We all want to have a guarantee when we start a project and for me the guarantee is that if I eat less calories than I burn, I will loose weight. From there you have to estimate how many calories you burn doing nothing.
If you want to loose one pound of body fat you need to cut your calories by 3500 from what you are currently consuming while maintaining your current weight.
I had no idea what I was consuming. Obviously more than I should because I was not maintaining my current weight, I was putting on weight and I gained ten pounds.
To catch you up on what I have been doing this past year would take too long, but suffice it to say I was not getting lean or loosing weight and I managed to sluff off and gain ten extra pounds.
So I wanted a guarantee. Lets get down to it. I wanted to know how to loose weight even if I did no exercise. I had to cut my calorie intake. So for the past two weeks I have kept it around 1520 calories per day, and I have started some mild exercise.
Damn those squats. They hurt my knees and everybody wants you to do them. So I do them, but very slowly and very carefully and I don’t worry about my legs being parallel to the floor. Who do they think I am? Geeeze.
So I lost five pounds so far. That is a victory. A small one, since it is five pounds that I should not have even had in the first place, but I am determined not to back slide this time.
This is January 23 2009. I am 205 lbs. This will be my diary. I don’t know if anyone will be reading it or not.
I am getting back on track with Tom Venuto’s new book called “The Body Fat Solution” which you can purchase on Amazon.com. Thank you Tom.
This is my first post for 2009. The previous posts were last year. I have not been keeping up with my blog or website or my weight loss and body building project.
WELL I’M BACK!
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