Episode 28: Restarting Weight Loss Part 4, Make this the last time

Because you don't want to just lose weight, but it's realizing that the way you're eating, the way you're doing things just isn't working.

You can be really good at dieting, so that's why you can lose weight, but then you don't know how to maintain it or the weight always comes back.

There's so many women I see that are really, really good at dieting, getting ready for vacation, getting ready for an event, but not good at sustaining the results.

And if I'm for women who are really, really good at dieting, these type of women, they can follow instructions.

They can follow rules.

They can lock in for a period of time.

but they don't sustain the results.

And it's this cause and effect.

They're having trouble understanding the transition into maintenance, how to sustain the weight loss, and giving themselves enough time, enough grace as they are transitioning to live life normally or truly understand what's going on in their body.

So oftentimes they can fall into the category of overthinking.

For example, if you're worried about regaining weight back because you have done it in the past, rightfully so, it's a common fear.

But for instance, let's say you've dropped 10 or 15 pounds and you would love to lose another 10 or 15 pounds.

you're already starting to worry about regaining the weight back and losing your progress.

And you haven't even crossed the finish line of the goals that you've set for yourself.

And what I find really hard for women to sometimes wrap their mind around is for this time to truly be different, we have to look at things in two separate parts.

in order for it to feel different we need to know how you actually lose the weight or how you lost your weight might be nothing wrong with it there might need to be some tweaks because what you're doing is actually not healthy habits habits that cannot be sustained example if you are tracking every bite of food by weighing it counting calories macros certainly can be helpful but if you know you don't want to do that forever How are you going to transition away from calorie counting and weighing your food? And then once you do transition, you stop, how do you know you're gonna maintain? In addition to actual habits it takes to lose weight, to make this time the last time you ever start a weight loss journey again, ever have to restart, you also have to think about what maintenance looks like.

This is something I am huge on in my coaching.

My approach is you are losing weight in the way that you can sustain it all along.

So yes, I can put you on a meal plan, a diet plan, a crash diet, something, but it's not hard to do that stuff.

You can lose the weight, but then you're not sustaining that plan forever.

What do you do? You're back to square one where you don't know how to plan your meals, you don't know how to cook, juggle your schedule, or the second something interferes, something comes up, some challenge in life, you don't know what to do.

So that's how you regain the weight in the first place.

So I am huge on how you lose weight is how you maintain it.

Even if it takes longer than maybe you want it to, there's no rushing the process because we have to be patient with weight loss, changing our bodies, building muscle, whatever your body goal is, you have to be patient.

Easier said than done, I know.