Environment Design For Weight Loss
As a Personal Trainer & Health coach, there are numerous ways we can help clients achieve the goals they have. For many of my clients “weight loss” is a key goal that they have struggled to achieve for years.
In 2022-2023 GLP-1 agonists such as Ozempic became extremely popular weight loss medications to help blunt hunger signals so people would be less inclined to consume food. Although the long-term weight loss results for these seems to be successful for weight loss, sometimes achieving the desired outcome comes at the risk of us not establishing the correct modification behaviors to maintain these results once we come off the drug.
Ensuring habits are in place and are aligned with our long-term goal is not an outdated theory. Long team health and weight management can often be down to ensuring that our habits are in place to maintain these behaviors moving forward.
Weight Loss is an interesting topic because although as a society we know the way to create weight loss is through a caloric deficit ensuring we are eating a balanced nutrient dense diet, that assures you are consuming less fuel than you are putting in. When we look at society, weight loss is an extremely common issue that many people struggle with. Therefore, perhaps this isn’t an education issue on the topic, and more of an environmental design issue.
Therefore, as a coach one of the ways I help clients is by ensuring that the environments they have built away from the gym are in line with the goals they have. If you know you have a craving for potato chips, chocolates and sweets, then ensuring you don’t have these in your cupboard is likely a good idea.
The goal of environment design is to ensure that you are creating the least path of resistance for your desired habit to take place. Therefore, if you know that you want to go to the gym early in the morning before work; having your kit laid out, ready to go with a pre-workout snack on the kitchen counter, might not be a bad idea.
When small habits are utilised in alignment with your long-term goals, achieving these goals becomes a lot easier.
Next time you are writing down the goals you want to achieve, taking note of the environment and how many obstacles are in your way, is a useful way of ensuring that you are moving in the right direction.
On the next blog I will dive deeper into the best ways for us to shoot for a weight loss target, and how to create a calorie deficit by using calorie calculator software which I provide as a free resource within my website.
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Written by Daniel Bennett, PT
