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The Slow Carb Diet is the only diet I’ve been able to stay on and lose weight.
My five things to do for 75 days that makes this the hard challenge.
- Slow Carb Diet
- Miracle Morning
- Drink One gallon of Water
- One Thing to Advance my Career or Business at Work
- Snap-in
These are the five things I need to do for 75 days to complete the challenge.
I picked the five things that I think will advance my current life right now. I am going to do all of them for 75 days.
The slow carb diet is something I found in Tim Farris’s book, “The Four-Hour Body“. It was a good book, but the diet is the thing I took away from it.
I like the diet because it is easy, I can stick to it even when I go out to eat with clients, family, and friends. I can do it on the road, at work, and at home. I needed something I could take with me everywhere and this diet is it.
Like the 75 Hard Challenge, it has five things you have to do to stay on the diet:
- Avoid “White” Carbs
- Eat the Same Meals Every Day
- Don’t Drink Calories
- No Fruit
- Take One Day Off per Week
Most of these are pretty simple and I can do them at home, at work, out with friends, and I can always schedule my day off for a day that works for me. Click here to learn more about the Slow Carb Diet.
I’ve been overweight almost my entire life. Even when I was close to making weight to join the Marine Corps I had people telling me I was fat and how to lose weight. I’ve become an expert on how to lose weight because everyone has told me how…. everyone.
For a long time, when I was younger, everyone I met that was older than me told me how to lose weight. It sucked to meat someone and have them tell you, “What you need to do is more push-aways. All you have to do is push yourself away from the table.”
Everyone had an opinion about how I should lose weight. And everyone one of them was worth what I paid for it… nothing. None of it worked.
In fact, when I lost weight to get rid of almost 100 pounds to join the Marine Corps I just started working out twice a day and ate one big meal a day. In about a year I lost about 80 pounds and then quit eating a little more and working out harder so I could lose the last 20 pounds. I missed by six and got a wavier to join the Corps.
At boot camp they had a strict diet, but I cheated. I still lost weight because of the intense workouts that were life as a Marine Corps Recruit.
When I got out of boot camp was probably the last time I made the weight charts to be a Marine. I had to do a body fat analysis to stay in the Marine Corps. And I did for years without problems. Then I put on a little weight. And then a little more. And pretty soon it was out of control.
Now I’m 320 pounds right now hoping to lose 20 during this challenge. I was 355 about two years ago before I did my first 75 Hard Challenge. That was painful. Now I’m trying to go the right way.
The Slow Carb Diet is the only diet I’ve ever been able to actually stay on for more than a week or two.
And I found that is the secret. You can find some fad diet and then just will your way through. It will work for a couple weeks or months but somehow you will always find the weight that you lost. I wish I could find my keys that easy…
If you have a lot of weight to lose, you need to find the thing that works for you. Ignore what everyone says… even your doctor at times. When I was young and losing weight my doctor liked that I was losing weight but didn’t like the way I was losing it. He can suck it!
Now I found a way and even have my blood work done every six months or so to make sure things are going the right way. My current doctor doesn’t approve of the diet either, but since I’m losing weight she can do the same thing as my other doc.
Find what works for you and go for it! Keep going until you find a reason you should stop.
Ben Branam