Congratulations, You've gained 20 POUNDS!

Okay, I've know I haven't gained any weight recently.

- But I know there's plenty of users out there who want to lose weight. The simple adage of eat right, and exercise regularly doesn't seem to cut it for them.

I'm not about quick change temporary diets, I'm about life habits. But when you think about changing your diet for life, you get this dreaded sense of 'blah', because the routine will get boring or whatever.
And maybe I can add a hint of some extra information everyone else might not know to make this less dull.

The point of this blog, really, is to provide some jump start tips, and possibly making the transition more exciting or enjoyable. Note I said 'enjoyable', not 'less painful'.

So there your have it, Tip NUMERO UNO: Change of mindset. Think of this as fun. Not pain. It will get better.

I don't really feel like getting into a deep discussion about this, though I was tempted. I'll save that for another rant.

Okay, I don't think It's fair that I just give you 1 tip on the first posting. So I 'll post a few general ones too.

#2 Reduce your sugar and fat intake. It is the enemy. Don't count solely on the food labels to save you.

Simple task right? NOT. Let's get  clearer picture here. You drink a can of a soda a day. You think this is using sugar sparingly. You're not drinking more that one can a day. Guess what? You're only supposed to have one once a week. How about Gummy worms? Nope. Once a week. The same for any candy really. I just ruined your life didn't I?

Greasy chips and french fires? Yeah, those are on the list too.
It gets worse. When the FDA did tests to find out how much fat a person should consume, they used mice to metabolize it in the experiments. There is a possibility that humans metabolize fat differently than mice and get even MORE fat stored caloric content from fat they eat.

How is this possible? You'd think it was common knowledge that calories that comes in would equal the same amount of weight gain relative to a creatures size.

However, there exists metabolism disorders where a person produces very little glucose (sugar) from the food they eat, and puts on most of their calories as fat. They in turn has less glucose to do everyday task, so they get tired more quickly. Then it forms a vicious cycle of gain gain.

The mouse's heart beat is much faster than ours. It has a much higher metabolism (I think it's funny how things with super high metabolisms seem to not live as long. And here we aspire to become hypermetabolic marathon runners.) Creatures with high metabolisms need a lot of sugar to run their bodies. Meaning their metaboism is geared towards making making fat into sugar if sugar is in low supply. How did they run these experiments? Did they feed them only fat for a short time? Did they give them a regular diet with a controled amount of fat?

You can see how this can become a problem when we use mice to compare how much fat a person should consume a day.

#3 How would you like to eat your push up? Tough Love.

Push ups are one of the best single exercises a person can do for themselves. It works the arms, chest, shoulders, back, and abdominals. A good over all work out.

A little fact one might not know. Women have on average 1/3 less muscle than men, and most of the loss is in the upper body..
No wonder chin ups and push ups are so hard!

But here's the benefit that no one tells you about: When you gain upper body muscle, your body produces more testosterone. What does this mean? You can lose weight more efficiently. This might be the secret that men have been hiding in plain view all this time. This is probably why the gym equipment industry almost never show women on upper body equipment, and always picture them on ellipticals. Cause we're obviously hamsters. I mean, come on, all we eat is salad, and poop nice, round, scentless turds. If you haven't found out this is a joke. Shame on you. It's really because they don't want us to lose weight, and purchase their product, then get another product when that doesn't work.

Now, how should you perform these push ups? Start with bent knee form and work your way form there right?
Question, how are you working from bent knee position to a real push up position? I'm not aware of transitional positions between those two. I just find this plain retarded.

Sure, you'll work more of your upper chest this way, but you're much LESS likely to actually transition to a 'real' push up. Which is what you want, by the way. If you don't want to transition to a real push up, what was the point of doing the push ups again? I think we missed the point, and it wants to reschedule an appointment.

A better approach is to do your push ups at an incline. Like on a counter top or a sturdy table in a real pushup position. And work your way down to lower objects when you're ready. By the time you get to the floor, your abs will be strong enough to support you when you do the real thing, unlike the knees bent method.

Once you got that mastered, you can this prop your feet on higher things instead, until you're doing jail house push ups, and maybe get that tattoo of a tear on your cheek you've secretly always wanted.

#4 The KISS Method.

KISS stands for Keep it Simple Stupid. Now I feel kinda stupid for just typing that.

On a serious note. Starting off with a new complicated program is probably not the best way to go. Start off in stages, a good tip is start a new good habit every week.

Infomercial systems generally don't work because they require a complete transformation of your life style. Are you likely to keep up with it? How about a year or two down the road? That's about when your exs, potato chips and milk shake start calling, and asking about a getting back together.
Are you really over this relationship? Probably not if you distracting yourself from the real problem with this new diet as your muse.
Work on diffusing one bad habit at a time, and for good. Then you'll be more likely to succeed.

Okay that sums it up for now. I'll hopefully have some new, and interesting tips of varying length sometime in the near future.