In the recent past, a woman working out at the gym talked about participating in a weight loss competition. This is a woman who worked out inconsistently and had inconsistent results. You can read about the importance of being consistent in a weight loss forum.

She wasn’t massively overweight, but she could stand doing without a few pounds.The look she had was peculiar: she seemed excited about the chance to win a prize.

Since she wanted me to help her, I got out my skin fold caliper and measured her at 27%. This was normal for her over forty age group.

She told me that she wanted to reduce to 19% and I agreed that it was a good goal.

Since average fat loss over a one week period is less that 1%, I told her that she’d need a good part of a year to reachh her goal.After training intensely for 12 weeks, she had impressive results: she exceeded her goal by 2%. She even did six pack ab exercises.

She was so happy and excited, it was wonderful to see. Suddenly, however, she stopped coming to the gym.

I tried to call her, but she didn’t answer. She didn’t return my calls either.

Months later, she came back to the gym, but had gained most of her weight back after failing to win the contest. She started exercising again, but only periodically. This type of temporary success followed by failure happens a lot.

You can get in the position where you lose weight and get in better shape consistently over a longer time period. Here are a few tips I have that might help.

1. Don’t define your program as beginning a diet: your better eating habits should be regarded as a permanent alteration of your lifestyle.

2. Create a schedule that will help you keep your goals once you have acieved them.

3. Make only a couple changes at a time.You risk being unable to sustain rapid progress.

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