I don’t know how I woke up one day and had swelled from 170 lbs to 230 lbs. I might have actually weighed more at my top, but I stopped keeping track of it and I rarely wanted to measure anything. As a scientist, that tells you a lot about the denial I lived in for years. It wasn’t as if I had completely ignored the weight either. I had been on MANY diets over the previous 20 years. Pritikin, Graprfuit, The Zone, Sugar Busters, South Beach, Body for Life, Hilton Head, Atkins…they all worked so long as I stuck to the plan.
That was the problem. The plans weren’t very “sticky.”
I have nothing but respect for all of the work that has been put into helping people manage caloric input. After all, there are only so many exercises and as you will find out, exercise is great for fitness, but doesn’t burn that many calories. On the input side, there is only so much restriction that can happen before you are starving yourself in an unhealthy manner.
This diet-exercise balancing act is all we had to work with for a long time, but all of that has changed. As it turns out, the thermal environment, the energy consumed by your body to maintain your core temperature at 98.6 F (37C) is a huge, untapped resource in the battle of the bulge. In fact, it may be the very insulation you are carrying around that is making the diet-exercise paradigm even less effective.
In the end, I lost 50% more the weight in half the time by making small changes in that thermal environment around my body.
You can too.
Ray
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