However, focusing only on reaching your goal is short-sighted. This is a life-long thing. Once you have reached your goal, your new goal is to maintain it. If you don't and stop working once achieving it you will quickly regress back to your old out of shape self. Think of finally paying off 10K of credit card debt only to go on a 10K shopping spree the day you paid the debt off on the same card. You wouldn't do that and fitness is no different. You've worked hard to get where you are and you have invested in a coach. If you stop once reaching your goal you've basically wasted all of your time, effort, and money.
This is maintenance time! Now you get to enjoy the work you've done and your new body. All you have to do is focus on maintaining it, which is much easier than than it was getting to this point.
So back to the first question. I can give you an estimate of how long it will take to get to your goal, but once your there you must maintain it.
Let's say you want to lose 30 pounds of body weight. Realistically you will lose 1.25 pounds per week. So this comes out to roughly 24 weeks. Some may lose faster, other will take longer. But, the point is that fitness/weight loss is not a 1 month or 3 month deal. It took a long time to gain the weight and it is not going to go away overnight.
More importantly fitness is a lifestyle and a life-time commitment. There will be periods when you have to cut back on gym time, but this is when we focus on and design a program to maintain and limit regression. If we can do that during those times we are successful and made progress and then when life slows back down we get back on track.
Live Fit,
Josh
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