Quick Fat Dad Thin Dad Update - Week 8

Remember the recommendation that you should not measure your success on weight loss alone. It will destroy your confidence and you will give up. This update will continue to illustrate this. Over the last two weeks, I only lost 2 pounds. In fact that is all I lost in the last four weeks. The average dieter would have given up knowing that the fad diet they are currently testing didn’t work.

True Measurement Of Dieting Success

If you want to have a good measurement of success, measure the inches you lose. Here are my results for the last two weeks.

Waist - 1/2 inch loss
Chest - 1/4 inch loss
Biceps - 1/4 inch loss each
Thighs - 0 inch loss each which is not a problem due to the legs exercises I am doing

Total inch loss - 1 inch

For the full 8 weeks, here are my results

Waist - 3 3/4 inch loss
Chest - 5 1/4 inch loss
Biceps - 1 1/4 inch loss each
Thighs - 2 1/2 inch loss each

Total inch loss - 16 inches

I have continued to shrink on some part of my body each week. Even if it is a small amount, it is still getting smaller than I was a week earlier. To stay motivated, you have to have regular successes. Now compare this to only 2 pounds in 4 weeks with basically no weight loss for 3 of those weeks.

Next 4 Week Focus On My Health Management Plan

Over the next 4 weeks, I plan to change up my routine in both exercises and eating. I have slowly changed my normal eating to smaller portions without going hungry. The cool part about what I am doing is just developing new habits to eating what my body wants. Remember, this is not about starving yourself. It is about learning what your body needs and training it to perform at its maximum levels. I know the next four weeks will be a tad painful as the routines I just added yesterday already have added a few sour places in my body. A good thing because I am moving my muscles in a new and different way. I refuse to be assimilated into the Borg.

Until Next Time…

What Happens When Diets Stop Working?

Have you ever been on a diet only to find out that it stopped working? You know what I mean. You start on a diet whether it is latest fad diet or not. You follow it to the letter. It works for a couple of weeks and then, everything just stops working.

Why Do People Stop Diets?

What happens when you cut your intake of food? Your body starts to send signals to the brain that it is not getting all the extra food that it is used to getting. At first the signal is quiet, but as time passes, it gets really load. (That’s my unscientific take on this.) The point I am making is that reducing food intake causes your body to slow down.

At first you lose weight fairly quickly. But as the warning signal gets heard in the brain, it sends out commands to the body that its time to go into a starvation mode. This causes the body to slow down and become accustomed to the lower intake of food.

Your Body Is Like The Borg

Have you ever watched the TV series, Star Trek New Generation? On this show is a race called the Borg. The Borg are a rather scary group of aliens because their whole purpose in life was to assimilate the various races they encountered. When ever they were met with resistance, the Borg would quickly adapt to the attack and make it useless.

Your body does the same thing. That load signal that is sent to the brain at first is like the attacks on the Borg. It quickly adapts and makes the attack useless. Thus, your diet program seems to stop. When it stops, what do you think happens? Exactly. You stop the program thinking that this doesn’t work. Why should you try any longer.

Overcoming The Borg In You

To overcome this adaptation, you have to do the same thing. Adapt just as quickly. To break out of the shutdown, you should look at cycling your program and exercises. Rotate from a lower intake to a higher intake every few days or every other day. Change up your exercises every week or two.

Keep your body guessing as to what you will be doing. While it is in this state of confusion, it doesn’t have time to worry about whether or not you are in the “starvation” mode. It is not sure what mode you are in since nothing is constant. When this happens, your body keeps shrinking down to the size you want it to.

Always keep in mind that what ever you do decide on, please verify this with your health care professional as they are fully aware of your specific health needs.

Until Next Time…

Rapid Weight Loss

How many times have you just wished that a fad diet or even a “regular” diet program actually gave you instant results like all the before and after photos show in the ads. You know how that ugly fat girl became a fashion model in just 30 days taking X product. Or how that guy went from be a lardo to a body builder almost over night.

Presenting Flab Off

Fad Diet TV came across yet another video which shows you the total fallacy of diet programs. This little spoof clearly illustrates all the crap that we can easily get sucked into from a diet program. Fast weight loss. Easy fat burning. No exercise. All in one little tablet. In essence, you don’t have to pay any price except for the one you pay the diet pill company. Check it out…

What do you think? Do you believe this will really make a difference in your life long term? How about other types of similar diet programs?

Until Next Time…

Free Diet Programs

How many times have you promised your self that you would not just go on a diet, but you would also exercise in order for it to be effective? You diligently search the web looking for that free diet program that will do its magic, yet you don’t get up off your ass and move. Remember, the best way to drop those unwanted pounds is to (I know you don’t want to hear this) eat sensibly and move more (another phrase for exercise).

Running To Lose Weight

Many people decide to take up jogging to lose weight. Some become real serious and become marathon runners. They train for months and some times years on end in order to get to the point where they can actually complete the marathon. For those of you who find it hard to get motivated to get out there and run, Fad Diet TV has yet again discovered the answer to this challenge.

Here is a new program guaranteed to get you running and losing weight so fast, you won’t recognize your self where you look into the mirror. Check it out…

What about you? What do you do to motivate yourself into getting out there and exercising?

Until Next Time…

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