Episode 19: 3 Reasons you aren't losing weight, that's not a calorie deficit

Three reasons why you can be tracking, you can be doing the right things, and you're not losing weight.

Number one, I hate to say this because also, if you know me, I just get tired of seeing everyone saying the same thing online, but the number one reason you can be, quote-unquote, "doing the right things" and not losing weight is consistency.

Consistency is so real.

It can be what makes or breaks someone because it's really easy to think, "Oh, I'm doing it all," and then we kinda zoom out and we look and we're like, "Oh, actually, I'm not doing as much as I thought," or, "I skipped this," or, "This one week was a little different.

Oh yeah, this week I ate out a little bit more." So consistency does not mean perfection.

There's no such thing as perfection.

I am not the one to ultimately say, "This is good, this is bad, this is the only way." But you have to be realistic with where you're at, what your goals are, and the steps you need to get there.

If you are not doing those steps week after week, day after day, you will not reach your goals, or you will not reach them in maybe the timeframe that you potentially could.

So with consistency, let me give you a little example, and this might be kind of annoying, but this can play into why I am not the macro-obsessed counting coach.

I have seen people, women, clients I've even worked with, they are so consistent with their logging.

Even if it's just one or two meals a day, they're opening the app, they are logging, they are checking the box on, "I am ki- hitting my protein at breakfast.

I'm tracking through lunch," doing their best when they go out to eat.

Consistency with tracking is, sure, A++, is that even if it's not 100% every little bite of food, but you're consistently tracking, you're consistently aware of it, and you're not losing weight.

You feel like you should be losing weight because you feel like you're tracking.

You feel like you're eating protein, you're hitting steps.

You're doing everything you're told, but you're still not losing.

I call that weight loss entitlement because we get very impatient when we want to lose weight.

Totally understandable.

Totally get it.

But then we also like to think, "I'm doing everything right.

I must be broken.

Something is wrong with me," when you could be skipping a step.

If you're tracking, you could be tracking incorrectly.

Maybe you're not being as honest with yourself as you think.

So weight loss entitlement, that's a whole nother thing I could talk about.

Three reasons why you can be tracking, you can be doing the right things, and you're not losing weight.

Number one, I hate to say this because also, if you know me, I just get tired of seeing everyone saying the same thing online, but the number one reason you can be, quote-unquote, "doing the right things" and not losing weight is consistency.

Consistency is so real.

It can be what makes or breaks someone because it's really easy to think, "Oh, I'm doing it all," and then we kinda zoom out and we look and we're like, "Oh, actually, I'm not doing as much as I thought," or, "I skipped this," or, "This one week was a little different.

Oh yeah, this week I ate out a little bit more." So consistency does not mean perfection.

There's no such thing as perfection.

I am not the one to ultimately say, "This is good, this is bad, this is the only way." But you have to be realistic with where you're at, what your goals are, and the steps you need to get there.

If you are not doing those steps week after week, day after day, you will not reach your goals, or you will not reach them in maybe the timeframe that you potentially could.

So with consistency, let me give you a little example, and this might be kind of annoying, but this can play into why I am not the macro-obsessed counting coach.

I have seen people, women, clients I've even worked with, they are so consistent with their logging.

Even if it's just one or two meals a day, they're opening the app, they are logging, they are checking the box on, "I am ki- hitting my protein at breakfast.

I'm tracking through lunch," doing their best when they go out to eat.

Consistency with tracking is, sure, A++, is that even if it's not 100% every little bite of food, but you're consistently tracking, you're consistently aware of it, and you're not losing weight.

You feel like you should be losing weight because you feel like you're tracking.

You feel like you're eating protein, you're hitting steps.

You're doing everything you're told, but you're still not losing.

I call that weight loss entitlement because we get very impatient when we want to lose weight.

Totally understandable.

Totally get it.

But then we also like to think, "I'm doing everything right.

I must be broken.

Something is wrong with me," when you could be skipping a step.

If you're tracking, you could be tracking incorrectly.

Maybe you're not being as honest with yourself as you think.

So weight loss entitlement, that's a whole nother thing I could talk about.