These are the top 10 reasons that 98% of fat loss attempts fail.

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1. Trying to do it with exercise alone.

Going on a bike ride or a jog doesn't justify eating a large pizza and a pint of ice cream.

Exercise burns way fewer calories than you think and food contains a lot more.

Attacking this from the diet side is how you win.

2. No awareness of how much you're eating.

If you're not losing fat, you're eating too much - regardless of how healthy the actual foods are.

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3. Over-restricting.

You've got to eat less, but that doesn't mean eating as little as possible.

Aim to lose around 1% of your weight per week.

Consistently losing more than this amount suggests the pace is unsustainable.

4. Terrible food choices

You can have the same calorie deficit as another person % wise, but have WAY more hunger because of different food choices.

Reduce calorie dense foods like oils, nut butters, butter

Increase filling, calorie sparse foods like veg and lean protein.

5. Environment sabotages you.

After a hard day at work, the last thing you need is chocolate and cookies staring at you from the cupboards, and your wife saying "shall we have Five Guys?"

Don't keep temptation in the house, and have words with your wife!

6. All or nothing mentality

Everything is not "ruined" because you ate one of Brenda's cookies in the office or because you had 6 slices of pizza instead of 4.

It's just numbers. So you went over the day's allowance - you can still bring the week back on track.

And if you can't?

So what. There's another week, and another, and another.

3 steps forward and one step back is still two steps forward.

7. No consistency.

Accruing a total deficit of 2,000 calories Mon-Thurs means nothing if you get into a total surplus of 2,000 from Fri-Sun.

Your average is what matters. You don't have to be perfect, but over the weeks you need to be ahead.

8. Poor tracking

If you're gonna track (and you should) you've got to do it properly.

Don't half-ass this.

You can't be lazy & just guess everything, and you can't conveniently forget about stuff.

Do it properly. Weigh things as much as possible. Be honest with yourself.

9. Too much focus on the scale.

The scale won't go down in a linear fashion.

Scales don't measure your fat, they measure your weight.

You can gain 2 lbs in 30 seconds drinking a litre of water.

That's how silly it is to worry about your weight being 2 lbs more than yesterday.

10. No support structure.

You need the significant others in your life to support you here.

You won't be successful if they're cooking you meals that don't fit your goals and always having Five Guys.

If this is happening, you need to have a frank conversation.

You can massively increase your chances of success by getting some ACCOUNTABILITY.

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I haven't spoken about resistance training in this thread.

That's because lifting shouldn't be driving your fat loss.

In fact, you should be keeping it to a minimum to maintain muscle while your diet and movement does the work to lose fat.

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