I have to admit that there have been quite a few things that changed around the area since I’ve last weighted myself. And even if most of them seemed like good things at the time, they have all put their amprents on my body. I am now…not just fat, but very fat , with a belly that makes me feel quite ashamed of myself. I tried to keep various types of healthy diets and even stayed hungry for days, just to manage to lose a couple of those pounds that are expecially visible now that the summer is almost here and the war weather is making me sweat and get tired very easily, all because of the extra pounds.

Unfortunatelly, nothing really worked and I am still feeling heavy and unhealthy. I have read the thoughts of many people that say they are happy being fat, that they can live with it and are not affected in any way by it. But I find that very hard to belive, as there are many things the extra pounds interfere with. And I’m not only talking about being ashamed of my figure or not fitting into last year’s wardrope, I’m talking about obvious health problems and the fact that fat people usually don’t feel healthy, just like me. There are times when I am overweight but I must be somewhere within some limits, because I don’t feel the burden of all the unwanted pounds, but other times is just need to start another healthy diet because I am feeling ill again.

But, this time I think that other activities were the ones that made me gain all this weight. Things that I never given the proper importance at the time and that have almost nothing to do with eating. At least not directly, because they’ve managed somehow to interfere with the pound gaining process. After spending a few days reflecting on this, I have managed to list the most important stuff I belive to affect my weight:

• I have work in a way that doesn’t require me to move much
• I don’t have to leave my office at all
• I am usually stressed because I;m always in debts
• I had to work hard on choosing a good buisness prototype that works
• I faild again to create a lot of profit because I focused on helping others
• I usaully give money to family, and this means more money problems
• I do not talk to others about my problems
• I always eat more than one portion, which means I have huge meals
• I do a lot of extra office tasks, and it’s killing my time
• I usually feel the need to eat something sweet and istead of eating fuits I eat chocolate and such
• I’m in my 30’s so if I eat like in the 20’s I’m sure gonna get fatter, as the methbolism is slower now
• I am not an angry person, so I don’t feel the need of working out intenslely just to let out all the hate
• I’m pesimist and tend to have lots of self distructing habits, like eating a lot and often

So, I’m tring to blame my 210 pounds on all these factors. I am planning a trip to the seaside in the late summer, July or August, and I decided to set a realistic weight loss goal, that I intend to achive only by healthy eating and daily excercises. So, till August, 40 pounds. That’s more than easily achivable with any diet, but I’ve decide to try a non-invasive one, that won’t mess up my methbolism more that it’s aleady messed up: I’ll be eating non-processed food in any quantities, and only eat something cooked, like a soup or something at lunch. I’ve heard only best recommendation about this alimentary program, so I’ll be giving it a try.

I’ve heard many voices that connected perfect muscles with a regular grapefruit diet. And because I care about the way u muscles present themselves, I’ve tried it. Grapefruits are indeed a good antioxidant, and they are great at loosing fat. But dinking just grapefruit juice and eating only citric would not help me grow muscular tissue. I was afraid at first that the grapefruit diet would actually end up hurting my muscles.

A man that truly cares for the way he looks will always be concerned about his muscle packs. If your abs are already worked and nice, can you actually claim that you can refrain from showing them off? When your six pack abs is growing, can you resist wearing fitted shirts? In these cases, you are a person that truly appreciates 6 pack abs and wants to keep them as perfect as possible. This is why I took the grapefruit diet with great care, and I added protein supplements from other fruits and fat free meat every day.

If you know how to get it, a nice abdomen is not such a hard goal. Let’s talk a bit about seriously over weighed people who want 6 pack abs. The overweight man may as well have lots of muscular tissue below all that fat, but it’s not visible at all. If you are a component part of this category, then you must know that training will not be enough for you, as you also need to focus on your food habits. This basically translates into a low fat diet, lots of vitamins from fruits and vegetables and as much water as possible. Never mind bad opinions about water consumption, as it is the main ingredient of a healthy life style, and it will never get you fat. If anything, it’s the best diet sustainer there is.

The grapefruit diet practically means that you will have to eat half a grapefruit before meals, and this way you will eliminate the calories that you eat instantly. But I was a muscle builder, I did not want to affect my muscles. An 800 calories diet would do just that, because that’s what the grapefruit diet comes to in the end. This is why I took the diet but increases the calories amount a bit with good calories from fruits and vegetables, and also meat.
There’s no need to tell you where these abdominal muscles are. If you have been to the gym recently, then you know that there’s a lot of work in building a perfect abdomen. The training you make is only successful if you take into consideration both the endurance limits and the movement quality.

Only after you’ve managed to properly adjust your food habits you should be planning your training sessions. Excepting the extreme obesity cases, you don’t really have to be thinner when you start going to the gym. The grapefruit diet is to be taken more as a detoxification measure, once in a while, ideally four times a year. It has really helped me grow better muscles without taking steroids or eating protein bars. But of course, because I’ve learnt from the grapefruit diet just how hard it is to lose bad fats, I now have a new healthier meal plan, and I eat at least 6 times a day, but mainly natural food, and lots of chicken and fish meat. With the new feeding program and the gym session, you will turn all that fat into muscles in no time. Fat can be burnt in the gym as well, making place for new enhanced muscles.

I now agree that the grapefruit diet can improve my gym performance. It’s probably because it frees the body of toxins, and also eliminates the fats we can’t even see.