I see it all too often!

People jumping into a new diet or routine headfirst, only to realise 2 days later that they can’t physically or mentally keep it up. They end up disappointed and unmotivated so they give up altogether!

People tend to think that losing weight is something you do in phases. Sure, for bodybuilders it is, but if you just want to lose weight for summer and you haven’t done it before, the last thing you want to do is go all in and change your diet in one day, start a brand new training regime that morning and burn yourself out after 2 days!

You need to build yourself up for this kind of goal. It has to be gradual.

Instead of going cold turkey on all your junk food, just take a piece of junk food out every week.

Instead of planning to run 5 miles every morning starting from tomorrow, plan to run 1 mile every second day and if it feels good, start doing more until you reach 5 miles every morning.

Your initial goal should not be written as:

To lose 30 pounds and run 10km before summer.

It should be more like:

To achieve a diet and training regime that will achieve persistent weight loss results.

As we all know, everyone’s different, and that means you have to create your own diet and training routine through trial and error. So don’t expect to just jump straight into a prescribed diet and routine and have it run smoothly. You’re ALWAYS going to have to change things around, drop exercises you don’t like an add ones that you do like. So why not start slow and gradually build up your diet and training routine from scratch?

Learn as you go and make sure you improve every week. In the long run you will be MUCH better off.

Has anyone got any thoughts on this?