“It was my weekends…not my macros!”
LESS CAN BE MORE IN YOUR WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY
I just finished speaking with a client regarding their nutrition. We'll call him "Joe".
Over the course of the last nine months, Joe has admirably lost 25lbs (approx.), but for the last two months he has been fairly stagnant.
So, we had a meeting to talk things through. Our plan was to figure out if calories, protein, carb, and fat were in line or if he needed to make adjustments to get over the hump.
But the meeting went in a different direction.
Our talk ended up having very little to do with his macros. They looked just fine to accomplish his weight loss goal.
So where did the discussion take us?
It took us to a little roadblock we found in Joe's small actions. You know, the ones you sometimes don't even notice. Almost unrecognizable.
The issue?
Weekends. They weren't making him GAIN weight necessarily ... but they also may not have been allowing him to LOSE it.
Now he wasn't exactly going off the rails each weekend. But things were definitely different for those two days of the week than the other five.
For example, he was generally reaching a weekly energy deficit of 1200 calories Monday through Friday, but recouping those 1200 calories by having a little more of this and a little more of that Saturday and Sunday.
And when that happens consistently week over week, it will make a difference.
We don't always realize how easy it is to find extra calories without noticing it.
In Joe's instance, there's no need to make things more complicated by digging deeper into the macros. For the next four weeks, Joe is going to simplify things.
We're not going to worry about the numbers, the macros, and analyzing every morsel Joe eats.
The focus is simply to be more aware of the weekend patterns and choices that are hindering progress. More than likely, with this small action, Joe will soon see his overall weight drop.
Many times, when we're shooting for a goal, and we don't see the results, it's so easy to dive deeper, want to do more, and create a more complicated game plan.
Instead, I like looking at how we can simplify the focus and process, and not lose sight of the forest due to the trees.
Simpler is better!
And if you need help finding the roadblock or obstacle to reaching your goal, let me know. It's what we at Functional Elements do!
Eat with a purpose...Be well!
Jaime Rothermich, RD, CSSD, LD, PPSC*KB, CSCS
Functional Elements Training and Nutrition
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