I want to propose a question to all of you. If you spent
hours upon hours of your life trying to make enough money to be able to retire
comfortably, would you waste it on something other than what you had intended
it for? Would you spend all that money on lottery tickets instead of putting it
towards your main goal? I think we all know the answer to the question. So now
that you answered that, let me ask you this, “ Why would you eat food that you
know is bad for you , when you say you’re trying to do everything you can to
lose weight?”
Far too
many times during my career as a personal trainer in corporate fitness would I
see someone who spent an hour on the treadmill, an hour in the weight room, or
in and out of many group classes and I see that exact same person driving
straight to a McDonalds or a Jack in the Box on my way home. The only thing I
can honestly think to myself is,” What are you doing?!?!” When I ask people why they tend to do that,
they always come back with the same response. “I earned it. I did my hour of
cardio so I can eat whatever I want.” The truth of the matter is that after all
that hard work and time spent on building up that foundation you are trying to
get, you’ve just broke it down to pieces with that McDonalds or Jack in the Box.
Please take note that it takes a lot more than a single workout in one day to
earn the food you really want. In fact, it takes numerous workouts over many
days to be able to say you’ve earned that cheat meal. Drasin and the guys from
the 70’s followed a strict diet 6 days out of the week and had that one day
where they ate anything and everything they wanted when they wanted. Of course,
they were also working out twice a day.
There
are many different ways to overcome this diet trouble. Here are a few things
you can try to keep yourself more consistent on your diet than you are now:
1.
Train hard and eat clean 6 days out of the week
and use that 7th day to eat anything you want
2.
Train more than once a day to increase calorie
expenditure throughout the day. The best way to do this is to develop a split
of some kind. Upper Body in the AM and Lower Body in the PM, Check in the
morning and then Back later at night. This is a good way to make some gains,
increase calorie use and be able to slip by with cheating on your diet every
now and then. * On a side note, if you
decide to do this, keep your workouts at an hour or a little more. That
includes: Warm up, weight training, cardio, abs. anything more than that, your
Cortisol will rise and that won’t help either.
3.
Get a bite of something you are craving to tie
you over. 1 small bite to satisfy that beast and keep going on with your diet.
These are a few things you can try
to keep you going. Don’t forget, diet is 80% of the whole game. Sure, weight
training, cardio and supplementation help, but the diet is every single hour of
every single day. If your diet is spot on, your results will be that much
better.
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