your ideal weight
Here’s a question for you: how much do you want to weigh for the rest of your life? Now, I’m normally a bit cynical about weight-change programs, as I prefer to measure myself by how my clothes fit, but my wife is a champion of weight-based programs, and this is it. By far the most exciting I’ve ever done. you come across
Let me share with you some guidelines for choosing your ideal weight and a weight change program created by Dr. Laurence Morehouse, an exercise physiologist whose credentials include being asked to write his exercise and fitness entries by the Encyclopedia Britannica. , as well as being the man who developed the machinery, diet and exercise programs used by astronauts both on Earth and to maintain muscle tone and fitness in space.
1. Pick a weight you know you can reach.
2. Choose a weight that you feel you could maintain fairly comfortably.
3. Choose a weight where you are fairly skinny, not skinny.
Now here is your daily schedule. You will need a pen, graph paper, and a set of scales. The goal of this program is to help you lose or gain no more than one pound per week. This rhythm will help ensure that your body does not get out of control. If you want to gain or lose fifteen pounds, the program must last fifteen weeks! :
1. Don’t start your program until Friday. For the next few days, eat what you want!
(This “boosts” your metabolism, and will actually make it easier and less disruptive to change your diet later.)
2. On Friday, weigh yourself, in the morning, naked! This will be his starting weight.
3. Write this number in the upper left corner of your paper. Count over seven lines across and two lines up or down (depending on whether you want your weight to go up or down!) and write the next number. Keep going until you reach your ideal weight (you may need more paper :-)!
Example: If you started at 150, your next number would be 151 or 149.
4. Number the days at the bottom, starting with number one. One vertical line = one day.
5. Draw a line connecting the numbers. This is your ideal weight change chart.
6. Every day, weigh yourself in the morning, naked. Graph your weight on the chart.
7. If your weight is over the line, take your cheese sauce easy today. Say no to that dessert. Do an extra 5 (not 15!) minutes on your stationary bike. If it’s below the line, eat it!
8. Enjoy! Remember, your schedule will vary from day to day.
(For more information, see the book “Total Fitness in 30 Minutes a Week” by Laurence E. Morehouse, PhD and Leonard Gross.)