A bit about me, in case you didn't know - I am a qualified nutrition coach, health coach and mindset coach. As you will find out in a future blog post, as someone who has maintained a significant fat loss, I feel more than able to pass on my knowledge and tips to support you in your fat loss journey. Plus I combine my NLP toolkit to really drive you forward.
Successful fat loss requires some planning. Here's some tips:
1. Curate your environment
Start by knowing what calories you need for a deficit. This will vary depending on your age, activity level, starting weight. Lots of calculators online. But be careful to set your deficit at a sensible level. Yes, you can see a faster weight loss with a higher deficit, but you soon become hungry, tired and fed up and then less likely to stick to it.
Once you have this, start to plan out your meals for the week. What do you already have in the fridge and cupboards? What do you need to buy? Try and go for high protein meals, as these will keep you feeling fuller for longer. And make sure you eat all of your fruit and veg each day BEFORE you reach for a snack!
Planning ahead at the start of the week, or each day will set you up for success rather than freestyling it.
2. Give yourself time
Are you wanting to lose fat for a special event? A wedding? Big birthday? Holiday?
It is of course possible to adopt an aggressive approach to weight loss, where we work to a high deficit and/or high activity for a fast result.
HOWEVER, I am all about you making key long term changes - you are looking for a lifestyle, not a lifetime of diets.
Steady fat loss as a result of real lifestyle change will take time, but you're more likely to keep the loss off for longer than short-term fast crash diets. You will also likely enjoy it more, feel less like you are 'on a diet' and get used to the changes you are implementing.
3. Allow for flexibility
To make losing fat simple and effective, we want to make it a normal part of daily life. Take a look at your diary, what events do you have coming up? Where might you need to factor in calorie heavy events or meals?
Almost more importantly, plan for how you are going to get back to your plan AFTER these events. Here is where meal planning will really help. If you have a heavy meal one night, or a day out where you go over calories one day, do not then go into super low calories the next day to 'make up for it'.
Give yourself room for enjoyment of life. One cake will not wreck everything.
If you want to know your calories for a deficit, or have any other questions, just DM me.
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