It’s time to look inward, consider your effort level, and call yourself out with a little – or maybe a lot – of tough love. Are you actually not losing weight because your body defies the laws of science and is immune to a calorie deficit? Or, is the more likely answer to your weight loss woes that you are cheating yourself out of progress by making these three crucial mistakes?
It’s true that there is some time-consuming work involved with logging and tracking your food. You will have to create and enter recipes into your calorie tracker, do some math to figure out servings and serving sizes, and weigh or measure almost every bite of food that passes your lips. But, as bad as that sounds, it’s really not that bad. Luckily for you, I’m here to provide you with some tips and tricks that will make it a little less daunting and a whole lot easier.
Live Free is a weight loss, life, and fitness planner that will help you change how you think about weight loss. This scientific approach removes emotion from the equation and allows you to move forward with confidence based on a collection of data, rather than make hasty decisions based on emotions associated with a single discouraging weigh-in.
Here are the top 3 reasons I would encourage you to weigh yourself on a daily basis and eventually. Hopefully, it will also end the control the number has over your mental space once and for all. Once the ties connecting your weight with your worth are broken, you will operate on whole new weight loss level.
The fact that I’ve lost weight by counting calories is probably the most ironic thing to ever happen in my life. For over a decade I refused to count calories because it felt too restrictive. Every time I attempted to lose weight by counting calories, I’d inevitably get overwhelmed with logging every single bite that went into my mouth…and lose nothing.
My weight loss journey and I got slammed over Christmas. I knew losing weight over the holidays would be hard – this wasn’t my first rodeo – but I didn’t anticipate feeling like so much was out of my control. Everyd
My pizzas are so satisfying YOU WILL NOT MISS THE OLD PIZZA. Yes, the old pizza is good, there’s no denying that. But devouring delicious pizza while also losing weight… that wins every. single. time. If you’re still skeptical, at least give it a try – what have you got to lose? These pizzas are GOOD. I promise. Now, onto the newest pizza in my recipe vault: Calorie-Friendly Taco Pizza.
This is the most common question I get asked when people find out I lost 20 pounds this year. (For the record, I’ve lost 66 pounds overall, but the last 20 of it dropped relatively quickly when I changed up my eating habits.) If I can eat like this and lose weight, anyone can. And that includes you, my friend.
Man, weight loss is hard sometimes, no matter how long you have been at it. Change truly is a process, with both ups and downs. It takes time, and mistakes are an inevitable and necessary part of the journey.But after I make a mistake now, I learn from it and move forward. This should be your goal, too – to know you’re never failing, only learning. The root of all my weight loss problems came down to these 4 crucial mistakes.
Weight gain is almost expected between Halloween and New Years Day. But I assure you, it is possible to get through this crazy time of year without seeing a big spike on the scales come January 1st. Behold, my top tips to avoid weight gain over the holidays. I have learned this information over many years of dieting, sometimes the hard way, and feel it’s my duty to share it with you.
