Lose Weight

This page is my weight loss tips based on what I personally did to lose weight rather fast.

It’s also a recommendation of the exercise program I followed while I lost my weight and a recommendation of an ebook about fasting that I’ve followed as well.

I had a rapid weight loss which in my opinion was neither too fast nor too slow.

There are plenty of different ways to lose weight, but in the end it all boils down to burning more calories than you consume.

And my weight loss history is probably not much different than so many other people who have followed some sort of plan or program in their battle against the bulge.

I would say that 90% of my weight loss ”simply” came from changing my diet – and the remaining 10% came from following a training program with exercises that I did both at home and in the gym.

Could I have lost all 100% through diet alone? – sure, but then my ”new me” wouldn’t be as strong and resilient as it is now.

Could I have lost the majority of my weight through exercise alone? – I highly doubt it as there simply isn’t enough hours in a day to burn off the number of calories I was consuming.

But there really isn’t anything revolutionary about diet and exercise being a great and effective combo for losing weight – it’s not like I did something that nobody had thought of or tried before.

So what kind of advice can I give that you can’t find anywhere else? – truthfully; nothing.

I’m not a researcher or a scientist with access to a lab where I can perform all sorts of double-blind tests to figure out the most effective weight loss exercise or find an up until now unknown protein, vitamin, mineral or hormone that will increase your metabolism.

I’m just like you – somebody who needed to do something about his overweight.

Some of the advice might seem trivial or you might feel that you’ve read them on a thousand other websites before – but I’ll give them anyway.

So here it is, my top 3 weight loss tips.

Weight loss tip #1 – Drink plenty of water

Water is so crucial for our bodies that drinking plenty of water is a marvelous tip for anybody.
It doesn’t matter if you’re underweight, normal weight, overweight or straight out obese or morbidly obese – drinking plenty of water is a universally sound advice.

Without an ample supply of water your organs will not operate at their fullest capacity and that means that your metabolism and your immune system will be affected negatively.

Weight loss tip #2 – Get social support

Maybe this should been at the very top of my list of weight loss advice because it’s so crucial.

I’ve used social support for 2 different things – accountability and advice.

But social support is also arranging for your good friends to give you a good old kick in the butt should you need it.

I used an online training and weight loss forum to keep myself accountable by regularly posting my progress.

I used the same forum to ask likeminded people advice about their diets and advice for replacement exercises when I for some reason couldn’t do the exercises in my training program. Other people used the forum to talk about weight loss goals and realistic weekly weight reductions or recommended daily calorie intakes.

Weight loss tip #3 – Control your daily calorie consumption

And by control I really mean control.

Start off by tracking everything you consume for a week or two.

Be brutally honest. If you start to cheat at this point then your weight loss journey is almost certain to fail.

Once you know exactly how many calories you usually eat per day, and you know how many kilos or pounds you want to shed per week then a bit of simple math will tell you how many calories you will have to cut down on a weekly basis to reach your weight loss goal.

But control doesn’t end there – continue to track exactly what you eat.

It’s sooo easy to slip back into old eating habits or just drift away and pass your maximum allowed calorie intake without even noticing it.

First you take a slightly larger portion, an extra apple a day, maybe more almonds than planned (because ”they are a good protein source”) and suddenly you’re not losing weight anymore – you’ve stalled, or even worse, gained a few pounds.

So stay focused and keep accurate track of what you eat.

Recommended exercise program

As mentioned at the top of the page; here’s my recommended exercise program – Turbulence Training.

When I started my weight loss journey I looked at several training programs because I knew that I needed more than just a 30 kilo weight reduction.

My body had become fragile from years and years in front of my computer – neck, back and shoulders were so weak that they would act up frequently.

It seems that there were generally 3 different directions I could go – one was to aim for a bodybuilder type of body with emphasis of building muscle fast, another was to get a washboard abs and the last one was workouts that aimed at losing weight through full body workouts.

The first two didn’t really appeal to me – I didn’t want to look like a bodybuilder and I didn’t need a six pack to impress young chicks at the beach – I just needed to get my body back into shape.

So that’s why I fell for Craig Ballantynes Turbulence Training program.

I like the monthly workout plans and the very active and helpful forum.

I even liked it so much that I entered into a 12 week transformation contest there where I ended up as one of the top 5 finalists.

I also gladly talk about this program to anybody asking me for training advice (something that never happened when I weighed 110 kilo).

And I’ll gladly recommend it to you too.

If you’re looking to get in shape and lose weight then go buy Turbulence Training.

Recommended diet program

I haven’t really been following a specific diet program during my whole weight loss process, but more relied on keeping track of what I ate – and ditching all the bad food choices.

But I have followed Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat on and off.

First I was just curious about all the stuff I heard about muscles being broken down on very low calorie diets, and Brad Pilon seemed to have a scientific approach to it rather than anecdotal or sensationalistic.

So I dug into Brad ebooks and his audio files and got a lot of the protein and muscle myths debunked.

(a word of advice – don’t spring for the advanced option if you decide to buy Brads book unless you really enjoy listening to a lot of very detailed walkthroughs of different research papers)

Anyway, after reading Eat Stop Eat I felt confident that I wasn’t going to lose muscle mass by fasting the way described in the book, so I tried it out.

And it worked very well for me. I was able to train on my fasting days, and I could continue to add more weight/sets/reps so I definitely didn’t lose muscles.

So if you’re looking for a way to limit your weekly calorie intake without really making any diet changes 5 or 6 days a week, then I recommend you take a look at Eat Stop Eat.

Anybody can fast for short periods of time with very few directions, but sometimes you just need some research to back up your decision to include fasting in your weight loss regime.

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