How To Lose Weight For The Impatient

Are you a patient person?  I am not, but when you want to lose fat you need to be a little patient.  That doesn't mean you shouldn't see results on a weekly basis, but you need to exercise patience and consistency to truly see weight loss results.

By: Ed Scow, NSCA-CPT: Certified Fitness & Nutrition Expert to the True Superheroes - Busy Moms & Dads and author of Fat Loss To Go

I’m not a very patient person. Actually, I take that back. I’m not a patient person AT ALL.

It’s a big personality flaw of mine that I’m sure my wife will tell you all about.

Having said that, I understand that some things in life require patience and perseverance.

Losing extra fat is one of those things.

How to lose fat is, by far, the question I get most often. And it’s understandable why. Nobody wants to carry around the wiggle around their middle.

The sad reality is that it takes some patience to lose fat. No matter what the infomercials say, what the diet pill salesperson says, or that fancy new diet book. It takes patience and perseverance to lose fat.

Let’s take my guitar playing as an example. I know that’s kind of a far cry from how to lose fat, but stick with me here, I promise it’ll make sense.

I just started playing guitar about a month ago. I’ve never played a musical instrument in my life. I was never in band in school and was never really into it growing up.

That all changed a few months ago. I got it in my head that I wanted to learn how to play the guitar and I wanted to be a good guitar player, not just some crappy player that hacks away at the strings.

The first time I picked up the guitar, I was horrible. I didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t know how to hold the thing, didn’t’ know where my fingers went, etc.

Now fast forward a couple months and I’m still horrible, but I’m getting better. I practice every day (well, most days) and can see my hard work and patience paying off.

I know that if I keep up my practice and keep working hard that I’ll get better and will be a pretty good player within a few more months.

This is a perfect parallel when it comes to ‘how to lose fat’.

When you get started with a weight loss workout, or weight loss diet, you will probably struggle with some things. You won’t know how to do every exercise perfectly, you won’t know how to read food labels, etc.

But if you keep it up and persevere, you will get better.

That is the true key to losing fat. You need to be consistent and you need to stick with it.

If you find a good fat loss program, and stick with it, you will succeed and no longer will you have to worry about how to lose fat. 

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