The “Ritual” of Weight Loss

So I was having an intersting conversation about weight loss programs and came to a conclusion that you might not have heard before.

Most people will agree that nutrition/diet is the most important piece of a weight loss program. (exercise and supplements being the potential others)

We’ve all heard the saying “you can’t out-train a bad diet”, and that is pretty much true. The most effective way to create a calorie deficit is to simply eat less food. But the big problem with this statement is that this is much easier said than done for most people.

A complex relationship of social factors, psychological factors, emotions, stress, work, school, family and friends all get involved with the way you choose to eat and live your life.

If you lived in a controlled bubble it would be easy to give you just the right amount of food to keep you ripped with a 6-pack year round. But you and I don’t live in bubbles, we live in the real world with real problems and social issues to deal with.

So how the heck do we put together a weight loss program that works?

I think the answer has a lot to do with rituals.

Working out by itself won’t really cause you to lose much weight if any at all. But the ritual of going to the gym on a regular basis will definitely help you feel better about yourself and your weight loss goal and give you a source of momentum and confidence to build on.

Having some sort of nutrition philosophy to follow is another ritual that you can incorporate into your lifestyle that makes your weight loss goal more real and more serious. This is proven true because people can lose weight using all kinds of different eating styles. The point is to find an eating ritual that fits in your life.

A weight loss supplement can also add to the ritual of your weight loss program/routine. The biggest effect of a supplement might actually be the ritual of taking them each day to define this day as a ‘weight loss’ day.

A supplement might play an even bigger role for people who don’t regularly go to the gym (as the gym ritual is missing).

The bottom for weight loss is that every little bit counts.

If it takes a weekly workout and daily supplement ritual to keep you on track with your weight loss nutrition program, then each component is just as important as the other.

Afterall, a weight loss nutrition program that you don’t follow is just as useless as a gym membership you never use and a supplment you never take. The sum of the parts are always more powerful than any one piece by itself.

John

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