"Dieting..."

Dieting...it's really life-adjusting...

Adjust your metabolic rate, your metabolism, to make changes.It sounds contradictory, but a way to speed up your metabolism to lose weight,  is to eat more! 

At age 36, I dropped 109 pounds in one year!  I was eating a large bacon and egg breakfast, a buffet lunch, and a "Happy Hour" dinner buffet, along with a half gallon of whole (chocolate usually!) milk daily.  I was proud that I had gotten up to 278 pounds with a 48 inch waist and 39% bodyfat.  a year later, I entered my first bodybuilding contest at 169 pounds with a 29 inch waist and 1.5% bodyfat!  How was this done?

First, I increased my meals from three to six per day.  These were very high protein, with limited complex carbohydrates and minimal fats.  The largest meal was the first in the morning, and the smallest was the evening one that contained virtually no carbohydrates or fats. I gave up alcohol with the initial exception of some red wine, juices, and all sodas.  If I drank milk, it was skim (and really tasted just as good as whole) , and I consumed LOTS of water all day long!  As I would reach a weight loss plateau, I would add another daily small meal, until at the end of the weight loss program I was eating 12 times per day!  Ingesting more, with limited fats, caused the body to burn body fat by the process of nearly continual digestion.  This, along with the addition of increasing amounts of cardiovascular (get the heart rate going) and resistance-training (weight-lifting) exercise, increased the fat-burning metabolism.

While I went "overboard" to train for and enter bodybuilding contests at middle age, the basic principals remain, and worked when applied, by many friends and and business associates.

The following is a representative lose-weight day's meal plan:

Meal # 1, Breakfast:

(4) egg whites,  (3)fresh strawberries, 1/2 grapefruit (if you aren't taking a contradictory medicine), a small cup of oatmeal, and a cup of green tea.

Meal # 2:

1/2 chicken breast and 1/2 sweet potato and 8 oz water.

Meal # 3, Lunch:

albacore tuna or salmon over spinach, and fresh vegetables, with vinegar dressing, a multi-grain cracker,  and iced green tea.

Meal # 5:

1/2 chicken breast and 1/2 sweet potato and 8 oz water.

Meal #6, Dinner:

6 oz orange roughy (fish) and brocolli and 8 oz water.

Initial cardio session:  start with as little as a 1/2 hour nicely-paced walk.

Questions...e-mail me at EHS3Life@gmail.com .