Muscle for Life

The number one reason people struggle to lose weight is they don’t stick to their diet. Why? Well, that’s the million dollar question. Some people get bored with their food choices, lack of progress, and daily routine, and revert to their old eating habits. Some people get thrown off course by a holiday, vacation, or unplanned restaurant outing and never pull themselves back on track. Others try to lose weight too fast and end up running into a quicksand of low-energy, irritability, hunger, and obsessive thoughts about food that causes them to binge and gain back much of the weight they lost. While those first two obstacles are relatively easy to solve, it’s that last one that’s often the bane of even the most experienced dieters. Losing weight requires that you maintain a calorie deficit for weeks or months on end. That is, you need to be eating fewer calories than you burn for quite some time to see a noticeable change in your appearance. Most people have no trouble maintaining a calorie deficit for a few d