We must all be accountable for our successes and failures in life. It is no different when it comes to dieting. There are few better feelings in the world than for someone to notice and compliment your efforts. If you are very obese unfortunately, it may take a little more time for people to actually notice the weight you’ve lost. Too many men and women give up simply because no one noticed and that is an incredible shame. Give your dieting practices an opportunity to work before you decide they are a failure and you just might surprise yourself with a roaring success.

As you can see, our opinions aren’t exactly the same but for the
most part they serve the same purpose.

Here’s the full post…

http://www.online.richardjp.com

I wish you success with your blog,
Richard

I thought that the first book in this series was a good intro to his training techniques, so I would assume that this book is pretty similar. If you like the concepts in the book, you might want to google him or drop by t-nation. He writes a lot of articles for them. The site is very “male” and pre-bodybuilding, but Alwyn’s articles are very good.

When I began this fitness / weight loss kick a year ago I did a lot of what you have said is ineffective but many people do: serious calorie reductions, hours of cardio etc…

Reading your blog and moderating an online weight loss group has really changed my approach. I’m beginning to learn resistance and body weight exercises and look for ‘better’ food not ‘less’ food (although less is also a consideration, but not as much as it was).

Here’s the confession bit: I bought a ‘diet’ book.

Perhaps I didn’t read this post soon enough.

Nevertheless I’m somewhat optimistic about this one. I am wondering if you have heard of it. I’m not asking if ‘it will work for me’ because not knowing me, I’m sure that it would be a difficult estimation.

In any case this book seems to be a similar message to what you are writing about, it’s called New Rules of Lifting for Women.

Right now I’ve been flipping between the Why Can’t I Loose This Fat series that you wrote and doing HIIT exercises on the body weight exercises that I’ve become familiar with and can do, and using NROLFW to find modifiers for the exercises that were too challenging (i.e. can’t do a chin up to save my life).

I’ll definitely be looking at your new series. In and around April I’ll be trying to put myself on some sort of 12-week plan to measure consistency and if I think that whatever exercise program I land on is working. If you review NROLFW before that I’ll pay close attention, if not and I follow it I’ll give you an update.

If being famous makes you happy, then more power to you, but I’ve found that most of the “celebrity trainers” started out like most other, but just happened to be in a location that allowed them to meet celebrities – Of course they were also very good at getting clients results and marketing their services too -

have a great new year!

I look forward to debating my arguments with you.

p.s. everyone interested in a great health & fitness resource should head over to Iowa Ave.

As you said, everyone is different, and different things work for different people. So, most of your list “doesn’t work” list doesn’t work for me…………….:)