A Little about Me

I have a very unique understanding of the process of losing weight. I personally know what it is like to be out of shape and overweight. I have one of those body types where I have to fight my weight on a daily basis. Like many I have met; it is a constant struggle for me. I dare say that there wouldn’t be a handful of people in the world who have put more effort into working out and staying in shape than I have. I have done it all. Running, biking, hiking, walking, stadiums, sports, aerobics, boot camps, weight lifting—all types, yoga, Pilates, breathing, sweating, steaming, electrical shock, massage, cleansing—and then there is the dieting, supplementing, and the pills. Geez—where do I even begin? Look, I’ll make it short—if it has been published (books, magazines, medical journals, internet, newspapers, periodicals and etc.); broadcasted or even circulated by flyer I have tried it. I have a certain amount of shame in writing that; but it is absolutely true.

Thirteen years ago in an exercise physiology class at the university that I was attending, I figured out exactly what I wanted to do in life. In that exercise physiology class that I was taking I learned that there really isn’t one specific protocol for weight loss. I learned that if a person wanted to lose weight—all that was recommended by those in authority was non-specific diet and exercise. Even as an untrained plebe in the health and fitness profession, this never made much sense to me. It made me wonder—where is the Weight Loss Training? They have specific, proven training protocol for every sport and activity ever dreamt of, but when it comes to weight loss—nothing. Unless you count the diet de jour or whatever exercise program is popular in the media? This seemed insane to me.

At the time, I was being taught about the state of the nation’s health. We all know the statistics—65% of the American public is considered overweight. We heard this so often in school that it lost its meaning to most—not me. To me—this means that 65% of the people that I know and love are hundreds of times more likely to die younger than expected because of their lifestyle choices! It also means that this 65% of the people I know and love will live their lives more diseased, less healthy and more uncomfortable (physically, mentally, spiritually socially and financially) than is necessary. This is unacceptable to me and I decided long ago that I am going to do something about it.

So I started studying—weight loss only. It is funny the circles that life will take you in. It turns out that in order to learn as much as you can about one thing, sometimes you have to learn a lot about almost everything else. So, I put enormous amounts of time and effort into learning everything that I could about losing weight and improving health. Along the way I have made discoveries. First, I discovered that there is a lot of misleading crap out there. But, here is what I want you to know about that—I looked all the way into each program or system anyway, because another thing that I have discovered is that sometimes you can find helpful little gems of info in a whacky program that you would have missed if you dismissed it as a hoax. Over the years I have made thousands of positive discoveries that I am excited to share with you in this book. And because of these discoveries, I have had the privilege of helping literally thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people worldwide take on their own weight loss demons and beat them.

I know weight loss. It is what I do. I didn’t just happen into it. I’m here deliberately and on purpose. Helping people lose weight has been my obsession and my focus as a professional for over 14 years now.

I have a lot of experience helping people lose weight. I figure conservatively that over the last 13 years I have personally conducted and participated in no fewer than 45,000 individual workouts. Let me put that into perspective for you. That kind of experience would take the average person over 109 years of working out every single day of their life; from the day they were born to gain, without missing once. Ever!

Aside from my personal clientele I have written for numerous newspapers and magazines on the subject of weight loss. I have also written books and manuals that have been used to train people on weight loss how-to’s. These have been distributed around the world. I have also written certifications for fitness professionals and have mentored and/or taught hundreds of professional personal trainers around the world my weight loss and fitness methods.

I have made 27 (and counting) highly successful workout videos which have been distributed around the world.

I have my own call-in talk radio program. And for three years gave a live, weekly fitness tip as Salt Lake City’s Exercise Expert for the local CBS affiliate.

All of this experience does not include any of the hundreds of books and recordings I have read and listened to on weight loss, fitness, physiology, kinesiology, biomechanics, human behavior, etc., and etc. Neither does it take into account the myriad of classes and workshops I have attended on the same subjects. It also doesn’t take into account the hundreds of informal and/or formal experiments I have conducted on weight loss (either on myself or on others, with their approval). Even further it doesn’t take into account my 4-5 years of experience and training in physical therapy and cardiac rehab. And none of this includes my formal education (I have a 4 year degree in Exercise Science) or the numerous professional certifications I have obtained over the years.

So, what? Why am I telling you all of this? Well, for two reasons. First of all, I know that you aren’t going to trust a word that I say without seeing that I have a strong background, training, education, experience and passion for what I do.

Second; is because I know you have been burned in the past. If you are over 25 and are trying to lose weight, it’s a pretty good bet that this isn’t your first rodeo. More than likely you have tried other programs in the past. More than likely these other programs haven’t worked out for you the way that you had hoped. I realize that by now, it is hard for you not to be a little cynical about the merits of any program let alone your own personal likelihood for success. I get it. I know. I have been there. I’ve seen it and I have done it. All of it—including the good and the bad. Just like you, I have been let down, led to believe and flat out lied to so many times that I have lost count. Frankly, every time I hear the words “weight loss” used in conjunction with the word “easy” it is hard not to flinch a little. It is even harder to take someone’s “new” weight loss and fitness advice at face value or take their word for it. It is for these reasons that I created and published my program.