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Introduction............................................................... 6
Chapter 1: Why Do I Gain Weight? ............................. 8
The Major Causes of Weight Gain .................................................... 8
Should I Go On A Diet? ................................................................ 11
How Diets Work .......................................................................... 17
Industry Secrets ......................................................................... 20
Chapter 2: What Do I Do Now? ................................ 23
Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone ............................................... 24
Who to Approach When You Want to Lose Weight? .......................... 25
Persisting Through Failure ............................................................ 26
Buddy System ............................................................................ 28
Why Maintaining a Daily Schedule is Critical ................................... 28
Chapter 3: Healthy Nutrition and Its Benefits .......... 30
Calories In - Calories Out ............................................................. 30
Clean Eating ............................................................................... 32
Water Is Your Best Friend ............................................................. 33
Chapter 4: The Importance of Exercise .................... 35
Exercising .................................................................................. 35
Why HIIT is Better Than Running .................................................. 36
Add Strength Training With Kettlebells to Your Routine ..................... 38
Chapter 5: Living the Healthy Lifestyle .................... 75
The Secrets of Staying Healthy ..................................................... 76
The Advantages of Staying Healthy ............................................... 78
Chapter 6: The Best Diet Supplements ..................... 80
Daily Vitamin Supplements: Why You Need Them ............................ 82
Why? Is There an Answer? ........................................................... 85
Now, This Is Where The Balance Comes In ..................................... 85
Which Meal Replacement Shake? ................................................... 86
Natural Testosterone Supplements ................................................ 87
Nutritional Supplements for Athletes .............................................. 90
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Conclusion: Ready…Set…Go! ................................... 94
About Corey Lewis: .................................................. 96
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Is this finally the time you are going to say “Enough Is Enough”?
I am ready to start on a path to a healthier me, I’m NOT gonna make any
more excuses and I am going to make a change by shedding some of
those extra pounds…No matter what!!!
DROP THE FAT ACT AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
I’m simply amazed at what I see on the Saturday morning and late night
infomercials. They tout these gadgets and gimmicks that promise easy
weight loss. How many of us have seen these “ab gadgets” that we sit in
and rock and the fat just seems to melt away?
Have you read the very small print at the bottom of the screen? Well it essentially tells you that you must implement some form of diet in order for it to be effective.
In this day and age it is easy to be tempted by promises of rapid weight loss that are given by certain weight loss programs, or offered as a result of “magic diet pills”, or other “miracle weight loss diets”. But honestly, it is a total load of B.S.
There are a few basic truths you should know before you decide on how you will proceed.
First, realize that there is NO miracle weight loss treatment.
While It is possible to lose significant weight by adhering to a highly restrictive or other popular fad diet, in reality the biggest problem with that is it is not sustainable long-term.
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Besides the obvious negative side-effects to your health, I’ve come to realize that the word “diet” conjures up restrictions in my mind. When you look in the dictionary for diet here’s one of the definitions: “a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one’s weight.” It is no wonder diets don’t work!
Studies have shown that the majority of people who are overweight and embark on a crash diet, that they regain the weight lost almost instantly.
They are then in a much worse state of health than those who remain at their original overweight size.
Let’s be candid with each other, losing weight hasn’t changed since we’ve walked this earth on 2 legs. What’s changed is the marketing of how to lose weight. In the end, you must have negative energy balance.
How do you achieve negative energy balance? First, you can decrease the amount of food you are eating each day. Secondly, you can increase the intensity of your workout sessions. And lastly, you can apply a combination of the first two. That’s it.
With that being said... there is no miracle, only tried and tested nutritional and exercise advice, and this is what this book is all about.
The goal of this book is to cut through the BS that exists all over the Internet and to help you finally make a lifestyle change and help you finally achieve the goal weight you’ve decided is best for you.
Today is the day to make the decision to LOSE THE FAT AND CHANGE
YOUR LIFE…FOREVER
Follow along with me on my blog at www.sergeantslim.com/blog for tons
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Chapter 1: Why Do I Gain Weight?
With the rush of our everyday lives, the advancement of technology, along with the conveniences of fast food, it sure is hard to stay active and eat a healthy, balanced diet. But if you know how to do it, it can be done, even with a busy lifestyle.
In this first section of the book we are going to look at:
The main reasons why we gain weight
The people we need to talk to when we decide we are ready to lose the weight
Why keeping yourself on a schedule actually helps you to lose the weight
Weight loss secrets
Plus many other subjects that will help you to learn how to finally take the weight off and keep it off once and for all
The Major Causes of Weight Gain
We eat more calories than our body needs in a day, so the excess gets stored as fat. We all know this, but why is it that 63% of Americans are fat or overweight? Look at the size of the portions we eat today, they are enormous.
