One thing I have noticed is that despite their huge desire to lose weight many people seem to find themselves in a cycle of perpetual dieting where they are always on a fat loss diet. If it seems like you have been dieting on and off for the past few months (or years) then read on as I share a story about a friend of mine - this could be the one weight loss 'trick' that you need.
This past weekend I got to catch up with a friend (Jack) whom I hadn't seen in several months. Like most people Jack hadn't really changed in appearance since the last time we saw each other (around the 1st of the year). Jack and I talked for a while about stuff (Mario Kart for the Nintendo Wii, the increasing price of corn, how summer TV is really bad, you know the usual) then as many of my conversations seem to go Jack started asking me about nutrition and fat loss.
Basically Jack was pretty frustrated. He said that he had been dieting for "as long as I can remember" but somehow he still had 15lbs to lose. Some further interrogation (okay I wasn't interrogating my friend) Jack 'fessed up that while he was a lifetime dieter his compliance to his fat loss diet was pretty bad.
This resulted in something that I find with a lot of people. Because Jack was supposed to be "dieting" he would never feel like he could enjoy non-clean foods or foods in normal/larger quantities, so he'd feel guilty when he ate them, get discouraged, fall off the wagon, wait until Monday, and start dieting again.
This cycle would repeat week after week, month after month. The end result was Jack wasn't losing the weight he wanted and he was burnt out and discouraged because he felt like he had been dieting forever and not getting anywhere.
Have you found yourself in this situation
Do you find yourself in this situation?
The best cure for the lifetime dieter that I have found is an all out blitz. Jack has been getting lost in 12 week fat loss programs, so shorter (and more extreme) program is better for him. I told Jack about the idea of a 'Fat Loss Sprint' where he and explained that there were a couple rules he needed to follow if he was going to do the program.
1. No Cheating - He needed to stick to the diet 100%
2. No Skipping Workouts - There are only 24 workouts so he has to do everyone
3. Completed Focused Effort - No training for a marathon, spinning classes 3x a week, etc. All his efforts needed to be focused on losing as much weight as fast as possible.
4. He Had To Let People Know - Tell people about what he was doing would put the pressure on Jack to really make the 28 days fat loss sprint work. 28 days isn't that long and if he told friends and coworkers they were sure to check in with him to see how he did (plus most people would assume that losing 15lbs in 3-4 weeks isn't possible so they would be intrigued enough to find out what happened).
He agreed that rapid weight loss was what he needed to end his lifetime of dieting, he agreed to my 4 stipulations, and he started Warp Speed Fat Loss on Monday.
Now, have you been dieting forever?
If you are tired of 12 week diets and just want to get the weight off and get it over with then commit yourself to rapid weight loss plan involving metabolic resistance training and a carb restricted diet.
But you need to agree to the above 4 rules too.
The time to end a lifetime of dieting is now and you deserve to be in the best shape of your life.
Make it happen.
A thin, toned body is a lovely thing to look at; but good looks are only one of many benefits offered by a lean physique. We all want to lose weight, to shed that extra layer of fat around the abs and show off the natural, alluring muscle tone beneath. We have become victims of the bathroom scale. We base our performance, and perhaps even our self-esteems, on the number the scale displays on its cold, unbiased digital screen. The truth is, the scale does not tell the whole story. Often, the secret to shedding fat does not lie in losing pounds, but in gaining them--pounds of high quality, lean muscle mass, that is.
Lean muscle mass benefits the body in many ways. It strengthens the bones to fight against osteoporosis; it raises the metabolism by an average of thirteen calories per day for every pound of lean muscle mass. It gives the body a shapely look, pleasing to members of the opposite sex. It causes the body to become more powerful and capable of more intense activity. Those who understand the benefits of gaining muscle mass do everything in their power to pack it on. They also understand that the scale only tells half the story.
A better method of measuring fat loss lies in calculating the body's composition. This can be done using a skin-fold caliper fat percentage measuring device--such devices can be purchased online or at any health and fitness retail store. It's important to remember that muscle is three times more dense than fat. As you build muscle mass, using an effective bodybuilding program, your scale weight likely will increase. However, by measuring your body fat percentage, using a skin fold caliper and calculating your body composition, you can quickly determine how many pounds of fat you are losing. The following calculation determines the quantity of fat pounds on the body: [body weight in pounds] * [body fat percentage] = [pounds of fat on the body].
GAIN A POUND AND CELEBRATE For example, a man who weighs 180 pounds and, with a skin fold caliper, determines that his body fat percentage is 18%, can calculate how many pounds of fat he has by using this calculation: 180 * .18 = 32.4. By this calculation, it is determined that a 180-pound man with 18% body fat has 32.4 pounds of fat on his body. After engaging in an effective bodybuilding program for several weeks, the same man, using this calculation, might determine that he has lost 11 pounds of fat, but gained 12 pounds of muscle. If this man uses the scale alone, he might feel discouraged that, after slugging it out in the gym three times a week, he has gained 1 pound of body weight. In actuality, he has lost 11 pounds of fat. The increase of 12 pounds of lean muscle mass will burn, on the average, 156 extra calories a day by merely existing. The loss of 11 pounds of fat will trim and sculpt the man's body. It's a win-win-win.
It can be discouraging to get on the scale day after day and see only marginal changes in body weight. The truth is, with an effective strength training routine, it is more effective, and more motivating to use scale weight in conjunction with a skin fold caliper to determine the reduction in actual pounds of unwanted fat than to base body training progress on scale weight alone.
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