Let’s dive into Part II of the Fat Loss Process head first, and cover the Nutrition portion of your first short term goal that we discussed last time.

But before we get started, I just want to make sure I’m clear that…

It doesn’t matter what your specific goal is. It could be to lose 7 pounds in a month, it could be to lose 1 pound a week…

Heck, it could even be to gain 2 pounds of muscle in 3 weeks.

This isn’t about the specific goal, it’s about the process to reach that goal.

And I also want to be clear that the short term goal isn’t restricted to 4 week blocks. It could even be set in 2 week blocks like I used for the http://SixPackAbsProject.com.

The important thing is to just set a short time frame, cut your big goal into a realistic chunk, and get after it.

Just like the Washing Clothes example earlier, there are 3 Main Parts to any successful fitness program.

1) Nutrition
2) Training
3) Cardio

And Each of these 3 have their own small processes that need laser sharp focus to be successful.

Since we’re discussing nutrition today, you probably already know that calculations and food choices are “involved”.

But what we may not realize is that those 2 things are just small parts of the big picture. They are NOT the single most important things of our nutrition process.

They are JUST Processes.

Let me give you an example.

Here’s a formula to calculate the number of calories we need to consume per day to maintain our current weight:

Men’s Formula:

66+(6.22 x bodyweight in lbs)+(12.7 x Height inches)-(6.8 x Age)= Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR)
*Multiply RMR By our Activity Factor (1.3 to 2.0), and this will give us our daily maintenance calories

Women’s Formula

665+(4.36 x bodyweight in lbs)+(4.32 x Height) inches-(4.7 x Age)= Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR)
*Multiply RMR By our Activity Factor (1.3 to 2.0), and this will give us our daily maintenance calories

Once we deduce our maintenence calories, we subtract 500 calories…..

And this is the number of calories we should consume per day to lose approximately 1 pound of fat per week.

Next we match up foods that help us reach the daily caloric requirements.

It could be mixed and matched…

Steak & potato

Chicken & Broccoli

The How to Get Six Pack Abs Cheeseburger (my fav)

The list goes on and on.

So we have a food list, we have the calories that we need each day to lose a pound of fat per week.

THEN WHAT?

The first answer that likely comes to our mind is to just put the foods together and get it done.

But this is usually where we get it all wrong. Because it’s not really THAT easy unless you have a list of things to check off each time something is done.

Because just like the example with washing clothes, each small step needs to be completed one at a time.

So, it does take a little preparation, and a little bit of thought, but it won’t kill us, I promise; because we’ll break it into even smaller chunks that are easy to focus our undivided attention.

Here’s what I would consider the 5 Basic Nutrition Processes:

1. Calculating our Calories
2. Making a grocery list of our (approved) preferred foods
3. Going to the store and purchasing the foods
4. Preparing the foods
5. Consuming the foods

Now, I think you’ll agree, on the surface this looks really simple.

Each of the Processes have several small action steps that should be completed based on the respective frequency of the process.

For example, let’s take “Preparing the Foods” Process, and answer a few of the questions we’ll use to formulate our own personal Nutrition Plan to follow, assuming we’re determined to reach our end goal.:

1. How often will we prepare our food?
- Will we cook each day as we go?
- Will we cook enough to last 2-3 day?
- Will we cook enough for a week?

2. How will we store our food?
- Will we just put it all in 1 big container?
- Will we seperate it out into portions so that
it’s ready to heat and eat?

3. How will we transport and store our food at work?
- Do we have access to a refrigerator at work?
- Will we have to work around our work schedule and
just consume meal replacement bars or shakes at work
and eat our prepared food at home?

Once we have those questions answered, the hard work is out of the way, and we simply lay out the process as we have it answered above..

So here’s what a “sample” Nutrition process may look like:

1. calculate our calories (Only have to do this Once)
2. choose approved foods to prepare for the week
3. go to the grocery store once per week
4. prepare our food to last 3 days at a time
5. Every 3rd day will be a cooking day for the next 3 days’ meals
6. we have our food portioned and placed in containers so that it’s easy to transport and eat
7. We know what we’re taking to work with us each day, and what we’ll be eating.

As you can see, once we break down each part, it becomes extremely manageable. This is why focusing on the process and action steps is so powerful. In this example, we focus all our attention on choosing, buying, preparing and consuming our food.

Nothing more, nothing less.

So, the next step in the overall process is to actually lay out a step by step workout action plan to achieve your first 4 Week Goal… And then follow it.

I’ll be more than happy to dive deeper into this in my next blog post, but before I do, I want to make sure you want this information…

And I want to make sure we have a grasp on everything covered today.

So, you can let me know whether you want me to move on to the next process or discuss the Nutrition process a little more before moving on by leaving a comment below.

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In the last article, you read about how 2 coaches with the same goal took 2 different approaches…

One focused on the end result… and failed miserably.

The other focused on the process it took to achieve the end result, and acheived it with RECORD BREAKING SPEED.

So, we’re gonna dive into the first part of picking this process apart and use it to lose fat.

I believe the first and the most important thing for us to do requires us going through a 2 step process:

1) Set a specific long term goal, and define what it takes to accomplish it. Here’s an example:

I want to Have a Flat Stomach by June 1st. In order to do this, I’ll need to lose 23 pounds of fat.

