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Sam Wilson's avatar

Ironically, the key for me to losing weight is to try to shift my mindset away from worrying about weight.

Frustratingly, the slower you lose weight, the more likely you are to keep it off. Do whilst it might feel like a hard slog, if you do it right you should only have to to do it once.

A SMALL deficit every day ON AVERAGE should give you the energy you need to do what you need to do and have you losing weight at the sam time.

Whilst it’s ok to have a weight goal, a goal of improving all round health is better IMO. Smart watches can supply us with all different markers we can use to identify improvements in our health.

- Resting HR

- VO2 Max

- Sleep bad time spent un the various states of

We can also look at performance goals.

- How fat we can run/walk

- HR/Pace ratio (how fast we can move in Zone2 etc)

- Beep test score

- What % if our body weight we can lift.

It’s taken me a long time to get over but rather than a weight goal. For example, I want to be able to run 5k in 20, 10k in 45, Arthur’s in 1:45 while being strong enough to bench press my body weight. I want to train 5x a week and want to dedicate one day a week to resting/recovery/family time. Also aiming to get as close as I can to 7 hours sleep a night.

If you set a variety of targets and work towards them, the weight will look after its self. We want to lose weight to have more confidence and be healthier. So why not make one of our goals to just be healthier?

There’s no point hitting your target weight if it means you have no energy to do what matters to you.

These other goals or good for your mental health too. You might have a week where you don’t lose any weight, if that’s your only metric, you’re susceptible to getting down about it. But if you have a week where you don’t lose weight but lifted heavier than you have before, or had your best ever HR/Pace ration, ran a PB etc, you can tell yourself that even though you didn’t lose weight this week, you are still improving.

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Brent Ford's avatar

"But if they aren’t fueling themselves properly, they eventually burn out or get injured, put all the weight back on, and feel worse about themselves for failing. A cycle I know all too well."

This is me as well, but in the last month being consistent with eating enough has completely stopped my binge eating, and feel so much better as a result.

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