How to lose weight Part 2- Expectations

Part 2 in my how to Lose Weight series!

Today we talk about expectations & who you have to look at yours!

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Hello and welcome to the Empowered Body Method Podcast. And this is your host, Greg Ferron. And today is part two of my how to lose weight, lose fat, whatever you want to call it, and do it right, do it properly. So in the previous episode, I talked about understanding what you really want. Okay. Um and I won't go over that one too much, but just suffice to say that if you go back and listen and understand the difference between dreams and goals, and it will help you move forward. So number two today is about expectation levels. Now, I get it, you're probably looking for a really fast weight loss because here's the thing, right? And if you're listening to this and you, someone who owns a business or owns or works in a big company, you would have been exposed to this before. Expectations are high, right? We set high expectations on our career, we set high expectations in everything. And what we do is we actually sell high expectations to people because one of the things that people love is speed, right? If you can get from A to B faster, then you will, right? But what you have to remember is that getting to A to B faster can also cause problems, right? So if you have to drive from, let's say, London to Liverpool and you do it at 100 miles an hour all the way, then there is an inherent risk of high risk of car crash, car accidents, etc. So it's the same with weight loss, okay? And I love to manage people's expectations, and I'll say, listen, you're gonna aim for half a pound to two pounds a week, and this is not even factoring in your uh menstrual cycle if you still have one, etc. etc. Okay. So half a pound to two pounds a week. And people will look at me as if that's really slow. And I'm like, yeah, it is, because weight gain doesn't happen fast, like you think it does, because one day you actually look at yourself and you might go, Hold on, I've put on some fat here, what's going on? Weight gain takes time, it's slow. The process of gaining body fat is actually a fairly slow process, and we try to get it off as fast as possible. And look, you've done that about a hundred times already. You've done the fast diet, the low carb diet, and all the rest of it. And all that's happened is you've rebounded again and again. Okay, so it's like driving that car really, really fast, expecting it to be safe all the time, and it just doesn't work like that. So I want you to ease your expectations. Okay, you want to aim for half a pound to two pounds a week of weight loss. And if you do that over what, 12 weeks, what's that? Let's say 12 pounds, that'd be awesome. Okay. On the upper end, that's gonna be around 25 pounds, which is crazy. You know, I recently worked with a client, um lady by the name of Emily, and in the first say three, I think it's three weeks, she dropped 10 pounds. Awesome. There's another little caveat to this though. I want you to also be looking at not just the scale, but also your measurements and your pictures, because the scale can play tricks on you. Because remember, the scale is everything in your body, not just fat, it's water, etc. So if you go into a cycle, put on some water weight, the scale's gonna go up and you're gonna get frustrated. And for most of my clients in the Empowered Body Method, I'm not tracking their weight, we're tracking behaviors, and that's another episode altogether. So I want you to ease your expectations because this is not a fast race. Um, you know, to the point where I got bored when I was younger of telling people how to lose weight fast. I need to see them come back and go, oh, put the weight back on. I was like, well, this is exactly why. So I want you to ease your expectations. I want you to decide that the way you're about to, what you're about to do in change is about changing for life, not just for the 16 weeks of a program or 12 weeks or whatever it is, nine days. Because you're trying to change habits, and people say, Oh, it takes 21 days to embed a habit. That is actually not true. Um, it can be up to 200 days to embed new habits. So, you know, we all look at paper headlines and look at the average and we look at the lowest number because we want to achieve it fast. I get it. But here's the thing: your body develops habits, strategies over time, and your brain, which is part of your body, does the same. So I really want you to bed in in easier expectations because then it actually becomes way easier to get the result you want. And then next episode, we're gonna start talking about nutrition. So I've been talking a lot about the mindset work that's really important. So episode one, get the dream, episode two, easier expectations. Number three, we're gonna start going into nutrition and and how to how to do that. I think nutrition might take a couple of episodes, and we're gonna do this right. So if this has been useful, uh share this with friends and family. Look out for the next episode, which will be in a week's time. See you then.