Admittedly I’ve been very heavy on the science and philosophy in my last couple posts, so I’d like to bring this one all the way back to square one.
Addressing wants and needs.
Bottom line: Many of us workout, slave away in the gym, watch (stress over) what we eat, read about nutrition, read about training…because we want to look better.
And we have some pretty visual goals when it comes to what “look better” really means.
It doesn’t matter if you are a man or a woman…at some point you’ve said to yourself “I want a 6 pack”
A 6 pack may not mean your are healthy, or even in shape..but the visual effect is striking!
So here is the no nonsense truth about getting a 6 pack:
You already have one.
No kidding. It’s there..it’s just being blurred out by a layer of body fat.
So the solution should be obvious – remove the fat, reveal the abs (that are already there under the fat).
You DO NOT need a ab exercise routine to make this happen. In fact, largely, they are a waste of your time.
You need to eat less to GET the abs, and you need to learn to enjoy eating less to KEEP the abs.
Abs are all diet, and overall activity level.
So here’s my solution: If you want abs eat less. If you want abs even quicker, eat less move more. If you want to keep you abs, then learn to ENJOY eating less.
(Easy to write, a little more difficult to put into practice, but it CAN be done.)
My experience has been this – Before Eat Stop Eat I dreamed of ‘cutting down for summer’ and ‘getting shredded’. I chased ABS with diets and ‘bumping up the cardio’.
After Eat Stop Eat, well, they’re just …there. Sometimes they are blurrier than other times, but they are always..well…visible.
Don’t make it harder than it needs to be.
BP