2) Set your first short term goal. Since the long term goal is 4 months out, the 1st short term goal will be 4 weeks out.

Here’s an example: Today is January 24th, In 4 weeks on February 20th, I want to lose 7 pounds of fat.

The idea here is to split the long term goal into small consumable, realistic action steps that we can watch, track, and tweak.

IMPORTANT

Once we’ve set the long term goal, we put it in the back of our minds and FORGET ABOUT IT.

At this point, the long term goal doesn’t matter anymore. As long as we focus on achieving the short term goals, and actually achieve them, the End Result will automatically materialize by default - without ever having to even think about it again.

So, what we’ll focus on from this point forward is our short 4 week goal: Losing 7 Pounds. Once we get to February 20th, we’ll sit down, and set the next short term goal, and go forward.

This is the absolute most important part of losing fat, breaking it down in chunks… that you can actually SEE and FEEL working immediately.

In the end, all the “little chunks” will add up, and at the very least put us AT our end goal.

That’s part 1.

Part 2 is Diving into the actual process of losing the first 7 pounds and achieving the first 4 week goal.

I want to show you a simple example that we can all relate to, and break down the process…

Washing Dirty Clothes/Doing Laundry

The goal is to have a clean dry set of clothes in 120 minutes.

Here’s the Process:

1. Gather our clothes
2. Put Detergent into the washing machine
3. Set washing machine to run
4. Put clothes into the washing machine
5. Close Top of washing machine
6. When finished, transfer clothes to dryer
7. Set Dryer to 60 minutes
8. Close Dryer Door
9. Push start button

In roughly 120 minutes, we’ll have clean clothes.

Now, Had we laid in bed just thinking about how we want our clothes to be clean, it wouldn’t have gotten done…

Had we set the goal and skipped ANY 1 step in the 9 step process, we would have failed.

Now I know this is a silly example, but you get the point. Each little process had to be completed, and once they’re all added up, we have a new set of clean clothes.

The same is true when we’re trying to lose fat. We lay out a step-by-step system to lose 7 pounds of fat in 4 weeks, and we follow it from one step to the next…

So, the next step in the process is to actually lay out a step by step plan to lose the first 7 pounds during the next 4 Weeks… And then follow it.

I’ll be more than happy to dive deeper into this in my next blog post, but before I do, I want to make sure you want this information…

So, you can let me know you want me to go into it further by leaving a comment below.

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to get it done. If Not, we’ll move on. Cool?

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I just got back from doing some cardio up at the gym about 20 minutes ago… One thing I LOVE about the “long-slow” cardio is that it sort of takes me away from everything and allows me to do some thinking..

Some of you may not know this, but I’m a college football fanatic. Doesn’t matter who’s playing, I’ll watch. Just love it.

So, I’ve got a little story for you that has EVERYTHING to do with Losing-Fat, and something you can use RIGHT now to achieve your goals, so stay with me (I’ll try to keep it short)…

Onward…

5 Years ago Charlie Weis Took over the football program at Notre Dame - a high powered program.

3 years ago Nick Saban took over the football program at the University of Alabama - another school that has a history of dominance.

Both Notre Dame & Alabama have a long history of success, but have sputtered miserably in the past decade.

And both Coaches have had a tremendous amount of success at their previous coaching jobs, so they were both seen by their respective fan base & their schools as the Man to bring the program back to dominance.

Both had 1 Goal:

Win the College Football National Championship.

Charlie Weis went in at Notre Dame with Big Dreams, and often talked about how good “next year” is going to be, how they were improving, and LOVED talking about how he was going to turn his program around and bring a National Championship back to his school.

Charlie focused on the end goal, win a National Championship.

He was their “Savior”, and he knew it.

Nick Saban went in at Alabama, despised talking about lofty goals, didn’t want to talk about “Next Year”, and would frown and cuss anytime someone brought up this “National Title” talk.

He was their “Savior”, and he didn’t care.

In 5 years, Charlie Weis achieved one of the worst coaching records in Notre Dame’s history. And despite striving for the ultimate end goal, he failed miserably - he was fired just a few weeks ago.

In 3 years, Nick Saban took over a struggling program, had 2 undefeated seasons, and won the National Championship for Alabama in Year 3, just one week ago.

Here’s Nick Saban after the National championship game last week:

“We had a goal at the beginning of the year, and to achieve that goal we just needed to focus on the process on how to achieve that goal.”

Nick Saban focused on his team passing, tackling, running, and catching better than the opponent.

One coach focused on the end goal… and failed.

The other coach focused on the Process to achieve the end goal… and not only achieved it, but achieved it with unrelenting dominance.

WHAT THIS HAS TO DO WITH LOSING-FAT

The road to success that you will encounter this year in losing-fat will ultimately come down to the fact that you had a goal and a clear and concise strategy on how to achieve that goal.

Nick Saban’s focus on running, tackling, and passing better than his opponent to reach his end goal is VERY Similar to us having to focus on

-nutrition,

- working out, and

-doing cardio to reach our end goal of losing-fat

So I ask you….

Are you focusing on the”processes” to burn fat? And if so what are you doing to focus on it?

Please leave your comments below, cool?

Talk soon,

Todd Scott - Author, http://HowtoGetSixPackAbs.com & http://vaporizorMethod.com

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