Success Toolbox: Weight Loss Explosion

Success Toolbox: Body – Weight Loss Products

Imagine you are athletic, vital, healthy, beautiful or handsome. What would your life look like?  Who would be in it?  What would you do?

If you look around, you can see a great, healthy and ripped body is the exception, not the rule.  While I live in Colorado and we have the greatest recreation in the world, biking, skiing, hiking, we still have our share of the unhealthy and overweight.

Unfortunately I am one of them – for now.

THE PROBLEM

To recap my present situation, I am 30 pounds overweight, with constant stomach and problems.  My cholesterol and sugar indicate I have Metabolic Syndrome.  My doctor says if my levels climb slightly higher I’ll be a diabetic.

I think a good deal of my physical problems have come from the stress of the failure of my company, where I felt I let people and myself and family down.

 

Yeah, so not good, huh?  Suffice it to say I have some real incentive to find the best diet and exercise plans.  I also need to concentrate on the psychological and spiritual side to help with the mind / body connection.

According to Live Strong, the top seven health problems, related to diet and lifestyle in America are:

• Cancer
• Stroke
• Respiratory Diseases
• Diabetes
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Kidney Disease, and
• Seticiema.

You don’t have to be an expert to see all of those issues are related in some way to weight, diet and exercise.

So, I’d be an idiot not to see what the top experts have to say about how I should attack these problems.

THE PLAN

The plan has to be workable.  

Sure, there are a number of fantastic programs out there that I have reviewed, and many I’ll recommend, such as P90X, or Weight Watchers, but for my overall life purposes, the plan has to be workable – for a lifetime.

That doesn't mean I won't use some of these products to jump start my progress, just that they don't appear feasible to use daily over the long haul.

So, I’ve come up with the following criteria:

• I has to be easy (no super complicated menus or plans)
•  It has to work, producing fantastic results.  (This goes without saying)
•  It has to be something I can live with and enjoy for the rest of my life.
•  It has to inexpensive.
•  It has to destroy the seven top killers listed above.
• The food has to be tasty.

Armed with the above criteria and having reviewed a numerous weight loss and health products (see below) and having experimented with many of them in the past, I have put together the best basic plan based upon concepts in the following:

• Body For Life by: Bill Phillips (basic diet and exercise plan);
• Fantastic Voyage.  Live Long Enough To Live Forever. By: Ray Kurzweil. (Kurzweil is probably the smartest man on the planet );
• The Body You Deserve by: Anthony Robbins (There needs to be a psychological edge;
• Eat Drink and Weigh Less by: Mollie Katzen and Walter Willett, MD; and
• You on a Diet, by: Michael F Roizen, MD and Mehmet C. Oz, MD (Oz seems to always be at the top of his game with new and innovative ideas).

I did not do what I should have, which is get measurements  for body composition and I encourage you to do so so you can measure your progress.

That being said, I've been on the lifestyle plan below for six days and I’ve lost 4 lbs.

STEP-BY-STEP

My plan is to give myself and you quick Action Plans so you can start NOW!

It is a day and age where there is information bombardment.  You could read forever and still not know where to start.  That stops now.

I have a basic .pdf Action Plan that can be downloaded if you give me an email list below, but here are the basics:

Meal Plan

I am eating six meals a day.  Each of those meals contains:

• A portion of lean protein (chicken, steak, cottage cheese, etc.) that is approximately the size of the palm of my hand;

• A portion of complex carbohydrate (oatmeal, potatoes, whole wheat);

• A big portion of veggies.

Because I am on the go a great deal, I need to make the breakfast, lunch and snacks repeatable and easy to make.

I have what I call a Power Chili that I can make once a week and it contains the perfect mix of what I need and tastes great!  I also plan on using meal replacement shakes for ease of use.  It may have a bit too much salt, but I’ll trade that for some convenience.

Insider Secret: Add your email below and I’ll send the the Power Chili recipe.

Insider Secret: Many of the recipes below can be found at www.transformation.com.

