Is Your Body Stubborn? Why You're Not Losing Fat or Building Muscle

With that being said, let's get started.

So number one, you're in a deficit.

You can't break past this plateau.

You're just like, I don't know.

I don't know why I'm not seeing the scale go down.

I have so many videos on adherence in food reporting, and I just recorded one this morning on the I'm 100% Adherent checklist and the exact things I would go through in your diet to ensure you're not making a misstep, you're not overlooking something very small.

I'm not going to just like repeat the same concepts here.

I hate when people do that on YouTube, but I will say you will lose weight if you're in a deficit.

And if you're not losing weight, you're not in a deficit.

It doesn't mean you're not trying to be in a deficit.

It means that something is muddying that up, whether that be sleep.

bowel movements, wake time, muscle loss.

Like I'm telling you, there are muscle loss.

You still would see the scale go down.

But like there are things that can impede scale weight actually trending down.

but the thing that i use for people the thing that i like when someone comes to me and they're like i i'm already eating this amount of food once we tighten up adherence and once we agree we're on the same page about what it means to be a hundred percent adherent i'm typically gonna ask them to go like a week maybe two weeks without a cheat meal without an untracked meal no deviations i'm also going to intentionally increase their deficit size And I'll usually calculate it out like I'm going to increase their deficit size by 250 a day, which means that on this scale, we should see another half pound come off.

Now, if that happens and then the following week they're down half pound, then we know Whatever they are doing currently, it doesn't matter what the number of calories they're at.

They just needed to eat less.

That is the confirmation that I'm looking for that like, okay, whatever your deficit size was, it was getting catabolized somehow.

And now at this point, you require less food.

That can happen.

Now, yes, consistency like that, that's huge.

And like the question I ask here really for clients is like, where are your inconsistencies? And that can seem like...

almost a little backwards it's like wait no i told you i'm being 100 perfect why would you assume i'm inconsistent y'all in my weekly sheet for all my clients i have a section called areas for improvement this is built in i bake this in because i can tell you i can do everything 100 on paper i can check a box but there is context to how i did it and certain things i can do better than others certain things i can just do for submission i can just be like yeah i got it done but But I include this for my clients because I really want to know from their perspective, what are the things that they could do like just a little bit better at? Sometimes it's like, hey, I'm not prioritizing my water early enough in the day.

And I definitely am impacted in my training because of it.