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How To Win The Body For Life Contest
- By Harry Johnson
- Published 07/2/2009
- Weight Loss
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Harry Johnson
Harry Johnson Jr is the 1998 Body For Life Champion and helps teach others all about getting into great shape - A new body AND a new life await you at His Blog
http://www.harryjohnsonjr.com
Talk about stuffing it in!
Since reaching my goal of getting back to my Body For Life winning shape in 48 days late last year, I've basically maintained that shape. Maybe gone up from 5.5% to around 8% body fat.
In the last 1 1/2 weeks though, I've stepped it up again to try and get down to an even lower level of body fat (I have these last vestiges of love handle fat I want to get rid of completely).
If you want me to help you win the Body For Life contest, or just get into the greatest shape of your life, read on. I'm going to show you how easy it can be done, and how enjoyable the foods I get to eat are that are getting me there. So in that 1 1/2 weeks, I've dropped my body fat level down to around 5%.
How have I done this?
Simple, by following only a couple of tenets you can achieve great fat loss success.
1. You must track your calories every single day. I cannot begin to tell you how important this is. If you're not willing to do this, you won't be able to lose weight. It's almost guaranteed.I know for me that I have to write down everything I eat in order for me to reliably lose fat. Even after all these years of doing this there are errors in estimating the calories you're eating. If you guess on this critical component of losing fat, you'll always guess wrong. Here's a free site that I use to track all of my foods. In fact, you can go there and see the foods I eat and track on a daily basis (search for "easchamp"). Talk about following the path of success-- I've laid it all out there for you. Go to the Live Strong webssite. Click on the "daily plate" once you register.
2. You must overeat on a regular basis. Even today, I mean like as I'm writing this, which is June 25, 2009, I still have to shake my head at the miraculous nature of how timing your calories works like gangbusters to reliably help you lose fat. Here's what I mean. Yesterday I ate 6,609 calories! Yet when I woke up this morning ALL of my skin fold measurements went down. And take a look at what I ate:
* 3 Dunkin Donuts "Everything" Bagels dipped in 6 tablespoons of olive oil (1,824 calories)
* 3 Dunkin Donuts Blueberry Muffins (1,200 calories)
* 10 1/2 servings of oatmeal with protein powder (1,845 calories)
* 1 Dunkin Donut Chocolate Coconut donut (300 calories)
* 1 Pint Haagen-Dazs Pineapple Coconut ice cream (920 calories)
* 4 servings of Spelt (a grain - pure carbohydrates) (520 calories)
Add them up... 6,609 calories!
Can I tell you something? I felt pretty bloated. I literally had to force myself to eat so much.
Before you think I'm off my rocker, I have to tell you that I sacrificed for you. And boy, was that Haagen-Dazs sacrifice hard... ;-) All kidding aside, I'm pushing the envelope to prove a really important point here. I want to eliminate the FEAR a lot of you may have with eating this way. Logically you think there is no possible way someone, anyone, can eat this much food and end up leaner the next day. I mean, it sounds impossible right? If I hadn't done this myself many, many times, over and over again, I too would probably feel the same way.
There's a big but... however...
You have to preface this type of eating with a specific (but altogether enjoyable) diet AND exercise protocol. If you do, you can actually eat this way every 3rd day. This means only 2 days of eating a specific way and training using a certain methodology, and then you can eat to your hearts content.
This particular eating day I went outside of my usual envelope in both calories and fat content. I usually try and stick with only high-carbohydrate/low-fat/low-protein meals for my "anything goes" days. As you can see above, most of the meals were anything BUT low-fat (donuts, Haagen-Daazs, and olive oil are all high in fat). But it didn't matter as my body caliper readings still went down.
Would you like to eat these kinds of foods on a regular basis? And still lose lots of fat? I mean, isn't this the nirvana we're all after? Well it's not only possible, but it's staring you straight in the face right now, right here.
In the middle of writing this blog post I found out Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett both died today... Yesterday, Ed McMahon (long-time Johnny Carson sidekick) also died.
In thinking about these 3, one thought came to mind. They lived life to the fullest and accomplished many great things in their time here.
Life is short, and the end can come at any moment. Only one knows when. Have you done everything you want to do in this world? What's holding you back. I'm just as guilty as anyone else and have many things I still want to do that for a variety of reasons, mostly internal negative behavior, I have not accomplished. I'm using these well-known celebrity deaths as a wake-up call for me. We only get one chance.