When we consume more food than we are burning, we are in positive energy balance. In essence we store the excess as fat. This can be a good thing, if we were cavemen and we know if we were not going to eat for 7 days, but for those of us who live in western society, this simply isn’t the case.
• You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep. If you are dieting and exercising and still not losing weight, it might be time to address any sleep issues you may have. Two Canadian Obesity experts in the Canadian Medical Association Journal report that there is mounting evidence that suggests a 8
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link between weight loss and sleep. In fact, the study found that people who go to bed late actually consume 400 to 500 more calories!
• Your metabolic rate. As we age, we lose about 10% of our metabolic rate every ten years after the age of 25. However, this can be stopped if you do kettlebell training as prescribed in this book. In essence when we have more lean muscle, our metabolic rate is increased because our bodies have to repair the muscle from the workout causing more muscle to be built. Whereas when we are sedentary, this doesn’t occur and we get fatter!
• You have poor eating habits. In my research for this book, I discovered that people in the West are 30lbs heavier today than they were 100 years ago. What’s even more interesting is they ate more fat!
What they didn’t eat was processed food. Jack Lallane said it best, “If man-made don’t eat it.”
You see sugars, starches, and most anything with flour is turning us into a society of obesity. In 2009 according to F.A.S.T.Foodfacts.com the fast food industry alone spent 4.2 billion dollars on advertising! No wonder we are fat. Many folks have found a meal planner to be useful to help guide them in the right direction.
• Larger portion sizes. We all know this. I’ll use fast food chains as an
example. The size of the soft drinks, and fries has increased from when I
was a kid. Most people are simply eating too much. As mentioned in the
previous paragraph, this meal planner can help you realize what a portion
• Exercise or the lack thereof. This is killing us as a western society.
According to designedtomove.org, for the first time today’s kids are the
first generation with a shorter life expectancy than their parents. The
human body is designed to move. Regular exercise is essential to getting
to and maintaining a healthy weight-and so is what you eat, how you eat
and how much you eat. I invite you to follow along Sergeant Slim as he
prepares to become the fittest man in the world.
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Learn portion control. A simple rule of thumb here without weighing or measuring is to use your hand for measuring. Men-you need 2 portions of protein and ladies you need 1 portion. A portion would be the size of your palm.
For carbohydrates, both men and women should select a portion that is the size of your fist. Lastly, fats, like mixed nuts, walnuts, etc, think the size of your thumb.
For men you should eat protein the same size as your palm. This is usually a huge factor for most people, and they do not realize how much they are actually eating. A portion of food the size of your fist is generally all that should be eaten at one time, because that is the size of your stomach as well.
Stop eating when you are 80% full. This is a technique that I employ 90% of the time, and it obviously will help you consume less food. Think portion control here, as what better way to control what you are putting into your mouth than eating less food each meal. This will equal a lot of weight loss over the course of a year.
Try slowing down your eating and don’t eat in the car, standing, or walking. The only time you should eat is at a table. The reason for eating slow is that your brain receives a signal to tell you when you are full.
When you are eating fast, the signal is not received by the brain and you
tend to over eat as you are not “full”. I understand that you get busy,
when you are busy a healthy meal replacement may help you achieve a
Another thing to watch of course is your intake of fatty and sugary foods.
We all need nutrients, including healthy fats, to keep us balanced, but eating a lot of junk food and sugary drinks will attribute greatly to us gaining more weight. Processed foods don’t generally have a lot of nutrients in them, or any at all, and they are high in salt, sugar, and unhealthy fats.
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People tend to use their busy lifestyles as an excuse to gain weight. This is where you really need to plan ahead to avoid any traps that will cause you to make poor nutrition choices. As a famous bodybuilder once said,
“Tupperware is a key piece of equipment when training.” I couldn’t agree more.
With a meal planner like the one in the link, you can prepare your meals
for the week, and receive a shopping list for everything that you need for
all of your meals. Then use the Tupperware and prepare those meals on
Sunday, freeze them, and take them out each morning for the day. No
thinking involved, as you already know what you are eating for the day.
Now breakfast can be a tough one to get in, so rather than make a poor
choice or not eating at all, I recommend a meal replacement to keep you
The short answer is absolutely not. They don’t work for the long-term.
As we’ve already discussed, with heavy marketing of the latest “diet fad”,
it’s hard to not get caught up in all of the hype. This is exactly what
Corey Lewis discusses in his book Sergeant Slim’s Weapons of Mass
Reduction. Instead of diet, think lifestyle change, because this will
develop a lifetime of healthy eating and exercise habits rather than the
Do you like cutting out entire food groups such as carbohydrates or drinking weight loss shake after weight loss shake that simply do not taste very good and do not fill you up?
