How to ‘get it back’ after losing it

Probably way harder than ‘getting it’ in the first place.

You work relentlessly toward your goal, reach your goal.  A few months later, you are halfway back to your original spot (if your lucky).

Ever have this happen?  If you haven’t consider yourself very fortunate, because it happens a lot more than we like to admit, even to the best of us.

How do you stop the downward spiral after being on such a high of achieving great fat loss success?

Well I wish there was an easy answer, but there isn’t.  But think about this for a minute:

How hard was it to achieve your success in the first place?

How long did you struggle with being overweight, or unhappy, or both?

How many solutions did you try, that simply didn’t work or you quite on?

See, we often forget the stuggles it took to achieve great success in the first place, that when we are faced with adversity of gaining fat back, we throw ourselves into a panic and try everything EXCEPT what got us success in the first place.

What we also forget when faced with this challenge is how long it took to get there.  See in our minds we think we should be able to get back what we lost very quickly because we remember it so well and is so fresh in our minds.

But ‘getting there’ still requires work, and ALL the effort that got you there in the first place.  And in many cases it is much harder to get back to where you were because of, you guessed it, your mind.

Your mind remembers the happiness and success you achieved, but, as I mentioned earlier, forgets the time and effort required for re-success.  So you become quickly frustrated, and impatient and eventually compromise (a nice word for giving up).

So how do you get back what you lost, or in this case, gained?  You do exactly what you did to reach success in the first place.  From setting your mind in the right path, to being consistent with your food and your exercise, and being relentless with your purpose.  Everything has to be in place, no shortcuts, no cutting corners, nothing can be skipped.  Will it be hard?  Was it hard the first time?  Yes and yes.  It’s not about new exercises, new programs, new this and new that.  Maybe after a couple months of hard work and consistency, you can look to add new programs and exercises to your arsenal, but what it boils down to, is what made you successful before that you are not doing now and is preventing you from being successful?

Once you have that answer, you know what to do.