1. NO ALCOHOL. at best, it’s not helping, at worst it’s dramatically slowing you down. these are “empty calories” that make you slowerand less likely to move. alcohol also makes it much more likely you will eat something stupid….once you get your body under control, and beautiful, I will allow you to have 1-2 shots of alcohol per day witha non-caloric mixer (seltzer) if you stillw ant it. but that may be a few years out…
2. EVERY BITE COUNTS. this is very depressing, like realizing you have to live within your salary, or the day you find out yu’re not going to be a professional athlete after all. at 135 lbs, my goal weght, im only permitted about 1400 odd calories, not counting calories for exercise. that’s not much. plus, one needs a lot of protein. when you really get down to it, every bite has to count toward a nutritional requirement, or you’re gonna get fat.
3. HARD WORK. you can go an wave some light weights around like a baton. you can do some bicep curls and call it a day. but a bicep is not a body. a bicep is justa tiny portion of a body. you need to work the whole enchilada and work it hard. this involves big movements, like deadlifts, like squats, like actual physical labor type work, or as close as you can come to it with weights. and lots of it.
so don’t drink , you might miss the opportunity to get in another half hour of pullups and dips with your kid that evening.
4. DILIGENCE. the body changes very slowly. but ti will change, for better or worse. you need to push it up the hill….and make your workout more challenging each time, if you can. which ismuch easier said than done, cause most people just do the same thing over and over. it is very hard to improve, to do more, but, it must be done, or you’re not actually going anywhere. not sure that’s even enough to maintain, given the general way of things to deteriorate.
