So now, the awesomeness begins

In the past, having fallen victim to the same diet frustrations that everyone else faces, I wondered with all the misinformation mingled in with the good information, will I ever find the real story?  Well, if this book wasn't the real deal, I don't know that anything is.  To keep it short, and avoid plagiarism, lets just say that within the first two chapters of the book, I realized that my main issue was that I wasn't eating enough, and not working out enough.  The caloric intake I was maintaining mixed with my low-to-no level of cardiovascular exercise, I was turning my body into the ultimate fat-storing machine.  And as genetics has dictated to me, it all goes to my belly and chest.

Finishing the book opened my eyes to a whole new point of view on the subject.  The book outlined why popular fad diets never work, and explained how to heat, when to eat, and what to eat.  Hands down, the best book on practical nutrition on the planet!  But the book explained so much more than just eating.  It outlined how to do cardio to maximize the fat burning process, and the need (not benefit, the NEED) to do weight training to keep your lean muscle mass from diminishing.  The picture was coming together.

Making a nerdy ass Legend of Zelda reference, the Triforce pieces are as follows: Diet, Cardio, Weight training.  In that order.  You'll never get anywhere on a diet of eating garbage.  While its possible to maintain a good weight with just basic exercise each week, its pretty much impossible to lose body fat without cardio.  Weight training is the tier that hold everything else in place.  Losing body fat also means losing a little bit of lean mass, as in order to do so, you must have a calorie deficit.  Weight training minimizes this loss because working your muscles allows them to grow back stronger.  Also, the more lean mass you have, the more calories your body burns at a resting state (Basal Metabolic Rate) in order to maintain the muscle (so, in other words, the whole story to the "tidbits" I've found earlier on in my quest).

Now, I felt I was getting somewhere.  Armed with knowledge that made scientific sense, as well as a whole lot of common sense, I felt in my gut (the wobbly, jelly-belly that it was) that I was on the right track.  Part of this program is to record all your results.  When a results aren't what you want, you then have all the records to go back and look at why it might have happened that way.  This blog will be a part of that.