Our Brain Makes Body Recomposition Hard

Here are three ways to make it easier

The body recomposition concept is simple, but its application is hard. A key reason for this is our irrationality and the little tricks our brain plays on us.

I think you have a good idea of what you should do more of, and less of, to improve your fitness and nutrition over the next seven days.

Get to the gym and complete those runs.

Eat those salads for lunch and avoid snacking in the afternoon and evening.

But come Tuesday morning, you’re brain is giving you a range of reasons to skip that gym session. Tired… don’t have time… will do it tomorrow.

And by Wednesday afternoon, you’re back to snacking in the afternoon and evening. But now the streak is broken, you decide to enjoy this week and start again Monday, so tomorrow’s salad gets thrown out and replaced with fish and chips.

It’s a familiar pattern because a) I do it myself; and b) it’s the most common challenge I work through with clients. It’s not something that we ever overcome, but we can break the pattern and reduce the frequency to manage it better.

Humans are terrible at delaying gratification. We want everything now and are happy to pay a premium for that.