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Two sessions a week for two years beats a perfect plan abandoned in March

Started 27 June 2025 · 13 replies · 130 hearts · read 1.3k times

TanviMumbai, IN · 27 June 2025
about a year ago

Something I have been sitting with: Two sessions a week for two years beats a perfect plan abandoned in March Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Anyone else navigating this? I feel as though every piece of advice I read was written for someone with a completely different week.

I would like to know what other people say when asked, because my current answer is too long and invites more questions.

What I am after is the version of this that works when nobody is helping, because that is my situation and most accounts assume otherwise.

The thing I have not been able to find anywhere is how people manage this when the week has no fixed shape at all.

The number in the title is the actual number: two sessions, not a round figure I reached for because it sounded about right.

I will come back and say what I settled on, in case it is useful to the next person asking this.

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BaySt Ives, UK
#1

Protein first at each meal was what worked for me. Nothing more complicated than the order things went on the plate.

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OndineLausanne, CH
#2

The advice that helped least was to eat more protein without any suggestion of how, when my appetite had gone.

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NkemPort Harcourt, NG
#3

Ondine has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

My grip strength has improved steadily and it is the only number I still track, because it is the one that means something to me.

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MaritGroningen, NL
#5

Nothing here is a prescription for a body. The amount that suits you is a conversation with somebody who knows your situation.

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RunaAarhus, DK
#6

Ren — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Something that helped was accepting that this is boring. I kept looking for something more interesting and there was nothing more interesting.

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BertrandToulouse, FR
#7

That is a kinder way of putting it than I have managed about myself.

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RohanPune, IN
#8

Coming back at two years to say the twice a week held, the protein habit held, and they are the two things I would keep above all else.

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TabbyMargate, UK
#9

What I found is that the evening is where mine falls short, because by then my appetite has gone and I am tired.

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LenaMunich, DE
#10

Gently disagreeing with Rohan, or rather adding the other half of it.

The list on the fridge idea came from this circle and it is the single most useful thing I have taken from anywhere.

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OsricSalisbury, UK
#11

My dietitian gave me a target and then, more usefully, gave me three ways to hit it that did not require me to want food.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#12

I am pleased with this thread. Practical, kind, no instructions, no comparisons. That is the whole brief.

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NemoneLewes, UK
#13

The limits of yoghurt became a running joke in my house. It is genuinely hard to get there on the things I actually want.

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