Food, Weight Loss, Workout

Getting Started

Read Myths & Secrets yet? No? Go back here first.

Week ZERO … before you begin your new lifestyle …

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Exact steps you should take before you start:

  1. Remove the wrong food so it’s out of reach.  Clear out your fridge, your freezer, your pantry. If you hate to waste it, then throw a party and/or give the wrong foods to others around you who don’t believe you’re going to lose the weight.  🙂
  2. Set up a treadmill in front of your TV — Google an inexpensive treadmill … or get one on Craig’s list.  $100-$150 should be fine.  Why?  So you can consistently walk for about 5 minutes a day … rain or shine … easily and quickly while you’re at home and it’s not a bother.  Yeah, it’s that important. Not a grueling workout — walk for 5 minutes.
  3. Toss the scale to the side.  You’ll hear Mike say to throw it away.  OK, he’s a personal trainer looking at training your body.  Personally, I’m wanting to lose weight, so I say to keep it.  Just don’t weigh every day, expecting to be down in weight every day.  Not gonna happen!  Actually, you’ll have more ‘up’ days than down.  Body weight fluctuates.  Remember, you’re in this for the long haul.  Instead, check it about once each week in the morning (after using the bathroom, and before eating or drinking).  And keep a chart or an App (Argus is good) to record the dates ONLY when the scale shows a lower number.  You can get false INCREASES just about any time of any day … but you can’t get false losses!  And success tends to encourage more success, so only record the number when it’s lower.  You’ll be amazed how consistently the numbers will fall. Here’s what mine looks like over the past 5 months.

2014-03-05 02.34.29Notice that long level spot in the downward chart?  Yeah … about 2 weeks.  Holidays at the relatives home for about 3 days … I explained the program I was on to the cook.  She said “Great!” and then cooked 90% starch and sugar foods.  It was good … I ate very modestly and avoided the worst of it, but as you read in Myths & Secrets, it shut down my fat burning and turned on the fat storage.  Huge lesson learned.

OK… now you’re ready to get with the program.  So what exactly IS the program?  You’ve already heard in the videos.  But here’s the recap … very simple.  Very powerful:

Just remember: Five Fingers to  a New You