Is it even possible (excluding the fact if someone does nothing but work out or work out for hours every day)?
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If you are consistent for 6 weeks on an extremely strict diet and exercise program, you will definitely see a visible difference. But this is what people mean when they say “diets don’t work.” It’s possible to create a huge change in 6 weeks, but the type of regimen required to create a massive change in 6 weeks is not sustainable. Once you stop the program and return to old habits, your body goes back.
And it’s not just a “oh if you go from eating healthy to eating Popeyes every day of course you will change.” Those “body transformation boot camp crash courses” are intentionally unsustainable; while if you make basic healthy lifestyle changes you will start to see improvement around 6 weeks, it won’t be dramatic. Dramatic change in 6 weeks would require dramatic action. That’s why those programs have super intense, restrictive, and often weird diets and exercise regimens. You’re not going to drop 30 pounds in 6 weeks by jogging a mile a day and cutting out dessert. You might if you are doing a weird rotation of “dry toast and 300 burpees on Thursday, then raw meat and 2 hours on the treadmill at 10% incline Friday, juice fast Saturday” or whatever, but you cannot live that way for decades. You will lose weight, gain it back even if you improve your daily habits, then go back to searching for some other quick fix that magically transforms your body but never needs maintenance. It’s like this because it is making someone lots of money to keep you on that metaphorical treadmill. In the long run….you’d have been better off jogging a mile a day and cutting out dessert, even though that barely shows results at 6 weeks.
To make a substantial and sustainable change, you likely need to make significant but lower key changes that you can stick to essentially for life.
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