Your Fat Loss Efforts Are Going To Fail

Sooner or later, (sooner for most of us), the fat loss efforts that you put in are going to fail. You may be cruising along, quite happy with your diet and exercise efforts; nutritious food, invigorating workouts, healthy glowing skin....then from seemingly out of nowhere the bathroom scale and its devious sidekick, the full length bedroom mirror, give you, well, a kick in the side. Ugh!

The scale and the mirror will not deceive you very much or very often. It could be that you are a bit bloated; maybe have a bit of water retention. But it could also be your fat loss failure wake up call. Maybe you've been cheating too much on your diet and exercise program. Don't get me wrong - we all cheat, but the ones who get caught are generally the ones who cheat more often and more spectacularly.

Maybe you're taking the exercise too easy. If you are not at least a little puffed during and after your daily workout, you have been slack with your calorie burning efforts. (You are still doing a daily 45 minute to 1 hour workout with just one rest day a week, aren't you? Aren't you???)

How about your calorie intake? Are you recording all you eat in your food and exercise diary? Are your portions truly controlled or are you employing good ol' guesswork? You know, even professionals in the health and fitness industry like nutritionists and dietitians will underestimate their portions if they don't measure them accurately once in awhile as a benchmark. Calorie amnesia is a major cause of fat loss failure.

The bottom line is that your fat loss efforts have failed. Now what?

Your response to this question is crucial. You can give up, like so many before you. Give up and be overweight, unhappy and frustrated. Back where you started or worse. People really fail only when they make the choice to give up.

Not an attractive choice.

Look, the secret is, don't see fat loss failure as insurmountable defeat. It will happen. It happens to everyone. It happens way more than once.

You don't let failure in other areas of your life stop you from your eventual triumph, do you? Try to remember how hard it once was to tie a shoelace, write a sentence, drive a car. You learned these things, despite initial failure and frustration because they were vitally important to you. You have to make fat loss for a healthy mind and body a top, if not the top, priority in your personal life. See failure as an opportunity to review and reconsider your tactics.

You will fail in your fat loss efforts, but you must rise from the ashes and be the majestic phoenix, not the pathetic chicken.