It seems like most folks will start a diet around some life events like a wedding, a high school or family reunion, or the big one-New Year’s Resolution.
If that is your only goal, I would encourage you to do your homework and
consider Sergeant Slim’s Weapons of Mass Reduction which is more of a
common sense approach to achieving a healthy weight. At least when
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you achieve your short term goal, you understand how to maintain the weight loss long-term.
Before embarking on any kind of change to our normal everyday lives, you’ve got to have a reason why you are doing them. These would be considered goals.
The reason why goals are important is that you will quit when the going gets hard. Maybe, you recently went from a size 40 pants to size 42 and you are tired of being heavy. Perhaps, your doctor has told you that you need to lose 50 pounds or face the real possibility of a heart attack.
Your goals have got to be real. You do this by writing them down so that you can display them somewhere and see them every single day. The formula I like to utilize is the acronym S.M.A.R.T.
Specific: If you only have a general idea about where you are headed, is a sure way to fail before you even begin. If you were planning to drive in New York City, you wouldn’t just drive to reach a specific location would you?
In contrast, you would have detailed instructions before setting out, to ensure that you made it to your specific destination. In the same token, a broad statement like, “I want to get in better shape” simply won’t cut the mustard.
It has no power behind it, and you won’t even know if you’ve reached your goal. How so? If you simply lost a single pound, technically you would be in better shape than when you started!
Clearly, this is probably not what you had in mind, so get specific, and nail down precisely what you really want. Try a goal like, “I want to lose 35
pounds and fit into the same pants I wore in college, by the end of this year.” See the difference? You will now know when you’ve arrived at your destination, if you use details like this.
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Measurable: This goes hand in hand with keeping your statement specific, as your goal needs to be measurable. What does this mean?
Make sure your statement answers a definitive question like, “how much?” Using the same example from above, the answer would be 35
pounds.
However, you can take this even further, to help you stay on track.
Instead of only including your overall goal, create smaller milestones that you’d like to hit along the way.
You could say something like, “I want to lose 35 pounds, meaning I have to shed at least 3 pounds every month for an entire year.”
This gives you a great way to track your progress, which will help you to stay motivated. After all, as the old Chinese proverb says, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In the same way, you can’t lose 35 pounds all at once, buy you can lose 1 pound this week!
Attainable: This one is self-explanatory, and you need to keep your goal within the realm of reason. Don’t expect to get on the treadmill one time, and drop twenty pounds in one day! Instead, you need to break down your goal into bite-sized pieces, which are aggressive enough to keep you working hard, yet achievable too.
Otherwise, after a few weeks of failing to hit your expectations, you may give up altogether. It would be better to set your goal lower, and then ratchet it up as you exceed it consistently every week.
Realistic: An attainable goal is by its very nature realistic, but there is a subtle difference between the two. It may be possible to hit a certain benchmark, but you may not be willing or able to do so.
For example, while lowering your body fat to 7 percent may be physically possible in theory, it may not be realistic! If you are starting out as a couch potato, or 100 pounds overweight, then your goal should be to get in reasonable shape. Trying to go from your present condition to the 13
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fitness level of a triathlete isn’t truly realistic, and you may be setting yourself up for disillusionment down the road.
The fact that it is possible (attainable), doesn’t mean you have a reasonable chance of success (realistic). So, try to keep your goal somewhere in the middle, and you will be fine!
A good statement would be, “I want to lower my body fat percentage from 22 down to only 14 percent in seven months.”
However, remember that a challenging goal may make your task easier, because it will keep you motivated. Setting the bar too low, can leave you feeling bored. Only you can decide where the right balance is, and you can always set your sights higher midway through, if you need an extra kick in the pants!
Time Determined: You have probably noticed that each example has a specific time frame included. This is essential, as otherwise you won’t know how to plan along the way.
If you give yourself 2 years to lose 50 pounds, then you’d only have to burn off 2 pounds a month. However, if you plan to drop the weight in only 1 year instead, then you’ll have to double that figure.
Therefore, your deadline is a critical part of your goal, and it should be very specific.
Okay, now you have a targeted goal in hand, which you’ve worked hard to
make compelling! What’s the next step, and how can you use this to its
fullest effect? As already mentioned, you need to reinforce this goal
every day, by displaying it somewhere you will see it consistently. This
will remind you what you are after, and it can help you to build new habits
as well. It only takes 21 days to start a new habit or routine, so after
three weeks of eating right and exercising, you will have a much easier
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time of things.
However, if you’ve struggled with your weight for years, you may be very entrenched in your sedentary lifestyle and patterns of eating. You may need to get aggressive, and try something a bit crazy to snap yourself out of this rut!
