He didn’t know what he was going to, but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind
– Harry Potter
We don’t know what lies in the future, we don’t know where we’re going to end up
But every day we get the chance to shape our future through the choices we make and the opportunities we take
So no matter how bad the past has been we can look ahead with great excitement because the future possibilities are endless so they have to be better than what we leave behind
The disappointment when you wake up on new years day to find that you are not a new you…
You are still the same version of yourself that you were
Last night,
Last week,
Last month
And
Last year
See change requires work
And work is hard
It doesn’t start on a Monday or a new year
It starts today, it starts now
And it’s a hard process
You either do the work or you stop lying to yourself
Christmas is like
Putting your dreams and goals out there for the world to hear
You tell everyone what you want
You think about them constantly
And you wait
Until a short time in the future you wake up and everything you want is waiting under a tree,
We dont do this in September or july, that would be too long a wait, we only do this late November or the start of December…
Like our dreams we seem to only think about them all the time, we tell people what we want and we wait…
Unlike Christmas though people arnt gonna go out and buy your dreams, them you have to work for
And they’re gonna take longer than 25 days to get too
So remember that this new years
2022 fast approaching what are your goals for the new year?
More Importantly what are you doing right now to make sure you achieve them? Because your January goals are probably the same ones you had last year and the year before,
And waiting till January is an excuse for procrastination and if you can put off till January then you can put off till feb then march and before you know it its 2023
So your diet is over, you’ve reached your goal weight (Congrats by the way), you feel proud after X amount of time and restricting your calories, resisting temptation of your ever-growing appetite.
The suffering is finally over and you’re ready to live life again.
A month later you jump on the scale’s and slap yourself trying to awaken you from this nightmare. You suddenly realise that this is no dream. How can months of dieting and hard work be undone in a matter of weeks.
What do you do now, Why has this happened, Do you do another round of restrictive eating and hope it sticks this time?
Well getting the Body you want is only half the Battle, There’s the Battle of keeping the weight off as well which is just as Hard if not Harder.
It’s no secret that when we restrict our Calories our bodies react via Hormones such as Leptin Decreasing and Ghrelin Increasing along with other key hormones that play a role in weight management. Also as an effect of Diet-induced Weight loss our appetites get bigger but those hormones do not return back to normal after the diet has ended (1.) Resulting in constantly feeling more hungry and unconsciously consuming way more Calories than you think you’ve eaten. I’ve discussed this in greater detail & other concepts of the Metabolism in these articles here (2,3.)
So your Metabolism had a massive wrench thrown into its tracks, The wrench being Adaptive Thermogenesis (Metabolic Adaptation) Seriously read this (3.) When Adaptive Thermogenesis Kicks In Your BMR drops and you burn less Calories Throughout the day along with the increase in certain Hunger Hormones and Appetite it’s Going to be hard to burn more Calories than you Consume.
There’s only so much you can exercise and reduce Calories before your lifestyle becomes miserable and pretty impossible to maintain.
Let’s Use a female competitor weighing 140 pounds (64 kg) at 20 percent body fat who needs to get down to below 12 percent as an example (4.) Her maintenance diet looks something like this:
Calories: 2350 calories a day
Protein: 30 percent, 176 g/day
Fat: 30 percent, 78 g/day
Carbs: 40 percent. 235 g/day
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