What Does it Really Take To Lose Fat?

There’s no doubt that there is a lot of frustration that goes along with losing fat. It can’t come off fast enough and often doesn’t stay off. Most of the time because of faulty quick fix diets that we so often buy into believing they will cure our pain and save us from how we feel about ourselves.

I hear a lot from clients that they eat healthy but aren’t getting anywhere. But it takes much more than eating healthy to lose fat. Eating healthy is great to maintain your health but when trying to make changes in your body, we have to do more, and more importantly, we have to be consistent with our efforts.

Consistency is a big word, and even more so when it comes to losing fat.

You must eat supportively, exercise regularly, and do all the other support tasks to lose fat over a period of time, for you to be successful.

So, over how long you ask?

Well, that really depends on how consistent and strict you are. Someone who is 100% compliant for 2 weeks can see some pretty significant changes. But don’t worry, I’m not asking you to be perfect.

So to be consistent means months not weeks to be successful. You can be 90% compliant for one month and see great results. Being 90% compliant means you eat supportively 32 out of 35 meals per week (5 meals a day for 7 days), and you miss one or two workouts. By the way missing or skipping a meal is one of those inconsistent meals that you can only do three times in a week to stay 90% compliant. All other factors are supportive and consistent: getting enough water, taking a multivitamin, having a post workout recovery snack, and getting enough sleep.

If you are doing that there is no reason that you can’t lose fat. If you aren’t losing fat, you aren’t doing these things. Or if you are doing these things, you haven’t been consistent enough with your efforts. There is no magic formula that makes things not work if you are being consistent.

It all comes back to consistency. And it can get real boring real quick, but it is the persistent that succeed. It takes discipline to be consistent and an iron strong goal that keeps your mind in the ‘zone’.

It isn’t easy by any means, but if it were would you really want it so bad?