Diets Schmiets And Other Pfiffle

Diets, Schmiets and Other Pfiffle

According to everybody, everybody is fat. And everybody who is
somebody is saying that everybody is getting fatter.

So everybody wants everybody on a diet.

Who is kidding who? Everybody has been on a diet. Diets don’t
work; unless, of course, you are selling a diet plan.

Diets are big business. And the bigger the muffins and trailers
on the American people, the bigger the business will be.

If you have not been on a diet, you have missed the joys of
deprivation, not knowing if the thing is going to work for you
and final failure. Even if you loose weight, in nothing flat you
went back to being fat.

If you have been on a diet, or two or three, you probably are
sick of them and have no intent of going back on one again until
your doctor tells you that if you don’t lose weight your are
going to get all sorts of diseases, your body will fall apart
and all those other things that doctors tell you.

Before that happens, you don’t have to pay for some off the wall
diet plan, “medically proven” with tons of testimonials, to stop
gaining weight.

Notice I said “stop gaining weight.” That is the critical first
step. If you can just stop gaining weight, you can start losing
weight without going on some ridiculous diet that will probably
fail anyway.

Let’s look at it.

If you consume 200 calories more per day than you burn up, you
will store about 6000 calories more energy than you need. That
means that you will gain about 1 ½ pounds per month. That is
like 18 pounds per year.

Just 200 calories is enough to do you in big time.

If you are now not gaining weight or gaining less than 1 ½ pound
per month, you are golden.

If you are maintaining your weight now, all that you have to do
is get rid of 200 calories per day and you will lose 1 ½ pounds
per month.

So how to do that?

Elliptical exercise machines burn about 700 calories per hour.
So 20 minutes per day on an elliptical exercise machine will do
it.

Walking for an hour will do it.

Substituting water for two glasses of 2 glasses of your soft
drink or a single beer should do it.

Trade a hamburger for two oranges and you will be surprised what
happens.

It is very simple. You just have to make sure that the amount of
calories you put in equals the amount of calories that you burn.

But as simple as it is, it is very difficult to do because all
that calorie counting is a pain. It is all a shot in the dark,
you don’t have any idea about what you are doing and it is just
plain frustrating.

So how did I solve my own problem?

First I did exactly what I said above. I started walking an hour
per day and moved to water from soft drinks.

Bingo. My weight started down.

Then I decided to get serious. Having been frustrated with
calorie counting before, I looked for a simple way to keep track
of my calories on my computer. I found this thing called the
Balance Log. It turned out to be great.

Not only don’t I have to look for calories per serving in a book
or on the web, I have a complete record of what is going on with
my daily, weekly and monthly calorie intake and expenditure. It
tells me exactly where I stand for a day and how much exercise I
need to make up for those things that I ate that I should not
have eaten.

Now I eat almost 2000 calories per day and lose weight. I eat
more now than when I was gaining weight.

How do I do it? I found that my basic calorie burn rate is about
1620 calories per day. So as long as I don’t exceed 1620
calories intake per day, I can sit at the computer and not gain
weight.

If I want to lose weight, I can walk and burn about 250 calories
per hour. So since I enjoy the time away from the computer, I do
walk. Sometimes I walk for an hour and sometimes I break it up
into 15 or 20 minute walks. I burn about 250 calories per day
walking.

But then I looked for something that would give me exercise
while I watched the daily news. That would be time efficient for
me since I would better use my “couch potato time”. I chose an
elliptical exercise machine because it is low impact and burns
over 700 calories per hour.

Now let’s add it up. I start with 1620 calories, add to it 250
for walking and 700 for an ½ hour session for the morning news
and a ½ hour session for the evening news. That is a banging
2570 calories that I can eat.

Now, for my personal situation, if I eat 2000 calories per day,
I lose about 12 pounds per month. I adjust my exercise schedule
to my weight loss / weight gain requirements. I have my cherry
pie, my beer, my wine, my ice cream and all those things that
diets schmietes and other pfiffle say I can’t. And my muscles
have developed.

I owe it first to the Balance Log that opened my eyes and made
things easy. Once I could monitor what was happening with my
body, I was stimulated and could set a goal. My goal was to eat
and enjoy life and lose weight without the deprivations of a
diet. That lead me to look at various exercise machines. I chose
the elliptical trainer.

Balance log has a free 2 week trial version that you can use on
your PDA and or computer. And it can be used for all the members
of your family or company. (Each gets its own password.) If
nothing else, looking at what it tells you will allow you to set
up your own unique approach to maintaining your own unique body.
You can get more information about it at Balance Log

So forget the diets, schmiets and other pfiffle. Just step back
and look at what is going in and out. It only takes as little as
200 calories a day change.

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