Apeco Health and Fitness

So you want to lose weight huh? I’m sure you’ve been inundated with advertisements on tv, radio, in magazines and you’ve seen enough skinny supermodels to make you puke right? So you finally want to get up off the couch and give losing a few pounds a shot. Good for you.

Let me tell you something that nobody ever says in the diet industry: LOSING WEIGHT IS NOT EASY!

Ok now that we have that out of the way are you ready to work? Don’t just nod your head thinking that I’m full of it and losing weight really is easy because that infomercial on the super duper fat blaster told you that 3 minutes once a week is enough to get rid of that belly. Remember, the weight loss industry doesn’t care about you.

Ok, so you’re still with me, that’s a good start. Here’s what we’re going to do… we’re going to set a plan in motion that will help you get rid of the belly, get rid of the love handles and slim out those tree trunk legs. Sound good? Ok here we go.

What Foods Do You Eat?

You eat a lot of sugar and salt.

How can I say this without knowing what you have in your kitchen? Because we ALL eat too much sugar and salt. We do it all the time not even realizing it. We eat bread, crackers, soup, condiments, and I haven’t even mentioned cookies, pizza and ice cream. We stuff our faces full of this stuff and don’t even realize it.

So the first thing I want you to do is go through everything you eat on a regular basis and eliminate as much processed food as you can. If it comes in a box odds are it’s on our hit list, at least for now. Don’t like this idea? Go try your luck with Medifast and see how much you like drinking a freeze dried shake five times a day ok? Yea I thought so.

Things like bread, cereal, pasta, even chicken that comes in a box (yuck) are so packed with sugar and salt that it’s ridiculous. Eat natural things that are grown naturally and not pumped full of hormones and yellow #5. You will be shocked how much better you actually feel when these FDA approved toxins are out of your system.

Don’t Stop Eating

Our natural instinct when we try to lose weight is to eat less, or for some people stop eating all together. You want to make yourself sick and lose every muscle you have? Good then stop eating. Otherwise if you want to be healthy and actually look good you need to realize that you need to eat more often, just eat the right things.

I’m not saying stuff yourself with 8 slices of pizza, I’m saying eat more of things that are good for you. If you’re hungry go eat something else that is good for you because your body needs nourishment. You with me here? The reason why we need to do this is next up.

Exercise More!

Tada! It’s the magic solution to weight loss… exercise!

I know I just lost about 90% of you who are off muttering “exercise sucks” as they click the close button, but if you’re serious and you want to lose weight you need to do real exercise and you need to do it EVERY SINGLE DAY.

You don’t have to bench press 600 pounds every day, you don’t need to run a marathon every day, but you need to do something other than laying there watching the TV all day. TV sucks anyway, unless you like diet infomercials of course.

Get out there and go for a jog, walk around in circles, do yoga, pilates, jumping jacks, plyometrics, I don’t care, just do more than you did the day before. Try to mix up the exercise too so you don’t focus on one muscle and ignore the others. The P90X guy likes to call this “muscle confusion” and he’s right, which is why his program kicks major butt.

So that’s it. What you wanted more? Maybe a magic food that burns 90% of your belly fat away if you eat it once a week? Good luck with that, but if you really want to lose weight read above, get your butt moving and you will.