Posted by: Bride2B04
Ericia tell me more!!!!
so i am going to start this weekend plan on reading this book tonight and tommorow and start sunday....is it possible to loose 30lbs in 10 weeks? or is that a NON relaistic goal!!!
Well, first you will need to recondition your mind to think. You don't want to lose weight, what you really want to lose is 30lbs of FAT. In the interim, you will gain muscle. Don't look at the scale as a tool to measure your success. Get your body fat count; your local gym should be able to do this for you. There is where you will learn if you are doing well. Honestly, you may not need to lose 30lbs. You will be surprise to see that you when you start to lose fat, how your body will change and how good you will look. Fat takes up a lot of room, while muscle is condensed. But, yes it is possible to lose 30lbs of fat, but again, you may not need to.
I personally, think the program is great. First off, it encourages a balance meal, which is so important. The second important concept to the program is portion size and the third, exercise. The program teaches you how to exercise, using the pyramid concept, to gain results. There are different methods to weight training, depending on what you are trying to achieve. Bill Philips in the Body For Life (BFL), prefers the pyramid technique because you burn fat while you are building muscle. The concept is fantastic.
The great thing about BFL is that you would have to spend more than 45 minutes in the gym. Now here the biggie. Although you are only spending 45 minutes at the gym, you must go 6 times a week. The seventh day is your cheat day. That day, you get to eat ANYTHING, and I mean anything you want the entire day. The whole day is your day to eat, and i'll repeat, anything you want ALLLL DAY. That's your pig out day.
Bill Philips believes that although, you are eating a smaller portions (5 to 6 meals a day), 6 times a week, your body starts to go into, for a lack of a better term, 'A starvation mode...food depravation mode, etc, and start to hold on to the fat. Not to worry because on the seventh day your body will receive the foods it is accustomed to having and it will began to relax and release what it is holding on to. I know this sounds nuts, but it works.
So in a nutshell, here's the program:
- Drink lots of water (8-10 glasses a day)
- Balanced meal (low carb) 6 times a day. Now with this part, that is where the shakes and the bars come into play. For those who are too busy to prepare 6 meals a day. You could eat three balanced meals, have two shakes and a bar. There are your six meals.
- Portion size of each meal is important
- Exercise, using the pyramid method (lightweight, high reps, then move down to heavy weight, low reps); cardio is also incorporated into the program.
- When exercising, BF's encourages that you go to the gym in the morning. This way, you burn off of the stored fat.
The book is great. You will learn a lot about nutrition. And the program is geared to eating that way FOR LIFE.
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I hope this helps. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
Good luck ladies.
