Adam Schafer

I mean, most clients, when they're seeing a difference in the mirror or the scale or strength in the gym, they're very motivated to stay there.

course of what you're doing but a lot of times we have weeks where we have this kind of stalled progress where and then the mental fatigue really like why am i doing exactly then the mental fatigue will kick in and even if you know because like there's times where like i want to stay in the deficit and i know we just had a rough week either not the best of sleep or the body kind of stalled a little bit and it's like i'd like to push another week

staying in this deficit but my i can feel from my client that they're fatigued from doing this and they're frustrated i'll i'll pull them out even though i wanted to keep going for another week and so and the opposite is true also in a reverse diet like uh you know i'm reverse dieting somebody right now i want to keep going like come on let's keep pushing the calories if i get this oh i feel stuffed and bloated and i don't feel good all the time it's like ah there's a part of my diet

breaking the other way that's right and i really want to keep going because i'm like we got to keep going we're doing good but i can hear in their voice or the way they're responding to me like they're fatigued from pushing the calories so much i'll go hey okay let's this week let's go back down to a maintenance or let's go to a minor cut and then we'll go back the other direction yes and so so here's the the challenge with diet breaks people are very

Well, the other reason why I think the plan strategy is a much better strategy too is the average person doesn't do a really good job of reading the signals of whether they should or they shouldn't.

Like their idea of, oh, I'm too hungry or I'm not hungry enough or, oh, I look like I'm gaining weight or it's not looking right.

Like a lot of times people course correct when things are actually going really well.

For example, I could have somebody in that Goldilocks zone and it's perfect.

And I see what I want to see as a coach.

I'm like, oh, this is right where we want to be.

And they're like, this is not working.

And I'm like, oh, no, it's working.

We're perfect.

I see strength gains happening right now.

We're not seeing a lot of movement on the scale right now, but that's okay.

We're actually in this really sweet spot where I don't have you in a major deficit, so we're still seeing strength gains in the gym, and yet you're leaning out.

And so that's the hardest part of this is if you, as the average person who's trying to figure this out on your own,

is like going through this and reading the mirror or the scale or what's happening, you tend to make the decision to make this diet break at maybe not the best or the right time.

And so having it planned or organized is so important.

Well, no, that's good.