Supporting Others On A Diet

This week we want to emphasize the importance of having some one to help support you while you are improving your overall health. This may seem to be common sense, but what you may not realize is that people are out to make you fail. Yes, that’s right. People (many times subconsciously) don’t want you to have success in your losing weight. Why? Because if you do, then you end up making them look bad.

Think about this for a second. Have you ever been working on your health and a close friend say, why not skip your work out tonight because you worked hard at your job or its late and it would be crazy to do your exercises. When people around you are saying things like this, it takes a lot of focus and commitment to stay on track. Thus the importance of having someone who supports you along the way.

Fat Dad Thin Dad Update

If you have been tracking how Fat Dad, Thin Dad has been doing in his transformation, you will see that even he has things that can get in the way. That’s just part of life. The important thing is to not lose track of what you are wanting to accomplish. In my situation, I have had to work some extra hours, been out of town to attend a seminar, and it goes on and on. Again, that is what happens in real life. This is not where you take overweight people and have them work out for 6 to 8 hours a day for a television show. It is real people with real things in life. Its all about finding what can work for you and taking action.

We put together a short video on what is happening and what we would like to do as it relates to making this into a community that supports others in gaining their health goals in life. Keep in mind that we want everyone to focus on common sense and this includes checking with your health care professional as each of us is different. Check out this video…

Until Next Time…

Fat Dad Thin Dad Update - Week 6

Well I know I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks due to a very busy schedule. However, I still have been focusing in on the Fat Dad Thin Dad Challenge. I have finished up 6 weeks in the challenge and of course along comes the biggest killer to any challenge - plateau.

What Kills Any Weight Loss Effort?

The biggest killer for any one on a weight loss or in my case, inch loss effort is the thing called a plateau. You know where your body decides that it doesn’t want to keep up losing weight or inches. Let’s look at what happened to me. Over the last two weeks, I have lost zero pounds. Yes, that is correct. No weight loss at all. For most people they would say why try and quit.

Why It’s Best To Measure In Inch Loss

While I lost a good 11 inches in the first 4 weeks, over the last two weeks, I have lost 3 3/4 inches. Here are the results:

Waist - 1/2 inch
Chest - 1 1/2 inch
Biceps - 1/2 inch each
Thighs - 3/8 inch each

Weight loss - a big fat zero

Overcoming Plateau Challenges

The best way to describe a plateau is where your body decides to challenge you to see if you really are serious about living a healthier life style. It says, “Hey wait a minute. I don’t remember you doing this before. Besides, I’m getting a little sore from you actually moving and not sitting in front of the television all evening. If I just hold on to my weight a couple of weeks, I am sure this person will stop all of this and things will be back to normal, right?”

To overcome the plateau effect, you focus on the right things. Those things are inch loss. You will find that your body will still be losing inches even though its weight is the same or going up. Also, setting your goal of being able to wear a specific size of clothes by a certain date is much more fulfilling than X pounds. If those skinny jeans fit, who cares what you weigh.

You Have To Track Your Progress

If you don’t track your progress, you will end up losing focus because you won’t know how well you have done overall. It is hard to imagine losing almost 15 inches off my body in the last 6 weeks. Had I not started out by measuring myself when I started, I would not have known this. It is easier to give up when you can’t see your progress. Also, when you don’t see progress, it is easy to see where you may need to adjust.

Even though I did have inch loss, there are things I can see that I may need to adjust. I know I had to change up my workout over the last two weeks due to a sore knee. I can see the impact this has had in certain areas of my body, particularly in my waist. My attention will be to look for alternate exercises that I can do to focus on my waist line and allow my knee to regain its strength.

How Do You Handle Plateaus?

While the ideas shared here work for me, it is always interesting to see how others have been able to overcome their challenge of plateaus. Please post your ideas for other readers.

Hope you enjoyed today’s post. I will get more things happening on the blog this week along with getting the final touches for us to start our diet plan reviews.

Until Next Time…

Fat Dad Thin Dad - Episode 3

Well Fat Dad completed the first 4 weeks of the challenge and here are the updates. Watch and then we will give you some more specifics…

Yes, simplicity is the key to success. The biggest challenge people have is attempting to do too many things at once. You end up losing your focus. You attempt to change what you eat, how you exercise, and many other things at the same time. You end up hungry, sore, and totally confused. And….you end up quiting and saying this doesn’t work. I have lost my ability to lose weight. Well stop it!

The way to have success is taking it one step at a time. Find one thing this week that you can change for the better. Maybe it is giving up something you know is not good for you or at least reducing the times you eat it in a day or week. If you do that, then you are now on your road to reaching your goals. Now add something else. I know how it is to pore yourself into a program and get to the end with some good results but then you are extremely tired and worn out. Not a good thing.

Measure The Right Things

Stop weighing yourself! Yes, you heard me right. Only measure your self. I would recommend the places I stated in the video and in addition you should add your butt. I forgot to measure that when I started so I decided not to include it in the challenge. Who cares how much you weigh when you can wear your skinny jeans, right?

Focusing on the simple things are what will get you where you want to go in this crazy world of fad diets. In fact, toss out the fad diets and only focus on these simple things.

Until Next Time…

Quick Fat Dad Thin Dad Update

On Monday we will post the official update for the end of the first 4 weeks. However, today I just had to let you know the big news. Remember post in the last update about having a smaller pair of pants or clothes you plan to wear ready and waiting in your closet? Well today, I decided to get a jump start to see how well things worked out for Fat Dad. I pulled out the one size smaller pants and they slide on comfortably and I wore them all day.

Ongoing Baby Step Approach

One thing I wasn’t sure of when I started this was that it may not appear that I am taking baby steps. In actuality, I am. Keep in mind that I have been exercising on a regular basis even though I had two non-related injuries. My focus was just to get into the habit of doing something every day. Then I added a little more while making small changes in my eating as well. I must say that it is like history repeating itself in that when I did this before I dropped 2 pant sizes in 4 weeks. This time I am focusing on doing things I can do on a regular basis. You know that thing called life? Where you develop habits that you do each day without really thinking about it.

Part of my baby step approach is just to do the little things that can make a difference. I know I tested the work out I used to do twice a day last Saturday just one time. I was shocked at how much energy I expended. I quickly realized that it was not something I could live with for the rest of my life. The simple workouts I am doing are.

Complete Video Update Coming Monday

We will work on developing a new video update and if all goes well, we will post it on Monday. In the meantime, I hope you all had a great Valentines Day and told that someone special in your life that you appreciated them.

Until Next Time…

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