It’s coming close to that summer window and the holiday is either booked or at least planned.
It will be great to get away and enjoy the sun on your face and feel great sat on the beach in your swim wear…
Oh wait a minute…
Feeling great in your swim wear…
That thought alone makes you shudder!!
It was only this morning that you looked in the mirror at the saggy bits, grabbed the loose skin around the hips and wished that it would just disappear
You’ve tried everything! All those FAD diets that we’re great for 2 weeks but all failed. Or, you did great Monday to Thursday but it all fell apart on Friday to Sunday, only to start again on Monday again….and again…and again
The point has come too late now to be patient and consistent. That time should have been in January…when your NYR lasted all of 3 weeks (if that)
Well, there’s no other option for it….
It’s time for the Peter Kay Diet!!
Nothing else for it…
A couple of rice crackers for each meal…and 14 Stone in a day!!!
So what do you do?
You’re Going to Starve Yourself
Drastic measures are needed and you’re going to rapidly cut the calories and you will have to eat like a bird, living on salad leaves, tomatoes and the odd bit of chicken. You believe that carbs are the devil and that they have alone made you fat. You live on rabbit food and think that anything other than a salad is ‘bad’ for you.
You back yourself into a corner of boring food and restriction. Everyone around you thinks you’re mad and are telling you that you look ill. Your friends jokingly tempt you with pizza and wine. Come the weekend, you’ve had enough. You’ve probably ONLY lost 2 pounds and you think that it’s not worth it after all.
You give up again….after all, you did try right?
The Solution
You need to focus on whole foods, whilst still allowing yourself SOME processed junk to keep you sane. Around 80/20. Being all or nothing rarely works!
Have stuff in the house before it’s too late. Plan a little in advance and cut yourself some slack from time to time. There’s no point in having a great body whilst feeling awesome if you have to lock yourself away to do it.
We keep it sustainable with our S.I.M.P.L.E system that stops people feeling as though they’re on a diet and suffering from restriction.
We focus on forming habits so you make the best decisions for your situation at the time.
You will fixate on scale weight along to reach your goal
The unwanted body fat around your ‘problem areas’ is directly linked to the scale, right? We all know that to be true! Maybe…Maybe not!
So many people’s success is determined by the reading on the scales and emotions are well and truly attached to what we call the ‘sad step’.
You jump on the scales in the morning, probably naked. You dress, drink, eat, move around, drink some more, eat again. You pop down town and pass a set of scales, so you jump on. You’ve only eaten 2 Ryvita bread all day so you should weigh less right? The scales tell you that you’ve actually put on a pound!!!
The next day you’re up again…how can this be possible! You’re doing EVERYTHING right…
You get emotional at this point, say sod it. You go straight for your comfort food, settle down on the sofa in your PJ’s and eat…probably with a glass of wine or a Gin (flavoured).
20 seconds later you feel guilty for it and start hating yourself, and so starts the vicious self-loathing cycle that leads to further binge eating!!! Sound familiar?
The Solution
Start by detaching yourself emotionally from the scales by look at other measures of progress.
The Scales don’t determine how you look or how others look at you. They don’t dictate your shape or your energy or how you look in that new dress.
How do your clothes fit? Compare before and current photos and take measurements of specific areas with the tape measure. We have people drastically change shape whilst hardly moving on the scales.
Look at your fitness levels and health measures such as blood pressure, sleep quality and the ability to run around with the kids.
Figure out what is actually important to you first so that you can measure success, which leads us onto…
You set yourself unachievable goals
You’ve got 4 weeks to drop a stone! You’re fixate on that stone, or maybe you bought yourself that beautiful dress last week, even though it wouldn’t fit but you’re determined to get in it for the wedding in 4 weeks time.
You’ve no idea how you’re going to actually do it as it’s never worked before, but you’re determined so that’s enough right…besides, that women in the popular coffee time magazine did it…so can you
You start a fitness DVD or go to a class or 2. You join the gym, wander around the place for 20 minutes, get lost by all the machines and get put off by all the grunting coming from the free weights area.
You look over to see the posers in lycra flexing their muscles in the mirrors…That’s it! I’m out of the door you tell yourself and so ends that plan to drop a stone.
Or perhaps you started a couch to 5 k with a friend, which was great, but they’ve hurt their ankle and don’t do it anymore. Determined, you’ve carried on but now the kid’s clubs, work and other things are making it hard. You start making excuses not to do it today (raining, dark, too tired, got that report to finish…insert any other excuse here).
The Solution
Sit down and work out what you can actually achieve based on your history. If you’ve never lost a stone in a month, then what makes you think you can do it now?
Once you have a goal, set milestones and then look at what tasks you need to do to get there. Tick them off as you go to make sure you’re on track. If you’re not doing this then you’re guessing.
This is a very simple system we use at Forever-Strong with our HABIT HANDRAIL and our GOAL SETTING GRAB BAG.
You buy diet pills, shakes and vibration pads that magically turn your body into the one you desire
You’ve read somewhere that FATBURNZ1000 pills work a treat and you can pick them up for £30 at H&B, or there’s a magic juice harvested from the purple spotted Goji Berry, only harvested during a full moon on a Madagascan dessert and you know several skinny people who swear by it so it must work.
You also buy one of those Slendertone machines that magically sends impulses into your body and blasts away those fat cells like a space invaders game. You sit there with it under your clothes at work. Jumping awkwardly and making silly noises as it gives you the unexpected jolt!
You’ve spent HUNDREDs of pounds on this crap and it’s just not working! Resigned to failure, it all gathers dust at the back of a cupboard as you look to the next product that will save the day.
The Solution
How about don’t rely on supplements to do the job for you. Supplements are there to assist an already good eating plan. They are not the quick fix magic bullet to cure your problems.
We help people cut the crap on supplements. What works, what doesn’t…and why!
We focus on consuming whole foods most of the time, with the occasional blip factored in so you can go out and enjoy a night out with friends or attend that 50th birthday party.
You don’t tell others about it as you’re too embarrassed and try to do it alone
You start your ‘ready for summer’ diet in secret as you’re too embarrassed to tell your friends and family as they will roll their eyes and think your obsessed again They will mock you, tell you that you’re fine where you are and that they think you look great. They will ask you if you’re coming out tomorrow night for Pizza and chips…and a bottle of wine or 2!
You suffer in silence, with only your own thoughts to rely on. Those same thoughts and voices that constantly beat you down and tell you that you can’t do it and that you have failed so many times before.
The Solution
As appalling as this may sound, you have to involve others. People you trust who have a common bond and can share your struggles and drag you through the tough times. And you get a great sense of achievement as you do it for them too.
Within Forever-Strong, we have built up a community of like-minded people who are going through those exact same struggles that you are and have possibly come out the other end too.
We call them accountability buddies. They kick your backside to get to the gym. They lift you up out of the slumber with your food. They help energise you when things get overwhelming.
They can call you out of your bullshit and to stop you from making excuses.
95% of the time, the Peter Kay diet ends…in disaster
You likely lasted only a few weeks at best, you lost some weight but you’ve piled it all back on again and maybe even more.
You either:
- Go on the holiday and cover yourself up all the time and you don’t actually enjoy yourself
Or
- You cancel the holiday all together, make excuses not to go and convince yourself that it’s the right thing to do
But what if there was another way
What if you found the solution?
What if you found the Forever-Strong Way?
Like so many others have done in the last few years…
What are you waiting for?
The best time to start was yesterday…
The next best time is RIGHT NOW!