Is a poor doctor’s report what is finally pushing you to lose weight? Then put up your clinical notes, blood tests or just a reminder about your poor level of health right next to your written goal.
Why on earth would you do something so morbid? You see, if you are like most people, you will want to forget about this unsettling news as soon as you can. This is only natural, as you don’t want to dwell on things which make you uncomfortable.
However, it is important that you do so, as this can give you more motivation than you’ve ever had in your life. Seeing those test results or your doctor’s note every morning, will drive home that you can’t afford to give up this time.
Or, perhaps you have a more positive reason instead, like fitting into a smaller dress size for an upcoming event. Why not put up a picture of the dress in question, or even the dress itself?
This may sound a bit unorthodox, but seeing your goal before you in living color every day, will make it easier to pass on those donuts at work.
When you’re tempted to break your diet or skip your time at the gym, the picture of that dress will be fresh in your mind. This may sound simplistic, but it really works! So, why not give it a try, as you could begin seeing results like never before.
Get Support:
At this point, you may think that you are finished, as you have come up with a SMART goal and placed it where you will see it daily. While this is a 15
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great start, you still need one final element to succeed!
You see, most people fail because they don’t put a support system in place, to help them through the really tough times. These will inevitably come, and you will be tempted to call it quits at least once along your personal road to weight loss.
You may simply be having a hard day at work, be sore from your last workout, or tempted to eat a whole chocolate cake because you’re depressed! Whatever the specific scenario, there will come a time when you need someone to lean on, to help you through a rough patch.
Who should you turn to for your personal support team? Obviously, you need someone who cares for you, and who is on board with your weight loss efforts. If you can get your spouse to help, this is ideal, as they likely see you every day.
Also, you probably eat at least one meal together daily as well, so they can keep an eye on your dietary habits too! However, unfortunately your spouse may not be willing to change, and they may even be resistant to your plan to lose weight. They may be out of shape too, but aren’t ready to change themselves, so they will only be a negative influence instead.
If this is the case, you need even more support from other friends or relatives, to offset the support you aren’t receiving at home.
In fact, it is best to enlist the help of a friend who is already in shape, as they know what it takes to keep the pounds off. Also, they won’t be tempted to skip workouts or eat unhealthy meals, meaning they won’t cave if you plead them to let you do so.
If you don’t know anyone like this, then try to locate a friend that you can get in shape with, as you can partner to lose the weight together. This can be a powerful motivator, as if you are meeting someone at the gym, you can’t skip your workout. Also, knowing that you will have to report what you’ve been eating to them, will give you an extra incentive to stick to your diet too.
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Get a Free Personal Trainer: Along with having a friend or spouse for support, you can also take advantage of my experience too. Follow exactly what I do every day to stay in the best shape of my life at
www.sergeantslim.com/blog . There you can see how I plan my meals, and what workouts I’m using. This is like having your very own personal trainer, without having to pay a dime for the privilege. Also, remember, you can contact me if you have any questions, and I am here to make sure that you succeed in losing the weight.
Putting it All Together: By now you know how to write a terrific goal, which will keep you highly motivated. Just be sure to keep it Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Determined!
With all of these factors in place, you will know precisely where you are going, and also when you’ve reached your destination. Then, just look at it at least once a day, to keep your new goal firmly in mind. The next step is to enlist your spouse or a close friend for support, to help you stay on track whenever you are tempted to take a detour. Finally, you can take advantage of my free blog at http://www.sergeantslim.com/blog,
which is like having your own personal trainer. With all of these working together, you will be well positioned for a successful outcome to your weight loss journey.
How Diets Work
Losing weight is simple; you simply must consume fewer calories than your body requires on a daily basis.
Obviously, we eat because it is a necessity in order to keep our body functioning. If we consume more food than we require we will gain weight. Think about this, if we are consuming just 300 calories extra per day, over the course of the year this could equate to a weight gain of over 20lbs! This would be considered positive energy balance, because we are consuming more calories than we require.
“So in essence a diet is supposed to help you lose those extra
calories”
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Going forward think of a diet as a feeding plan where you would control
the amount of calories eaten. Eating fewer calories is one of the methods
you can employ to losing weight. Don’t be lulled into thinking that just
because fruits and vegetables are healthy you can snack on them all day.
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Remember, total calories are what
matters in the end. These foods still have calories. My meal planner
enables you to determine the number of calories you need based upon
your weight loss goals and lets you eat the foods that you want to eat.
A lot of people believe that since they’ve substantially reduced the number of calories on their feeding plan, they will be hungry. This can occur. However, If you are able to eat every 2-4 hours then the hunger pangs can be minimized.
