As a Personal Trainer its my duty to tell you the truth about health and fitness. From losing weight and toning up, to nutritional advice for weight loss and weight gain. Now with summer fast approaching and the rush to get a beach ready body in record time many people turn to starving themselves in the hope of shifting the pounds. Im sorry to have to yell this to you but “STARVATION DIETS DO NOT WORK, SO DON’T BOTHER!”
The sooner people come to grips with the fact losing weight for the summer, and beyond, is going to take hard work, discipline, patience and a plan based on science and not guesswork. If it was easy, everyone would have six pack abs.
As a fitness expert I seem to fight an uphill battle. Everyone wants the results, but few are willing to do the work.”
So to help make losing weight the “right way” easier and get you that beach body for the summer, I’m recommend you follow my four top tips:
1) Create a realistic plan. The focus of which should be sound nutritional habits and regular exercise.
2) It’s crucial to weight loss success not to have “trigger” foods lying around the home – the temptation is often too great. Remove from the home any junk food that will lead to eating unnecessary calories.
3) Enlist the help of a friend or colleague and encourage one another. Be sure this weight loss “buddy” is as equally as determined as you.
4) Most importantly, be realistic. The excess pounds did not appear overnight. They don’t disappear over night either.
Train Hard, Eat Smart!
Marc
Totally agree! I have spent a FORTUNE on slimming groups, pills
& ridiculous diets over the years & am sure that many people can relate to that!
Like you said, you dont get that way in a short space of time.
Diets, clubs & pills just do not work, how can they when they dont address the real problem?
Im over my ideal weight because I ate too much, ate all of the wrong foods & didnt exercise, it was completely my own choice.
Bootcamp has made me see that you need to address your WHOLE lifestyle, I work hard at training sessions so Im not going to make all of that hard work pointless by eating rubbish!
My willpower seems to be stronger than ever, but if I were just ‘counting points’ or having colour coded days I would find it so easy to slip up & think – “it’s ok, I will start again tomorrow!”
If you put off until tomorrow what you could have done today (with maybe a little effort) then tomorrow really will never come.
Wake up & smell the decaff coffee – it could change your life!
I totally understand where you are coming from Emma with regards to diets.
The amount of people who are sucked in to all the lies and deception branded about by all these diet companies is outrageous. If there diets worked then why do people quit them and end up fatter than when they started. The person didn’t fail the diet; the diet failed them as it didn’t address the need of the individual.
Sticking someone on a set of scales and saying eat less is not the answer. Also telling people to remove clothes so they weigh less is wrong, and I know it happens in these diet groups.
Exercise is a key component of permanent weight loss, and until you integrate it into your lifestyle you will always be stuck in that weight loss merry-go-round
Marc
Just like Emma, I have tried plenty of diets but always put the weight back on- not drastically and maybe just a pound or two higher than last time but it still didn’t work. I always go back to eating whatever I like and am surprised when I am back to the same weight!
I seem to think once I am the weight I want to be I can do what I like, like I could when I was 18. But that was a long time ago and I am realising, by coming to boot camp, that I am going to have to change my eating habits and exercise regime for good if I want to get the body of my dreams and maintain it!!
My willpower is also great at the moment so I am going to continue to try and capitalise on it and make every week of the 12 week boot camp work.