Why food and fitness are the last things you should focus on to get in shape

How often have you tried to get in shape by concentrating on your diet and exercise?

How long did you maintain your results for?

If you're like the majority of people, you've undoubtedly tried everything from dieting, restricting foods you love, clean eating, meal planning, detoxing, or limiting carbs, to hiring a personal trainer.

Nevertheless, nothing seems to produce long-lasting results.

Maybe it's time to try something new if you've tried everything to lose weight.

Because if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll always receive the same kind of results, the fact is.

If nothing changes, nothing actually changes.

You know, getting in shape is somewhat similar to building a house.

Starting with a solid foundation is essential, followed by the construction of the walls, windows, roof, and finishing touches like painting and decorating.

Fitness and nutrition are the painting and decoration when it comes to getting in shape, yet many people mistakenly think that they are the foundation and wonder why their results fail to hold.

This article will outline the steps you've been skipping if you've been having trouble understanding why focusing on nutrition and exercise hasn't shown any results.

Before to concentrating on exercise and nutrition, you need to...

Reduce metabolic inhibitors

The truth is that unless you reduce your metabolic blockers, no matter how much attention you pay to your diet and exercise, you will never be able to lose weight. Even with a decent diet and exercise routine, metabolic blockers might affect your metabolism and stop you from losing weight. The most frequent ones are: * Constant stress * Inadequate sleep * Abuse of alcohol.

Persistent stress

Weight gain and stress are related. Your body reacts to stress in ways that make weight loss challenging. The first is the cortisol hormone's release. Cortisol makes it easy for your body to store fat on your stomach and increases your hunger and cravings for junk food. Stress results in decreased calorie burning as well as poor sleep.

Lousy sleep

Poor sleep has been linked in studies to weight gain, an increase in appetite, a tendency to give in to seductive meals, and an increase in the consumption of foods high in calories, fats, and carbohydrates. Also, getting too little sleep lowers your metabolism and raises stress levels.

Excessive alcoholic beverages

Your ability to reduce weight will be greatly hampered if you consume too much alcohol. Your calorie intake will be greatly boosted by alcohol, which also causes you to make poorer eating decisions, feel more hungry, digest food poorly, store more fat, and disrupts your sleep.

You must get rid of (or significantly minimise) the metabolic stressors in your life if you want to lose weight. Yet, you must first pay attention to your habits since the reason behind your actions is where the remedy lies.

Fix your habits

Focusing on lowering alcohol use, managing stress, or getting more rest is one of the most popular things people try to do when treating their metabolic blockers. The solution, though, is in figuring out why you're anxious, having trouble sleeping, or drinking alcohol rather than correcting these things.

Your habits determine this.

Most people who have weight issues typically engage in a number of the following behaviours:

Low self-worth and low self-esteem; lack of confidence; comparisons with others; trying to please everyone; putting one's own needs before those of others; perfectionism; concern for others' opinions; allowing fear to rule one's life; diet mindset; belief that one is entitled to weight loss and does not need to exert effort; and need for control.

For instance, if someone has poor self-worth, they can be under a lot of stress. Due to their tendency to put others' wants before of their own, they become people-pleasers who never have enough time to take care of their own needs.

Their weight loss is hampered by this tension, which may also lead them to turn to emotional eating or alcohol consumption. Hence, the answer isn't to cut back on drinking or emotional eating; it's to deal with the cause of their stress.

Your habits will be influenced by a variety of factors, including as how long you've been dieting, the environment you grew up in, and even any prior trauma you may have gone through.

You must be conscious of your habits in order to change them, though.

Learn to recognise your habits

Understanding and reflecting on the ways in which our decisions, routines, attitudes, and behaviours have led to our present circumstances and results is self-awareness. This could refer to things like our health, weight, or even the people in our lives.

Without self-awareness, we'll always carry out routine behaviours (habits) that impede our efforts to lose weight or even cause weight gain. Why you'll never lose weight without self-awareness is the title of our blog post where we discuss the significance of being aware of your habits.

But how does one increase awareness?

You must gather information.