A simple formula to utilize is to divide the number of hours that you are
awake by three. Suppose you are awake 15 hours per day, so your goal
should be 5 meals. When you use my meal planner it will have calculated
that you needed 1500 calories for the day or an average of 300 calories
per meal. This meal planner makes your chances to succeed that much
If you get busy at work, and are unable to eat a meal, then a meal
replacement can keep you on track. I do rely upon these a number of
times throughout the week, as life happens.
At the beginning phase of your nutritional plan, I don’t encourage you to skip any meal, as this could lead to what I call “compensating”. In essence, psychologically at your next meal, you will tend to over feed, because you’ve missed a meal. This will inevitably lead to eating more food, and gaining weight.
The reason that most people fail on diets is that they are simply too restrictive. Don’t think that you simply need to drink water, and eat vegetables for the entire day. No, that simply won’t be sustainable long term.
With my meal planner, you determine the number of calories, and then
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craft a meal plan for each day of the week based upon the foods that you want to eat, not what some diet guru tells you that you have to eat.
The reason a meal planner is so important for a lot of people is it takes
the guess work out of exactly what they need to eat in order to lose
weight. The most common question I get in regards to weight loss is,
“what can I eat?” This question can finally be answered.
Rule of Thumb
When you want to keep a diet plan, discipline is one of the most important factors. Weight loss through proper diet will take from months to years to achieve your proper weight. Any diet that is extreme and promotes speedy results can turn into a form of yo-yo dieting. Yo-yo dieting is a term where a person following a diet and manage to lose his weight but eventually will eat and gain more than he lost.
This happens because the diet he followed was too extreme; limiting his food intake and forbidding a lot of food categories. So he cannot take this diet thus giving in and eating more. Or it can be due to the lack of discipline after the targeted weight is achieved. This is usually the cause when you go for extreme hyper caloric diet.
So to avoid that, you need to think lifestyle, and learn to eat healthy, exercise frequently, and get proper rest. Initially changing your bad habits will be difficult. However, if you stick to your new feeding plan for at least 21 to 30 days, it should lay a good foundation for success.
Changing your diet from one that was unhealthy to healthy will require support from your spouse or significant other. I’ve seen too many times where the one closest to you will sabotage your efforts. Why not let get them on board with your new feeding plan? Even if they don’t have to lose weight, there are many health benefits to making this change.
The last reason a meal planner is crucial to success is that my meal
planner has hundreds of different combinations. I know that I couldn’t
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survive on chicken and broccoli every day, so how do I expect you to do the same? With the variety of foods (including the ones that you like) available you won’t get bored, and your chances for success will be greatly increased.
Just remember if you have fallen off of the wagon, and perhaps eaten a meal or two that broke the calorie count for the day, simply get back on track the next day. In the end you simply need to be compliant 90% of the time. Obviously, you can’t do this every day, but once a week won’t put much of damper on your weight loss goals.
Industry Secrets
There are several things that the weight loss industry is not telling you –
nor do they want you to know. Their business is booming thanks to all the fads, gadgets and pills out there that they are selling to people desperate to lose weight.
Unfortunately, the only thing in most cases that is getting lighter is peoples’ wallets. Many of these things do not work, and only a small percentage of people buying into one of them manage to lose the weight and keep it off.
Some of These Industry Secrets Include:
Most weight loss product ads deceive the buyer. A majority of the weight loss products you hear about on the radio and see on infomercials don’t even do what they claim to. Even so, consumers are lured into buying these products with promises like “Lose the weight and keep it off”, “Eat whatever you want” and “no diet or exercise required”. Basically, if it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is.
Just because they say it’s “scientifically proven” or “doctor-endorsed” doesn’t mean it works. These claims are typical as well, but they never tell you anything about where the studies were made or by who so that you can check out the validity for yourself.
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And what does it really mean anyway? Often these so-called health professionals have a financial interest in the product, and probably did not review the scientific evidence. If it was reviewed, they may not have even used acceptable review standards. Why would you want to risk your health on such a thing?
Just because the government allows a product to be on the market does not mean it is safe for consumers or that it does what it claims. There is a huge misconception that the government would not allow a product on the market if it could potentially be harmful to you.
People tend to think that the government has to pre-approve them first, but many times that is not the case.
Products toted as ‘natural’ or ‘herbal’ are not guaranteed safe.
People also assume that just because a product is made of natural ingredients means it must be safe as well. But until the FDA receives evidence that a product is harmful, the companies are free to put their products on the market.
Not everything you hear is true, and you shouldn’t believe it. There are plenty of products that claim to do things that they just do not, and you should steer away from products making high and lofty claims.
Don’t buy into the claims of fad diets, either. Anything that requires sudden and radical changes to your eating patterns is very difficult to sustain over time.
They will send you into a quick cycle of weight loss which is always followed by a rebound period where you gain the weight back and then some in certain instances once you’re normal eating resumes.
