The second video in the series on health and weight loss.
Hey! Pay attention again. Bud Jeffries, www.strongerman.com, giving you the second tip on strength, health, fitness and fat loss. Let me tell you, I spent a lot of time in my youth dieting because at that time the country was getting really serious about fitness and everybody talked about being fat. I grew up as kind of a fat kid.
I had a car accident when I was five years old and gained a ton of weight. I couldn’t take it off no matter what I did. I played college football, did all kinds of crazy conditioning. I even got in great shape.
Here’s one of the mistakes I made and one of the things you need to stop doing. This is our second tip. Stop dieting. OK? Over the years, how I looked was not real super important to me. I’m a performance guy. I want to know what you can do. How healthy you are from a perspective of how far you can run, how many kettlebell swings can you do, how much can you lift, how healthy are your organs?
You look great, that’s good, too. You know, that’s really important thing in our society. One of the huge mistakes I made is I tried all kinds of different diets. Diets don’t work. OK? I tried it from a bodybuilding perspective, from a powerlifting perspective, from a weight loss perspective, from a martial arts perspective. Nothing works until you get a handle on how you deal with your lifestyle. OK?
In relation to that in food. You have to figure out what works for you, what you like, what you can live with. That means how many meals a day, what particular foods you eat, what you might be allergic to or not react well to. The big point is, crash diets, restrictive diets, knock out one macro nutrient diets, all carb, all protein, all or nothing, all this, all that doesn’t flat work.
You’ve got to figure out a balance of food. It’s gotta be a lifetime thing because for most people it’s worse for you to diet and gain the weight back and waste your freaking time. Stop dieting and you’ll get better fat loss.
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Eating habits are the foundation of weight issues. You are what you eat.
If you are considering changing who you are, change what you eat.
The problem as I see it, is that people think changing what you eat means to eat a Non-Fat, Reduced Fat, LowCal, Reduced Cal version of what they are already eating. This is not it!
I lost 45 pounds because I eat a less amount of better quality whole food not the same amount of processed Less, Low, Non, or Reduced versions. When people ask me “how I did it”, I tell them I eat vegetables and lean proteins. They often look confused because they think they “eat” vegetables and lean meat too.
Absolutely true. Its a shame that most people don’t know what real food actually is. It’s especially terrible on our children, and our wallets.