Bud Jeffries weight loss at 365, 305 and 284
One more thought on this whole pattern thing – people have been asking me a lot lately (especially since seeing the pictures of me since losing 100lbs), “How did you do it?”
When they ask that question what they really mean is, “What diet did you follow to make that work,” and they’re expecting a very specific answer. (I have one that I’ll be revealing later, but that’s not the important point here). The important point is that anytime you talk about training you have to think about food and nutrition as well.
Weight loss specifically goes hand in hand with what you eat and exercise, but within that is exactly the same trap as strength training. The uber-specific, it-must-be-done-exactly-to-this-microgram-following-this-exact-combination-of-micro-and-macro-nutrients-or-you’ll-DIE Nazi style of nutrition.
All the big diets work (within their context as long as you follow it – it’s not really a lifestyle change): Atkins, Microbiotic, Zone, South Beach, etc. They’re all very specific, but leave out the general pattern. So what’s the general pattern? All these diets force you to take in less calories than you normally would and it’s mostly accomplished by forcing you to eat natural food.
Now everybody sells their own meal replacement bars or powders to go along with these things, but the real principle behind it is eating stuff in the way it comes out of nature with the least processing available. For almost everybody that means fewer calories and weight loss. If you understand that principle it makes your life much more livable than trying to follow one specific restrictive eating pattern.
The bottom line: natural food.
Within that you can eat pretty much what you want so long as you learn how to make it with natural ingredients. That’s something else I’ll be sharing along the way. A couple of sneak peaks here: I ate pizza, meatloaf, brownies and even a chili dog and lost weight.
God Bless,
Bud Jeffries
P.S. Remember that it all goes hand in hand. You can’t have just nutrition you’ve got to have training too. Here’s the best training to get you started.
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The one golden rule for muscular strength is simple: Use it or lose it.
Hi Bud-
Glad to see that you are back up and running again. Congrats on the dramatic body composition changes– great job!
I have your T. C 1 and 2– terrific training info.I use the concepts from them along with the training articles you wrote for Dragon Door a few years ago for the bulk of my workouts.I enjoy multiple implements(KBs,clubs,bodyweight stuff,sand bags,cables)– your books were made to order- they still are cutting edge and as good as anything I’ve seen out there.
Keep up the great ideas and thanks for sharing.
Take care,
Steve
Hi Bud,
This seems all too much for me. I am interested in kettlebell workouts, my smaller weights, of course. Logan offers a variety of websites and workouts that I think I might achieve, if I really tried. I do my exercise program every morning before I go to work.
But it looks like you do power lifting and workouts for the incredible hulk, I’ve seen Logan, do a lot of that too.
I’m just an average person with a job. But I am mesmerized with what you guys can do. Whenever I’ve seen power, I want it. I read an old ninja book years ago, that said “the seemingly impossible becomes commonplace.” I keep going back to your websites, and it all becomes acheivable.
Thank you both for what I have learned in the past year.