Plus, the next time you try to take the weight off, it makes it all that much more difficult. There are no health benefits to these diets, and if any one of them worked, do you really think there would be the need for new ones?
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good of a chance on getting your money back as having the product actually do what it claims to.
There is also no quick fix or magic pill that will help you to finally lose weight. If the product is making such claims, you can just about guarantee that they won’t work.
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Chapter 2: What Do I Do Now?
To make any diet a successful one, you need to be committed to it. Only with the right mind set can you reach success. To prepare yourself, you need to know what stage you are in before you can move on the next stage of your diet. It might not be obvious but it is there.
The First stage is pre-contemplation. You do not see yourself as being over-weight. You do not feel like changing yourself. Only strong pressure will lead you to seek help. But then you would resist and just be demoralized as you see your own situation as hopeless.
Second is contemplation. This is where you acknowledge that you have an over-weight problem and start to think of a solution. But you are not willing to perform that solution. You would just think about it, knowing what actions to take to make a change but never ready to do so. You will procrastinate about performing the solution.
Third is preparation. You've finally decided to do something about your overweight problem. You move on from brooding about your problem to realizing your solution. You would also start to think about the future where you are slimmer and feeling much healthier. But at this stage you are not fully committed yet. You would still have second thoughts about the solution as it requires you to change your lifestyle.
Fourth is action. You start to take action in losing weight. You would start choosing the food you eat and do some form of exercise every day.
It is the first step in achieving your targeted goal.
You should always set goals when losing weight. If you don't set your goals, then it's very possible that your whole dieting plan might not go the way you imagine it.
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”
List the following:
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What is your current situation right now? List all your eating habits, food preferences, everything that could affect your weight loss. Working out, etc
What is the reason you want to lose weight? This could be an upcoming event, summer, or even for a certain special someone.
List the single BIGGEST reason you can think of.
What are the benefits you get from your weight loss? List AS
MANY as you can. It can be health, better energy, admired by partner, etc. This should be your main motivator.
Your Goal. “I want to lose XX lbs of weight in XX days” -
Write this in bold and make it really sink in. I would personally say that setting a goal of more than 10 lbs per 2 weeks is not realistic, especially if this is your first attempt at a goal like this. Be realistic.
You must write “I want” not “I wish”
Write everything down and look at that paper every day. Put it in a place where you can see it. Once you see it every day, you will constantly be reminded of WHY you do this and what the benefits are.
BE PERSISTENT ONCE YOU TAKE ACTION BECAUSE IT’S NOT
GOING TO BE EASY
Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
If you see yourself making excuses rather than STARTING a diet that is effective, you should think about why you don't really want to lose weight. You must be able to step out of your comfort zone and as Nike's famous slogan goes JUST DO IT!
The final step would be maintenance. You need to keep the momentum going that you have in the action stage. If at any time you lose your commitment or support, then you would fall back to any of the previous stages.
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So the final stage is the most important stage in your diet plan as you need to keep your commitment going for a long period of time. There are several methods you can use to keep being committed.
First is to make a list about the reason why are you doing this in the first place. Look at the list daily to remind you of your goals. Do not have negative thoughts in your mind. Words like "never" or "depriving" should not be in your vocabulary. Rather than saying "never", you are just having desserts "occasionally and in moderation". And so the word "deprived"
can be replaced with the word "choosing" as you choose to skip chocolate cakes.
Visualize in your mind your future slim self doing all the things that you always wanted to do. This visualization will strengthen your motivation to commit to this plan and be the desire to succeed. Do this visualization daily, every time you wake up and anytime of the day you feel your commitment is weakening.
Who to Approach When You Want to Lose Weight?
Now that you’ve decided you want to lose weight, you should include some other people in your weight loss journey. These people can help you with many aspects, including choosing your diet plan, setting your goals and encouraging you along the way.
A Dietician: A dietician will have a wide range of knowledge that can help you to understand your body and to help prepare a food plan that will fit your particular needs, because in most states and countries it is required to get a medical license before they can become a dietician.
A less expensive alternative to a dietician is a meal planner. My meal
planner is a patent pending system that takes a radical new approach. It
works with you like your own private nutritionist or dietician to help you
create completely balanced diets using your favorite foods.
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exercise properly. I think that this is pretty important if you’ve never worked on any form of weight training. I wouldn’t commit to any long-term contract with a trainer, plus, I’d require them to learn what my goals are, and how they are going to help me achieve them.
You can follow my workouts for free at www.sergeantslim.com/blog
If you do follow my workouts, I would warn you that you need to scale the workouts both in weight and the length of the workouts for at least the first year.
Friends and Family: I always hating doing this and I’ve got a strategy that I think you will be able to employ fairly easily.
