One thing that I realized is ''Patience'' is important in fitness

FiberousJ

Niner Buff said I need some patience. He has a point. I talk about how I work out a lot. I've lost a lot of weight in the last year. But I still have more to go. I've bought a new wardrobe though with smaller size clothes. Now, one thing I must say is that in the last year I lost enough weight to buy new clothes and I didn't even diet.

It's only the last month that I've been seriously focusing on my appetite and diet, in addition to all my working out. And I've got some results, although it's a slow process. And one of the toughest things about this is having patience. We want to have it all now. If I had done both diet and workouts the last year, I might have reached my goal already. But it is what it is.

I think one of the reasons why when people diet, they go extreme, is because they want to have fast results. They don't have the patience to take a long time. But sometimes fast isn't the best for everyone. But being consistent for the long run is probably the best. I remember a long time ago I lost 40 to 50 pounds in 2 months. I was skipping meals, weighing myself 10 times a day, and exercising a lot. However, I remember always being hungry and having headaches, and eventually, the weight came back, and even more so because I was always hungry.

That's one of the reasons I have a hard time with diets. Going on diets reminds me of the time I lost weight and always had headaches and was always feeling weak and hungry. So what I'm trying to do now is just try to adapt to a realistic lifestyle.

Lietchi

When people are in a big hurry to lose weight, the question to ask is: do you want to lose weight, or lose weight and keep it off? Fast weight-loss is often followed by regaining the weight (with friends).

I've lost 63lbs in 1 year and 9 months. It's a bit like watching grass grow or paint dry 😁 but the end result is more than I ever thought I could achieve. It's also great for learning and ingraining new habits.
Furthermore, it was honestly quite easy and painless!

MaltedTea

I'm sure @ninerbuff will be pleased to have caused you to reflect. Over and beyond sustainable health, may this newfound realization about patience expand into all areas of your life 🙏🏿

88olds

And consider this, once you accept that the process takes time, time can be on your side. Actually I learned incrementalism in the gym.

One day I had a gym light bulb moment. For once I had stuck around long enough to feel it working. And there was hard evidence. Exercises that I had started doing with 15 lb dumbbells I was now doing with 20 lbs. My form was better. My legs were stronger. I could feel it just walking around. It was working.

Then it finally sunk in. If I just kept showing up and working my plan, I would build muscle. Just basic sets and reps and slowly adding weight. It had to work. It was how my body was designed.

I looked around the gym. The fit guys that I envied had probably been working for years. But for some reason instead of finding that distressing, I found it inspiring. I could get there. I just had to keep working and time would do the rest.

Later I was able to reverse engineer the same thinking into weight loss. The difference is weight loss needs constant tinkering and adjusting to fit with our lives. It’s more complicated that just showing up at the gym.

There’s a stock market saying- the trend is your friend. When we find the weight loss sweet spot, a livable downward trend, we need to let it work. Don’t let the voice in our head convince us that a .5 lb isn’t good enough. Ride the trend as long as it lasts. Then adjust. The key isn’t speed, it’s staying power. A plan we can’t live with is not a good plan. The good news is plans can be fixed.