Week 6

Last week you started learning about the Key Components of Fat Loss. Which should have helped clarify exactly – how weight loss/fat loss occurs, and reiterated the importance of simply hitting your calorie and step targets to make progress.

This week I want to use that newfound understanding, to begin to breakdown some of the things that have perhaps been holding you back up until now.

Something that a lot of people struggle with, especially those of you who have dieted before, is all of the confusion around what is “good” and what is “bad” for you when losing weight.

For example – are carbs bad for you? If you eat after 8pm, will it be stored as fat? What foods are slimming?

This confusion causes big problems. It leads people to feeling very guilty about certain things, whether that be eating certain foods (typically their favourites), or their own eating habits/patterns.

People often believe they need to create an unnecessarily strict/boring unsustainable diet to make progress.

These beliefs and feelings not only effect people when trying to lose weight, but even when they aren’t. Even if someone isn’t trying to lose weight, there is a little devil on their shoulder whispering “you know you shouldn’t be doing that” in their ear.

It is no way to live. I have seen it hundreds of times before, and it needs to change.

This week is the start of a new chapter. It is the first step to getting rid of that devil on your shoulder who makes you feel bad about yourself, and replacing it with an educated angel, that will guide you on your way to fat loss success!! (Goosebumps I know)

This week I would like you to watch the course in the learning library called “Diets & Nutrition Myths”. These videos will help answer some of those questions that you’ve always had about fat loss, which in turn will help remove that confusion you may have around the subject as a whole, giving you a sense of freedom and clarity, that I assure you, will make all of this process and the rest of your life so much simpler.

When you watch these videos, I want you to use the notes section to write down all of the examples that resonate with you. This is a section that if fully understood can have a huge impact on you forever. So don’t just watch the videos and skip over it.

If an example resonates with you, think about the instances in the past where it may have affected you, your way of thinking and your actions. Then take the time to use the understanding you have now, to redefine that experience.

For example: previously you may have cut out carbs because someone told you that they will make you fat. So you cut out carbs because you wanted to lose weight. The result of that was, you lost weight.

That experience may have caused you to believe, that carbs make you fat and you need to cut out carbs if you want to lose weight. The result of that belief could be, that you are now scared to eat carbs and feel guilty every time you do, because you think they are bad for you or will make you fat.

The result of that could be, that because carbs are a lot of your favourite foods, you still eat them but feel guilty about it. Because you feel guilty about it, you beat yourself up and eat even more. Because you eat more from guilt, you gain weight. Because you gain weight, you believe even more, that carbs are bad. Because you gain weight, you feel guilty. And the cycle never ends.

The reality of the situation (which you will understand once you have watched the videos) will be, that you are someone who typically consumed a significant amount of their calories from carbohydrate sources in a day. By removing these carbohydrates, you created a calorie deficit. By creating that calorie deficit, you lost weight.

It doesn’t mean that carbs make you fat. It doesn’t mean you should feel guilty for eating carbs or any food for that matter. It just means that to lose weight, you need to create a calorie deficit, and you can do so by whatever means suit you best.

So I want you to really take your time on this section, because if you do it has the power to be enlightening.

Summary Week 6

• Watch course “Diets & Nutrition Myths”