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Today was an exciting morning for me. I’ve been 125 lbs. for the about a year or so and I got there from 150 lbs. which I ballooned to one summer in high school. Forgetting the summer, I was a cross-country and track runner during the school year and stayed somewhere around 127 lbs. while in season.

Now, I had some really unhealthy eating habits when I was in high school. I would rarely eat breakfast and I would skip lunch on most days to avoid puking in practice. All that to say that I eat now more than ever and enjoy it. In 2007, I was in college; I was about 138 lbs., and I was a little insecure because during a speech class a skinny-mini poked fun at my love handles when I wore an exercise top for a speech I was doing.

After that day I started looking around for what I could do to “get back down to my high school weight”. The more I read, the more I found out that simply cutting your portions in half could aid weight loss. So, I tried it. Beats not eating, right? It was this one change that caused me to drop to 125 lbs. and stay there.

In 2008, I realized I had a problem. My sister had bought me a body fat monitor scale for my birthday. So, I realized soon that although my weight was down my body fat was high. I had done many ridiculous diets like the juice diet, the soup diet, the vegan diet, and the eat once a day diet, so I knew that these diets were “MAKING ME FAT!” Diets without adequate protein will cause your body to eat your muscles so you get fatter although you lost weight.

At the end of 2009 I got a little cardio machine and started to do about 10 minutes of cardio a day to keep my energy levels up and tone my calves. I also started avoiding eating too many complex carbs and sugars. My goal now is to get to 20% body fat (that’s low for a woman, not a man). I’m at 21%, but here’s the exciting part; before I started eating less rice and potatoes I was at 26% body fat. That was only a month ago.

Confession: I wasn’t exercising much at all to lose weight, don’t like it that much.

So This is What Worked for Me:

1) Cut Meals in Half

2) Don’t Eat White Things

Have to give credit to Tim Ferriss for giving some great 4-Hour Body tips in his blog about losing weight because although I’ve never been overweight reading his posts really helped me get “fat loss” not weight loss down.

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I think that this presentation that Timothy Ferriss did at the TED conference in 2008 really explains who he is and some of the strategies outlined in The Four Hour Workweek which has become the bible of lifestyle design.

My favorite quote from the lecture is: (Fear is Your Friend) “A lot of time it shows you want you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you exactly what your should do.”

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