Is Something Missing From Your Weight Loss Plan?

Its hours after completing my last seminar… Over my career I have spoken over two hundred times, in front of audiences both large and small, corporations, municipalities, college campuses and hospitals… It is common during my presentation to ask this question… What is the only aisle in the grocery store, where the food comes with any instructions? I remind you, I have asked this question over two hundred times to thousands of listeners, and still to this day, no one has answered correctly… How could the answer elude us for such a long time? So when I posed the question today, I was not surprised in what I heard…

Let me ask you the reader, what isle am I talking about? If you answered the pet food isle, you are probably one of my clients… No one else seems to know it, but more importantly no one seems to care… There could no better example to explain the sad state of the weight loss industry…

I come back to my office and one of the commercials from one of the so-called icons in the weight loss business is basting away… Maybe I should not mention their name, no better yet let me shout their name, “NUTRI-SYSTEMS”, is saying no measuring, no counting, no check-ins… All the variable which lead to long term success, and their advertising it like its their advantage over everyone else… There are no one-size fits all approach to solve our countries weight problem…

Let me share with you this story… I have spent a career teaching, to lose fat, without losing muscle or reducing metabolism, you must control your hormonal response to the amount and quality of the foods you eat… This is easily done by being fitted to the foods based on your percent of body fat and activity level… You can even customize it to only the foods you like and those, which make sense to cerate a lifestyle around… To lose the weight as fat and keep it off, it must become your lifestyle… So in a counseling session I had several years ago, a potential client said to me, “I like what you have to say, it all make sense scientifically and I like your holistic approach but”… WE have all heard it, sounds like the answer I need but… I have heard but so many times, so what was her but? I could never weigh or measure food…

Now those of you who know me, know I’m not settling for her but, which you guessed it was causing her to have a “big BUTT”… So I started to redirect her, to why she needed to lose weight in the first place, when what seemed like a miracle happened… She noticed pictures of my two dogs, Cyrus and Shiloh on my desk… She asked, “Are those your dogs?”… They look amazing… After thanking her, she commented she also had a dog… I asked, “how old and what breed? She said, “he is German Shepard and five years old’… Now here’s where the miracle begins… I said, “How much do you feed him? She replied, “two cups in the morning and two cups in the evening”… I quickly responded, “do you ever give him one cup, or feed him once per day?” She said, “no never, the instructions tell me how much, and how often”… Then she became real quite and the epiphany took place… She realized she was willing to do something for her dog, she ignored for herself… The best part was when I asked her, “What shape was her dog?”… Her response, change her life, she said, “He is in great shape”…

She went on to reach her ideal weight and portioning her food was no longer a problem… So what’s missing from your weight loss plan? Learn to eat your meals in the right portion and the proper amount of times per day… Maybe at my next seminar, I will no longer have to ask what isle, when all isles you will have instructions for…