There have been at least five times in my life where my lifestyle did lead to an ideal weight or weight loss at a rate that would lead to my ideal weight.

I’ll cover each in more detail in the future, but I thought I would list them for you to ponder:

1. Running and eating well.  I ran half marathons in my mid-twenties regularly and ran at least five miles daily.  This was after I had gained weight in my early twenties so it is probably not entirely do to young age metabolism.  I ate healthy food in the morning, but any old kind of junk food the rest of the day.

2. The high fat experimental diet I mentioned in a prior post.  It lead to rapid weight loss.  I obviously don’t recommend that approach though.  It apparently leads to poor overall health based on how I felt during that diet.

3. Methamphetamine addiction.  This is obviously not recommended for obvious reasons.

4.  The carbohydrate addicts diet.  Basically this is two very controlled meals of 6 oz of meat along with a cup of low carbohydrate veggies (no carrots or potatoes) and one meal of anything you want as long as you eat it in less than an hour.  I lost weight rapidly and felt fairly good on this diet.  It is a hard lifestyle to maintain though.

5. Atkins style low carb dieting.  I also lost weight and kept it off on this diet.  It is also hard to maintain for many people.  It also leads to bad breath and carb cravings for me.

I won’t count when I was a teenager of 6′5″ and 135 pounds and ate pounds of junk food every day and never exercised.  I think that’s purely genetic and not reproducible.

I’ll get into the other things and what I learned from them in the future.  There are a couple of experiments I want to do first.

I already started one experiment.  I’ll report on the results in a couple of months.  You’ll obviously see the results in weight loss if there are any on the way.

I’ll start another experiment in 6 days.

I’ll be out of town for the next few days celebrating my birth week.  What?  I have one of those kinds of lifestyles.  I celebrate a birth week instead of a birth day.  If you are interested in learning more about my financial success and how I can do such a thing, you can check out my other blog here:

http://www.JamesBrausch.com

-James D. Brausch