The Big Picture
Two pounds per month. Three pounds, tops. That's how much weight I have been losing since becoming an exercise freak!
If I think about how much I work out and how hard I try to stick to my diet each month...no way is it worth two stinkin' pounds!
But if I think of the big picture, it's definitely worth it. I am more physically fit than I have ever been in my life. I feel younger than I have in ten years. And over the past 20 months, I have lost 40 pounds. Since I've put on a bunch of muscle mass, I'm sure I've lost more than 40 pounds of fat.
It's so worth it.
In case you are new to my website...I've listed what I am doing below. It's simple, which does not mean it's easy!!! The number 1 thing it takes is to make a commitment to yourself to stick with a diet forever. You're worth it!
- I excercise 6 days a week for 1+ hours, mostly cardio workouts. I always have 1 day of rest per week from exercise.
- I eat 1200-1400 calories per day, which is my BMR level of calories. On the 1 day a week that I don't exercise, that's all I eat. You can calculate your BMR here.
- On days that I excerise, I go to caloriesperhour.com and calculate how many calories I burned in my workout. I add that number to 1200, and that's how many calories I get that day. Only add real workouts in this count...don’t count every day stuff like doing dishes, or walking the dog.
- The type of food I eat is like the South Beach diet, phase 2. If you are a sugar/carb addict, you might want to start with Phase 1 of the South Beach diet. Phase 1 is designed to break the carb addiction.
- I use lots of tricks and mental strategies and goal setting to help me stay on track for both excercise and diet.
I plan on doing this "balancing act" with my calories the rest of my life.
I have recently found a diet program that is very similar to what I am doing:
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle is an e-book that costs $39. It has great information about how to get motivated, stay motivated, set goals and achieve goals. That information alone is worth the $39 pricetag! Secondly, it contains details about what to eat, how much to eat, when to eat, how to exercise, when to exercise, and how much to exercise. I highly recommend this e-book (and I also recommend printing it out for easier reading). They have a money back guarantee, which I know they honor. I get a commission off sales that link from my site, , and the statistics show that about 10% of the orders are refunded. I wonder if that’s a good success rate? Anyway, I would recommend this plan even if I didn’t get a commission :-)
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