I Can See My Feet! How To Get Rid Of That Big Gut

I remember touring Indiana and the Midwest with my seminars and one of my university chums, an ex-ballplayer as it turned out, was talking about guys who get out of shape.

Of course, that wasn’t me, at least that’s what I thought, but he did offer a standard by which to distinguish the truly fat from the slightly puffy:

Can you stand with your feet together, bury your chin in your chest, gaze down and see your feet?

Or, is your gut in the way?

It didn’t take too many years on the road, with its sedentary ways and rich food and drink to put me into the I Can’t See My Feet Club. I was, for lack of a better term, shocked when I connected his definition to my midsection.

But, happily, there is a way back from tubbiness, if you’re willing to work at it.

Here’s the formula that worked for me. I call it attacking the killer B’s:

(1) Cut out the booze.

(2) Cut out the beef.

(3) Cut out the bonbons (sweets and desserts).

Each of these moves is worth at least five pounds of weight loss, or 15 pounds, total.

You’ll probably drop this load within six months, or less.

Of course, exercise is the next part of the equation. If you jog a couple of miles a day, I assure you that you’ll drop a minimum of five more pounds, and maybe more.

Do some abdominal exercises, but I don’t like crunches. I use twists.

Stand with your feet apart, lift your arms as if you’re an airplane, move to the left, then to the right, sucking in your gut each time. You can breathe when you wish. I do it, every two or three sets of twists.

How many should you do? I do them in sets of 100, and do 500 to 1,000 per day.

Just the twists, apart from any dramatic dietary or exercise commitments, enable me to tighten my belt after several weeks.

But if you can do the entire package, it’s not unrealistic to go from 250 to 200, or less, over the course of a year. I’ve accomplished that, and then some.

And now, yes, I CAN see my feet!

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone®, You Can Sell Anything By Telephone! and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service, and the audio program, “The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable,” published by Nightingale-Conant. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, a Loyola lawyer, and an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He holds the rank of Shodan, 1st Degree Black Belt in Kenpo Karate. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: [email protected]

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