Category Archives: Weight Maintenance

I woke up this morning in my house at around 5:00 AM in my nice warm bed with my two dogs. I went downstairs into my kitchen that I love, made coffee, opened my email inbox for Macros Inc, and started my work day. As I poured my first cup of coffee I started thinking […]

Own your life. I’m not big on “ra-ra”. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love motivational speeches and interviews. In fact, I think I share the clip where Will Smith says, “The only difference between you and me, is that I am not afraid to die on a treadmill” every month. There is something […]

The goal with all of our clients is to “graduate” them from coaching. We would love them to stay forever from a business perspective, but really we want our coaching to empower them to control their lives after they leave our coaching. A big piece of this involves building nutrition habits that last for life. […]

When you are in maintenance, you are going to have bad days or weeks. Don’t let it turn into bad months or years. Look, if you are in maintenance for a decade you are going to have patches where you are unfocused, or life hits you hard, and you are going to go off the […]

Set a window or an interval for your body weight, not a single number. We often set a target number in our head. Like a single number and any deviations from that mean failure. This sets you up to failure for a few reasons. 1) Your body weight is dynamic. It changes minute to minute, […]

Maintenance is not about “going back to your old ways”, it is about finding a new path forward. One of the things I always tell my clients when they start any health/fitness journey is this, “One of the mindsets I want to steer you away from is the, ‘let me get this done so I […]

After you stop weight loss and go into maintenance your weight will go up a little bit, and it isn’t body fat. You don’t need to freak out or worry about it. Here is a dirty little secret about fat loss… and it might upset you just a smidge, but you need to hear it. […]

One of the things we try and tell our clients is that we need to mentally separate fat loss from maintenance, especially with regard to your timelines. There are several reasons for this. The first is that the timelines on fat loss and maintenance are way different. Fat loss is measured in weeks or months. […]

Mini-seres on “maintenance” part 2. What often gets you somewhere, isn’t necessarily what keeps you there. This is something that applies quite heavily to weight loss and the maintenance of weight loss/preventing weight regain. When we think about weight loss there are generally two things that mostly drive whether or not people lose weight: 1) […]

“What will I do after I reach my weight loss goal?” This is one of the most important questions that people need to ask themselves as they start their weight loss journey because at some point you will have a “life after weight loss” and having the skills, tools, and mindset to live in maintenance […]