60-Day Challenge
If you're three weeks into the challenge and you aren't seeing results, you should make some changes to your diet. Diet drives fat loss. And the culprit for lackluster progress is usually overeating. You’re consuming more calories than you should.
Sometimes the blame for overeating is covert and curious, but let’s start with the overt and obvious enemy: inconsistency. Have you been doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing? Or are you eating a little more than you’re supposed to on the weekends? Having a few glasses of wine every night at dinner?
If you can look at yourself in the mirror and honestly claim consistency, the next concern is accuracy. Are your servings and portions adding up the way they should be? Are you really only using 100 calories of olive oil to grease the pan? Are you really only eating 200 calories of peanut butter with your banana?
In order to answer these questions, you have to forego my lazy fat-loss strategies and start measuring what you eat, to ensure you're eating what you think you're eating. Chances are, there will be a disparity.
If you refuse to track your intake more meticulously, you have two options.
First, simply trust you’re eating too much and eat less. This will may not be the best idea, as you may end up eating too few calories, which can trigger some undesirable metabolic adaptations.
Second, eat reality. If you refuse to follow the recipe as closely as possible and you don’t measure meticulously, you can’t be surprised if you’re inexperienced eyeballing makes your cake taste like grandma’s loofah.