Collect data

Making assumptions and decisions based on our emotions rather than on facts results in a lack of self-awareness. We can only know the facts if we collect data over an extended period of time.

Data is information that you keep track of that shows where you are, what you're struggling with, and why.

This includes:?

• What you eat and drink
• Information about your training and exercise
• How your body feels
• Data regarding your sleep
• Information regarding your mood
• Information regarding your actions, thoughts, and routines.
• You can see what you're doing when you record data. You become more conscious of your actions and how they affect your life.

The thin line between yo-yo dieting and permanent weight loss is data.

Be reliable.

The longer you capture data, the more accurate the picture you get, and the better your coach can assist you, the more accurate the picture is.

You'll gradually have a clear understanding of what functions well, what doesn't, and what needs to be altered.

But, you should capture your data consistently rather than simply when you remember, feel like it, or the data "looks good."

Your coach will gain significant insight into what you need to concentrate on to continue seeing results if you regularly document what you eat, how you exercise, how you feel, and how well you sleep. Also, you'll be more conscious of what you need to do the more exact and reliable the data is. In our blog post How to be consistent with your weight reduction, we go into further detail regarding the significance of consistency.

But you must be responsible if you want to gather the appropriate data.

Add accountability?

Saying you'll capture data is one thing, but what happens when you're too busy or find it too difficult to do so? You're sure you won't do it. You must therefore include a component of accountability in the mix.

Accountability has been defined as “the acknowledgment of responsibility for your actions with the obligation to report, explain, and be responsible for the resulting consequences.”?

Most individuals dislike being held responsible for their actions, but according to study, doing so increases your chances of success by a whopping 95%!

Accountability not only enables you to keep on track with your weight loss goals, but also makes it easier for you to follow through on them when your motivation is low.

Accountability will therefore assist you in gathering your facts.

Keep the process in mind.

You must, however, make a commitment to the process if you want to hold yourself accountable. It takes time and effort to lose weight and keep it off. It also doesn't happen overnight. While there will be many ups and downs along the way, you must commit to doing whatever is necessary.

Possess a motive to commit

How can you stick with it for the long term if long-term weight loss calls for all this effort and commitment?

A WHY is necessary. Your WHY is a fundamental reason for deciding to embark on the adventure, and it is frequently only discovered after experiencing a "snap point."

When you've had enough is when the snap happens. You reach a breaking point when you can no longer handle it. It's the point where the anguish is unbearable and you'll do everything to leave the circumstance and you'd prefer to pass away than return to your current situation ever again.

Once you've reached your lowest point, you'll typically have a WHY for making a commitment.

Through difficult circumstances, your WHY will keep you motivated. When you do these things, you'll be able to:?

• Get out of bed and go to training, even on the days you don't feel like it?
• Choose to go for a walk rather than watching TV?
• Schedule time to prepare your meals, even during busy weeks
• Keep working to form new, better habits, no matter how long it takes?
• Step outside of your comfort zone and try things that scare you?
• Keep looking for ways to grow and develop?
• Put in the hard work, even when you don't feel like it?
• Your WHY must be unique to you. It needs to be robust. It must also be larger than you.

Create a solid foundation first.

You can see that there are several steps you need to complete before you start concentrating on nutrition and exercise.

You must have a strong motivation for committing to the procedure. Then, you must hold yourself accountable, which will enable you to collect the essential information and help you recognise your behaviors.

In order to lessen the metabolic blockers in your life, you must then focus on these habits one at a time. Your efforts with your diet and exercise will only be effective at that point.

I recognise that this may be difficult for you to comprehend since it contradicts everything you have ever learned about diets from the diet business.

We have been trained to believe that fad diets and fast cures are the solutions to our weight-loss problems. Yet none of them are effective.

For those who are tired of diets and want more than a gorgeous physique, I created my lifestyle and body program for high-achieving women, also known as the Not-a -diet Diet.

I'll assist you in laying the proper groundwork so you can get in shape, keep it off, and restore your confidence.

Are you ready to try something new instead of going around in circles forever?

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