Pure Innovation

A lot of people praise me for having lost 20 KG’s this year. I get asked how did you do it or what is your secret (Like I am hiding something). I can honestly say there is no secret. Just some common sense.

When I think back to what I have done (And Continue to do) the first thing that springs to mind is developing the Goal, the Want and the Drive to accomplish this hefty goal. I really think in today’s society this is the hardest part of losing weight.

Everyone seems so focussed on the how rather than the why. I can tell you now 99% of all diets work but if you are not prepared or focused or have a strong enough goal. It does not matter one Iota. Not even two Iota’s.

So Step 1 is to Visualize the goal. When I did this It was the 7th of Janurary 2009. I decided to pick a date and a goal that was achievable if I set my mind to it. Here is what I picked.

Goal Date: 25 December 2009
Current Weight : 128KG
Goal Weight: 100 KG

Bonus Goals: Build Muscle, Tone Body

I gave myself a year to lose the weight. Now this is important. How long have you been overweight? Now most people will have to think it is usually 2+ Years easy. For me it would be an easy 6 years. So 1 year to lose 28 KG’s of Fat (Probably more with putting on muscle) is an achievable goal. This is Step one getting the buy in of your subconcious mind.

Step 2 is Visualizing when you know you have succeeded. I chose Christmas Day as my family have a routine that is easy to visualize. I see my self waking up on that day. Stretching in bed with a big smile on my face knowing I had achieved my goal. I get up and get on the scales. and see 99.8KG I jump for joy and do the Joey from friends to myself in the mirror ” How You Doing”. I feel the feeling of how great this feels. The shiver up my spine with excitement. I put on fresh new clothes as a gift to myself.  On this day I see friends I have not seen for a year who are shocked and surprised at just how great I look. We embrase in a warm loving hug….

That is my Visualization. This is how intense it must be. You need to think about this as much as you can. I try and do it each night or at least every few nights or mornings. It is now August and I am sitting at 109KG. Not bad… On track. I also have a lot of muscle which is good. It is all go. In the time to lose weight I have tried different exercises, sports, fasting, low carb, high protein, super foods, low calorie diets and everything inbetween. I have taken what works for me and thrown back the rest.

I have had ups and downs but I know that my goal will be achieved. It is so stronly instilled now in my sub concious there is no way out. In a good way.

I will post up in the next few days a daily Routine that I have developed to show you how my lifestyle goes now.

        

My first post on the new blog. How Exciting!

I would like to start off by talking about Intermittent Fasting. This is a tool I have recently become accustom to. Well let’s start at the beginning. I became aware of this when I decided I should lose weight. I am 6ft and quite a big build but the problem was I was a much bigger build than I should. I weighed in at a 122kg. The funny thing was I was very healthy. I never really got sick or had any other problems.

Like most people who decide to lose weight I was sick of being the big guy. That name that sticks with you. Mine was Big Boy. I was not meant to be offensive more of just a tag as I was a big guy. I can tell you though it really hurt. I have a great personality, I’m caring and smarter than most (Still working on Modesty). 

I was already on a kick from Giving up the Booze and Smokes so I thought why not tackle all 3. I will write a separate article on the Smokes and Booze or you will be here forever haha. I went in search of a weight loss program that would work. I read page after page after page of different idea’s as im sure you know the amount of diets is ridiculous. The amount that conflict with each other is even worse. How are you suppose to choose which one to follow.

The simple answer is don’t.

I mean it do not pick a diet that is out there. You are a fool to. You need to choose a lifestyle. If you choose to go on a crazy diet like only eating meat or doing a rain dance before each meal you will go crazy and the minute you stop you will hate yourself and eat more. Trust me. 

I decided I need to change slowly, I need to change on my terms and I needed to stop listening to people close to me. 

I needed to find my own way. I read website after website taking in all the plus’s and minus’s of the different foods and techniques. I then said lets create my own path.

As I eluded to earlier I had already given up the drink and smokes so I was on a will power high! So I said what is the next thing that I need to change. The decision I made was to start with a detox. I went with the Master Cleanse or here in New Zealand it is called the Lemon Detox Diet. I told a few people about it who thought I was crazy. Not to eat for 7 days and live off water, lemons and palm syrup. As I mentioned I was not listening to them anymore and my body would be the judge. Lets say I was not out of the woods yet.

To be continued……..