What after first three months?

You’ve spent the first three months on the diet and training schedule, you’ve reduced first kilos, you’ve learned the basic exercises, and you do not have that wonderful drop of two pounds a week and three centimeters in the belly as it was at the beginning. Practically, doing a training has in some cases become a comfort zone, you are able to do it without being too difficult, you have created a new comfort zone.

Is there anyone who remains constant after the first few months?

What happens at the start?

You want to lose weight, you have no physical activity, you’re just fat. You start calorie deficit, eating less calories than you need and putting  stress on your muscles. The body adjusts to stress so that muscles are stronger, muscles spend calories, you eat less than you need, body mass drops down.

The drop is fast in the beginning because it is still a big shock to the body, you activate it and give it less than what it needs, so go away and fat, after a month you can see some contours of the muscle in the mirror, everything is great.

What after first couple of months?

There is some routine in the process, sometimes there are still periods of excessive caloric intake, but as far as training is concerned, basic exercise knowledge is here and most of people can say for themselves that they can perform a certain exercise.

As time goes on, the body is increasingly adapting and requires a progressive increase in external workload in training, always to do a bit harder training than the previous one, there are situations when it is necessary to “break trough” the repetitions, or to do everything to make another rep that is not so easy as it was at the beginning when we were working with “educational” weights.

So, what after three months?

Here we are at the three months line, as the author of the article says, the limit after which those who really want to do something fsty and the rest give up. Beware, after three months, you have 90 days of new physical activity, 90 days of new meal plan. The days passed when you lost a few pounds a week, the days passed when you increased your weight from training to training and lifted them without any problems.

After three months you have created a new comfort zone for yourself, you know that for example a dead lift can be done 5 times with 60 kilo without any problems, but 85 kilo is challenging, difficult and you are trying to get the fifth but not three training sessions.

Progress slowed down.

You need four training sessions to lift the weight. Saving meals becomes tedious, damned those meals I’d rather take the grocery store of those greasy fatty foods from the food department. Everything gets tough.

Your enthusiasm is gone.

Who are those who survive the first three months?

Those who know what they came from, and they are focused people. They are not loaded by numbers, but by the way they practice, they do not celebrate when they raise 85kgs, they praise each time they come to the training, they fail to reach but are a bit closer to the achievement – the path is always ahead of the goal.

They have developed nutritional habits and no longer bring the meal preparation into question, simply prepare it. They mostly have favorites for certain parts of the day, there and there experiment with dishes purely from curiosity, but they find the ones that best match them and persist in repeating them as Bruce Lee repated his punches.

Those who spend three months, those who break the weight, those who are consistently preparing meals over and over again – those who usually succeed. Ordinary people, with the same 24 hours as everyone else, but people who know what they want and do not stop until they get there.

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