Logical Weight Loss Podcast

I'm Back! at 226.8 After writing a book, I'm back and up in my weight. I could cry and beat myself up, but I just looked at the calendar and said: "October 1st the day I turn this thing around." I reset some data in my apps, starting getting up a little earlier, walking a little more, paying attention to my water intake. I've even cleaned off my exercise bike as its fall in Ohio, and only a matter of time until the snowfalls.  Don't let yourself get complacent with your health. What used to scare the crap out of me is now slowly becoming the norm. That is something that can't happen. These happen in small increments, and we kind of let them fly under the radar as these bad habits and inches, um, inch their way into our lives.  I did find an article on what famed Quarterback Tom Brady (he is a bit of a freak of Nature). See it at  https://tb12sports.com/blog/what-does-tom-brady-eat  I'm glad to be back, and ready to get motivated. Thanks for being a patron!

Today I am joined by who does the Big Fat Podcast Description: Having been overweight for most of his life, Daniel Rosado experiments with his diet and starts to lose weight. The struggles and successes are all documented here as well as interviews with health and fitness experts. If you are ready to take action and make changes to your health, the Big Fat Life Podcast is here to help. Follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bigfatlifepodcast/ Today we hear: Daniel's "ENOUGH!" moment How he found a nutritionist What hasn't worked for him His advice for anyone feeling discouraged Dave's carb experiment His show is Big Fat Life Podcast and is available in Apple and Google  

Weight Check-In 224.4 When I last recorded I was 224.4 and as of today, I'm at 224.3. Am I happy that I went down a tenth of a pound? Not really. If there was a silver lining, in my weight update its that I was traveling for a week where I was stuck eating hotel food. I did take one step in planning and took some Advocare Meal Replacements with me and drank those for breakfast and skipped my lunch (attempting to do a slight version of Intermittent Fasting). With the news I received in this episode, I have new motivation. Withings BPM Connect Review Recently I added an Apple Watch to my tools of tracking my health along with My Fitness Pal, Sleep Cycle, and Streaks apps. As I started to investigate the Apple Health app and what tools worked primarily an Apple Watch (but also a Fitbit in case that is you). I really like my Withings Scale, and on their website, I see where they have a wireless blood pressure device called the Withings BPM Connect. It's around $95 and it's cordless and wireless. This

Today on the show I talk about Fitbit lost my account. As in a decade of information went up in smoke (thankfully most of the weight tracking is in my fitness pal. Tomorrow will be one week without so I ended up going and getting an Apple Watch Series 4 after hearing some friends say how cool they are. Apple Watch Features Really customizable screen Apple health seems to integrate with everything It does NOT grade how you sleep but there are apps that integrate with Apple health that do. I can't really tell as I can't login into my Fitbit account, but my Apple Watch shows that my resting energy was 2157 after one day. This would explain why if I eat 1900 calories or less I would lose weight. While Fitbit's are geared toward measuring calories in, activity and showing you the deficit, Apple Health is more overall health. My Withings scale integrates with myfitness pal and you can use my fitness pal to integrate with Apple health. Nonhealth things I love. I love that I can listen to my podcasts and

Kayla Cox is the author of the book, "The Laid Back Guide To Intermittent Fasting: How I Lost Over 80 Pounds and Kept It Off Eating Whatever I Wanted" she has 30 thousand subscribers but the reason I'm excited to have her there is she has lost 80 lbs AND KEPT IT OFF.  She is married and has three kids, and currently is on the road in her RV and today she shares What inspired her to "do something"  How she finds the time to exercise How she selected six miles as the goal for each day Why you can not be perfect and still get results She doesn't count calories, carbs, and has a cheat day How she worked her way up to eating one meal a day What she does in maintenance mode More From Kayla Cox Her website is www.sixmilestosupper.com Check out her book The Laid Back Guide To Intermittent Fasting Her website has courses, her blog, resources, YouTube and more Support The Show Become a logical loser and join our support group where we all lose together see www.logicallosers.com

I'm looking into the 131 Method by Challenge Johnson. A member of the Logical Losers pointing it out and said it looked interesting. I took a peak on my kindle, and then purchases the Audio Book on Audible. You can get any book on audible for free by going to www.logicalloss.com/freebook This lead to me taking the 131 Method Course I liked that she points out her own struggles as she ages. I liked that she points out how awful parts of the fitness industry is. She talks about a time when she was getting ready to do an exercise video and the producer/director (I can't remember which) asked her to drop a few pounds. I love that she mentions that bad advice that is out there and how many people were spouting advice based on data that may have been funded by people who swayed the results. This did make me wonder what she was basing her exercise videos on, but none the less I admired her honesty. I liked that she mentions in the 131 Method that you don't have to give up one food type. How to Spot a Bad

