For women it goes something like this…
In Almost every consultation/assessment I ask the following question…
‘What have you tried before??’
Almost every one of them goes like this…in this exact order!!!!
First diet book
They follow it for all of 3 days and realise that its not all its cracked up to be, a lot of theory but no practical application. Nobody to drive them on and hold them accountable.
Home Dvd
Now they can’t fail! They have the latest celebrity telling them what to do and jumping around in front of them in a string top not even breathing heavily! Truth is its about as fabricated as your furniture. Them DVD’s are made to suit EVERYBODY. Basically if there is anything that is remotely difficult they remove it. leaving you bouncing and flailing around the place aimlessly 3x times a week until you realise its not working.
Weight watchers
I honestly don’t know why people keep going to weight watchers. I wont even rant about this one… there are 1/100 people that genuinely do benefit from weight watchers. The other 99 suffer. They gain the weight back on, they are obsessed with ‘points’ to the extent that they count the points in a glass of water and a deep breath not to mention the damaged metabolism they are left with at the end of it.
Slimming pills
Taking fat burners, eating cayenne pepper by the spoonful. All to speed up your metabolism by a maximum of 5-7 %… we are talking about; 50-100 kcals/ day depending on your body size. Just don’t eat ONE of those biscuits and you will save yourself a fortune every month.
Gym membership
They join a gym…now what?
Aerobics classes
Yes, aerobics classes are fun and you do sweat a lot in them. You will plateau and the class will get easy… then…
Personal trainer
Then you get some antelope who leans on the treadmill while pressing buttons randomly and telling you that you are doing a great job…
‘keep going… yea that’s it…’
While looking at himself in the mirror or chatting up people passing by or something ridiculous like that…
And people wonder why they ‘can’t’ lose weight….
