Are you INSANE?
ARE YOU INSANE?
I know, quite a blunt opening to a blog post, right? But it might make sense if you keep reading.
If you're trying to lose weight, there's a good chance you might be a little insane. Let me explain...
I often hear people say to me, “I’ve been trying to lose weight but I haven’t been successful.
It’s not usually stated that politely, there’s usually some expletives
thrown in there. But I’ll keep this clean since I’m also kid friendly.
I then ask them what they’re doing and inevitably they tell me that they are working out and eating healthy.
To that I always say, that’s great, but you have to change something.
“But what do you mean, I’m working out and eating well!”
"Right, but obviously something you are doing is not right because you are not losing weight”.
How many people do we see at the gym time and time again who look the same as they did 2, 4, 6, 12 months ago.
It’s rare that you see someone who is very overweight, and then after a few months they have lost a considerable amount of weight that you can notice?
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
So in my opinion, many of those people are insane.
I’ll use myself as an example.
Last year after leaning down to the lowest weight I had been in
a while, I decided I wanted to add a few pounds of muscle (not fat).
So after the summer my weight went from 151 to 161, but it wasn’t mostly muscle as I was hoping it would have been. Needless to say I was disappointed. (But I think I know the issue. I think I might have added too much fat in the form of peanut butter!) :)
So, being that I wasn’t happy with these results, I immediately re-directed myself and went into fat loss mode again. My 161 had gone back down to 152. And I've been hovering around there for the last month or so.
I will stay at this weight for a while and as the summer draws closer, I will slowly drop a few more pounds while trying to keep as much muscle as possible.
The point here is that what I did when I went from 151 to 161 wasn’t working for me.
So I changed my plan.
If I had stuck with it, and continued getting the same results, that would have been insane, right? I was gaining weight, but it was fat. That clearly was not my goal so I needed to change something.
What about you? Are you getting the results you want?
If not, are you changing your course of action?
I hope so.
But if you’re not and you need some help, I’d love to help you.
Just email me (kevin@builttofast.com) and let me know. I'm running my 8 week weight loss program again and we're starting on April 28th.
There’s enough 'insane' people in this world as is, I'm sure you don't want to add to that ist.
One more thing....If you'd like to see what others have said about going through my program, take a look here: https://builttofastresults.com