Fun in the Utah Sun I have a pretty bad fear of heights, and I have sun poisoning. However with a little planning, and some help from a friend I was able to go hiking in Utah. It was a lot of fun, and the scenery was beautiful.   I had some great conversation with my guide Elikgiute from the Travel Gluten Free Podcast. I asked the question,  "If someone was making a movie of your life, what would this time in your life be called? for me I had a childhood, Jr High was awful. Then I had the 20's and alcohol. I had the 30s being a musician, and being married. My forties were marriage #2. Now that I'm in my fifites I've had some great experiences, but when I looked around some of my actions seem to indicate that I may be roping myself off from life and support.  If I don't clean my apartment than people can't come over. If people don't come over I'm more likely to feel alone.  If I take on more and more projects, then I don't have time for family and any kind of support (or in

A quick bonus episode to invite you to come on the show, and to let you know (for the Summer) I'm going to an "every other week" schedule as I spend about four hours putting together an episode, and it doesn't make much sense to do a weight loss show where I'm not losing weight.  So temporarily I'll be publishing every other week and taking some of those four hours and exercising. 

We Don't Need No Uber! I took my car in for a quick brake job and instead of taking and Uber or Calling a Friend I walked back home, and later back to get my car. This was repeated twice resulting in me walking almost 19 thousand steps in one day. Why? Cause it was going to take 20 minutes for Uber to come get me (As I wasn't near a city). Better Me App Uses Humiliation The Better Me App is available on Apple and Android BetterMe is an app for people who will try anything to better themselves. The app uses public humiliation to help keep your appointments, to achieve your goals, and to jump out of bed in the mornings. Features include an alarm clock, goal tracking, and GPS check-ins system to keep your recurring appointments. If you fail, each of these features will humiliate you by posting a message on your Facebook wall. GPS Check-ins: First input the address and time of your gym, class, or work schedule. Then the app will use GPS to check if you arrived at your destination on time. If not, then you

In examining myself, it doesn't take much to notice that my problem is staying consistent. I lose weight, and I find weight. So I went digging to find out how to keep goals in front of you that keep you moving toward your goal don't bite off too much and leave you're discouraged don't leave you bored to where you quit   My Goal This Month is 1 LB a Week I started April at 223 lbs, and I want to be 219 at the end. As I write this on 4/18 I am .57 lbs behind my target weight. Like many goals, I came out of the gate and was ahead of schedule but then got lazy and now I'm struggling. The good news is by being able to see how I was ahead/behind it inspires me to stay on track.  Now if for whatever reason, I can get achieve my goal of 1 lb a week, then maybe next month I will drop to .75lbs a week. Without making the goal so easy that you are bored, you want it to push you. For me, it is something I focus on from the moment I wake up. It requires my attention. For you, you may be able to lose

I got a review in Apple Podcasts from Bridghside92 It’s depressing how much he bounces back and forth with his weight and seems to constantly make excuses as to why he keeps gaining weight despite the podcast before he talks about making better decisions or something similar. The guy is very relatable and I enjoy listening but it seems like he doesn’t really want to lose weight. Also, it seems like he is just advertising atomic habits the last several episodes and not really giving any other kinds of advice. So I read this and thought, "He's right."  “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”- Zig Ziglar “Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” ― Stephen R. Covey “It is not a daily inc

In listening to the book Atomic Habits the chapter I listened to explained that in one experiment they would send in a person into a group. The group had chosen to say how delicious something was when the food was purposely created to be awful. At first, if there was just one person, the person would be honest and say they didn't like it. As more people entered the group that would say how delicious something was, the person would change their mind to go along with the group.  This is dangerous and we need to be able to identify when it happens.  This week I had a family member in from out of town which meant extra get-togethers that involved eating not so healthy food. I did "OK" on one, and not so good on the other.  Other Things That Happened While I Was Gone  While I might occasionally get a "cold" I got a fever and caught the "real life" flu (Type A) and it knocked me out.  You Need Lose Weight For You I had been using a female that I had a slight crush on as an inspiration to

Talk to Future You I was listening to a friend's podcasts called "You Wanna Do What?!" (www.youwannadowhat.com ) and she had a great segment I wanted to pass along (as well as add some thoughts I had). There is some food in front of you. You want to eat it. You know it's not a good choice. However, you really would love to eat it. Monica brought up a great point. Talk to your future self. In the past, I've said I never felt bad getting off of a treadmill.  I have felt bad waking up the next day and stepping on a scale and realizing that food choice that I knew wasn't good has had a negative effect on my weight loss efforts. So Monica says to talk to your future self. Think about how future self will be. Ask yourself do you really need the thing you are wanting to eat. Ask yourself "tomorrow will I be glad that I _____" and if you answer NO, then you'll be glad you stopped yourself from taking bad steps. Make Your Goals Attractive I'm still listening to Atomic Habits (ge

