Many of my friends and family are wondering just how I have lost so much weight in such a short timeframe. As of right now I have lost 30 pounds in 30 days and I’m starting to think I have my success figured out.
A few simple things have led to my drastic weight loss.
1) Motivation: If your going about it half heartily you have little chance of success. I was mad as hell about myself and my weight gain, I hated the way I looked but yet I still ate to much and drank to much. The final event that pushed me from mad about it and doing something about it was my divorce. Simply put, I was not taking care of myself and my wife no longer wanted to be with me. This was the shot in the heart I needed to motivate myself to lose weight. Yes at first I was so heartbroken I couldn’t eat anything for days and weeks, but after that I wanted to stay with it because I wanted to better myself !
2) Fad Diets are Crap: I don’t believe in fad diets, a few simple rules will get you much further in weight loss. As my friend Dawn Miceli taught me, you know when what your about to eat is bad for you, don’t eat it ! Avoid sugar, candy, soda and those sugar laden coffee drinks !
The only effective way to lose weight is to eat less ! Most adults need between 2000 and 3000 calories a day, if you eat less you lose weight. I find a 1200 calorie diet works great for me. Not putting body in starvation mode but not gaining weight ether.
3) Hunger: I harness my hunger, when I’m hungry I remind myself that if I’m not hungry I’m not losing weight ! Then I drink water and lots of it so I have something in belly to lessen the pain. Water works really well for me, avoid other drinks whenever possible !
4) Exercise: Simply put if you build more muscle you will burn more fat. If you exercise you will raise the amount of fat your body burns and you will store less fat !
I find working out to be boring as hell ! I belong to the YMCA and just working out in the big room with all the machines sucks ! I found that the group class such as Spinning Classes, Body Pump, Body Step and the insane Body Attack are much more motivating. You have hard driving music, a instructor motivating you the others around you doing the same thing ! The classes I take I find FUN ! Yes they are really FUN to do and I want to go to the YMCA and take them !
Sitting at home and working on some machine will not work for me, I need to be pushed by the music and the instructor !
So there you have it, stop back for updates on my progress from 210 lbs to the 165 lbs I hope to be soon !
