The Complete Self

Many people feel that to lose weight, they have to cut down on how much they eat. In some cases that may be true. However, when putting on muscle and staying fit, you may have to eat like a horse.

When working through my last 30-day weight gain experiment, I found that I got what I call “food fatigue.” I was eating so much – more than twice what I normally did, that I just got tired of eating. I wouldn’t even be hungry for the next meal when the time came. I was eating 5 meals a day.

What did I do? Well, not enough. As I ate the right foods and cut out fast food, sodas, large desserts, had a “vacation day” every week where I could eat whatever I wanted…

Since about the age of 15 or so, I have considered myself a night owl. I would stay up or out late and get up late. I even carried that into adulthood. I would stay up until 1:00AM or 1:30AM working on websites, video production, etc.

However, over the last several months I have been contemplating changing my life. Not that my life was bad or I was miserable, I just wanted to raise my standards.

Around April 27th, 2009 I heard of a program about changing your daily routine. I almost immediately decided to follow this simple program on how to become more productive with my day. At the time I was waking up at about 8:00AM or 8:30AM and my wife and children were up an hour or so before me. I worked late every night and was feeling disconnected with my wife and kids – at least to the extent that I was feeling “out of the loop” in their daily routine. I wanted to contribute to the morning routine. Several changes have happened since then and I want to tell you how it happened…

Before starting my weight training program, I decided to meet up with Dr. Blahnik. I was having some neck and lower back pain and I wanted to get it checked out before stressing my body with heavy weights. What I found was shocking. The X-Rays told it all. What he showed me had me put off starting Tim Ferriss’ “geek to freak” program for 3 weeks!

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The complete title to this article is, “How I Gained 10Lbs of Muscle & Lost 12.9Lbs of Fat in 2hrs 5min of Lifting weights over 30 days.”

If you know Tim Ferriss and his “Geek to Freak” Experiment, you will read that he was able to loose 3 lbs of fat and gain (back +) 34 Lbs of muscle by working out a total of 8 x 30 minute lifting sessions over the course of 30 days.

I have commented back to Tim on his blog and instead of going into all of it here, I will copy my post on his blog here:

Shortly after getting married, I stopped doing this and it has never bothered me since. But, since I am looking for a challenge, I decided to do this for the next 30 days. note: I am really tired here!

First Post:
This creek bed had never been crossed before. It had remained un-mowed and untouched until this day. This video is of my third crossing. The first time I thought of it I walked up to the ravine and checked it out and measured the risk. I was willing to take a risk if I wasn’t “risky” about it. There is a difference. I decided to go for it and I almost went over the handlebars the first time. I got such a rush out of it that I did it again – this time I almost fell off the side when I hit the rock at the bottom.