Whenever I went on my one of a hundred diets, I hated telling people. I felt as if they were judging me, because this was yet another diet I was embarking upon. Instead, when you are at the dinner table during a party, holiday, or some other special occasion, tell them (if they ask) you’re simply trying to eat a little healthier and that you’re done with diets.
For some reason, this worked for my psychologically. I believe it will work for you as well.
You’re human and yes you are going to fail at one point when you are either trying to lose weight, or maintain weight. How people succeed at weight loss is they didn't quit when it got tough, persisted through it and learned a lesson.
“When the going gets tough, the tough get
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Those are the two keys in dealing with failure. You must persist and learn.
If you slip on your diet, or miss a day of exercise, don’t sweat the minutia. Don’t let it derail you. Push it from your mind. Focus on all your positive days, not the one slip up. Remember it is all about living a healthy lifestyle, the more good days add up and before you know it bad days become few and far between. But the trick is to keep going and push through the bad days. Treat it as a cheat day and move on. This is how you persist, failing for a day is OK, just don’t let that day stretch into a week and then a month.
You have to accept failures as natural and develop a tough mental state to deal with them.
The second step is to learn from your mistakes. Quite often learning from your mistakes will be more efficient than learning from your successes.
When you fail, treat it as a lesson learned. It is just like in business, when you fail at something, you learn the things that don’t work.
This is the same with weight loss. If you have slipped off your new diet every time you drink, then maybe you should avoid drinking. If you realize that every Friday you miss out on exercise because of a late work meeting then reschedule your workout.
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways
Failure is a natural part of life, along with death and taxes. You can’t avoid it, and even if you could you wouldn’t want to. Your life’s lessons are learned through your failures along with your successes. Don’t fear failure, persist through and learn from it.
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Buddy System
One of the best things you can do when you are trying to lose weight is to add some accountability to your routine. How do you do that?
The Buddy System
Having a buddy to try and lose weight with is a great motivator. You will feel more accountable to reach your weight loss goals when you are actually sharing them with someone. They can also be helpful because the person is someone that can relate to you about struggling to lose weight. You can share your triumphs in joy, and your setbacks in support.
If you are working out regularly a buddy is invaluable. They can change a boring walk or jog into an exercise slash therapy session. A hike in the wilderness is always more fun with a friend along!
If you are into weight lifting it is also nice to have a buddy. You guys can challenge each other while at the same time providing encouragement and practical help like spots on heavy lifts.
It is sad to say but in this day and age, you can probably find yourself a
weight loss buddy in your group of friends. If you can’t, don’t panic you
can always do it virtually online as well. You could follow along my blog
at www.sergeantslim.com/blog and comment on the progress you’re
The bottom line is this - if you want to lose weight working with a friend can provide motivation, support as well as the always important accountability. Find your weight loss buddy now!
Why Maintaining a Daily Schedule is Critical
The next step in planning your weight loss goals is to set up a daily training schedule. Myself, I find that 6AM works well for me.
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Initially, it was difficult to get up so early, but over time, it becomes a habit. Let me give you some advantages to training at this time of day: 1) Your workout is done for the day
2) Your afternoon is free for time with your kids, spouse, friends, etc.
3) If you get held over for work, no issues, your workout is already done.
However, that’s my reasons for training this early in the morning. I have friends who tell me that they prefer late afternoon and early evening.
Again, it doesn’t really matter what time, as much as you simply must do it.
Keeping Yourself in Check: When you have a specific schedule to follow you are more likely to stick to your goals by writing everything down in a journal or other recording device like a smartphone. But, if you do miss a scheduled workout, or have an extra snack, you can keep note of it and vow to do better the next time.
Knowing What You Are Doing Each Day: Having what time you are supposed to be doing your workouts or eating your meals written down can keep you in the know ahead of time. In this way you can schedule things around your workout times, rather than scheduling over them and just missing workouts altogether.
This can be easy to do, and if you start doing this, it will eventually snowball into increased times where you are missing your workouts, until you are thrown off track completely.
Lose More Weight: By keeping yourself on a schedule, you will tend to lose more weight in the end because you will be likely to not miss any workouts (or very, very few in the long run).
If you keep going back and forth and missing your workouts, or skipping a meal and confusing your body’s metabolism, you will have a much harder time maintaining a steady rate of weight loss.
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Chapter 3: Healthy Nutrition and Its Benefits
You would have heard lots of people saying that healthy nutrition is important for a healthy body but you need to know what the actual meaning of healthy nutrition is and why it is so important. Let’s define nutrition.
“Nutrition is the process of giving your body all the important and necessary elements which can help it to grow in a proper and balanced way.”
