As you already know, it's 90% nutrition when it comes to fat loss. Nutrition being a nice word for diet. Think about it, you can hammer the treadmill for an hour or forgo one pack of Resse?s peanut butter cups. What's more important to you? You have to keep reminding yourself that every day.
What catches up to me sometimes is when going into caloric deficit, which you must do to burn fat, you also tend to have the ?feeling? of less energy, sometimes even headaches and a bad mood (am I right 1911? Don?t answer that). That can lead to sitting on the couch instead of working out and sitting on the couch often leads to a bowl of ice cream, a bowl of ice cream leads to two. And that's where the wheels begin to fall off. You have a couple off days, then the scale doesn't change that week, or even goes up. You then lose focus/motivation and it goes downhill from there. This is especially true in the weight loss phase, which it sounds like you're still in. If you're more in maintenance mode or performance improvement you have more flexibility for cheats. But not right now.
What keeps me in the game varies day by day, but the one thing that works the best for me is consistently keeping at it. As much as I want to take a night off, I can't, it just opens the door to slacking off and taking a 2nd or 3rd day off, that becomes a week and a week becomes a month. I've learned this far too often, or re-learned it. That's my biggest pit fall, but now I'm aware of it and it's much easier to stay the course. You?ve just got to keep putting green check marks on the calendar, every day.
