By going on a diet your mind knows that you will be cutting down on food and so your mind tells your body to retain extra food, 'fuel', as there may not be much more food coming. While if you're not on a diet your body won't retain as much 'fuel', as the person on a diet, because your mind knows, that quite soon, you're going to have another meal, there are no restrictions on your food intake and so your body won't retain that extra fat.
Your mindset plays a big part in your journey to gain muscles or losing weight and so you must have the right mindset to be succesful. You must find within yourself a true desire to lose that extra weight or gain muscle, it can't be simply because somebody told you to do so, it must a true desire you need to have.
Let me tell you about the incredible change that my brother went through. He used to weight about 100kg, (220 pounds), at the age of 13. He had been struggling with his weight for a few years and one day something happened, within himself, and he lost about 35 kg (77 pounds) in just over 30 days.
What has inspired him to go through this massive change was pain. Pain is a much greater motivator than pleasure. You would do anything to avoid pain instead of seeking pleasure, so if you find something, within yourself, which hurts you a lot use it as a motivator to get through what you need to get through.
My brother got sick and tired of being so overweight, he was insulted by people, one of those people was me, I know it's not nice but I was young and silly! He didn't feel very attractive, he felt disgusted with himself and after years of being in that situation he changed and started fasting. He didn't eat anything for about 38-40 days and he lost 35kg.
I know it may sound crazy for some of you but my family believes in fasting as a way to detox, lose weight and improve general health. It has been also proven in many scientific experiments that fasting increases your life spam.
What I recall about my brother's experience is that he tried to lose weight many times before but unsuccessfully, I clearly remember him talking about his new diet and that he will lose heaps of weigh this time and bla bla bla. Guess what? It was all talk. Everything changed the day when he didn't say anything and just stopped eating. 5 weeks later he was transformed.
At the end of those 5 weeks he simply had a big flappy belly which now it's gone. He started then going to the gym and getting healthier and healthier, now he's in his best shape ever and he has never gained any more weight.
My message is that you can try all the diets you want, all of them, try all the gyms or personal trainers you want but nothing will change unless you truly want to change. It has to be an immense desire, as I said before if your situation causes you pain then you should consider yourself lucky as that pain can be used to achieve what you desire.
Those diets work, the gym and mentors will definitely help you but the biggest part is you, you must be really ready for it. So stop blaming those diets or stop blaming others and start instead focusing on yourself. Society puts heaps of pressure on the way we should look and if you're trying to get healthier, or lose weight because of that than let's be frank, it's probably not going to work.
If you truly desire losing weight, or getting healthier then start doing things differently. I will talk about how you can turn an unpleasant workout, or unpleasant diet into something pleasant and that will actually work. I will talk about that and more in my next post.
Leave a comment below if you would like some tips or help with your diet, I will be happy to help.
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