Sample:

Day	8:00 AM	10:00	1:00	4:00	7:00	9:00
1	1 Cup Egg Beaters and ½ cup steel cut oatmeal	Meal Replacement shake + broccoli or other vegetable	Big Salad: Tomato, lettuce, Chicken and cucumber with vinegar and olive oil.	Hand full of almonds and serving of dried green mango	Teriyaki Salmon with asparagus and small baked potato	Cottage Cheese and dried mango
2	3 egg whites and 1 whole egg with an apple	Meal replacement shake or cup of my Power Chili	Cucumber and tomato salad, ½ cup cottage cheese	Can of water packed tuna with low fat mayo and pickles	Chicken fajita wrap (grilled chicken breast with veggies and whole wheat wrap)	Cottage Cheese and dried mango
3	1 Cup Egg Beaters and ½ cup steel cut oatmeal	Meal replacement shake or cup of my Power Chili	Big Salad: Tomato, lettuce, Chicken and cucumber with vinegar and olive oil.	Piece of chicken breast and veggies	Pork tenderloin with salad and baked potato	Cottage Cheese and dried mango
4	Fortified French Toast	Meal replacement shake or cup of my Power Chili	Turkey burger on whole wheat with lettuce and tomato	Hand full of almonds and serving of dried green mango	Asian Beef Stir Fry	Cottage Cheese and yogurt cup
5	3 egg whites and 1 whole egg with an apple	Meal replacement shake or cup of my Power Chili	Big Salad: Tomato, lettuce, Chicken and cucumber with vinegar and olive oil.	Hand full of almonds and serving of dried green mango	Grilled Fish Tacos	Cottage Cheese and apple
6	1 Cup Egg Beaters and ½ cup steel cut oatmeal	Meal replacement shake or cup of my Power Chili	Chicken fajita wrap (grilled chicken and veggies in a whole wheat wrap)	Can of water packed tuna with low fat mayo and pickles	Steak, baked potatoes and steamed broccoli	Cottage Cheese with Green Salad
7	WTHIW	WTHIW	WTHIW	WTHIW	WTHIW	Cottage Cheese and dried mangos

You may notice I have "WTHIW" for the 7^th day.  One of the criteria is that I don’t have to fully leave my life behind, so either Saturday or Sunday, I have a, “free day” where I can eat whatever I want.

I fully understand the above meal plan has more dairy and meat than may be recommended by Anthony Robbins or Ray Kurzweil; however, this is a life plan – you have to enjoy eating or you won’t follow through.

Also, during the day I’m drinking either green tea or a greens drink (more on this later)

I’m also looking into supplementing with a thermogenic or green coffee extract.  (More on this later).

Workout

I’m not going into particulars here (I'll do that later), but I’m dividing the week up between cardio and weight lifting as follows:

W	Monday	Tuesday	Wed	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1	Cardio	Weight Lifting Upper Body	Cardio	Weight Lifting Lower Body	Cardio	Cardio	Walk
2	Weight Lifting Upper Body	Cardio	Weight Lifting Lower Body	Cardio	Weight Lifting Upper Body	Cardio	Walk
3	Weight Lifting Lower Body	Cardio	Weight Lifting Upper Body	Cardio	Weight Lifting Lower Body	Cardio	Walk
4	Cardio	Weight Lifting Upper Body	Cardio	Weight Lifting Lower Body	Cardio	Cardio	Walk

Inside Secret:  Bill Phillips has this down to a science.  You can download the Body for Life Daily Fitness Assessment and The Training –For-Life Experience Daily Progress Reports at: www.bodyforlife.com.

We’ll discuss specific exercises in the future, but for now, you’ll find everything you need at www.bodyforlife.com.

Supplements:

I’m taking a huge amount of supplements that should have a positive effect on my numbers.

We don’t have enough time on the quick start to go into this fully, but suffice it to say you should run on over to www.RayAndTerry.com.  This is Ray Kurzweil’s site.  He has a pretty good question and answer test you should take to figure out your exact supplementation.

Inside Secret:  Most of the supplements you find on Kurzweil’s site can be purchased more cheaply at Sam’s or Costco.

Next Time.

When I discuss health and fitness next, we’ll cover:

•   The top 15 Supplements you should not be without.
•  Five secrets to rev up your metabolism and shred weight.
• A top workout plan to gain muscle and lose fat.

As always, if you have any comments, ideas or products you would recommend or if you just want some advice, drop me a line below.

Doug