Fat loss programs fail because we end up eating more and exercising less on the weekends.
Monday to Friday you are a fat burning robot. Your fat loss program is kicking butt.
You do a fat burning Turbulence Training workout first thing in the morning, eat breakfast, have a high-protein salad for lunch, a healthy afternoon snack, and then a sensible dinner. It all adds up to a pound of fat loss per week.
Or so it should, if it were not for the 2 fat loss killers, Saturday and Sunday.
Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine recruited 48 men and women and put them on a year long weight loss program. At the start of the program, subjects were already gaining weight on weekends while losing weight during the week.
Why?
Researchers say that subjects reported eating more on Saturdays, and exercising less on Sunday.
During the year long research study, half of the subjects were put on a calorie-restricted diet while the other half was put on an exercise program.
Both groups lost weight during the week, but weekends stopped both groups of subjects from losing weight because both groups ended up eating more calories on the weekend.
As a result, the researchers concluded that many exercise and diet programs fail because of weekend lifestyle behaviors.
Here’s what you need to do to stop your fat loss program from failing.
First, identify all the problems that come up on weekends causing you to eat more or exercise less.
Second, brainstorm two solutions for each one of these problems. If you plan and prepare your weekends just as hard as you do for your weekdays, you’ll continue to lose fat week in and week out.