Right now as I look at my progress, I want to quit eating all food, go on a liquid diet, run a marathon, and dump a ton of weight by 6:30. We want the weight off. We want it off yesterday. Meanwhile back, in reality, a better strategy is to set up some habits to do the right things on a consistent basis.  Full show notes at www.logicalloss.com/379

I got an email. In it stated: 4 years ago, I weighed over 275 lbs. I was depressed and addicted to video games. I played more than 12 hours of games per day. Fortunately, I lost over 70 lbs and I've kept the weight off for 4 years. More importantly, I transformed not only my physical health but my emotional and mental health too. I'm at that stage where I wanna share my experience with others who wanna make the same “health gains” that I did. So I invited Danyon Toniga on to the show to share his story. Some of the keys to his success: Do what you love. If you make it a chore, you'll never do it. Drink water before the meal and eat healthy first, then have a taste of the junk food If you can't do a taste, then plan it ahead of time and work it into your schedule, but keep that calorie deficit. Danyon uses the scale, but more importantly how he feels as a gauge of his success. Mentioned in This Episode Check out his YouTube Channel His article with all of his tips is at http://www.healthvi.org/

January started great for me, but mid-monthI started to go back to my old habits. We've talked about doing little things. I know what I want in my routine: Meditation (God time) Affirmations Exercise Water Sleep Food that helps me achieve my goals Taking my Advocare MNS 3 Suppliment Yet, for some reason, I'm not doing all of these and the one that is mind boggling is taking a supplement. Really? how hard is swallowing a pill? The MNS 3 has a few pills you need to take at certain times, and yet at the end of the day, there is always one package I forgot to take with my lunch.  I decided I would write down all of the things I wanted to accomplish each day into the Way of Life app. I was determined and decided I would start on Sunday. Here it is Monday, and I didn't do it. I was so pissed. Do I need to make a checklist to remind me to use my checklist? UGH! So my initial reaction so that I could get a perfect week (my goal) was to try again next Sunday. Wait, what? Yep instead of getting on track

I don't normally have interviews but I saw all the credentials of Karina, and how she had multiple degrees in psychology and addition I thought she must have insights that can help us all. Today you will hear her say things that may make you go, “Wait, what?” but on the other hand if you've been doing the same things for year and all you have to show is a yo-yo weight loss plan, Karina explains how some of the very things I do (restricting my food choices, focusing on calories, and other things) may be the wrong strategies.  With this in mind you might check out her book and if you are new to audible you can get her book for free when you sign up at www.logicalloss.com/audible Check out her book, her courses, blog, podcast and more at www.karinamelvin.com Thanks to all of our Logical Losers (our accountability and support group) at www.logicallosers.com

Special thanks to Nick Florido for the $30 Today I share how I was doing everything I was supposed to do I: Drink 60-80 oz of water Get seven hours of sleep a night Eat less than 2000 calories Get 60 minutes of exercise or 10,000 steps and yet the scale didn't move. In fact, in some days the scale went up. I was furious, and frustrate and I wanted to quit, but I didn't. I'm glad I didn't Today I woke up and I hit my goal. I focused on doing all the right things that lead to weight loss instead of the skill. On the Biggest Loser they had a saying, “Trust the process” and in this case I did Inspirational Quote about Not Giving Up “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” -James A. Michener “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” -Vince Lombardi “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Nelson Mandela “How long should you try? Until.” -Jim Rohn “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” -Elbert Hubbard “You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.”

Go with me for a moment. Most of your friends come from your job. You are all close in age, you spend 40 hours together and often go to lunch together. In some cases, you even hang out after hours. Then you hire a new person. They are also similar to your age. Then you notice some characteristics: They seem to do things with little thoughts about long-term effects as you "only live once." They seem to talk negatively about many of the things you do They seem unfocused on your companies goals and are a bit self-centered. You try to ignore them, but every time you turn around they seem to be there. They seem to lie to you all the time Would you want to hang out with this person? How frustrating would this person be? How To Turn the Tides on Your Negative Inner Talk Notice it Notice what you're doing when you hear it Talkback and tell them to go away No matter what the inner critic has told you, you do have positive traits, although it may take you some time and discipline to retrain yourself to

For me, the holidays are over (due to my brother going out of town for the holidays. This means yesterday I had the ham, the green beans, and yes, there were cookies.  With no surprise, when I stepped on the scale it went the wrong way. So I did a deep dive into my data in myfitnesspal.com (I've used Loseit! in the past and many others, they all do the same thing, I liked myfitnesspal, but use whatever works for you). In looking at the data I could CLEARLY see that when:   I eat 2100 calories (or less) in a day Exercises (in any fashion) for an hour Drink between 64-80 oz of water Get seven hours of sleep I lose weight. It is that simple. It's just not that easy. So How to Restart? Let's look at walking. You used to walk, and then you stopped. How would you start again? By taking that first step.  So for me, that means starting the day on my exercise bike, drinking 20 oz of water, getting in the shower and feeling like I was headed in the right direction.  Other things I might d