Logical Weight Loss

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 oth...

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....

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 exp...

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...

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."...

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...

So the Friday after Thanksgiving I was up 2 lbs. Today I'm down 1.5 lbs and I expect to be back on track tomorrow when I step on the scale. Here are some things to consider when coming off Thanksgiving. 1. Congratulations You're An American We plan for Thanksgiving for about two weeks. People spend a lot of money on travel. It's a big deal. There are family traditions involved. For me,...

My old Fitbit blaze died after the 2.5 years, and after some research, I decided to replace my blaze with the new Fitbit Charge 3 . Here are some of the features I like: The battery is supposed to last 7 days (we'll see) Fitbit Charge 3 helps you find moments of calm throughout your day with personalized guided breathing sessions based on your heart rate. For more information see www.logicallo...

Join The Diet Bet We are kicking off the holidays by "doubling down" on losing weight as we enter the "holidays" see http://www.logicalloss.com/dietbet and have a chance to earn money losing weight So Many Diets... I had found a few articles that had titles like "10 Things You Need to Know about the ______ Diet." So I read a ton of these and here is what I found. The Vegan...

We've all heard in the past that it takes 21 days to bust a habit. It turns out that is a fable of the Internet that just kept getting repeated. Join the DietBet and Hurdle the Holidays Put in $20, and if you lose 4% of your weight when it starts (October 31, 2018) you get to share the pot with everyone who achieved their 4% goal (it's not as easy at sounds). For more information go to www...

Ulla Smart Hydration Reminder I just got my Ulla Smart Hydration Reminder . I've tried other smart bottles, and they had fun apps, etc. but I like MY bottle, and there was some setup involved, and it wasn't always accurate. I can track how much I drink in MyFitnessPal (or many other apps) but I often sit at my desk in the morning and 10:30 rolls around and I haven't taken a sip. That i...

What is Intermittent Fasting? ( If) Intermittent Fasting sounds too good to be true. It's not about WHAT you eat, but WHEN you eat it. Sound great right? Not so fast this doesn't mean the floodgates are open to eating whatever you want (pizza, ice cream, soda, etc) When you are in the fed state, it's very hard for your body to burn fat because your insulin levels are high. It is much e...

I am listening to the book  Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done by Jon Acuff . I love the book and here is why Some books are nothing but studies. They are interesting, but not entertaining. Some books are just "inspirational stories" but they lack the facts and "why" things are working. I like this book as you learn: Some studies Some fun stories Jon watches way too much TV and...

Today I share how my weight is going up and down a bit. I'm losing at a rate of around .25 lbs per week. The good news is where I use to fluctuate between 221 and 219. This lead to fluctuating between 219 and 217. This week I was down under 216 for the better part of the week. While it would be easy to become discouraged with the fluctuations, the bottom line is the weight is going down.  Kare...

Weight loss is hard. Anybody that tells you different is lying. It takes discipline, it takes stamina, it takes a plan, and patience. However, we often can make it harder than it needs to be by focusing on the BIG (in some cases HUGE) picture. Here is how I handled that the past few weeks.  Find out What Works On June 15 I had a  really good day  (1500 calories, and a calorie deficit of 700 for th...

I heard Jeff Haden  get interviewed on the You Wanna Do What? podcast with Monica Rivera . Jeff is the author of the book  The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win which can get for free by going to www.logicalloss.com/audible  if you decide to cancel your subscription you can keep the book (or any other book) for free. Motivation Does Not Come Before Action So many...

I started this year off great. I was losing weight, as time went on, I began to YoYo. So while I'm still down 5 lbs from the beginning of the year I wasn't making much progress. Over the memorial day weekend I dusted off my favorite to do list tool todoist.com and it was a mess. I cleared out all the old stuff, and I got focused. So I had to decide what would be my number one focus. I had...

I've been a bit down lately, and consequently, my weight has gone up. I just had some things happen that were disappointing. I went over 220, and once again that always gets my dandruff up. I pulled a muscle in my shoulder that is taking forever to heal. So yesterday I went for a bike ride. Where I live I might as well be at the bottom of a coffee cup. It's fun coming home, but starting ou...

I've been listening to the Book Willpower Doesn't Work - Discover the hidden keys to Success by Benjamin Hardy. At first, the book was a bit too dry, but I'm into chapter fice now and it's making more sense. The bottom line is if we create a plan where we will just have to "hunker down" or " Suck it up" and that is the one strategy we are going to heavily lean upon,...

I met JJ Virgin at a podcast event in San Diego this year. We talked about most diets work temporarily, but they are hard to sustain. The more I talked to her, the more I appreciated her NO BS approach, and how much science she had to back up her opinions. She was nice enough to send me some snakes and bars to test out. They are the perfect mix of "good but not too good." Some these bars I...

I remember a trip to the dentist where he explained how they were going to pull one of my teeth. The actual tooth was under a cap and over the years and there just wasn't' much left. Luckily for me, it's way in the back and it's not viewed unless I pull my mouth wide open. If I want to put a fake tooth in place, it would cost me close to $2000. That is why there is still an empty h...

Last weekend I went to the Division 3 NCAA wrestling championships. A friend of mine does all the voice-over work. You know the big guy with the cool voice. His name is Jason Bryant and has a billion shows on college wrestling at www.mattalkonline.com I went for two reasons. First I never get to see Jason in person, and I wanted to support my friend as he did his thang. I had no idea what to expec...

Steaming Things in Platic Bags - Is It Safe? Jillian Michaels talks about how she absolutely refused to promote steam fresh products on the biggest loser as she wouldn't promote anything that promoted steaming in a plastic bag. What's the big deal? It comes down to BPA which stands for bisphenol A. BPA is an industrial chemical that has been used to make certain plastics and resins since t...

I was reading the book the 5 AM Miracle , and I really liked one part of it where the author had you filling out a spreadsheet outlining the tasks you wanted to accomplish each day to achieve your goals. The problem with this idea is I wanted to update it on my phone. While you can use google sheets, it was just clinky. I had previously talked about the free app Habitshare  which is great for shar...

What's the Difference Gastric Bypass Procedure vs. Gastric Sleeve Procedure: The Differences. A doctor attaches a small pouch to the intestine in order to bypass the stomach. The surgeon removes a portion of the stomach, producing a tube-shaped stomach (sleeve) Restrictive operations like gastric sleeve surgery make the stomach smaller and help people lose weight. ... More than half of your st...