Playing the game

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! I hope you all got a chance to grab and read a copy of my FREE book Maximum Fat Loss, Minimum Time. Sadly, the freebie has passed and is now closed.

I want to talk about an idea that I had that might be a successful strategy for some of you. Many people wake up each day trying to lose fat and put in a lot of effort to restrict, restrict, restrict calorie intake. The only trouble with this is it’s kind of a negative emotion evoking way to think.

So as I’ve talked with many of you lots of times, your body is not operating on exactly a 24 hour basis so even if you are averaging a deficit over 3-5 days, you’ll still lose. I figure that if you would like to lose 10 lbs, that equals a solid block of 35,000 calories. Start your fat loss with that chunk in mind and each day you are below your limit, subtract that out of the original chunk. If you are in a surplus, add that back into the original. There is a caveat here. You cannot go too low either. If you don’t eat enough and go below your lower limit, ADD that amount back in. Going too low and delving into shutdown mode is just as bad, if not worse, than consistently eating too much.

The idea here is to gradually whittle down that origninal chunk. And because there will be some good days and some ones where you over do it, just keep whittling down. On average, as you whittle down, you’ll lose. The act of whittling down should feel like a success in your mind (like winning a game) versus constantly thinking negatively that you have to restrict what your are consuming, or avoiding foods you like, etc.

Of course, this is going to require that you know what your metabolism is to begin with. Be sure to pay attention over the next couple days as I’ll be putting up another post especially about accurately determining what your specific metabolism is.

Enjoy your holiday with you family and don’t stress about how much you are consuming. If you’ve been doing well up until now, you should have a nice deficit built up and a bigger cushion going into the big day. We’ll get right back on track after the holiday is over.