Why a Decade, Not a 6-Week Challenge
Every January the same story plays out. Someone signs up for a “6-week transformation challenge,” cuts calories to 1,200 a day, lifts five times a week, and posts a dramatic before-and-after. Six weeks later, they’re mentally drained, hungrier than ever, and by March they’re back where they started — usually a little worse. The problem was never effort. It was the time frame. I know, because I did it. More than once. I’ve spent twenty years in the gym, and the single biggest lesson — the one that cost me the most to learn — is that the fast path is a lie. ...