This year is going great for me I’m losing weight and more importantly my body fat percentage is dropping. I have set my mind for success this time. I’ve already shifted all the excess body-weight, which to be honest I always do. I find losing weight extremely easy, it’s the lowering of the body fat which I’m finding a little more testing.
Losing weight for most people should be a walk in the park, you just need to consume less calories than your body needs each day and you will lose weight. If like me though you like your food and you are finding it extremely hard to eat less food, then you will have to burn off the excess calories through exercise like I’ve been doing.
Here’s five things that have allowed me to lose 35 pounds in under 3 months.
1) My diet plan has got to be in the number one position, before I started this weight loss blog and my body fat reduction journey I was overweight and extremely unhappy. I was consuming a large amount of junk food. Eat as much as you can Chinese and Indian food, pizzas and burgers. And every morning from Monday to Friday I would eat a massive breakfast which consisted of 4 sausages,4 rashers of bacon, beans and 4 rounds of toast. I was also drinking fizzy soda drinks throughout the day. I swapped my diet and started eating more protein, more complex carbohydrates and less saturated fats. I also swapped the fizzy drinks for green tea and water. This reason alone as probably been the biggest reason why I have lost 35 pounds in under 3 months. I’ve gone from eating 6,000 calories a day to 2,000 to 3,000 each day.
2) Cardio Exercise, this has also helped me immensely I have done more cardio in the last 2 months than I have done in the last 10 years. The biggest motivation for me doing all this cardio, is not only do I want to lower my body fat percentage. But I set myself a challenge of burning 50,000 calories in 50 days through exercise. I’m a little behind at the moment but I can 100% guarantee you I will reach this target at the end of the 50 days. I am taking pictures of the calories burnt each day on my exercise bike to show my readers.
3) Weight Training, lifting weight was really helped me to hold on to as much lean muscle mass as I can, why I’m in the fat loss phase of my program. Without it my body fat percentage would be a lot higher and I would probably be a few pounds heavier as well. Not only does a weight training workouts burn lots of calories, but it elevates your metabolism for many hours after you have finished your workout.
4) Making plans and setting goals, without doing this I would of lost nowhere near the amount of weight that I have lost so far. I made my plan and I’m almost sticking to everything that I plan for myself. My plan consisted of my workout,my diet and little things that I can do to burn those extra few calories throughout the day. Things like using the stairs instead of the lift, drinking green tea instead of plain water. Wearing a sweatsuit during exercise and preparing my food the night before.
5) Starting this weight loss blog, I feel the need to show everyone what can be achieved through hard work and determination and it’s keeping me motivated to keep moving forward. There are too many weight loss blogs and guru’s who are more interested in making a quick buck. If you look around you will find bloggers reviewing fat loss 4 idiots and how great it is. Read through there blog and there is no proof that they are actually losing weight. In fact some are actually putting weight on and just gripe about it every day in there blog. Losing weight is easy if you put your mind to it. Its the maintaining the weight loss once you get there that’s the hard part.


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Hi Keith,
From your comment above -…”you just need to consume less calories than your body needs each day and you will lose weight” – most people wish it were so easy! The goal is not to lose weight per se but to lose body fat. Cutting calories can mean losing fat and/or muscle. Of course, the weight training, more specifically resistance training, can do a lot to ensure that muscle is retained. However, seeing your weight drop less become less addictive as you build muscle!
Dominic
I just want to make one more point here about this comment from above. …”you just need to consume less calories than your body needs each day and you will lose weight.” – I know it’s out of context but forgive me – I once heard a specialist say that he had lots of patients consuming 1000 calories per day and not loose weight, try as they might and some patients that consume over 4000 calories per day and can’t gain weight, try as they might!
BTW Great blog!
Dominic
I’m 11 n overweight my goal is to lose 35 pounds but I have no idea Wat to do all my friends r at my weight goal..I really wnt to lose weight before summer so I wnt be ashamed …in pe we run a lot n play lots of sports but its not enough n it feels like there juss isn’t enough time for excersize wid homework n all so is there an easier way??
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