You probably don’t want to hear this

You’re always the problem.

Stings a bit…

Don’t worry. I’m not trying to be a bully. I don’t want anybody to beat themselves up over this fact. I get it. It doesn’t feel fair that you’re the problem. It hurts the ego to think to yourself “I’m not doing what I should”. It’s much easier to blame somebody else, work, gut health, hormones, self-diagnosed medical conditions, mental health, health education or the annoying PT.

Slightly irritated by what I just said? Relax. Most of these issues will affect your fat loss, directly or indirectly ,that’s not my point.

What I need to point out is that I have not once, in my 7 years in the industry, met somebody that has had one (or more) of these issues affect their fat loss. What has affected their results is the way people choose to deal with them.

Having bad gut health isn’t the reason you went out on the weekend and downed 6 beers, a large pizza or funnelled a bag of skittles.

Work isn’t the reason you had to eat a take away bag of Chinese without tracking it.

Your mums 60th birthday isn’t the reason you fought off 4 small children for the last piece of cake.

Struggling with mental health? Touchy subject. BUT your ability to find help on ways to change are out there. If your method of coping with your mental issues is eating, that’s ok, but it is a problem that needs to be addressed. Every time you say to yourself that it’s ok you’re gaining weight because of mental health is just making your problem bigger. You need to attack the issue.

Get where I’m going with this? Every single one of us will have different issues that arise in life that will get in our way. The only thing that will differentiate the outcome is how you deal with them. You either blame the issue or overcome the issue.