Weight Loss is Simple

Losing weight is easy.

Like literally all you need to do is consume fewer calories than you burn. Simple.

If that were the case why would a large proportion of the population be on a diet almost constantly.

Now factually it is correct that the actual mechanism for losing weight is ridiculously straight forward, the fitness industry over the years has created all these rules and systems for creating a calorie deficit but the actual principle remains remarkably simple.

Losing weight isn’t easy though is it?

Because people aren’t machines, we all do things that aren’t optimal for us, we have emotions and whilst we might know what would be best for us doing it doesn’t always seem quite so straight forward.

So the notion that losing weight is simple because the actual method of losing weight is simple doesn’t really help much. What we need to be able to do is work on our own obstacles and find ways to overcome them.

Depending on how much weight you want to lose and where your starting point is, those obstacles will be very different and some much harder to overcome than others. That’s why someone looking to lose a couple of pounds before their holiday is going to have a very differ net weight loss experience to someone with health issues who is looking to lose a couple of stone or more.

Understanding that just because something is theoretically simple doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy or straight forward in real life is the first step to being able to actually work towards weight loss.