Why Do We Lose Fat Fast, Then It Stops?

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Hey.. Todd here.

2 of the most frequent email questions I get on a regular basis are generally from people who have opted to receive my newsletter, but are not yet How to Get Six Pack Abs program customers. And that’s cool, because I love hearing from both newsletter subscribers and customers alike.

Anyway, the 2 most frequent questions have to do with why it seems so easy to lose weight on the “short term”, but then it seems to just dead bolt stop? And the other question is very similar, but usually more “enthusiastic,” like: How in the &$#!@ can I prevent this from happening over and over, because it’s frustrating as hell?

Generally, it’s super easy (or fairly easy anyway) to lose weight pretty fast within the first 2 weeks… And in my opinion it may be because of this one reason:

*) We eat “generally” healthy, and, although we feel a bit guilty about it, tend to go just a ‘tad’ overboard without realizing it.

Let me give you a real life example from my perspective (not that it’s about me, it’s just easier to explain).

Okay, so yesterday I ate pretty dang healthy. You know, 2 protein shakes, and 5 bun less deer cheeseburgers (if you have a copy of How to Get Six Pack Abs, then you already know about my cheeseburger diet and how to apply it to foods you enjoy – although yesterday I just killed the buns because I felt spunky).

So, as it sat, I had plenty of protein and a moderate dose of carbs, right? As I was lounging on the couch winding down for the night, I kinda started having these sugar cravings… and I LOOOVE oatmeal cream pies… so my illogical brain says… “Hell Todd, you can eat a creampie.. you did good today”. And even though I felt a bit guilty, I said what the heck… and grabbed one…

BUT BEFORE I KNEW IT…

I had eaten 4… or 5… Honestly, I don’t know, because I lost count after, oooh, around 2. (hey, I’ve never claimed to be 100% perfect, 100% of the time

And generally when things like this happen, we aren’t 110% committed to following through with the specifics to lose fat. Now, I don’t mean we don’t WANT the results of eating great and working out several times a week, I just mean we haven’t convinced ourselves that we’re gonna DO IT full throttle, right?

So, during this phase, even though we’re eating healthy 65%-70% of the time, we’re probably still eating a bunch of stuff that may be loaded with sodium, have tons of fat, and lots of sugar in it on top of our healthy nutrition habits.

Taking just 50% of that stuff out of a normal nutrition day can RAPIDLY speed up our fat loss. But the thing is, we’re not gonna do it until we’re ready… or until we’ve convinced ourselves that it will actually work to make us look and feel better.

When you take 90%-100% of that stuff out, then guess what? We won’t be putting anything in our body…

1) That will cause water retention (we normally retain a good bit of water from regular foods, and if we add in a little sodium, it’s been shown to make it worse)

2) That will prevent our body from burning fat (studies show that sugar increases insulin levels & forces our body to produce a hormone that actually prevents fat loss) or…

3) That will overload our body with extra calories by eating fatty foods (1 gram of fat has 9 calories in it as opposed to 4 calories per gram of protein or carbs).

Typically, when we get down to the nuts and bolts, get really serious about what we want out of losing the fat, and cut out most of the stuff that’s holding us back…

THE WEIGHT PEELS OFF… for the first 2-4 weeks or so.

And then it just seems to inexplicably stop dead in it’s tracks…

Which leads to the next question…

“How in the %$!@# do we tell our body to KEEP burning fat?”

This is the $84,000 dollar question… and the answer may shock you…

I’ll be back in a few days with more… be on the look out for an email with the subject: “The $84,000 Dollar Question”. When you get this email, make sure you OPEN IT. Okay?

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