How will any of this help you lose weight and get in better shape?

First off: Welcome to KalorieCounter!

I’m Josh by-the-way.

If you’d like to verify that I’m not a twelve year old who’s talking about fitness while eating a frozen lasagna meal on his jumbo beanbag chair, then you can check out my story and see my before and after pics by clicking here.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about how you are gonna crush your fitness goals!

Now, onward…here’s how we’re gonna knock out your fitness goals:

First step – food. 

First sentence that’s gonna make you happy: it’s not as hard as you think.

At some point, you’ve probably heard someone (or a lot of someone’s) babble on and on about how nutrition is 90 percent of fitness? You are what you eat and blah…blah…blah.

Welp, actually, those someone’s were correct.

Because if you win the battle with nutrition, then you win the war against fat.

But there’s a problem here.

And it’s that those same ‘someones’ who are talking about nutrition are also touting things like salads, and salmon, and fruits, and green-beans as the only types of foods that us humans who want to be health should eat. Buzz words: You Must Eat Clean. 

The problem is that these food options kinda suck.

Sure, there’s nothing wrong with eating these types of foods every now and again, but I don’t necessarily want to eat them everyday, all day, all the time. 

It’s too restrictive. Which makes eating difficult to stick to over the long term.

And fitness and nutrition is a long term game. (A life long game actually.)

So on to the second sentence that’s gonna make you happy: there’s a better way to eat healthy.

You can eat the foods you like.

Case in point: I eat lasagna all the time. I eat cheeseburgers all the time. I eat french fries. I eat steak. I eat bread and white rice and a bunch of other things that are on the no no list.

When I was losing weight, lasagna was actually a staple of my fitness plan. And to add to your disbelief, I was eating frozen microwave lasagna. Stouffers to be exact. And I was losing weight. 

In case you’re wondering, other than being quick to make, quick to clean, here’s the three primary reasons why I chose to eat frozen microwave lasagna all the time?

(1) Because it taste good! Maybe you will disagree, but to me, I absolutely love eating it. I still eat it. It never really gets old to me. Taste so good! Yum yum yum yum!

(2) It is a lot of food. The serving size is generous so that it fills me up and doesn’t leave me wanting more or still hungry after I finish the meal. Plus, I’m a bit of a binger anyway. If frozen lasagna was a Netflix series I would eat about 10 seasons in one sitting!

(3) Believe it or not (and you probably won’t), but the frozen lasagna that I was eating fit perfectly within my calorie and protein limits, which allowed me to lose fat while maintaining muscle. And so do the the sirloin steaks that I eat now. And the cheeseburgers and fries. And the pasta. And the jambalaya. And the list goes on and on of being able to eat ‘bad’ foods that most people say you absolutely cannot eat if you are trying to lose weight.

Well you can.

I’ve done it.

And I’m doing it now. It works.

You just have to do it right.

The big secret that changed my pant size is that it’s not the meals you eat that matter so much, but instead, it’s the version of the meals you eat that actually matter.

You can eat spaghetti everyday and still lose weight.
You can eat tacos everyday and still lose weight.
You can eat pizza everyday and still lose weight.

But you need to eat the right version of that spaghetti, or tacos, or pizza. You have to eat the healthies version. A version that still taste great, but that also minimizes calories while maximizing protein.   

Eating this way greatly increases the probability that you will stick to your ‘diet’ for the long term. And again, the only way to reach your goals is to keep doing the right action for a sufficient amount of time. You know this, and you know that the absolute hardest thing about fitness and weight loss is the ability to stay consistent. Day in and day out every day for weeks, months, years. But by eating foods that you love, it becomes much, much easier. 

This is where we come in. We hunt down all the healthiest versions of all your favorite foods so that you can eat happy while achieving your fitness goals. No cost. It is 100% completely free.

We also provide taste testing of the foods we find so you will have a good idea of which versions you will actually enjoy the most. We provide helpful nutrition and exercise tips that have worked for both myself, and for countless others. We review expensive fitness and nutrition courses, books, equipment, and supplements so that you will not fall prey to any of the scams that float around the fitness industry.

