LOOK GOOD NAKED

I was complaining one night about my weight.

I was a chicken biscuit away from 190 on the scale.

Sara looked at me and said:

"You can't keep complaining if you are not going to stop buying chips."

Everything about my eating habits changed that night.

I was the one buying the chips.

I was literally arguing with myself.

Daytime Josh vs. Nighttime Josh 

The mistake we all make when we start our weight loss journey is making it about getting in shape more than making it about losing weight.

We get a gym membership, follow a fitness plan, get a new mantra.

We increase intensity before we address the source, the habit, the problem:

What we eat. Our fuel, our energy, our source.

If you need to lose 20+ lbs you need to be in a calorie deficit, not training like your life depends on it. 

Increasing training can have the reverse effect and is why people burn out so fast, and why I burned out in the past. 

Take your new energy and frustration and create a system.

Your life depends on what you eat (on every level).

If I was your fitness coach I would get you walking daily and eating lean protein for the first month.

We aren't trying to add muscle yet, we are trying to make you look better naked. 

We need to learn to get full on real food.

We need to get comfortable with eating less, getting fresh air, and increasing awareness.

We will get to lifting and adding muscle, but let's get damn near perfect at controlling what we can control.

Which is what we eat.

People have commutes, work stress, and kids, so what are habits and food we can implement that give us more energy during the day?

That is what we start with:

You and your energy.

It took years of unawareness and avoidance to get to a place where we need to lose weight. Let's have awareness and patience as we return back to a healthy version of ourselves.

We can't outsmart a caloric deficit and we can't outwork clean eating. 

You don't need to disappear for 6 months, be obsessed, or follow David Goggins.

You do need to look at ingredients, step on a scale, and look in the pantry. 

You need honesty and awareness, and to eat less food, and to eat better quality food.

I use the 10x protein method.

You multiply the grams of protein by 10. If it is close to or more than the calorie intake, it is a good source of protein. 

This led me to eat these foods weekly:

- eggs, sourdough, berries, bananas, greek yogurt, tons of chicken breast, tri tip, filet mignon, turkey sausage, chicken sausage, canadian bacon, etc

We will get to the workouts in a few weeks.