Don't Diet!
AFC can help you lose all the weight you want. We have helped many people to lose weight and are willing to provide this service to anyone who wants to lose weight. All you have to do is log in online each Monday for the next four weeks. We will provide the information on how to lose weight each week for the next month. You will be able to personalize this information according to your lifestyle. You will learn the formula to determine how many calories you need for your weight and activity level. The difference between carbohydrates, protein, fat, and a food list to choose from, and how to create meal plans that you like and enjoy and a plan to help you adapt a healthy mind set to support long term weight loss. It's free, and you will be very successful following this plan. Follow AFC for the next three months and you will lose all the weight you desire and more.
Rule #1 Don't diet. A diet will never keep your weight off. What we mean by dieting is reducing your calories below 1000 calories or reducing calories below what is necessary to provide you with adequate calories for your daily activity. You cannot drastically cut your food intake, eat weight loss food, packaged food, frozen dinners, protein drinks and expect to do this for a long time. Sooner or later you will go right back to eating the same way you did before, because there isn't any joy or taste in the foods that you're eating. You become bored, stressed, and unhappy when you diet; you just don't like it. But when people tell us this is the only solution and that you can reach your goals quickly by this method, you tend to trust them. Ask yourself, how many diets have you tried? They don't work, it is not your fault! It is time to look at an alternative to conventional dieting.
True weight loss success isn't just about cutting calories to lose the weight. It is part of the solution but there is a number of factors that come into play that affect weight loss that can not be calculated into the calorie intake. The diet industry has flooded us with partial truths. Trying to attain our weight loss goals has lead us to fasting, starvation, multiple times to weight loss centers, feeling sad, depressed, unhappy, and frustrated. Losing weight is actually simple, but keeping it off is the ultimate challenge. Weight loss centers love to have you indulge in their concepts of dieting because they know you will lose it and regain it.
Your eating habits must change, but changed in a way that you will enjoy the food you are eating, and that you can do it over a long period. A lifestyle change is the only way to do it. A lifestyle change seems like a simple process, but it really isn't because there is a psychological component to weight loss. Trying to lose weight without addressing how your feelings affect your eating pattern, choices of food, times you eat, and their association with your culture makes losing weight extremely challenging. Our program will change your lifestyle, not just reduce your calories. Just eating healthier food is not the solution, but it is part of the solution. Our vision is to make you successful through supporting you changing your lifestyle.
Are you ready to move away from dieting and ready to enjoy all the pleasures of an alternative lifestyle? We are committed to helping you change.
Start here: 08/10/09 - Monday
The journey begins: Have you wanted to lose weight or are presently trying to lose weight? You could be exercising and not seeing the results you hope for. Which one of these situations fit your circumstances? There is hope. Today you are starting your journey to losing the weight you always wanted to lose with our help. But first you have to put into place a plan that gets you to where you want to go. Success has a starting point, and it comes with a vision of what you would like to achieve, plus a plan with specific steps which we will help you create. The second part of your start is your motivation. Motivation will take you a long way if it is supported with clear steps.
Step 1: Have a goal -There are two type of goals you should have to motivate you: an event goal and a weight goal. An upcoming event would be a high school reunion, turning 40, getting married, getting pregnant, reducing a health risk, or just to feel better. You should also make a specific weight loss goal. Write it down - we recommend 8 pounds in a month. If you lose 8 pounds a month in 3 months you will have lost 24 pounds.
Step 2: Make a commitment to a specific time - we recommend 4 weeks. It's a short-term goal, and it can be repeated as an ongoing cycle. We recommend setting your goal to 2 pounds a week.
Step 3: Make a commitment to being consistent - we recommend committing to being consistent for 4 straight weeks. You can achieve your quickest results if you are consistent from day to day and week to week. Accumulating weight loss week after week is very motivating, but you have to make the choice that supports a lifestyle that will help you lose your weight.
Step 4: You need special knowledge to help you attain your goal. We are here to help you. We will provide you with the knowledge for the next 4 weeks. Follow us over the next 4 weeks to the beginning of losing all the weight you want.
Where do you need to start?
We like to start everyone off by explaining to them a basic concept of how the body uses food for energy. Food plays the most important part in sustaining life. It is the fuel that the body uses for movement. The more you move, the more fuel you need, and the less movement the less food you need. The amount of food you consume is directly related to how much you move. If you consume more food than the body uses for fuel, the excess is stored as fat on your hips, stomach, arms, butt, legs, and back. Where weight gain starts and where it stops only you will know. Weight gain stops when the food you consume balances out with how much you need for your daily movement. Losing weight starts when you burn more calories than you consume.
What next? The very next question should be how to lose the fat stored on my body?
Because your body burns fat for fuel, we need a plan to control the amount of fat our body stores and to enhance ways to generate more movement to burn more fat for fuel.
How does this happen?
Fat is an energy source that is used to fuel the aerobic energy system at rest at sub-maximal intensities. The body is burning fat all the time but in different amounts depending on the intensity of the movements. When the body is at rest there is little movement, so we burn smaller amounts of fat. But when we start to move, we need more fuel for movement, so the body will burn more fat. The fat that is being burned is stored fat on our bodies, and the trick is not to replace the fat that is burned off. This is accomplished by knowing what we are eating, plus having an effective program to make the body burn more fat.
Do calories matter?
The very first step to achieving weight loss is to have an idea of how much food you are eating. Knowing the calorie intake of the food you are consuming daily will be a great start. We have found that most people underestimate what they are actually consuming. We realize that there are a lot of people who do not want to count calories, and we hear this almost from every client. What we are asking you to do is merely to have an idea of the amount you are eating. The first week we recommend that you eat your normal foods without changing your eating habits and write down what you're eating and then purchase a calorie book, go on-line and find a free calorie counter, download a calorie counter on your i-phone; but use a reliable source to determine how many calories you are eating. Once this is done then you have a visual reference of the food your eating plus the calories. You only have to do it for 1 week. Weight loss is a long term investment, and for it to be truly effective you need to build your program on a solid foundation. Start by recording the weight, calories, and portion size of the food you are eating plus the frequency you eat for 7 days
because the number of calories you consume matters.
The second week on 8/17/09 we will teach you how to calculate the number of calories you need per day. How to adjust your food portions but not change the food you are eating. We want you to eat the foods you like and not diet food. You will not be able to drastically change your eating habits over a long time and maintain a strict eating plan; sooner or later you'll go back to eating your normal way. Our goal is to have you lose weight eating the same way you will always eat.
2nd Week 8/17/09 - 8/24/09 click to get the 2nd week
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