Six degrees of separation from your weight loss program can start you on the road to failure and not get you closer to Kevin Bacon. We all know if you can stick to a diet it will work. What makes weight loss and dieting even tougher is when you do not see the results of your hard work translate to weight loss. Consider this, many times frustration with your weight loss progress is self-inflicted due to modifications we may unknowingly make to our eating plan. Altering diet & weight loss programs is a slippery slope that we usually slide down gradually, little by little until we become very dissatisfied and start thinking the diet does not work. When it may be our adjustments to a well put together plan that has caused our weight loss to stop.
Lets look at an example: On the FIT Medical Weight Loss Protocol an example of a good lunch is grilled Talapia & steamed vegetables. It is a small change to think since the seasoning I used was on the diet, I can add a sauce to the fish or vegetables. The next thing you justify is adding a “small” side of potatoes taking a lunch that was around 250 calories and pushing it closer to 500 with just a few small changes.
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A 500 calorie lunch is not awful, but that meal becomes your new diet and the new norm, which will slow even your best weight loss efforts. And next we rationalize a few other changes that we think just barely increase the calorie, carb, or sugar count. You now remember how good Steak and potatoes are and begin adding condiments to your potatoes, low fat sour cream and butter… that diet conscious meal has given way to a meal that will challenge any weight loss program. This 3, 4 or 6 degrees of separation continues until you are essentially off your diet or weight loss program all together wondering why it is not working for you. Then you make the wrong conclusion: “this diet just does not work for me, I haven’t lost any weight”.
When following a weight loss program it is important to establish baselines. Set hard lines you do not cross and work to have alternatives you can eat rather than unhealthy options. Remember what you see is what you eat.
The FIT Medical Weight Loss Protocol helps establish that baseline for you, we set guidelines for you instead of leaving you guessing. FIT Medical Weight Loss has an easy to follow eating guide that takes the guess work out of what to eat to keep your weight loss on track and reach your weight loss goal.
Please contact us if you have questions or want to learn more about our weight loss programs or Botox and Fillers:
Please contact us if you have questions or want to learn more about our weight loss programs or Botox and Fillers: