I’m five weeks away from my one-year anniversary of deciding to make changes in my training and diet. Since my first 13 pound weight loss, it’s been an uphill battle to lose those last 7 pounds that I wanted to. I’ve gotten considerably leaner in the mirror, however my scale hasn’t changed much. I’m unsure how much fat or muscle I need to lose/gain to start seeing that six-pack of mine. However I do know one thing: I’m not giving up. After all these years of training I’ve sure learnt a few things. The following is an analysis of everything I’ve tried over the years and how I plan to use them over the next few weeks: An Analysis of Weight Loss methods and Training Program.

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So we looked at the first problem of obesity. Here’s the second problem:

Problem #2: Thinking too little

Yes, I know what you’re thinking. If the first problem was thinking too much, then how is it that the second problem is thinking too little? If doctors and scientists and health professionals are over thinking the problem, then the average consumer is doing just the opposite: they’re not even thinking about it.

Why do you think supplement companies make so much money off of them? Christmas rolls around and they stuff themselves silly. Then realize that they’re fat and try to lose the weight by stuffing themselves with even more fat burners and what not, promising extreme and effective weight loss. Then they realize that shoving fat burners down their throats doesn’t work and dieting is too hard and they’re too lazy to go to the gym, so they just start binge eating again. The cycle continues.

The problem lies in the lack of research. If these people were to just sit down in front of their computer on a Sunday afternoon and do some research on exercise and nutrition, they’d understand the following things:

1. You can not achieve long-term success with weight loss if you do not lift weights

2. You can not achieve long-term success with weight loss if you are chronically limit your caloric intake

3. You can not achieve long-term success with weight loss with aerobic exercise alone

4. Weight loss is a long-term process, and success to which depends on the type of lifestyle changes you make.

Fat people are just like other people: they’re self-conscious individuals who don’t want to look the way they want. But the constant butchering of their intelligence by so-called experts in the field has left them with no other choice but to accept their condition. But people should realize that you should never accept your condition. Why settle for a life you hate? Why just be going through the motions when you can dig deep inside of you and bring out that change on your own through consistency, determination, and a lot of hard work?

I want to give you guys an update on the YJA (Young Jain Association) Convention: I’m going to the convention. I’ll tell you why on my next post. I also want to start sharing a story about this desire I have of helping someone out. Let me first make sure this situation materializes. I need to ask him if he wants to workout first. Then we’ll take it from there.

The YJA (Young Jain Association) Convention is a convention that rolls around every two years. The main purpose, from I believe it to be, is to portray Jainism (a religion) in a different context to the younger generation. My first experience was one of mixed feelings.

The main concept of any convention is to have good speakers. Just as I strive to bring good content to this website, a good convention needs to have good content. There were a few good speakers at YJA, but there was really nothing that I could take home with me. Some of the better speakers involved Sarano Kelly, Nipin Mehta, and Dhrumil Purohit.

I personally believe that YJA has made a crucial ethical mistake: in order to attract customers (participants) it has sold its soul (purpose).

Put this into the perspective of the fitness industry. To attract clientele and consumers, the fitness industry has bent and twisted the truth to make things sound appealing to the masses. Despite so many fitness products, gyms, and trainers out there, obesity levels have been rising. Now I’m not an expert in obesity, but I think the main problem here is two fold:

Problem #1: Thinking too much

I know in my last post I stated that people are stupid. I still think that this is a problem. People are stupid, but the solution really isn’t to just think more, it’s to ask the right questions and do more. The main question out there right now is: “What causes obesity?” You have to be somewhat stupid if you’e asking that question wearing a lab coat and conducting various experiments on patients and what not. Go out onto the field and look at what kind of things people are putting into their mouths.

I lost 13 pounds over the summer just by staying away from Taco Bell, Soda, and Starbucks. Yes I was working out, but I was working out when I put on 7 pounds of fat. The main different was diet. When I gained 7 pounds of fat in 3 months, I was starting the day off with dunkin donuts, downing two protein bars or shakes a day, and alternating between subway and taco bell for lunch. Oh, and don’t forget the two starbucks coffees per day and various energy drinks. And then I would come home and eat a ton of Indian food. It was a very stressful semester (one of my worst academically), but that was no reason to ignore the simple fact of dieting.

Moral of the story: It’s your DIET stupid!

I want you guys to think about the first problem while I calm myself down and get ready to write about the second problem.

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Sometimes I wonder why I’m doing all this. Why am I waking up in the morning, helping out my family, trying to do Shah Training, get good grades at school, and work on my consulting job. Why am I hoping for my script to get sold instead of just focusing solely on school or trying to get an internship or trying to get a higher-paying job?

Ideally I would just focus on school right now, then go out and start looking for a job once I graduate. That would be “ideal.” That would be, essentially, the road most traveled. But I’ve never been the one to take the road most traveled. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been the one to do things differently.

Early childhood memories tell me that I was always a writer, a planner, meticulous in some instances, and careless in others. I was always physical, but I was also the type of person that would be able to sit in a quite corner all to himself without making a noise. I would get lost in parties and excel in family gatherings. I loved attention, but from only those that I trusted.

When I look at myself in the mirror sometimes I feel a sudden urge to just be angry. Really, I feel this way. Why? Because there is a sad truth that I’ve come to realize recently: People are stupid. This truth has been further compounded by the fact that I have recently began reading Freakonomics.

Freakonomics talks about economics in a completely different way than most economics talk about. To me, it’s like taking two seemingly polor opposite scenarious and connecting them through logic, philosophy, and economics. This makes sense to me because in a way I’ve been doing this for a greater part of my life.

Freakonomics is basically looking at the world a different way. Same goes for me. I look at things in a different way. Recently, I’ve been conducting an internal debate whether or not an upcoming YJA (Young Jain Association) Convention is worth the $275 ticket that they are selling. Frankly speaking if you were to take into account the cost of the hotel in downtown Chicago, then this price is surely a bargain. But I don’t see it that way. I see it is a complete rip off and waste of money.

Why do you guys think I see this convention as a rip-off? And what does this post have to do with fitness? Post your thoughts to comments.

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No one ever really thinks about the morbidly obese. People just say, “Oh they’re lazy.” We make fun of them and taunt them. But can it be that over-eating for the morbidly obese is a result of a disease that we have not yet discovered? Julianne Kennedy takes a stand for the morbidly obese in her report titled “Weight Loss Surgery, The Age of Consumer Diligence & How It Effects You.”

There’s some really great information in the report about how our consumerist society tempts this group of people with fast food restaurants and vending machines. The point that stuck out to me is the fact that the morbidly obese are viewed to fail, so many personal trainers and fitness industry professionals don’t bother to target these folks. And when they are targeted, they’re targeted with products destined to fail (i.e. infomercials).

You can download the free report here.

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