It doesn’t matter if you’ve made some mistakes and tried to get incredible results with a mediocre program, or if you’ve been stuck doing extended cardio sessions that don’t get you to where you want to be.
We’ve all been subjected to the same bad advice from the same sources.
Some of it’s just people repeating bad information they got from someone else, not even knowing it’s false.
A good deal of this bad advice is from people trying to sell you fat-burners or carb-blockers, or ab gadgets.
The fact of the matter is: no supplement is going to instantly correct what nature has built into us.
And if sorting through the bad information in gyms and fighting off the advertising juggernaut of the fitness industry wasn’t enough, you have your own body to contend with.
What do I mean by that?
Well, if you’ve ever had moderate success on a diet and training program, you know what I’m talking about: things are going well and then—BAM—you slam into the proverbial wall and your progress stops dead.
We all know that keeping the weight off is A LOT harder than losing the weight, but why?
Ready for a boring history lesson? Of course you are, everyone loves boring history lessons.
(Honestly, just go ahead and skip the next 3 paragraphs. They’re all science-y and I didn’t even bother to write anything funny. Just jump down to the next highlighted stuff.)
Well, thanks to thousands of years of evolution, our brains have adapted to complacency. It's like the "I'm good Monday through Friday, but eat like an ass on the weekends" type of thing because everything got easier - less walking because of cars, less manual labor because of office jobs, less cooking because of food delivery service and restaurants.
We want a reward for working hard (or in our terms, eating good and working out). You might want a tight belly and a nice butt, but all your brain wants is to Netflix and Chill.
Over the course of generations, it became OK to be mediocre. It became OK to be out of shape and unhealthy if you have a positive self talk in the mirror.
(I warned you, this really isn’t interesting. Let’s just get to the part about getting hot.)
Whenever you try to get outside your comfort zone, your brain and body try to get back to their happy place by making it more difficult to stay on track.
Essentially, more you move away from couch potato status, the harder your body fights to keep them.
(You’re still reading? You must love science. I bet you even took AP Psychology.)