This is the simplest definition of nutrition which tells you that you need to eat proper food with good basic nutrients. Healthy nutrition can make your body strong and healthy, plus it can also help your body grow and repair itself. While an unhealthy nutrition plan can make your body weaker and can make you ill and you will not be able to fight against certain minor diseases.
Everyone who wants to lose weight has probably tried multiple diets, supplements and/or plans. There are hundreds of weight loss methods available to buy. All of them making wild promises.
Here is the hard truth - there are no magical pills, diets or exercise gadgets that will make weight instantly disappear. It comes down to eating right, staying healthy and burning more calories than you take in.
That is where the saying “calories in - calories out” comes from. You want to make sure you burn more calories (out) than you consume (in).
Clearly, this is a simplistic view and a proper diet consists of taking more than calories into consideration. We will look at that in other chapters, but right now we want to talk about creating a calorie deficit.
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In order to track this you need some basic information. First off you need to figure out how many calories you burn per day naturally. This comes down to factors such as age and weight.
Calculating the Number of Calories You Burn Daily
BMR calculation for BMR = 66.5 + ( 13.75 x weight in kg ) + ( 5.003 x height
in cm ) – ( 6.755 x age in years )
BMR calculation for BMR = 66 + ( 6.23 x weight in pounds ) + ( 12.7 x height
in inches ) – ( 6.76 x age in years )
BMR calculation for BMR = 655.1 + ( 9.563 x weight in kg ) + ( 1.850 x
height in cm ) – ( 4.676 x age in years )
BMR calculation for BMR = 655 + ( 4.35 x weight in pounds ) + ( 4.7 x height
in inches ) – ( 4.7 x age in years )
This formula will give you the basic calories you burn daily, just by breathing, heart pumping and etc... These are how many calories you burn if you didn’t move all day (basal metabolic rate).
Once you have that number, you need to start tracking the calories you burn and the calories you consume. This can be tricky because it is a lot of information to keep track of.
If you sign up for my meal planner it will calculate your BMR for you.
This isn’t about starving yourself, or exercising until you are dead. It is all about being aware what you put in your body, and what you exert.
Weight loss can be a struggle, but if you can manage your calories in and calories out - you can overcome!
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We have talked about calories in calories out - the basic weight loss guideline. It is a basic tip because you still want to make sure you are getting those calories from good sources. Keeping your calories down by eating two corn-dogs a day probably isn’t your best choice.
Eating clean is an expression that doesn’t have an official term but in general it means:
“Eating healthy whole foods while avoiding processed foods and refined sugars”
That is a general goal to strive for, it isn’t always possible to eat completely “clean” but if you are getting the majority of your calories from clean sources then you are doing great.
When you eat clean you avoid processed foods so automatically things like fast food and junk food are eliminated from your diet. If you do eat some processed food don’t fret over it, the idea is to eat leanly as much as possible.
Here are some general clean eating tips:
Learn to read labels! Read the nutritional information and ingredients of everything you buy.
Choose whole grains when possible. Whole wheat doesn't necessarily mean whole grain either!
Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. They are great whole sources of clean calories
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will help build muscle and make you feel full. Chicken and fish are great meat choices.
Avoid processed meats like bologna or hot dogs.
Replace junk food with unsalted or lightly salted whole nuts.
Check out the internet for great clean recipes:
http://easy-stir-fry-recipes.com and http://low-carb-chicken-
recipes.com are free sites and great recipes
Don’t fret over falling off the wagon, even treat yourself to a cheat day now and then.
Eating clean while out can be tough but more restaurants are offering clean menu items. A Salad can be a good choice, but if you are really hungry you might need to add some protein!
Start as soon as possible!
Eating clean is a great way to make sure you not only lose weight but you are overall healthy. It isn’t necessarily an easy transition and you don’t have to try and turn on a switch and do it overnight. If you are committed to losing weight and being healthy, you should choose to clean up your diet.
It's been suggested by research that you require at least 8 glasses of water daily, but it can depend on your weight regarding how much you actually require. You would need to divide your weight by 2. So as an example, a man weighing 180lbs would need 90 ounces of water in a day.
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helps to increase your metabolism which helps you to lose weight.
But aside from listening to what experts tell you, you should make it a priority to listen to your body first and foremost. When you are thirsty, then naturally you will drink water to replenish yourself.
Depending on the kind of work that you do, you should try to get into the habit of drinking water regularly or even better, keeping a water bottle handy, especially on really hot days since the heat causes you to sweat and your body loses water and thus you will need to replenish yourself.
This is why water is so important in our lives. Not only is it zero calories, it is the best source for quenching your thirst AND the healthiest. You may consider adding water to all of your meals over time and doing away with fruit drinks and sodas ultimately as it will help reduce your caloric intake and you'll also feel much better without the added sugar that comes with the other drinks
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