February 08
February 08
Q. Ali now that I am working out with a trainer what diet would you recommend?
A. Congratulations on working out and choosing a personal trainer to help you accomplish your goal. Now the diet question, which should you choose? You should choose none, absolutely, positively, none because diets are temporary solutions for temporary challenges.
Think of it this way if someone said you have to be 20 lbs lighter in twelve weeks and maintain the weight for an additional 8 weeks and we will pay you 2 million dollars do you think you could do that? I am willing to bet you and many more like you could find a way to accomplish that goal for the payment being offered and thus the “motivation” for the actor, supermodel, athlete, entertainer etc.
Now if you want to lose weight to keep it off you must first realize what in your lifestyle needs to be changed and then move to implement the changes needed. For many years prior generations rationalized this on various wives tales such as; well the older you are the more weight you gain, when you stop exercising your muscles turn to fat, once you have kids you lose your figure and gain weight. All of these examples are hogwash pure and simple, but rationalization is powerful in the human psyche.
Do not turn to the diets whatever they may be, if you peel away the skin of what the diet is actually they are all pretty much the same thing. You will never see a diet that consist of ice cream, pizza, chocolate cake, key lime pie, snickers, macaroni and cheese, candied sweet potatoes, Whoppers, milk shakes and French Fries to name a few items on any diet plan.
Instead try this diet: Exercise daily with plentiful helpings of cardio vascular exercise, add a few days per week of resistance exercise, go easy on the salt, eliminate the alcohol, reduce the dairy, add some stretching and give the body rest and watch this “diet” change your life.