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Bodybuilding Weightloss Trouble-Shooter
"Help, none of this mainstream stuff works!"
There is a specific reason you are not making progress with your bodybuilding weightloss and were going to find it.
Take a look below and see if any of these bodybuilding weightloss blunders look familiar
Snackingno problem here if its nuts or fruit during the day or around workout time but if its getting late and you are still looking high and low for some tasty snacks it means you are taking in extra calories just at the wrong time.
Solution maybe you need to change you diet plan to increase the portions for your early evening meal maybe you need to drink more water as this will suppress the appetite and make you feel full perhaps you are snacking because you are bored and dont realise how much you are getting throughremember to get out and about stimulate your mind!
Eating too much of the right stuff! Just because you have a larder full of low fat foods and snacks might make you think that it doesnt matter what you eat, just one more low-cal energy bar, anyone?
Solution - Sometimes its tempting to do this but remembersome pre-packaged foods still have high sugar and calorie contentsits the calories that count at the end of the day whether its from a nice double choc muffin or a healthy bowl of cereal.
Hey, thank goodness its the weekend! Just because youve kept on that strict diet and exercise schedule all week doesnt mean you can crack open that six pack in the cooler thats been teasing you since you bought it. Stop, think, is it worth it?
Solution - Ok, have one or two, you deserve it but you get the picture, use this as a reward but only in a small way. The idea is to slowly, lose the taste for fatty and sugary foodsthis believe me will take some time but before you know it you will be choosing that Bud lite every time!
It wasnt me! Are you really being honest and putting all the food in your food diary? It doesnt look too good if you spoil a whole page with ice-cream or fudge brownies or No stop there, you get the point. Honestybe truthful to yourself and keep accurate records of all your food intake only in this way can you track your total calorific intake and make the appropriate adjustments.
Solution you can work with this and take a look every week at the items you just cant live withoutyouve heard of meal replacement drinkswell I want you to take a look at some of your semi-favourite foods (keep the best one or two there is no substitute for these!) and then think how you could replace these
Ok, say you like ice cream...you can get fruit sorbet (nice taste very low calories) you can get nice yoghurtswhy not make a fruit smoothie with fresh berries, fruit and a small scoop of ice cream? The idea is to cut right down and trim those fat calories out of your dieteasy.
Lack of time for bodybuilding weightloss?
Solution there is always timeEven on an 18 hour shift, youll get 10 minute breaks every few hours! Take in a brown bag meal and have something regularly this will stop cravings that can only be satisfied by food available where you work which will be junk!
The lack of time theory is a great excuse, however, busy you arebut I want you to think about two things here. Firstly, if planning your meals or preparing them or finding time to go to the gym after work etc etc seems impossible you need to BUILD THEM INTO YOUR ROUTINEthen they will not show up as an out of the ordinary event that has somehow got to be levered in to your day
You need to be expecting looking forward to that time. Now, starting a habit is best done very gentlyI want you to do the least possible toward your goalbut do it immediately after you commit to your goal. Get me. You have to reinforce your commitment with action.
If you workout regularly anyway skip this sectionif not and you want to startread on
How not to startget pumped up about how great youre going to look when youve lost all those poundswrite down your weight target and give your self a time limit to achieve it by (so far so good)fold up that bit of paper and put it in your wallet (big mistake)fast forward a couple of weeks hey, you know, I must get around to losing some weight...better write down a list of goals and so it goes on. Been there, done that!
How to start
First, get yourself a weights and aerobic program that you likedont even think about doing something you hateok, so even if that means working out with free weights at home and using walking as the aerobic elementstart with thisonce you see results it will be time to progress
This is key, do not skip this step and write down a full program of activities that look goodon paperbut in your heart of hearts are not ever going to feature in your day!
I was preparing a program of aerobic work for a student some years agoI said, how about cyclingno, looks too silly and Ill get sorehow about swimming dont want to be seen in the poolHow about running too hard on the knees. So we used speed walking and got results.
Secondstart with two sessions a weekone with weights one aerobic.when you can easily do this and are looking forward to these sessions.double up and do two and twothen three and three. This could take a couple of monthsbut who careswhats the alternative? Doing nothing?
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