Losing Weight is as Hard as Gaining

In 2004, I had a weight problem. I consulted coaches, the Internet, bought expensive supplements from GNC, modified my training, ate more food, nothing seemed to work. Until I heard about Super Squats: How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks.

I gained about 20 in under 4 weeks. It wasn’t easy. You need extra calories to gain weight so I drank a gallon of milk a day. Then, to stimulate muscle growth, two times a week I did 20 reps of squats, adding five pounds to the bar each session. I ended up doing 20 reps at 225.

It was the first (and only) time in my life that I weighed 200 pounds. Then I tore my pec bench pressing. I stopped drinking the gallon of milk and quickly lost the20 pounds I gained.

Gaining weight is hard! It takes discipline. Consistency. You have to consistently eat more than you need. Are you doing that? If the numbers don’t lie, there’s a chance you are. Maybe not gaining 20 pounds a month, but 5 or 10 pounds per year, year after year.

Don’t worry, just start eating less. It takes awhile to gain weight, so accept that it will take some time to lose it.

Here’s some tips:
Eat in accordance to what you need

I’m amazed the hunger that office workers develop from just sitting at their desk. I bet that you eat the same amount of food after walking four miles as you do after sitting four hours. For what reason? Habit? Cravings?

Try this. See how little food you need to function properly. You’ll have hunger pangs at first, but those will go away. Treat it as an experiment to determine what you actually need. Not what you want. By the way, in case you weren’t aware, digestion takes energy.

That’s why people who fast, once they clear all the garbage out of their body, report incredible levels of energy. Eating more than you need only taxes your body and diverts energy from more worthwhile pursuits.

Eat less and move more to lose weight
I haven’t ever trained anyone who honestly ate less food and moved more and took care of themselves and didn’t lose weight. It just doesn’t happen. Moving more is as simple as walking 30 minutes to an hour per day.

Realize that most of what you eat isn’t food

Potato chips? Not food. Ice cream? Not food. Lucky Charms? Not food. They could save themselves a lot of trouble and instead of printing up a fancy looking nutrition label with calories and fat and cholesterol and all that just writing None.

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This stuff is so simple that most people won’t even pay attention. But it works. Although on paper we think something must be complicated to work. In reality, it must be simple for us to do it, otherwise we won’t. My recommendations are simple, not easy, but they’ll work. And you don’t need to buy any fancy supplements, creams, or anything else.

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