if you are currently following a weight loss plan stop [Music]
hey what's up my name is Schuyler Diehm I'm the founder of REACH fat loss and fitness where our
goal is to help you lose weight and keep it off and do it without counting calories weighing all
your food without any torturous cardio or sucky dieting and without eating five or six times a
day what we are going to talk about in this video as well as all the other videos that I've put out
has helped clients of mine lose weight and keep it off and most importantly feel really good both
while they're doing it and when they've hit their goal and my goal of putting out these
videos is to help you do the same so if you're not subscribed to the channel make sure you tap
that subscribe button I'd love to have you as part of the community because we're putting down
new videos every single week now here's the deal you've probably seen that the clients that I've
worked with there are results that they've gotten losing weight and they are obviously in my weight
loss program and you think I'm being hypocritical but hear me out so plan is defined as a detailed
proposal for doing or achieving something right and while that may sound good with first instinct
if we look at that word detailed there are some things here that are a yellow flag right and so
if you're watching this video there's a high chance that you've tried certain weight loss
affects weight loss plans in the past that haven't worked out for you I want you to take a moment and
think about why now have you lost the weight and then gained it back did you not even lose
the weight when you were on the plan how long did it last when you slipped up with the plan
how much easier was it to give up altogether and the reason is because when you follow a
plan and when someone hands you a plan to follow there are honestly three big things that happen
that lead to a higher chance of failure and that first thing is that you don't learn much right if
someone gives you a plan if someone gives you a map you basically follow that plan as well as you
can but you don't necessarily understand why you know I grew up in the age where Riot as I started
to derive people started getting GPS's and people started getting ways to navigate without looking
at a map and I can undoubtedly tell you it takes me so much longer to remember and learn a specific
route that I have to drive somewhere because I'm not paying attention I'm looking at my map
when it tells me to turn left I turn left when it tells me to turn right I turn right which is great
because it gets me to where I want to go but if I ever need to get there or if I want to stay there
or if there's ever a longer distance that I want to travel I now necessarily don't have the tools
to actually continue to get there and so there's this issue that when you're blindly following a
plan you don't really have this chance to change internally you're more likely to just blindly
follow and then when the plan runs out or you can't be perfect with the plan you're more likely
to fall apart and that leads me into number two which is it is much more difficult pivoting and
going with the waves of life if you are following a detailed plan you know think about it any diet
where there's restrictive rules of what you can or can't eat if it says you can't eat carbs you can't
eat rice you can't eat pasta you can't eat sweets or sugar while you can probably sustain that for a
little bit let's say you go to a wedding where you don't know what they're putting in their food or
you go to an event where there's tons of sweets around and there's not really many high quality
options or in another case let's say that your plan involves counting every calorie weighing your
food again if you go out to eat you go to an event it's going to be much more difficult to follow and
for most people they have that All or Nothing mentality where if I can follow it great I'm
gonna do it and if I can't I'm just gonna throw a caution to the wind and I'm just gonna do whatever
I want and this is why plans can be iffy right if a GPS tells me I have to turn and left but then I
get to that street and there's a roadblock there I'm going to be a little confused figuring out how
to get back on trail until that GPS recalculates and with plans we don't have that convenience of
being able to immediately have that next step when we do have to Pivot so before we move into Point
number three if you could leave me a comment what plan what weight loss strategy have you had the
most success with so far I'd love to hear from you down below this leads me into number three
which is honestly a big big problem is that these weight loss plans cause you to stop listening to
your body look the truth is every single one of us is different every single one of us responds
to different foods differently our insulin changes depending on certain foods our hunger changes on
certain foods and while there are guidelines for how to eat telling someone to follow this specific
plan doesn't account into who they are and so if you're going to take a plan and execute there's
a high probability you're going to ignore how your body responds I had an incident a while back where
I was eating dates the fruit and 30 minutes later I would be exhausted and for like three four or
five days I didn't really know what was causing it I was just getting super tired I I would have
to lay down on my floor and take like a 5 10 15 minute nap and after playing around with foods and
testing it I realized that the dates were causing that now by a standard weight loss plan dates are
probably fine maybe they're a little bit high in sugar but they're fruit they're real food and so
for me to eat that and not pay attention to my body and just follow this plan blindly I would
continue to be exhausted without figuring out what my body was trying to tell me same thing if
you think that after eating it's normal to have a headache to be super tired to be bloated there is
an issue there because it's not I've worked with clients who have had severe severe bloating issues
and within two three weeks of working together because we're very conscious of certain things
they have the ability to have almost zero bloating after they eat another example of this is someone
out here that was working with another coach in terms of counting calories to lose weight and a
big thing was well you have these calories you have these macros you got to hit every day so
this amount of calories fats carbs proteins and he told me he had a night where it was like 9
pm he looked he opened his phone and he was short of his calories and his carbs and so to fill that
Gap he literally went to his cupboard he took two pieces of white bread and he just stuffed it down
his throat now while macro coaches may say well yeah he had to hit his macros that's fine to me
number one eating that late when you don't have to is fine but number two he wasn't even hungry
he just felt the need to shove that down his throat because he had to hit his targets and so
again if you're not hungry maybe you don't need to eat if you are hungry maybe you do need to eat if
you get super tired after a certain food maybe you shouldn't eat that food these are all things that
people avoid and ignore when they start to follow a weight loss plan so this is why I believe I'm
not gonna say don't follow a plan period but this is why I believe instead of a plan it's a really
good idea to have a framework right to have fences to have certain rules to follow that can be bent
and that can be adjusted based on your lifestyle this allows you the freedom to move around and
to be flexible without actually quote breaking the rules because what happens when you break rules is
you feel bad what happens when you feel bad you're more likely to eat garbage you're more likely to
mess up to skip the gym you're more likely to be hard on yourself you're more likely to do things
that we want to avoid and this is what I do with my clients I do not give an exact meal plan to my
clients and tell them you need to find follow this I do not give my clients an exact calorie count
and say you need to follow this I give them rules I give them fences of okay when you eat these are
the ingredients we're looking out for that we want to stray away from hit a certain number of fast
a week I would give them a minimum typically but we can adjust based on your lifestyle and then in
terms of workouts yeah I'll give you a plan but we can adjust it if you're traveling we can adjust it
if you don't have certain equipment it's not a one size fits-all plan that immediately falls apart if
you don't have access to what you normally have access to and that's what this is all about so
what most people will typically find is that when they want to invest in a weight loss program and
they're looking and they're shopping around is many people buy off of the cheapest program but
unfortunately the cheapest program is usually more of a cookie cutter program it's more of a
plan right it's a meal plan with calories with food you got to eat with specific exercises and
there's no custom ability to the individual so I pride myself in my program so much is because
we teach you these fences and then we show you how to use these fences how to stay Within These
fences in a way that fits your lifestyle and of course that helps you lose weight so if you're
curious a little bit more about what we do check check the link in the description of this video
we've got a free training there that lays out our system my goal is to help you lose weight
and keep it off and whether you join my program or you keep watching these videos I'm going to
continue to push to help you do that with that being said make sure if you are not subscribed
to the channel you join the community you hit subscribe and of course as always make sure to
eat Smart Move more sleep deep and be grateful for it this moment I'll see in the next video [Music]