Honestly, we want you to meet your fitness goals. I honestly believe that by doing so, your life will truly change for the better. It has certainly changed mine. It has given me much more confidence, more energy, more love and respect for myself, and it has completely eliminated the debilitating back pain that sent me to the emergency room on several occasions.

If you’d like to read more of my story then please click here.

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Good luck on your journey!

Respectfully,

Josh 

Or at least I’d rather be fat and happy when I am eating, rather than being skinny, starving, and miserable while I eat. 

So that was a big stereotype that I believed for a long, long time: that you have to drastically change your eating habits if you are going to be fit, in good shape, and fitting comfortably into your pants.

Pizza is the devil, Bobby Bushay!

 

and i would deprive myself of any type of takeout what-so-ever. Pizza was the devil, and cheeseburgers were his little spawns. 

I’d like to hit three things, and please keep in mind that we’re not charging anyone for anything. There is no wacky sales pitch that’s going to try to sell you a course or a video series or any of that weird stuff. This buffet is free. 

Okay so first thing, let’s talk about food. 

You may have heard someone (or a lot of someone’s) make a comment(s) claiming that nutrition is 90 percent of fitness. You win the nutrition battles, then you win the war against fat. The only problem, or at least the problem I had with this nutrition game – is that the ‘healthy’ food options sucked. Those same ‘someones’ were touting salads and water and fruits and green beans. Which there is nothing wrong with, but I don’t want to eat that stuff everyday, all day, all the time. 

I’d rather be fat. and happy when I eat rather than skinny and starving and miserable when I’m eating. 

and i would deprive myself of any type of takeout what-so-ever. Pizza was the devil, and cheeseburgers were his little spawns. 

it does not have to be so dang complicated. 

stop hopping on the newest, latest, greatest exercise fads. consistency is what works. time, compounded, that is what works. 

And that is the honest truth. 

 

I used to hear that all the time: it’s all about what you eat, nutrition, nutrition, nutrient, don’t eat that, eat this, put that down; boy what are you doing… 

I recently made a comment comparing food with hard core drug addiction. 

 

Do you see that chubby little – dare I say ‘fat’- guy in the picture below? Yea, well, that guy is me. 

Or, better yet, that guy was me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And do you see all those clothes laid out on the bed behind me? Welp, those were all the clothes that had mysteriously shrunk while being inside my closet.

Strange how that happened. 

Truth be told, I was getting fat. Or, (I guess I’m still in a bit of denial) I had gotten fat.

Okay, okay…I was fat. There I said it. 

And getting fat sucks.

Feeling 

So I’ve struggled with weight loss and dieting and fitness for many many years where I’d get stuck in a cycle of gaining weight, then going on a drastic weight loss binge, then gaining weight again, then getting even bigger than I was before and then the cycle would go on and on and on. Typical story for many I guess.  And it begins to get depressing when every couple months you have to go back to wearing skinny jeans that were not made to be worn as skinny jeans.

In the above picture, I had decided that I had had enough. So I snapped the pic in a moment of raved motivation. ‘This is how I look now,’ I told myself, ‘but in 90 days…’

And 90 days after I took this picture…

I was fatter than ever. 

Do you know what I did after taking this picture?

I went downstairs into my kitchen, sat on a barstool and drank a coke and ate a Publix carrot cake while formulating a fitness plan that would work consistently this time.

Planning while eating.

That was usually as far as I got. Plan, plan, plan, write some shit down, make a schedule for the next day, and then do nothing except come up with a better plan. All while eating. And eating. And eating.

Hey, leave me alone…I think better when I eat, it makes me much more motivated to do more planning.  

So I keep getting bigger and bigger. For reference, I’m 5’7 and I got up to almost 180, which was extremely uncomfortable for me. 

there are so many rules in place that it becomes impossible to play the game. 

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