An introduction: Three months for the rest of your life

Until now, the only post visible on this blog was a post entitled "What you need to do". I wrote it in a period of around an hour and a half and it is quite rough. But I had at least 4-5 people ask me to write them a plan and they would follow it. What followed, was that post.

This post is here to clarify that achieving a body composition of your choosing is not as simple as I made it sound. Having the title of that blog be "What you need to do" was a mistake and was my response to having a short amount of time to crank out something for the people I promised a work-out plan to.

However, that was one of many blogs that will follow in the next few weeks. In the following blogs I will write on topics like low-resistance training vs. high-resistance training, strictly cardio to lose weight, fad dieting, water consumption, the mentality needed to lose and maintain a healthy exercise and nutritional plan, binge and emotional eating and much more.

For one, I am on a weight-loss journey of my own. I started at 212 pounds at the end of May. June 1st I have it logged that I was 206 pounds and today (June 26th) I weighed in at 195lbs. This is definitely the slowest I have ever lost "weight" and for good reason.

I am doing it right this time. And as someone who has experienced both the right and many of the wrong ways to lose weight, trust me when I say that slow way is the only way. I can assure you that 90% of that weight loss was pure body fat. Why? Because I do heavy resistance training 4 days a week to maintain muscle mass (and I have actually gained muscle on a calorie deficit somehow...more on that later) and drink at least 1 to 2 gallons of water a day. Accompany that with a nearly flawless nutritional plan. It's a lethal combo for those looking to physically change themselves.

My goal is to have a set of fully visible abs by September 1st. Why then? Because I really feel I started this lifestyle change of mine on June 1st...and I want to prove to myself and everyone who has ever doubted their ability to change their body just how much can be done in three months. What types of changes your body can endure by treating it to the best you physically can for simply 3 months. I'm not saying you can go back to square one, over-eat, and under-train again after those three months are up. Quite the contrary. I am saying that by the time three months are up, you will have proved so much to yourself about what you are capable of doing that you will never let yourself go back to how you once were.

You are capable of doing earth-shattering things simply because you are motivated and determined to accomplish a goal. I prove that to myself on a daily basis.

Are you ready to do the same?

Matt Williams