Stop pussy-footing around and get into great shape if that's what you really want to do. You have the path right here in front of you. It is a well-worn one too, that is tried, and proven, not only by me, but many, many others that have used it as well. If you don't want to get my program I understand. But don't let that stop you from studying what I've written here, and utilizing this knowledge I've outpoured for you to transform your body.
Since reaching my goal of getting back to my Body For Life winning shape in 48 days late last year, I've basically maintained that shape. Maybe gone up from 5.5% to around 8% body fat.
In the last 1 1/2 weeks though, I've stepped it up again to try and get down to an even lower level of body fat (I have these last vestiges of love handle fat I want to get rid of completely).
If you want me to help you win the Body For Life contest, or just get into the greatest shape of your life, read on. I'm going to show you how easy it can be done, and how enjoyable the foods I get to eat are that are getting me there. So in that 1 1/2 weeks, I've dropped my body fat level down to around 5%.
How have I done this?
Simple, by following only a couple of tenets you can achieve great fat loss success.
1. You must track your calories every single day. I cannot begin to tell you how important this is. If you're not willing to do this, you won't be able to lose weight. It's almost guaranteed.I know for me that I have to write down everything I eat in order for me to reliably lose fat. Even after all these years of doing this there are errors in estimating the calories you're eating. If you guess on this critical component of losing fat, you'll always guess wrong. Here's a free site that I use to track all of my foods. In fact, you can go there and see the foods I eat and track on a daily basis (search for "easchamp"). Talk about following the path of success-- I've laid it all out there for you. Go to the Live Strong webssite. Click on the "daily plate" once you register.
2. You must overeat on a regular basis. Even today, I mean like as I'm writing this, which is June 25, 2009, I still have to shake my head at the miraculous nature of how timing your calories works like gangbusters to reliably help you lose fat. Here's what I mean. Yesterday I ate 6,609 calories! Yet when I woke up this morning ALL of my skin fold measurements went down. And take a look at what I ate:
* 3 Dunkin Donuts "Everything" Bagels dipped in 6 tablespoons of olive oil (1,824 calories)
* 3 Dunkin Donuts Blueberry Muffins (1,200 calories)
* 10 1/2 servings of oatmeal with protein powder (1,845 calories)
* 1 Dunkin Donut Chocolate Coconut donut (300 calories)
* 1 Pint Haagen-Dazs Pineapple Coconut ice cream (920 calories)
* 4 servings of Spelt (a grain - pure carbohydrates) (520 calories)
Add them up... 6,609 calories!
Can I tell you something? I felt pretty bloated. I literally had to force myself to eat so much.
There's a big but... however...
You have to preface this type of eating with a specific (but altogether enjoyable) diet AND exercise protocol. If you do, you can actually eat this way every 3rd day. This means only 2 days of eating a specific way and training using a certain methodology, and then you can eat to your hearts content.
This particular eating day I went outside of my usual envelope in both calories and fat content. I usually try and stick with only high-carbohydrate/low-fat/low-protein meals for my "anything goes" days. As you can see above, most of the meals were anything BUT low-fat (donuts, Haagen-Daazs, and olive oil are all high in fat). But it didn't matter as my body caliper readings still went down.
Would you like to eat these kinds of foods on a regular basis? And still lose lots of fat? I mean, isn't this the nirvana we're all after? Well it's not only possible, but it's staring you straight in the face right now, right here.
In the middle of writing this blog post I found out Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett both died today... Yesterday, Ed McMahon (long-time Johnny Carson sidekick) also died.
In thinking about these 3, one thought came to mind. They lived life to the fullest and accomplished many great things in their time here.
Life is short, and the end can come at any moment. Only one knows when. Have you done everything you want to do in this world? What's holding you back. I'm just as guilty as anyone else and have many things I still want to do that for a variety of reasons, mostly internal negative behavior, I have not accomplished. I'm using these well-known celebrity deaths as a wake-up call for me. We only get one chance.
Stop pussy-footing around and get into great shape if that's what you really want to do. You have the path right here in front of you. It is a well-worn one too, that is tried, and proven, not only by me, but many, many others that have used it as well. If you don't want to get my program I understand. But don't let that stop you from studying what I've written here, and utilizing this knowledge I've outpoured for you to transform your body.