This is a recent article, but if your New Year's resolutions include getting more fit, you need to read it or re-read it.
The Truth About Fat Loss and Muscle Gain That You Probably Don’t Want to Hear
The Truth About Fat Loss and Muscle Gain That You Probably Don’t Want to Hear
Google
“fat loss” and you will get roughly 7 million hits.
Unfortunately, most of them
are trying to sell you something or, at least, sell you on the idea of how easy
it is using their “one weird trick”. They tell you how awesome you’re going to
look, that you’ll have visible abs in 6 weeks "by doing this one simple exercise" or that you’ll add slabs of pure muscle
to your skinny frame in a month.
Here’s
the Truth:
Anytime anyone says “here’s
the truth” you should understand that it’s something you probably don’t want to
hear. But the truth is something you need to hear. It will keep you
from wasting years of your life and a ton of money on stuff that doesn’t work
and never has and ruining your metabolism in the process.
1.
You are going
to fail
Yep,
you’ll fail. Everyone does at some point. You’ll want to rush the process, get
discouraged and go back to Google looking for an easier way.
You’ll
then waste valuable time and money and be no better off. When you fail, learn
from it and don’t let it happen again. Failure is usually part of the process.
Chances
are your diet didn’t fail you. Neither did your workout program.
You
failed you. Suck it up and own it!
2.
Your Body is
Your Fault
I’m
not trying to be mean. It’s just true. It’s not your metabolism( So you Have a Slow Metabolism) It’s not your genetics (stop blaming your
parents, snowflake). It’s your own lifestyle and bad habits.
If it was
easy everyone on the planet would be lean and strong. You’re going to have to
eat less food and you’re going to get hungry. You’re going to have to eat better.
You’re going to have to exercise and work at it. And you’re going to have to
have a plan.
You’re going
to have to make sacrifices. You can’t eat better because you “love food”? Fine.
Stay fat. You don’t want to go to the gym instead of going drinking with the
guys? Fine. Stay weak and skinny. But don’t complain that you can’t gain muscle
or lose fat.
4.
It will Take
Longer than You think
Did you gain
all that fat in a week or a month or even a year? Not likely. So what makes you
think you can get healthy in a month or two or three?
If you need
to lose 10 pounds for a special occasion you can probably do that. You may look
thinner but you’ll still be fat. And you’ll gain it right back and probably gain more.
Have you
been skinny all your life but want to look like Dwayne Johnson (AKA “the Rock”)
by the end of the year?
Don’t like the truth? Me either. But
there it is. So you have three choices:
1.
Be angry with me
for telling you the truth and keep wasting your time
2.
Decide you’re
going to just stay fat or weak and skinny because the truth is too hard for a
snowflake like you.
3.
Take
responsibility for your own actions and accept the truth and commit to the
process
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