First of all, it must be remembered that losing weight is a process that does not happen in a linear waybut it has ups and downs. What’s more, it is a process that depends on you ending up spending more calories than you eat, so we will have to focus especially on controlling these two factors in different ways.
You have to remember that losing weight is not the important thing, the important thing is to lose fat and how you look in the mirror.
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what do you do outside the gym
What you do the time you train in the gym is very important, but we assure you that what is done the remaining 23 hours is much more. If you don’t stay active during the day and only go to the gym, you may not be spending enough calories to generate that caloric deficit that allows you to lose body fat. We cannot consider ourselves active if we go to the gym every day, but we assure you that one hour of training a day is far from making you a physically active person.
Make very sudden changes in your habits
Something that is very important is that you have to have a good relationship with physical activity and food. It is preferable to follow a training or diet plan, which may be a little more permissive and that makes you enjoy eating, than a training program that drives you crazy and that in the end generates anxiety that will later lead to a rebound effect.
A problem that often exists is that despite the fact that people lose weight, later on they do not continue training or stop eating well, so they recover the lost weight or even gain more than they had in the first place. moment, for What you have to try is to avoid relapses, keeping in mind that very sudden changes in habits are not always the best option..
no pain no gain
Something very important to understand is that no need to train to exhaustion. It can be a good option in certain cases, but your body is able to withstand the stress of sport, adapt to it and recover effectively only up to a certain point.
This means that we all have a threshold of minimum effort necessary to achieve results and a limit of tolerable effort, above which, the results are compromised.
It consists of you listening to your body and knowing how much you need to train to progress and how much is too much.
Get obsessed with the scale
Another mistake you may be making is being very aware of the scale. The scale only takes into account one variable, and that is the total weight. It does not take into account if you ate more carbohydrates the day before, so you have been able to retain a little more weight in the form of water, it does not take into account if you have gained muscle mass through sports, it does not take into account if you are stressed, and for that you are retaining liquids, etc.
The important thing is that you improve in sports, that you feel better when you see yourself in the mirror and that you enjoy exercising and eating well.
not be constant
All the efforts that are made to improve your way of eating and your sports performance, we assure you that they will not make any sense if you are not constant, since fat loss is not a quick process that happens overnight, it takes time and commitment in 100% of the cases, and if someone says otherwise, we suggest you be suspicious.
Don’t consider calories
In recent years, there has been a lot of talk that real food is the key and many people have started to think that just by eating real food, they can already lose weight.
This is false and far from reality. Eating real food is very important, but you have to understand that calories matter a lot and, in fact, you can gain weight by eating real food. What determines whether you gain or lose weight is your caloric balance.
You can lose weight without counting calories, but it is true that counting them is a strategy that allows you to know the number of calories consumed throughout the day in a realistic and precise way.
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“I haven’t skipped any workouts, but I’m not losing weight”: these are the possible causes
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