3 Reasons
why you might not be shifting those pounds
You feel like you’re doing everything right. You’ve done the
healthy food shop and even prepared your lunches for the
week in advance. You may have even resorted to eating
chicken, broccoli and rice multiple times a day like the guys at
the gym told you to (you don’t need to do that by the way) yet
you’re still not seeing the results you’re after. There are many,
many reasons as to why you might not be losing fat but in our
experience, these are most likely:
1) You’re expecting miracles
You don’t get out of shape over night.
So don’t expect to get in shape over
night either.
If you’ve been drinking wine and eating
pork pies for years, it’s unrealistic to
think you’ll reverse all that in a matter of
weeks.
And that’s just the fat loss part, building
lean muscle can take even longer, which
is essential for transforming your body.
You might even be seeing some results
but have an unrealistic expectation of
how quickly it is going to happen.
As a rule of thumb for fat loss, you
should be shooting for around a 0.5 1% decrease in weight per week if your
goal is to trim down. That means if you
weigh 180lbs/81kg you would expect to
lose roughly 0.9 - 1.8lbs or 0.4 - 0.8kg
per week on average.
The reason this is so important is
because people compare themselves
to others on TV or in the media who
are losing a lot of weight. The reason
they might have lost a lot of weight is
because they had a lot to lose in the first
place. As you get smaller and leaner, the
rate at which you lose fat will decrease.
It’s very unlikely you’ll notice much
change on a weekly basis but those
numbers compounded over a period
of weeks and months can lead to an
impressive transformation.
Remember, slow progress is still
progress.
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