Ever gone on a long road trip? The kind where you have to plan, gear up, stay focused, sacrifice a little comfort for the trade off of reaching the desired destination? You forego some of your daily routine, might not eat when you want and might even lose some sleep. But when you arrive it’s all worth it! Getting lean is a lot like a long road trip says John Berardi, co-founder of Precision Nutrition.
John Berardi knows getting lean and staying lean requires a completely different set of skills. I know this to be true in my own fitness journey and coaching experience as well. Getting lean takes good information, determination and some discomfort. But staying lean requires many new habits and even a new identity–now you’re a “fit person”.
Fit people make different day-to-day decisions to create their own fit culture. They become part of the healthy exercise and food culture. Fit people often hang out with other fit people. They seek out good nutrition and regular exercise and make tons of very small daily decisions that lead to staying lean for life.
Staying lean is a lifelong journey that never ends–you never arrive. Fit people adjust to frequent challenges to stay on track and often rely on baseline habits that work for them. Life’s priorities push and pull them in various directions which makes it necessary to stick to a learned set of minimum standards. Fit people maintain certain minimums for exercise and healthy eating in order to stay lean.
Everyone knows someone who got lean but couldn’t stay there. It really takes a different skill set and mindset to stay lean. Maintenance requires internalizing control of new habits, making adjustments and making them stick for life. Many can get lean but less make the transition necessary to stay lean.
It is GREAT when someone gets lean, loses fat and gains muscle. Getting lean is not easy and should be applauded. To take it to the next level one needs to learn the art of maintenance and how to develop their new “fit person” identity. Nutrition coaching provides the necessary support to teach you how to make lean-ness stick for good. Learn your unique, minimum stay-lean skills and habits for a new normal.
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