Weight loss is eating less food than you need. It is that simple. Don’t make it complicated. You may think you need to work out hard at the gymn, lifting more weights, doing more crunches, and more pain and more sweat. That is the male mindset. We think that doing more work is the only way to lose weight. This is the fat loss formula.
You and I are are not wired to naturally think that eating the right amounts will really amount to losing weight. It really is not our fault. I am not saying that you should not exercise. I am saying that exercise is in a supporting role in losing belly fat. Eating right is the main act.
Don’t Like Laws?
I am living proof that this works. If you eat less than your body needs, you have to lose weight. It is a LAW. It is the only LAW about weight loss. Ask me how I know……
Nearly one month ago, I got serious about losing the gut. I lost more than 10 pounds after changing what I eat. I had been lifting weights and running my whole life. I always stayed very fit. Here is a short story that proves my point.
About two years ago, all of a sudden, I gained 25 pounds. I thought at the time that I had been given defective advice from a chiropractor. I decided to try out a chiropractor to get adjusted and keep my posture in check. Nothing serious.
I was told by my chiro-professional that I should use the fitness ball to do sit-ups or crunches (whatever you like to call them). Over a period of weeks, my belly grew. I thought that my belly grew because I had put on too much “muscle.”
The fact was that my eating had gotten out of hand. I was dating a woman that is till the most sleek and svelte figure of any woman I had ever dated. She seemed to eat without concern for her shape. I thought, well, if that is good enough for her, that is good enough for me.
We ended up eating huge late night snacks (wine, cheese, bread, cookies) when we got home. I never had to think about eating right. This period of time coincided exactly with the time that I had started doing the new fitness ball exercises. So I naturally blamed the exercise, rather than the food.
So about one month ago, I got really tired of the gut. I kept my workout routine that I have been doing for years. But instead of following my instinct of cranking up the workout routine, I decided to count up everything that I ate. I was stunned to see all of the calories that I was eating in one day.
Suddenly I decided to start cutting out stuff that really was not even that enjoyable (extra pieces of cheese, a beer here and there, etc.). Pretty soon after a week or two, I had shaved my eating program down to fighting size. The fact is that I do need to watch what I eat. This last month, I changed my weekday diet to the following:
Breakfast
1-1/2 Cups Bran Flakes
1/2 Cup Milk
2 Glass Water
Coffee w/ 2% milk
Lunch
Carrots – one fistful
2 Oranges
Dinner
Spinach Salad with eggs, green onions, blue cheese dressing
1 Orange
2 Glass Water
Why does this menu succeed in helping get rid of the belly fat? It does one thing and one thing only (sounding like Brad Pitt from “Inglorious Basterds”) – it puts my body in a calorie deficit. What’s so good about that? My body will start cutting into fat reserves if it needs more energy. The body uses fat and I lose my gut. Compare this program to what I was eating a month ago.
The above menu consists of 1,414 calories and that is less calories than I will burn in one day. That means, the body starts using the stored fat if it needs more. So, I let my body lose its own fat, rather than me trying to sweat it off at the gym.
So, long story short…….on February 8, 2010, I weighed 220 pounds. Yesterday my weight was 209 pounds. Need I say more? Note to self: following LAWS gets results.
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March 4th, 2010 on 3:34 PM
Yes but ………..
OF COURSE if you are going to starve yourself you are going to lose weight. And your weekday diet is IMV starvation rations.
Dont get me wrong. I agree with your top line statement. If you dont eat conservatively, then you can do all the exercise in the world that you like and its not going to make any difference. But I cant agree that a) you are eating a diet that is sustainable and b) with the implication that exercise isnt a crucial part of weight loss.
Surely it is part of the “Male mindset” to look for laws as well? But really successful weight loss is about balance. Get the balance right between activity, behavior and diet and you succeed. More of a female friendly attitude than a male one I think
March 4th, 2010 on 5:22 PM
Thanks for the comment. I agree about exercise being part of this, but I still think that eating in the right amounts everyday is the only thing that someone has to do
first
to achieve the single purpose of losing weight.
I had been exercising for a long time without watching what I ate. Suddenly after sticking to a reasonable amount of food everyday, I am losing weight. The weekday food intake that I mention here is what I have worked toward. I still lost weight without the above stringent plan.
I need 10 more pounds by March 24. Thanks Jonathan