The Summer is here and we have had some fantastic weather recently

This can make losing weight tough as the social events in our calendars increase, the invites to BBQ’s with friends and families, the dining in the garden, the glasses of wine in the evening etc

We all know it happens right?

Relax

Summer is there to be enjoyed

However, if you are sat there every Monday morning thinking

“i have to get back on this, i have to start losing some weight”

Something fundamentally is wrong

Now dont get me wrong, everyone likes to relax on the weekend but im talking to the people that really are getting on their own backs.

For example

2 weekends ago i was invited to a family BBQ out at the New Forest

It was a gorgeous hot day and i would be away from work with no wifi access, a BBQ and a big field to run around with the kids.

Bliss

Now, most of my family are following slimming world

Well, when i say following slimming world

When they feel like it

The usual comments were coming out

I didnt go to my weigh in last week, i know i hadnt lost”

“I didnt eat the day i had a weigh in to trick the scales”

etc etc

However, what happened next really made me smile and of course, i even commented

I had the BBQ already, im a real man and love to do the cooking

It also keeps me busy while people start munching on all kinds of naughties

We cooked most of the Burgers and i was then handed some sausages which were in fact Chicken Sausages

Apparently these are lower in points

So i watch my family not have burgers or any other bits because they were being good

They waited for the chicken sausages to be cooked and then had them with some salad

All good you would think

But then, one of them mentioned they had been baking

An BAM

Out came a lot of cakes, biscuits and a lot of delicious looking treats.

I will be honest, i had a couple but i was firmly in control of what i was eating.

The people that had the chicken sausages

Yep, you guessed it, were eating the cake and a quite a bit of it

I was smiling to myself

Now the thing is

If they had a burger without the bun and had it with the chicken sausages and the salad they would have been a lot fuller from the protein and stood a better chance of not being hungry and would have eaten less cake

Remember, its protein content of food that fills you

Not bloody salad!

So out of thinking they were being good, in fact they brought there own problems on and probably didnt go to that weeks weigh in either.

This is where i think most dieting clubs guidelines let people down

I will have a separate post on this next week

The one thing we do at Bootcamp and our online programs is educate people on their food choices and structuring their foods in terms of proteins, carbs and Fats.

Yes we have foods lists we utilise with clients but everything is about that structure.

I mean, imagine being able to go to a social event, eat out, enjoy yourself and still manage to be accountable to your weigh in????

Now that is what i pride myself on offering our clients

Of course its still down to each individual client to follow our guidelines but i guarantee you will stand a much better chance of fighting that battle.

So, dont ditch the protein, fill up on it and have less treats