9d • General discussion
How soon should you expect to see progress?
I love this question for a few reasons:
- We generally expect to have results if we are putting in the effort.
- We are impatient hahahaha.
BUT. This is an important question to ask as it leads to either knowing we are doing something right and can continue doing it or we can correct ourselves if we are doing something wrong with our plans.
Since my coaching is primarily fat loss or weight gain, I can tell you this-
You SHOULD see differences within 2-4 weeks. This is either scale weight or visuals/progress pics OR BOTH.
Rules to this- you have to be consistent. I require my clients to be 90%-100% consistency. The 80/20 rule really has no place in my coaching simply because it is abused and I have NEVER seen someone make great progress saying they do that. But also, that is just me and I've only been doing this for 6 years 👀.
When you are consistent to that degree and TRACK (daily food and body weights) then you can take the average weight difference between your weeks and know if you are gaining/losing/maintaining weight.
Weekly weights will not give you enough information because as we know, body weight fluctuations are normal. If we have inconsistent food tracking (yes even UNDEREATING your calories) will impact this too. There is a reason you have set macros for your deficit. Eat those and stop thinking you are "making progress go faster" by undereating those. I promise you it isn't that helpful and leads to more muscle loss and shitty gym performance because you have less energy.
A spicy one for a Monday.
Let's get after it y'all.
Coach Em
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How soon should you expect to see progress?
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