Why You Struggle Part 1: You will always lose the "All or Nothing" battle

There's been a lot of talk around the gym lately about people struggle to "get back on track".  I'm hearing this from newer people who've recently completed their first Dream Team, seasoned veterans who've been around since we started and everything in between.  This is not an uncommon thing to hear around this time of year, but the more I talk to all of you, I'm starting to understand some reasons why.  I'm going to post a few articles here on my blog over the next several days and hopefully I can help you get "back on track" and this time for good.

The obvious reason that any of you struggle is because you haven't made this a lifestyle yet.  However, that's the easy answer to the wrong question.  The real question is why haven't you made this a lifestyle.  I believe the first reason is you are too "all or nothing."  What I mean is you try to be so "perfect" to lose weight, you have some success, the goal ends and you slowly slip back into your old ways.  You basically stop doing the things that got you results and start doing the things that go you out of shape in the first place.

Just today I heard yet another person say "I need to get back on the Dream Team Diet."  Right there lies the problem.  There should be only 1 diet that you follow year round and you should simply "tighten" it up and add some cardio during Dream Team...but you don't do this.  Instead you lie to yourself (we'll discuss that later) tell yourself that you "aren't eating too bad" and before you know it you are basically back to nothing in the "all or nothing" scenario.  Sure you might eat a good breakfast but lets be honest, for many of you it pretty much ends there.

The other day when I was talking to a group, they seemed genuinely shocked when I told them the food I eat getting ready for a bodybuilding competition is almost identical to my current eating plan.  I will outline both meal plans for you and explain the differences in my next post.