The Simple Way to Lose Weight

Me, prior to weight loss.

I lost 50 pounds with this method, which is the first time in over 20 years my weight has gone down instead of up. I didn’t change my diet, because it was already clean and minimal. My diet was never the reason for the 5 pounds a year, steady weight gain.
​Others have figured out the weight loss trick, too, but between fear and overcomplicating, most end up avoiding the very thing that could potentially save them. So, let's un-complicate it and face our fears, shall we?

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Neat freaks know that staying on top of things through self discipline is the key to never suffering the shame of cleaning up a mess that has been around for too long. This analogy is something worth remembering when it comes to losing weight the easy way: It requires up-front self-discipline, but not of the kind you might think.

It's About The When

"Overnight fasting triggers cell-renewal mechanisms that maintain function, including the brain's sensitivity to its main fuel." Fasting is a loaded word today, so let us remove fasting from the vocabulary and focus on what's important: Helping our body complete the daily digestion cycle, which includes clean-up and maintenance, and helps one to stay both trimmer and healthier. There are four rules that help make that happen, easily and naturally:

Rule 1

Prioritize when you eat way before what you eat. Not that what you eat isn’t important, it is, depending on what kind of life and health you want to enjoy. But when it comes to keeping our girth at a diameter that allows for shopping in the “normal” stores, learning to seriously discipline when you eat appears to matter more than anything else.

Rule 2

Focus on when you can eat instead of when you can’t; the math is much easier, and it’s more gratifying, psychologically. 

Rule 3

Decide to have 1-3 regularly scheduled meal “times” each day with zero between-meal snacking. Cows graze, not people. Notice how big cows are. And with zero snacking, think of the money you’ll save not buying junk food, and then think of the space you’ll have in your kitchen cupboards! So much space, now, to artfully display what you do have, making your neighbors jealous of more than just your thinning waistline.

Rule 4

Do not eat or drink anything with solidity or calories at least 2-4 hours before going to bed at night.

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Final Tips

It helps to move after a meal, but gentle moving, like going for a walk or doing light chores.
If you have diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or other dietary desease conditons, please consider the advice of Dr. Eric Westman MD and his “prescription Keto” plan. It’s science based and simple - and it works. In fact, Dr. Wesman’s prescription is “like fasting” to the body, but you get to eat, too!

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Original post date: 5/8/2018