Personal training - Losing weight

The Idea Of Losing Weight

Lose weight, it's the topic on many of our minds. If its so important, why do so many of us fail in our weight loss efforts? While I do want you to like who you are, fat and all. I will not say what people want to hear if it's not the truth.

You're here because you want to lose weight. I'll say what they need to hear to lose that weight. So if you have been working out for a few months and you haven't seen any weight loss, there is a problem with what you are doing. If your not working out, but think your on a great weight loss program. You can stop right here. You're overweight because you're inactive. More on this later..

What I have come to understand is that many people are smart enough to know what needs to be done to lose weight. What I also understand now thanks to my experience with others that are overweight is that knowledge is not what makes us succeed when trying to lose fat. It's putting that knowledge into practice. So if people know what needs to be done to lose weight, why are they not doing it?

One reason is because the bad habits that made them overweight somehow makes them feel better now than they think they will once they lose weight. In other words, immediate satisfaction. We all know that most things that are worth having in life take effort.

The other is that its easier to be overweight now and enjoy your bad habits than it is to put in the effort on a fat loss program if your not 100% sure that this program your on will help you lose fat. You've tried to lose weight before right? Your still here looking for answers too. That tells me two things. First, you're a personal trainer looking for info to help your own clients or..Second, your still overweight.

So if you have tried fat loss programs before, (more than you care to admit) and you haven't lost weight, do you think there is a problem with every one of those fat loss programs?

Or do you think maybe the lack of fat loss lies within? Don't turn away, this is facing the facts time if you want to change your life.

You see here is the problem I face. As a Personal trainer working with people who want to lose weight, I have the knowledge to do this. But they have to use it in order to lose weight, I can't move for you (yes I'm talking directly to you). I'm writing this article on how to lose weight with you in mind. How can I be talking to you without knowing you? Because everyone that wants to lose weight faces the same demons. I know you. You are my living.

Nothing happens on a fat loss program without movement! It takes calories to move, and using calories is the heart and soul of a weight loss program. Now I've told you that in order to lose weight you must move. Are you going to move or sit there and stay overweight?

If you are still sitting there overweight, read on.

Another reason that people cant break the bad habits that are holding them back is because at some point something or someone did or said something to this person that has preprogrammed them to think bad things about themselves.

Things like: your fat, your over weight, you never lose weight, and you're big boned. Programmed to think that in some way you are flawed and doomed to a life with some sort of shortcoming that makes fat loss impossible for you! You are living out life overweight because someone long ago told you that you were fat. You are allowing someone's none caring actions to affect your life! You have let someone control and undermine what you are capable of becoming. Don't. To the person that said something to you..."to h*ll" with them! Go ahead say it! And without the little star in the middle. Its time to get tough.

Those people don't know what your cable of, and you know what? Neither do you. Not until you do your very best will you know what you can achieve when you truly apply your self to a serious fat loss lifestyle. If this person told you that you are weak willed, fat, ugly, or lazy, then that's their perception of you. That's not you. You are and can be so much more.

Let me set the record straight right here right now. You are not a special genetic freak. If you are human (and I hope you are or my article is really getting exposure) then you can lose weight. Read that again. If you are human, you can lose weight.

If you continue to believe that you are destined to be overweight, then you will fight with your inner self to be anything better. In essence if you change and stop feeling lazy, weak willed or fat ect, you will loose your old self. The "fat ego" has a way of wanting to self preserve (even though outwardly you want to lose weight, you really do), so it will fight you. This is why change is hard. This is why starting a new fat loss life style will be a challenge.

You must recreate yourself and become something more wonderful and beautiful than before.... lose your old self and create a better you. Fight that "fat ego voice" that wants to keep you down. Other people (even family) will get in the way. Obstacles and challenges will come. But this is about you. You have to come first sometime. Now is the time.

If you are human you can lose weight.

Here is a link to another page of this site that will help you with some of the top reasons why if you have started a program (any program, but mine would be nice) that you may not be seeing weight loss. Lose Weight

One of the things people don't get is that weight loss is like balancing your bank account. Except now you want to be in the red. You can't deposit more calories than you withdraw or your fat bank account grows. If you stay comfortable and keep that bank account balanced?. you'll always have fat money in the over weight bank. There are 3500 calories in a pound of fat. So you must either cut that many calories from your diet (very hard) or burn off that many with exercise (doable) to lose a pound of fat a week. The trick is to use both.

If you are shooting for 2 pounds of fat loss per week, you are looking at withdrawing 7000 calories from you fat bank account. That's 1000 calories a day my friend. When you're hungry, you don't want to lose that much food from your diet. So burn some of those fat calories away!

Break down your weight loss program this way:

250 calories from weight training
350 calories from cardio
400 calories by diet

If you would like to know more about how to use all this info for yourself, take a look at my book BEGIN AT THE GYM.

Now the final important thing to know about weight loss is that you need multiple meals per day to lose fat. Your body can only use so many calories in one sitting before converting the rest to fat.

Lets say you need 3600 calories a day (you wish!). Lets say that your body can use only 600 calories per sitting before you start to store it as fat. If you eat six meals per day, all totaling 600 calories than your getting what your body needs without becoming overweight.

Now lets look at what most people do. Remember that your body will try to get those 3600 calories because that's what it needs. You wake up and maybe have a small breakfast, about 300 calories. Go to work, eat lunch because your starving after 5 hours and binge down 1200 calories from MacDonald's. Congratulations you have already stored 600 calories to fat. Than you starve yourself to supper and binge again, eating another large portion of 1200 calories and storing more fat. Go watch some TV and go to bed.

What has happened is that you have eaten 2700 calories, 900 less than you needed so your metabolism slows (read getting more overweight) but you have also managed to store 1200 calories to fat because of your large meals. A double whammy that kills many weight loss best intentions.

This is where I will stop for now. I welcome your email questions and will add to this article as the questions come in. If your serious about weight loss, let me know. Your questions will help others so don't be shy. Mail Ray.



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Ray Burton is a 15 year veteran weight loss coach who specializes in helping busy moms and parents maximize their results.