Tuesday, November 4, 2014

What Does 90 Days Give You?

When you're shooting for a goal or you're looking to make a change in your life, sometimes it's easier (and preferable) to see things in the short-term. No matter how the timeline sounds more appealing: 90 days, 12 weeks, or 3 months; it's all the same thing.

When you consider weight-loss and fitness regimens, many of them will ask that you commit yourself to their program for this amount of time. And why is that? Because in 90 days you can develop new habits, eliminate or drastically reduce old, unhealthy or counter-productive habits and see NOTICEABLE results.

As I tend to focus on, let's consider this from the weight-loss view. Every major (and safe) weight-loss initiative tells you to expect 1-2lbs of weight loss per week.

Does this mean you won't see more than that?
Absolutely not.


It's not uncommon for people to have the occasional spike where they lose 4-5lbs in a week. By the same token, it's also not uncommon to go a week with no change in weight, only to make up the difference a week later. So, if you were a person looking to lose weight over 90 days, the REALISTIC perspective is to consider you might lose as little as 12lbs in 12 weeks or as much as 24lbs in 12 weeks.

I would encourage you to not focus on those numbers but to at least be cognizant of them. Around this time of year, people start to think about their vacations and family holidays. If a potential client were to call me today and say "I need to lose 20lbs by Thanksgiving, is that possible?" My response would be "Yes, it's possible but it might not be realistic". This hypothetical client is looking to lose 20lbs in about 8 weeks. Can it be done? Absolutely, but at what cost?

You see, many things are possible when the desire burns enough. The crucial thing to ask is how many new habits will you dedicate yourself to once you hit your magic weight? Or is the goal itself the only thing of importance, thereby allowing yourself to gain the weight back after you hit your magic number.

This is why the proper attitude in health and wellness continues to be: lifestyle change.

But as we consider weight-loss potentials over a 90-day period, we also have to keep in mind this is based on consistency. All too often, an individual aims for a goal and bad patterns still rear their ugly head back into the equation. If you want to truly accomplish what your body has the potential to, you have to COMMIT to the program for 90 days.

That means, adhere to the exercise plan, adhere to the food plan, AND expect things to be involved in your life which can (and will) attempt to derail you.

Keeping things in line with this timeline, it was one other reason why our soon-to-be released Rev6 program was set up on a 90-day timeline. Make sure you stay tuned for more details on this!

And no matter where your fitness program leads you, remember that by and large 90 days is the minimum amount of time to see major results if you stick with the plan.

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