We all want to have a fit and healthy body. We want to feel proud of ourselves when someone compliments us about how we look. We want to lose that excess fat, bring down our weight and achieve that goal we have always strived for – we want to look good!
There are a gazillion methods of weight loss that are proffered by the weight loss industry, but one way or another, nothing seems to work out for some people. If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably tried all kinds of weight loss regimes encompassing the likes of aerobics, Pilates, jogging and dieting with all types of plans that make you feel like you are starving yourself – and they still don’t help you to shed that excess weight.
What’s wrong with those exercises and diet plans? What are we doing wrong here? The problem is that we may be putting in all of the effort, but we are, perhaps, not directing it in the right way. When I say ‘right’ here, I mean in the most effective way that helps us to achieve our weight loss goal.
And that’s the one thing we are going to consider in this little book i.e. how we can direct our effort to achieve maximum results. That’s what our method is all about; it’s a method that originates in the 19th century with an unlikely individual whose studies were unconnected with weight loss and diets - his name was Vilfredo Pareto.
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was a French-Italian sociologist, economist and philosopher who was born on July 15, 1848. He is most famous for describing an interesting principle which you might have heard about. It is called the Pareto Principle and it states that:
80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts.
He had originally noticed how 80% of the income in Italy went to just 20% of the population; but his principle has been found to have application in many other fields as well.
If you apply this principle to weight loss, it necessitates doing only those things which will give you the BEST results. So, for example, you might do only the 20% of exercises which are responsible for 80% of all your results. You have to cut down on that 20% of food that is responsible for 80% of your fat. Once you get into this 80/20 way of thinking, it can become very straight-forward to devise a very effective program for losing weight.
In this ebook, I am going to share with you The 80/20 Diet – my personal system that can help you lose 20 pounds in just 30 days!
Having tried all the diet and exercise plans on the market and seeing them fail, I was really demotivated. I didn’t like the way I looked with all the fat on my body but I felt I really couldn’t help it either. I tried everything from cardio exercises to low cabbage soup diets but nothing worked for me. I even took up fasting for a week to see if it would help, but all to no avail.
That was probably the most frustrating time of my life. But then, I hate being helpless. I just couldn’t sit there and see myself get even fatter. I decided that this had to change; and so I started on my quest to finding the perfect system for weight loss. I looked on the Internet, I consulted doctors and read magazines. I did everything within my power to find help for myself.
After a lot of research, I realized that it’s not just a single plan or exercise that would help me. Instead, it’s a whole combination of things that would work together to help me lose weight. In the 80/20 Diet, I bring to you the same techniques that I used to lose all my fat and return to a perfectly normal weight myself.
Let’s begin…