Weight Loss Extreme: How I got in shape for my wedding

Yeah…that’s a really good topic, and true to life too. So what exactly did I do? Do you really want to know? Then here goes…

 

I like to make plans, and tweak them for a few weeks before I commit myself to it. The reason for making a plan, and then tweaking it further, is to come up with something that I am convinced about. You see, I really need to be convinced about something before I will go ahead and do it. And once I get convinced, there are no limits to the extent to which I can go.

 

First thing I did was to sit down and analyze my present diet and exercise protocols. I found a couple of ideas that I thought would be perfect for me, such as:

 

• An exercise program that does not involve lots of aerobics (I really dislike the idea of lots of running in particular, coz I suck at running long distances)!
• A diet program that is something I have previously tested out and found to have worked
• A program that is not too time-consuming, and can in fact be incorporated into my life rather easily

 

Well this is what I did:

 

I ate low carbs for about 3 months, with a week of no carbs around week 9 (no particular reason for this). I would eat cans of tuna, and my workmates would actually wave pastries under my nose (ha ha ha … thought they could get me eh)! I stayed on the same general diet for the whole time, eating around 5~6 small meals a day.

 

I began to train on a something called an “Escalating Density Training” type of program for around 4 weeks. That was followed by a program where the weights were medium, reps were medium-high, rest periods were short, and upper and lower body exercises were supersetted for around 4 weeks.

 

This was followed by a stretch of around 3 weeks again with upper and lower body exercises done on different days, with an escalating density type of schedule again, albeit with different exercises than the first time I did something like this. After week 11 I began to train heavier again, trying to preserve muscle mass.

 

As for the ‘A’ word (aerobics) – well, like I said…I don’t like to run. But what I did do was begin to walk. I walked around 3~4 km each day. I would walk to the main bus stop, catch a bus to work, get off at the junction, then walk another kilometer to school, and do the same in the afternoon. This I did for a full 4 months.

 

So did I need to spend more hours running around? Not at all.

 

So what were the results like?

 

I lost around 15 lbs of fat in 3 months, and actually appeared at my wedding looking very trim and fit. Was it overkill? Maybe, but then…I never used a single supplement at all, and basically did it all naturally, as in just food, and exercise. Could I have had better results if I had used thermogenics and lipotropics? Maybe. But the fact is, we don’t always need lots of expensive supplements to help us with our goals. In fact, that is mostly A crutch we end up using, and an excuse for not looking good if we fail.

 

So what do you need?

 

Just these:

• Education – you need to learn about your body, and how it operates
• Common sense – the kind necessary to go against the ideas of people who have no clue as to why things work or not
• Lots of determination – an undying will to succeed in your endeavor!

 

Question is…do you have what it takes?