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Six Weight Loss Approaches to Avoid, and How
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Scott outlines six approaches that consistently lead to weight loss failure, offers alternatives that work, and answers questions from his live audience.

A Goal, or a Wish?
• Achieving a goal requires following a process.
• Goals and deadlines to meet them aren’t for everyone.
• Let go of the pressure to perform.

Approaches destined to fail:

1. Numbers goals
• Starting a body transformation goal with numbers in mind
• Examples of numbers-related goals: weight, dress size.
• No numbers goal tells you what’s going on inside the body.
• The scale can’t tell you if the weight gain or loss is from fat, muscle, or water.

2. Deadline goals: high school reunions, weddings, beach vacations
• Imposes unnecessary pressure to achieve within an arbitrary time frame.
• Doesn’t consider what happens once the deadline has been passed, whether the goal is attained or not.
“Deadlines are dead ends.”

3. Absolutes
• The absolute mindset: Lose weight or die trying.
• Ask:
-"Then what?”
-Is the diet sustainable?
-What happens if you achieve the goal?
-Or, what happens if you don’t?

4. Expecting an obstacle-free path
• Life gets in the way.
• Real people with everyday lives sometimes compare themselves to others who make their living by looking good, with hours to spend in the gym.
• Don’t let setbacks set you back.

5. Belief that success follows a linear process
• Achieving a goal is more like walking through a maze.
• Be realistic about how the process will actually progress.
• Commit to the process and resolve to enjoy the process itself.
• Aim for habit goals. Establishing a good habits should be the goal.
• What three or four “habit” goals can you create and aim for that will lead to success.
• One good example: Early to bed and early to rise.
• A good habit: automatic, non-draining behavior, like brushing your teeth.
• Replace a current destructive habit with a new productive habit.

6. Believing in the outliers
• Beware the exceptions.
• Exceptions are held out by fitness and supplement industry to be the rule.

From the Audience
• “People who obsess over numbers drain their emotional battery and it frequently negatively impacts their personal relationships.”
• “I can’t stand it when people ask how long it took me…doesn’t matter how long it takes.”
• “Last week I weighed the same as the week before but I lost two inches on my waist. The scale lies sometime.”
• “The best thing I ever did was throw out my scale.”
• “How I feel is the best judge for me.”
• “Invariably the scale becomes a mood ir-regulator than just a tool.”
• “How does one properly get off the keto diet?”

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Diet Resources by Scott
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-The Cycle Diet:
https://scottabelfitness.com/cycle-diet-course/
- Lean Without Trying:
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Without-Trying-6-Day-Vegan-ebook/dp/B07MHVV2JJ/?_ga=2.254343503.631299138.1564246702-496385765.1518882227
- Metabolic Damage and the Dangers of Dieting:
https://scottabelfitness.samcart.com/products/metabolic-damage-ebook/?_fs=c3d66231-66a2-480e-bb00-dc6a5999dceb&_ga=2.254343503.631299138.1564246702-496385765.1518882227

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