your ideal weight
Here’s a question for you: how much do you want to weigh for the rest of your life? Now, I’m normally a bit cynical about weight-shifting programs, since I prefer to measure myself by the way my clothes fit, but my wife is a champion of weight-based programs, and this is By far the most exciting I’ve ever done. you cross
Let me share with you some guidelines for choosing your ideal weight and a weight change program created by Dr. Laurence Morehouse, an exercise physiologist whose credentials include being asked by the Encyclopedia Britannica to write his entries on exercise and fitness. , as well as being the man who developed the machinery, diet, and exercise programs used by astronauts both on Earth and to maintain muscle tone and fitness in space.
1. Choose a weight that you know you can reach.
2. Choose a weight that you feel you could maintain fairly comfortably.
3. Choose a weight where you are fairly skinny, not skinny.
Now here is your daily schedule. You will need a pen, graph paper, and a set of scales. The goal of this program is to help you lose or gain no more than one pound per week. This rhythm will help ensure that your body doesn’t go haywire. If you want to gain or lose fifteen pounds, the program must last fifteen weeks! :
1. Don’t start your show until Friday. For the next few days, eat whatever you want!
(This “boosts” your metabolism, and will actually make it easier and less disruptive to change your diet later on.)
2. On Friday, weigh yourself, in the morning – naked! This will be the initial weight of him.
3. Write this number in the upper left corner of your paper. Count more than seven lines across and two lines up or down (depending on whether you want your weight to go up or down!) and write the next number. Keep going until you reach your ideal weight (may need more paper :-)!
Example: If you started at 150, your next number would be 151 or 149.
4. Number the days at the bottom, starting with number one. A vertical line = one day.
5. Draw a line connecting the numbers. This is your ideal weight change chart.
6. Every day, weigh yourself in the morning, naked. Plot your weight on the chart.
7. If your weight is over the line, take it easy on the cheese sauce today. Say no to that dessert. Get an extra 5 (not 15!) minutes on your stationary bike. If it’s below the line, eat!
8. Enjoy! Remember, your schedule will vary from day to day.
(For more information, see the book “Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week” by Laurence E. Morehouse, PhD and Leonard Gross).