Isn’t it exciting when you personally decide to take the step to make a commitment?
It’s even better when you have an Action Plan and a coach to be there with you.
Quite recently I made a commitment to lose some excess weight using the Perfect Body Shape - Glycemic Awareness Action Plan. I have tried a number of diets like the Adkin’s diet, the Scarsdale diet and even the cabbage soup diet. They all worked, but only temporarily. They all seemed to be missing one or more essential traits to create a lifelong partnership between the the diet and the dieter. Eventually, and every time, I returned to the state of which I had come from, sometimes even worse.
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to watch the movie “Super Size It!” and was totally disgusted with the fast food industry. Although I have never been a ‘fast food junkie’, I’d have to say that my biggest and most problematic phase of weight gain occurred when I was in a travelling sales job and ate at the fast food places to fill the spot. I went from 215 lbs to 260 lbs in less than 2 years and felt horrible for it. I was at risk for Type 2 diabetes, my back was sore all the time and my feet were miserable trying to carry the excess tonnage.
So, what’s the answer? Who do you believe? Is this for convenience or is there a commitment? In order to succeed there are a few parameters that I believe are the main components of any successful diet program. There may be more but these are
1) Nutrition: The diet must contain a list of foods from all of the major food groups. Our bodies need the elements that are provided by the spectrum of foods nature offers, including lots of pure water to flush our systems of the toxins that are stopping us from progress. ps… fast food is not a major food group
2) Education: There are a lot of diet books out there suggesting this and that but what we really need to understand is what has gotten us to the point at which we are at. If we are fat and sloppy now when we use to be trim and athletic, what has changed? Why are my kids fat? It’s never just one thing but rather an accumulation of poor decisions that have long term repercussions. It’s also a matter of understanding which types of foods contribute most to the ease of weight gain and finding the proper solution for your individual situation.
3) Exercise: Always a key component, exercise is the catalyst in increasing your rate of fat burning and weight loss. Exercise can be effectively incorporated into any diet program and staged to accommodate most current states of physical fitness. Walking itself can do wonders.
4) A Plan… with a Goal: Having a plan with no goal or a goal with no plan on how to achieve it makes little sense, yet we fall into this trap all the time. Perhaps, subliminally, we do this in order to avoid the commitment. Many of us just don’t get it but we all have experienced the results of such omission… little or none.
5) Commitment: A diet change can’t be “temporary”. Dieting needs to be a lifestyle adjustment with parameters to stay within. The attitude of dieting to lose the weight and then going back to the same old eating habits that got us there in the first place is absurd. But people like you and me have done it many times too often.
6) A Coach: Probably the most underrated of the 6 factors because the the coach can help you with the nutrition, education and plan plus be a reinforcement factor for your commitment.
This time around I am reinforcing my commitment and using the buddy system with recent business associate, Dr Cindy Meays. Her “Perfect Body Shape Program”, complete with food ideas, supplements, exercise and coaching seems to make a lot of sense. From what I understand, Dr Cindy’s program focus’s on Glycemic Awareness that provides the education and an Action Plan to put one on-track with coaching to reinforce my personal commitment.
So, here’s my starting point. I’m 52 years old, 240lbs at 5 feet 9 inches tall. I did a lot of body building and power lifting over the years and despite my current shape, I still carry a significant amount of muscle mass. My goal is to lose my gut and love handles, reduce to approximately 200 lbs and stay there.
Interestingly enough, this program suggests throwing away the bathroom scale and measure your progress in lost inches. The logic behind this is that in changing ones body shape in this program, you are likely to gain some muscle mass while losing the fat. Muscle is more dense than fat so even though you won’t appear to be losing a lot of weight, the fat inches will be melting off. This is not dissimilar to the regime put forward in Bill Phillips “Body for Life” where his emphasis is on both diet and rigorous exercise. “Perfect Body Shape” doesn’t appear to be as regimented as “Body for Life”. I have plenty of opportunity to walk and do other physical exercise at my day job. I may also set up the weights again although the heavy lifting will be avoided.
So, there it is. We will be starting this week and the initial program is 90 days. We will be keeping you up to date on the procedures and progresses we make each week by posting on Cindy’s blog. If you want to join me and others in this promising program, check out your Body Mass Index first at Dr. Cindy’s cindy.perfectbodyshape.com Perfect Body Shape. If you can commit to 90 days, then she will guarantee that you are successful. You can’t get better than that!
Dave O is an internet consultant and author who specializes in contract article writing and internet marketing. He has lived in British Columbia for almost 30 years and makes his home in Kamloops, BC. His interest in diet, nutrition and exercise began in the early 1990’s as he approached age 40 and became more aware of his change in weight and body shape.
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