Arrogant, IMO you should change your mindset about losing weight. You pay too much attention to the LBS you see on the scale. That's more destructive then you may think. If you force yourself to lose that much weight in such short amount of time, you will lose a lot of muscle mass and end up looking "skinny fat". You can lose 20lbs in one week, but so what if 90% of that would be water and the other 10% muscle. The fat will still be there and your body composition won't change.
I see what you're saying, but I don't
think I'll get that "skinny fat". (Mind the fact I italicized "think").
It's a low-carb diet that I'm on. Similar in a way to Atkins it's a lot of vegetables and protein; mostly proteins (to feed muscle) and the exercises I do are to retain and maintain that muscle (not really build). The premise of course is that with living a somewhat sedentary lifestyle, when consuming carbs (and for me that was a lot of the time) the body does what it should with it, which is burn what it needs and store the rest. For me that meant packing on the "pounds" in fat.
We all learned in middle school health there's different sugars and sugar is what the body needs for energy. The human body does a better job breaking down protein, generally speaking. So by doubling my regular consumption of it, I'm feeding my body and have the energy needed for my daily routine. The vegetables help with digestion and provide the vitamins, minerals, and fiber I need for all the meat that I'm eating. Along with that, I'm eating with each meal citrus fruits and drinking a lot of water, which helps with a lot with digestion. (By digestion I mean the body's chemical breakdown of the food to smaller components and its absorption after traveling in the bloodstream.)
The exercise is needed since it'll keep me from looking 'droopy', burns some stored fat, and helps with my metabolism. Also helping my metabolism is the fact that I'm timing my meals regularly. It's a rather simple plan.
Now, I understand pounds is just a term of measurement for weight--muscle weighs "pounds" too. For example, when reading Shogun's thread he said he only lost approx. 15 pounds (if I remember right) but went down in waist size. That's because his weight was being replaced with muscle while burning off the body fat. (I know you know this.) What I'm saying is it all depends on what a person's looking for. For me it's to get thinner, lower my weight, but not really bulk up. To achieve weight loss the other way I'd have to do
rigorous exercise and, dude, I'm not feeling that at present. (LOL).
Benefit of doing it the P90X route is that it's easier to maintain your target weight once you've gotten there and clearly the healthier choice, but that's not to say the method I'm applying isn't healthy; just not as much as compared to the approach Shogun chose. Also, in relation to long term dieting and exercise, P90X's way makes it clear and adding weight in body fat is slower. Mine, it could come back in the same amount of time it took to lose it.
It boils down to lifestyle change. There was a popular diet a friend of mine got on called the Idiot Proof Diet. It worked for him. He lost over 50 pounds. In a FAQ it suggests that to maintain, after you get back to eating the way did, to weigh yourself at the end of every week and at whatever point you go over 10+ pounds, get back on for 2 weeks. I'll probably be doing that. Sounds annoying but the body can really get used to it. There are different diets yielding all sorts of good results. I'm givin' this one a try. I'll let you know how it goes. If it comes down to it, I may go the P90X route myself. (I had been considering it.)
