Strategies for Massive Weight Loss

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Uploaded: 2023-12-15T00:54:04+00:00
Duration: 13 min 45 s
Description: In this QUAH Sal, Adam, & Justin answer the question “Can you please share your success stories of helping really overweight clients and how you helped them? It is such a different journey than training athletes and people who just want to lose a few pounds.” //Creative Commons Attribution Licence video (Reuse allowed)

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First question is from Mad7719
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Can you please share your success stories of helping really overweight clients and how
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you help them? It is such a different journey than training athletes and people who just want to lose
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a few pounds. It is a very difficult task when you're dealing with somebody who has that kind of a relationship
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with food. When you're talking about really overweight people, I consider I would say 60-70 pounds
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plus overweight. The average person who wants to lose weight with me was anywhere between 20-30 pounds
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Once you got 60-100, typically you're dealing with someone that's been overweight for most
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of their life. Their relationship with food is a very difficult one to change because food to them is kind
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of like a drug. It's used to numb feelings or they've found comfort in it
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It's a difficult thing to change, a very, very difficult thing to change
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The way I used to train people who were really overweight was very different from the way
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I ended up training them later on in my career. The way I first started training them was, here's your meal plan
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You've got to get fit. You've got to show up to the gym this many days a week
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That's it. We're going to do it. We're going to eat low calories, burn a lot of calories. All discipline based
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All discipline based. I was all dropping the hammer and I was the motivating, hardcore, take no bullshit type
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of a trainer. This was successful in the short term. I would get people to lose weight in the short term
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I got none of them to keep it off. None of them to keep it off
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It took me a while to really figure this out and I remember the first time I actually figured
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this out. I had a client who came and saw me who was 100 pounds overweight and I remember this
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because I was showing them around the facility. I sat them down and they were visibly uncomfortable and shy
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Now this is kind of common with this type of client where you can feel that they're
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– I mean think about it. They probably haven't worked out in a gym ever and they feel uncomfortable
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They feel like they're being watched, like they don't fit in. But this was really the first time when I really felt it
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Like I was really paying attention. I remember they were super uncomfortable. Then we sat down and I thought I need to communicate with this person a little bit differently
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because I can tell that they're intimidated by the weights and by other people working out
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So we started talking about their goals and what got them to where they were
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I remember sitting there talking to her and I thought I'm going to change my approach
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I'm going to change my approach. I'm going to be successful long term
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So I said look, I said here's the deal. I've trained a lot of people in your situation and I've had a lot of failures and here's why
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Now the reason why I'm telling you this is not to motivate you to not be the failure
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The reason why I'm telling you this is because we're not going to use that strategy
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Here's what I want to do with you. I want you to come in, train with me
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We'll figure out how many days a week is realistic for you to show up and we're not
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even going to try to lose weight. Let's not even talk about weight loss
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I know you said that's your number one goal but let's start with you coming in one day
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a week meeting with me and let's do that until this is something that you're not afraid of
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and you don't hate. Because she had told me that she was intimidated
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And she thought that was a great idea. She hired me and we took this very slow approach
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We didn't talk about weight. In fact, I told her to not weigh herself
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I said, you know, I know maybe you thought you should weigh yourself to track it
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Let's not do that at all. I didn't tell her to take anything out of her diet
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What I did is I started adding things to her diet. You know, Adam talks about this a lot himself
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And it was this kind of slow process. Here's what happened. The first year she got stronger, improved her mobility, started to enjoy the way she
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felt, started to enjoy showing up at the gym. She got comfortable there because she would have conversations with me, conversations
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with the other clients that happened to work out at the same time. She became a staple in the facility
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She came to the Christmas party that I had every year, talked to people
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Everybody treated her amazingly. She lost no weight the first year. She just got stronger and felt better
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Towards the end of the second year, she on her own started to make changes to her diet
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She would come to me and say, okay, Sal, I'm ready. I think I want to make some changes
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I've already eliminated soda. I remember she said that to me. I love it. Oh my God, you already do it on your own
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That's beautiful. Let's just stick with that for now. So by the end of the second year, she started to see some results
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It was the third year that she started to lose the weight
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She lost all of it and it never came back. In fact, I still am friends with her on Facebook
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Until this day, she's kept the weight off. So now we're talking, I don't know, 10 years later
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She's kept it off. I'm going to go ahead and say that I'm going to go back to my first job. I'm going to go back to my first job
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