We are constantly being pitched quick weight-loss plans, products and schemes. The reality of quick weight loss is it is often followed by even quicker weight gain because quick weight-loss typically has two bad side effects, the required calorie reduction slows down your metabolism and unless your extremely overweight (a hundred or more pounds) when you lose more than two pounds per week a greater percentage of that weight over 2 pounds is muscle and reduced muscle mass further slows down your metabolism. In addition quick weight-loss often involves depriving your body of something it requires to run properly (like carbohydrates you body requires for energy) or requires you to take potentially dangerous unregulated products (like thermogenic fat burner pills). We regularly get asked about the best way to take weight off so we designed the following plan to provide a smart, safe and sane way for regular people to consistently lose weight without having to starve themselves or spend hours in the gym, basically it is a program for real people, living in the real world that gets real results.

Having lost a lot of weight on an extremely low calorie plan and then having to learn to continue to lose weight while eating nutritionally sound, as outlined in my book Diary of A Former Fatman, I designed the program below to lose weight while eating the right amount of the right things that allow your body to operate at its peak all while eating enough so you never feel like you are starving. This program isn’t a diet it is a sound nutritional program combined with the right type of exercise to safely and consistently lose weight.

On this program you can expect to lose one to two pounds a week consistently along with a major increase in energy. Depending on how you have been eating and exercising it can take seven to ten days for your body to adjust to this program, so if you have been starving yourself in an attempt to lose weight don’t be worried about the scale moving up in the first week your body will adjust to this program and as it begins to move to operating at its peak efficiency the pounds will start to come off. Remember the number of pounds lost will be affected by your genetics and the amount you are overweight as well. Remember this isn’t a diet but a fitness plan comprising proper healthy nutrition and weight loss inducing exercise so it won’t result in rapid weight-loss but rather consistent weight-loss. Once you establish this as your base plan you can always reduce calories or carbohydrates in the short term to take off some pounds quickly but remember those quickly lost pounds come back just as quickly. Read the rest of this entry »