Stop eating as much.
… that’s it.
Good tip. Thanks Paul.
Whatever happened to the show ‘Secret Eaters’?
Hidden cameras following people around and opening their eyes to the amount of Barry White they nonchalantly consume. (I don’t mean the Love Walrus himself. Although that would be an epic programme… average people unwittingly exposed to ‘Can’t get enough of your love, babe’.)
I mean nonchalantly consuming shite and unnecessary calories.
I’ve heard it a hundred times; “I’m doing everything right, tracking my food… I don’t understand why the weight isn’t coming off.”
Dig a little deeper and we unearth: - That ‘healthy’ fruit smoothie (143 calories) - Picking at sweets at your desk. (150 calories) - The 5x cups of tea with milk and 2x sugars. (5x 50 calories) - Finishing the kids food for them. (150 calories)
These calories still count and over time, they really start to stack up. (The example above is real and equates to an extra, unaccounted 693 calories per day / 4851 calories per week… in this case, the difference between goal success and failure.)
If everything is correct and you are in a calorie deficit, be patient. It will shift. (Fat loss doesn’t happen in a completely linear fashion.)
But if the fat isn’t shifting after a sustained effort, something is amiss. Your meals might be spot on, but the chances are high you’re forgetting the little farty things.
Back to ‘Secret Eaters’
Get a bosom buddy to give you a budget version. Get somebody to call you out.
Accountability is key.
Personally, I have a control measure in place. She’s called Amy. The number of times I’ve bowled into the living room with a mountain of biscuits only to be met with… ‘do you need that?’ ‘No, I’ll put it back.’ ‘Good.’ ‘I want a divorce.’ ‘What was that? ‘Nothing.’
Don’t get me wrong, we’ll have the occasional biscuit / crisp / chocolate orgy. But 9 times out of 10 we keep each other on track.
Numbers don’t lie. Scales don’t lie. The mirror doesn’t lie.
But we do.
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