Fat 2 Fit #90 – Business Plan for Weight Loss
Written on March 4, 2010 – 12:29 am | by Russ Turley
On today’s feature section Jeff talks about creating and then maintaining your new healthy lifestyle just like you would a new business. In fact, you can think of your new lifestyle as being a new business. When a company is focused on what they do, everything that they do is for the purpose of being more successful. If you are in the business of becoming fit and healthy, you can haphazardly do things here and then that will help, or you can do things a little more structured.
In the email and comments section we highlight a post by Fable Fairy over at Fat2FitSupport.com about overcoming a bad week. There were a lot of great suggestions. JC wrote in with an interesting question. Working on a cruise ship for six months, eating at buffets, how do you not gain weight? We’ve got a couple suggestions. Vinay writes in about the benefits of using food journals, in particular Fitday.
On the Web Report, Jeff has an article about snacks and weight loss and guess what was on the top of the snack list? Fruit, believe it or not. Russ has an article on the doctors behind all the lap band surgery billboards that litter the Southern California freeways. Probably not the place to go. Meanwhile if you want that surgery in Canada, get ready to wait 5 years. We bet that you can lose the weight before then.
Links Mentioned in the Show:
Behind the lap band billboards
Weight loss surgery in Canada
Snacks can help weight loss
Fable Fairy is having a bad week
Recipe of the Week:
Chicken and Black Bean Mole Tostadas
Homework:
Twice in this show we mentioned just how important it is to have a food and exercise diary or journal. I even said that if I could only give people one piece of advice that would help them with their weight loss, it would be to keep a journal. The homework this week is to keep a food and exercise journal for at least a week and hopefully longer. Be 100% accurate of everything that you do and everything that you eat. Your success or failure isn’t 100% dependent on keeping this diary, but understanding your results is.
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Tags: bad week, lap band, snacks, Support, Weight loss
2 Responses to “Fat 2 Fit #90 – Business Plan for Weight Loss”
By Dwight on Mar 4, 2010 | Reply
Good show. It was fun to hear my comment to Fable Fairy read “over the air.”
I really agree that the most important aspect of weight management is a food and exercise diary. I expect this to be the part of my new lifestyle that will keep me on track for the long term.
LL&P
By Sue on Mar 7, 2010 | Reply
I agree that you are more likely to succeed at weight loss if you have a structured plan, and I so I think a business plan would work.
After several failed attempts at weight loss, I decided to approach it like a work project. I first needed to define the task to complete (50 pounds lost). I then had to set an action plan (how to complete the task). This required research on the best methods of weight loss, reasonable weight loss goals etc., which was basically “eat less, move more”. I had to be more specific and set myself a daily goal of 1000 cal deficit, resulting in 2 lbs loss per week. This also lead to my timeline of 26 weeks (gave myself a little wiggle room). As the “project” went on I had to tweak the plan (sometimes the diet part, sometimes the exercise part).
While I lost weight for myself, approaching it like it was a work project took a lot of the negative self talk out of it for me. I went from constantly think that I couldn’t lose weight to being challenged to complete the project. I lost the 50 lbs in 26 weeks, and went on to lose another 20 lbs. I am at my goal weight, and I am 2 months into “maintenance”.