along, feeling energetic, sleeping well, developing a better relationship with food, being able to be flexible with social events (but still adherent), and slowly developing the mindset that slower and flexible is better.
- is now 9.6lbs down.
Person B 🏃🏼♂️ is now starting to flag. Is feeling fatigued, tired, having cravings, fed up of doing the “diet”, losing motivation, annoyed that results have started to slow down slightly (which is normal) and feel like it’s not working like it was at the start, and just generally more likely to give up.
- has gone up and down over the latter 6 weeks with their weight and is now 22lbs down.
Fast forward to 6 months…
Person A 🐢 is still plodding along. Had a few social events & a holiday that made them put on a few lbs & inches, but nothing crazy. Still happy with how much more effortless this approach seems to be. They can really start noticing the difference in their clothes, their body, their health overall.
- is now down 20lbs
Person B 🏃🏼♂️ well…things aren’t going so well. They are noticing their weight going up and down a lot. They aren’t being consistent or adherent, but are convincing themself that they are really trying. They don’t have the motivation to keep going and are lured into social events & binge eating very easily. They start making excuses for their lack of adherence and staff blaming external factors rather than being honest with themselves.
- Person B has stayed the same since the 12 week mark, so still 22lbs down.
And at the 1 year mark…
Person A 🐢 is 41.6lbs down.
They reached their goal. It felt much more effortless than they thought it was going to be, genuinely created a lifestyle change and has obtained the skill to help them understand how to now keep it off. The approach was realistic, as effortless as possible and flexible, but controlled & adherent.
Person B 🏃🏼♂️ is now 10lbs heavier than they were when they first started.
It’s gone completely downhill and they’ve resorted back to previous habits & behaviours ☹️.
I know a lot of you reading this will relate to Person B 🏃🏼♂️.
You don’t need help losing weight necessarily.
You’ve done it before.
You need help with consistency, adherence, mindset, habits & behaviours to help influence your long term success.
You can try to convince yourself otherwise and say it’s because of “this” and “that”.
But until you fix your mindset, you will really struggle to get to where you want to be.
Look within yourself and assess what you need to fix in order to help you become Person A 🐢
Have a great rest of your day!
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