jengel

Last year I was 343.1 lbs in mid April.
By early September I was 294.9.

I did it all with Nutrisystem. At first I didn’t believe it. I don’t believe informercials, but my brother bought into it. He succeeded amazingly by believing the informercials.

I’m way more analytical and end up doing nothing while my brother, who I view to be somewhat naive and gullible at times, ends up getting stuff done because he tries a few things that fail but then finds the one that works.

Nutrisystem worked. He started around the Summer of 2006 and by New Years Day 2007 he had lost over 90 lbs. In a little over 6 months!

At first I was eating his food and not really following the plan but losing a little weight. I did this in April. Then I bought into the system. I officially started doing it on May 6th 2007. I weighed 332.3 lbs on May 6th. I had already lost over 10 lbs since early April eating my brother’s food and just watching what I eat.

In the first 40 days I lost another 20 lbs. I was following it very strictly. Adding veggies and fruits and salad and GI carbs where needed.

Worked great. After that I started slacking a bit.

But still lost weight.

By August, I had lost another 15 lbs or so and then some.

The key thing is that when I really followed the plan, I was losing over .5 lbs per day.

The system is actually EXTREMELY SIMPLE to follow, but you just have to read it and understand it and basically agree that this is what you’re going to do.

It’s harder for women…they don’t get to add a serving of GI Carbs (glycemic index carbs) to every meal. But that’s just a 1/3 cup of couscous or one slice of whole grain bread. No big whoop. You can live without it.

But overall if you follow the plan, you WILL NOT be hungry, you will ALWAYS have energy when you need it.

The problems arise when you start futzing with the plan.

You eat a breakfast entree, plus your protein and GI Carbs and fruit, but then at work you have a big lunch and think you can just skip dinner. But you can’t, because that big lunch had tons of carbs in it and you’re gonna be hungry now for dinner and you will eat a big dinner because the NS food is too little.

This only happens if you screw up the plan. To make it work, the key is to keep your body satiated with NORMAL food and not give it this big high and big low which is what causes cravings and hunger.

I know this becasue I SCREWED IT UP after the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays and first gained back 10 lbs and now I’ve gained back another 10.

I’m back on Nutrisystem and would you believe it, it’s working great. I’ve lost 2 lbs in 3 days.

I’m NOT hungry, NOT tired after lunch at work, NO cravings at night.

Stick to the plan and it will work. If it doesn’t work, YOU did something wrong. It’s just the way it is. It’s math, really.

Sometimes it just isn’t in the cards at the moment. You need to pay bills. You’re in debt. Your romantic notion of being a super amazing entrepreneur who is willing to stay up 20 hours a day to “get things done” and this will somehow make you successful isn’t going to work.

You need resources. Mental and physical.

Until then, you need to get a job. That’s what I did… and I’m benefitting from it greatly.

I’m interacting with people and learning stuff I didn’t know. This stuff I’m learning is something I’m realizing, daily, that I can use when I finally do jump off and become self-employed.

Don’t wait until your credit rating is ruined. Get a job now and realize that all the churn and toil you spend in a year is better spent building up your resources.

You still have the rest of your life to be an entrepreneur, it’s OK to work for someone else for a couple years. At least you’re making money and learning things.

1. 80% is the photographer
2. 19% all about the GLASS… the lens itself
3. 1% is everything else

You can have any camera that costs $1000 and up and the photos won’t be that great unless you have invested time and some money into #1 and #2.