{"id":3390,"date":"2022-08-17T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.craigbudgen.com\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2022-08-31T09:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:05:15","slug":"the-long-term-weight-management-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigbudgen.com\/the-long-term-weight-management-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long-Term Weight Management Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How many times are you going to keep going around in circles when it comes to managing your body weight?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You may also know it as the yo-yo effect.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You lose 20 pounds only to put it all back on and maybe even more!<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I know some people who&#8217;ve lost in excess of 200 pounds in a decade and they still weigh the same today as the day they first started.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s said the definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes but expecting a different outcome&#8230;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What is it going to take for you to stop looking for quick-fixes and actually build a lifestyle that makes both losing weight and then most importantly, keeping it off?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The health and fitness world is full of promises&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;Lose 20 pounds in 14 days&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>or advertisements of the like.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It just seems like the number of pounds you can lose and the number of days is always interchangeable, don&#8217;t forget to appeal to the most vulnerable people the more weight lost in the least amount of days the better!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is exactly why the &#8216;diet&#8217; industry is worth billions of dollars a year.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On the surface it can work as described, as such you got what you wanted.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You wanted to lose a certain amount of weight in the certain amount of time and you did it.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So you&#8217;re happy, the company is happy, everyone wins right?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not quite&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You see now you have a problem, and it&#8217;s not a small one.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You&#8217;ve lost the weight but you don&#8217;t know specifically how it&#8217;s happened, why it&#8217;s happened and what to do next.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You&#8217;ve blindly followed a set of instructions, with zero education alongside it and now you think you can go back to &#8220;normal&#8221; and everything will be fine.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">History shows that for over 90% of you, you can now look forward to regaining all that lost weight.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s not really of question as if, the question really is how fast.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>In the nicest possible way i&#8217;m telling you to wake up, see through the bullshit and stop looking for quick fixes.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is a better way, it takes more time, more patience, but in the long-term it will give you exactly what you&#8217;ve always wanted.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead of giving yourself 12 weeks, give yourself 12 months.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The time is going to pass regardless&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Educate yourself &#8211; either on your own via the internet or a better investment maybe to work with a credible professional to help you along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Be ok with making mistakes &#8211; nobody is perfect, nobody gets everything right (especially as the start), but you stay committed.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aim for small improvements day-by-day, I speak to my clients about laying a brick every day and eventually you&#8217;ll have a wall, the eventually you&#8217;ll have a house, and so on.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And remember, if you&#8217; can&#8217;t lay a brick, don&#8217;t kick down the fucking wall. (i.e self-sabotage, or perfectionism)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Commit to learning more about food, it&#8217;s there to fuel you and be enjoyed for what it is, not rule your life because you&#8217;re shit-scared of eating something.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That is no way to live.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Commit to drinking water, going to bed a regular times and exercising 3-4 hours per week.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Strength training is great but if you prefer tennis or cycling, that&#8217;s ok too. Just move.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lose weight once, lose it properly and then adjust your calorie intake to maintenance levels and then you&#8217;ve cracked it!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It doesn&#8217;t have to be complicated &#8211; work out how many calories you will burn in a week and then that will tell you have many calories to eat accordingly.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Get comfortable with the fact that if your diet or the like has an end day, there&#8217;s always a day after that when you will have to still move, eat well, etc.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Have a flexible process that&#8217;s easily repeatable for the next 10, 15 or 20 years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, there maybe times when you are more motivated, that normal and you can push on during those times.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There will also be times when you feel like your world is falling apart, shit happens, that&#8217;s life.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You need a solution that is flexible to both situations.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It should never be all or nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks for reading, have a great day.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Craig<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do you need confidential help with your health, fitness or nutrition?\u00a0I have a range of services available, with\u00a0<span style=\"color: #019138;\"><a style=\"color: #019138;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.craigbudgen.com\/personal-training\/\">Personal Training<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in my Private Gym in Manchester, also at your home or workplace in the surrounding areas. 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