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Secret to losing 20 lbs a month? Make your diet boring

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

by ken winston caine

Want to lose 20 pounds in the next 30 days?

Make your diet boring. Boring and simple, says Tim Ferris, best-selling author of The Four-Hour Workweek.

That doesn’t mean no variety or tasteless meals, Ferris explains.

He provides four simple rules for losing weight quickly, while building muscle, and — exercise is NOT one of them. (Click the link below to see all four rules — and the exact diet he is using.)

The rules look nutritionally sound. And they are based on results from scientific studies.

Why make your diet boring? Because it’s easier to follow that way, he says.

“The most successful dieters, regardless of whether their goal is muscle gain or fat loss, eat the same few meals over and over again,” he writes in a blog post at (more…)

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How you can lose 40 pounds without really trying, Part 2: Never diet

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

by Ken Winston Caine

Don’t diet.

Diets require willpower. Diets imply “temporary.” Diets deprive.

(And diets deprave. I say that with only the tiniest tip of tongue in cheek. I’ve DONE diets. I know about diets.)

Diets don’t work.

At least not for long. Not for weight loss.

We all know people who’ve lost lots of weight while rigorously subjecting themselves to dieting.

And we all know people who’ve put it all back on, and then some, within 12 months of finishing the diet.

Maybe you are one of those people.

I am.

A diet punishes you. You may enjoy and rationalize self-flogging (more…)

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Flab is good

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

If you are exercising daily, eating healthful energizing food, eating in moderation, noticing your clothes getting looser, but seeing rolls of flab appearing on your body — that’s a great sign.

You must reframe “flab.” See it as a tremendous positive. A sign of accomplishment.

Because that’s what it is.

It’s a metric or (more…)

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Mice that exercise resist cancer

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

A just-published Rutgers University study found that female mice that exercised were substantially more resistant to cancer than those that did the mouse equivalent of sitting on the couch and watching TV.

Details in (more…)

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