How I Lose 25% Of My Body Weight - Part 1
Pulling the right levers
The Sea of Options
There is a never ending stream of products and schemes competing for your attention.
One of my goals with YourLastLife is to do the filtering for you. To filter out the chaff and focus on what works.
When there is money to be made and you have advertisers, producers, influencers, ad partners and affiliate promoters the truth can be distorted in favor of a return.
While on the topic of affiliates - YourLastLife will only affiliate with products and brand that I agree with and think are the best and personally use.
One of the affiliates - The Tuttle Twins - are Children’s books & educational materials that are freedom based, covering history, law and generally how not to be a shitty human. These resonate with my personal beliefs, the importance of education and protecting children from a world turning sour.
Jenny Craig, Ozempic, Weight Watchers, The Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, Nutrisystem, Slimfast, Noom, Medifast, Whole30.
There are hundreds of options and people competing for your money.
The good news is -
the best things in life are free
I will fast track you through years of experimentation on myself with body weight and fat loss. I’ve tried most of the popular diets to see how they affected me.
I’ve settled on my own process and I’ll give you my step by step approach for dropping weight. It combines a few diets to give a heavy up front weight loss, plus some longevity and maintainability.
⚠️ Health Disclaimer
This article is for informational and entertainment purposes only and not medical advice. Consult a healthcare professional before starting any diet or lifestyle changes. Your health is your responsibility.
The Trigger
For me personally, there is some point where you keep noticing that you are fat. At some point I get enraged by it.
I find that I don’t usually take action until I have an absolutely burning desire or rage to lose weight.
I’m usually at this point -
Overview
This is the 100,000 foot overview of how I lose weight (excluding any exercise):
🥓 Keto for 3 weeks
⏳ Introduce Intermittent Fasting
🦴 Onto Modified Paleo
🍽️ Onto a Regular Diet and watching calories
I’ll cover exercise as a separate topic in a future article. You can loose LOTS of weight with no exercise.
Step 1: Preparation
When your burning rage has begun - it is time.
Set a start time for a Monday that is 1 week away. If the next Monday is less than a week away make it for the following Monday. No Rush.
In this period, we will prepare.
Preparation and Mental Strength are the two key factors to body manipulation. If you are weak on Mental Strength, preparation will carry you a long way.
Immediate Action
We will need Carb Manager the phone app - Android / iPhone.
If you have a cloth tape measure you can note down your waist size.
Take photos in underwear before you start
Within the Week
⚖️ We need weighing scales - if you don’t have some you need to get some. Here is a good one from Amazon. Charting your weight via the app is a nice bonus. If you don’t have a scale like this you can use Carb Manager to track your weight loss via manual entry.
Once you have these - measure your weight in the morning just after you have woken up and have used the washroom. You will be weighing yourself at the same time every day.
🥩 Shopping. Use Google to find some tasty looking meal recipes. I’d recommend the super cheesy, meaty, creamy meals to start. They are so tasty - you look forward to them.
🍱 Buy 14 freezable containers to store your prepared food in. These will be put into the fridge/freezer to ensure you always have food whenever you feel like it.
🍫 Buy some Keto Snacks. Since I first started there are TONS of Keto snacks available now. Remember you a looking for a low Net Carb level. I like to buy things like mint chocolate bars. Where I live there is Fatso Salted Caramel Peanut Butter with MCT oil and chia seeds - most excellent. These will help get you past any sugar cravings.
💧 Buy some Electrolytes - Mio Sport is one I use occasionally. It’s tasty, feels like a slight treat and is easy to add to water. Electrolytes are just Magnesium, Potassium, Salt - any source of these will do really. These will keep you feeling good during the diet. Sometimes you can get low in these minerals.
🧪 Optionally - you can buy some Ketone Strips from a pharmacy or from Amazon. Ketone Strips let you track whether you have ketones in your urine.
⚠️Meal preparation is the weight loss. It is critical to have food prepared. Not doing so is not to lose weight!
📚 Take some time to understand what Keto is as a diet. How it works at a low level. Read this full guide and do your own side quest reading. The nitty-gritty of Keto education will be in the next post.
Keto is is a high fat diet, low protein and no carbs.
Just to entice you - this is the stuff I start my diet off with - and I drop weight very quickly. I’m talking 4-6 pounds per week for months.
These pictures are really considered mostly “Dirty Keto”, however given their deliciousness - they are a great motivator for starting the diet and going the first few weeks. Beyond that, you can start better long term sources of fat.
In the mean time - start your preparation steps, get food. Hold tight till the next post where we’ll unpack the Keto diet, LDL, HDL cholesterol, oils, fats, satiation, ketosis and many more topics.
Great article! I follow a very similar regimine with one difference.
I come up with a morning plan for every day before I eat my first meal. The plan consists of reviewing my my vision board with my 5 year plan and annual goals,then writing down 3 things I am grateful for, 3 daily objectives to make the day great, and 5 critical priorities for the day.
I do this before both eating, browsing the surface web, or engaging in any form of digital communication and I do it in a paper journal.
The reason I do this before eating is that your brain for the first hour or so of the day doesn't fully wake from non-REM sleep and by having a routine that programs your brain with a clear direction for the day before you fully wake up, more of your subconscious decisions will align to your vision for how you envision the trajectory of your future, rather than someone else's vision of theirs.
Moreover, the second you eat anything, your brain wakes up instantly from the sensation of your taste buds and activation of your digestive system, meaning as soon as you put anything in your mouth, you exit the state of semi-lucid wakefulness and have to apply conscious effort to manifest your desires and intentions.
Basic psychologically shows that conscious effort is finite, limited and expensive compared to subconscious effort, meaning by programming your subconscious in the morning before eating, your mind can manifest almost everything it desires with almost no mental effort.
The same principle (a first principle) applies to programming your dreams at night.
It's "lose", not loose, ffs.