Febuary 07
Moving into the prime time of the New Year Resolution season and the most asked question came in variations of “How long will it take me to lose 10 lbs., get in shape, get toned, and get bigger.”
Whenever people ask those types of questions they seemed surprised when I answer, “I don’t know, I have no idea,” I say this and then I explain as I will here.
It is impossible for me to know how long it would take anyone to lose weight without asking a list of questions like:
How many days per week are you going to work out?
How long are your workout sessions?
What is your dietary intake on a daily basis?
How consistent will you be when you don’t feel like working out?
Even after those questions are answered I still would not be able to tell them the answer they seek. There is no way anyone can tell another person how long it will take them to achieve a physical goal.
There is individual bio-chemistry at work and no one can predict how each person’s body will adapt to exercise in whatever form. No one can predict how fast the internal mechanisms will start to drop body fat in a person and when that person will hit their plateau. By the way everyone who attempts to lose weight will hit plateaus.
During preparation for a bodybuilding competition I started my diet 12 weeks prior to competition and it took 5 weeks for my body to “break” and start to lose weight, then during the 6th week the body fat starting melting off, but the process was very frustrating for me.
Ask not how long it will take you to achieve your goal, ask how long you will go until you achieve your goal.
