Jalin starts his program

My nephew Jalin will soon be 12 years old, about to enter the seventh grade, and is on the cusp of an evolutionary change in wellness. Slowly over the years his weight has crept up and without proper supervision, he had become apart of the growing epidemic of Juvenile Obesity!

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What's the plan?

Jalin will eat and Jalin will lose weight! It's that simple. People are typically overweight because they eat the wrong foods and not enough of the good stuff. So my goal is Jalin's goal. He will eat more regularly and begin to see instant results. When I asked his mother about his bowel habits, she emphatically declared he doesn't go every day.

Well that changed instantly, practically overnight. Jalin had an apple the evening before his first day of fitness and he observed that his bowels moved in the morning and it was not anything like he had witnessed before.

Jalin has found that eating more frequently, smaller meals, drinking plenty of water and getting two days of cardio and two days of a upper body and lower body resistance training has pepped up his poops! He was typically going 2-3 times a week, now he has 2-3 each day! The more you move food through your colon, the higher your metabolism.

Did he moan and grown and cry? Yes, no pain no gain!

Today he will take his first picture, and in 6 weeks I will post his results with the after photos!

Jalin will eat, Jalin will hydrate, Jalin will get fit...losing weight is simply a byproduct of his evolution.

Scales are E-V-I-L!

Measuring girth, height, length, volume, are potentially fair assessments of quantity. But in terms of body mass, scales are typically unfair, and often compromise weight loss programs.

Why are they unfair? Well let's see, if they don't measure lean mass, bone density, water weight, it is likely that your numbers are not going to be adequately summarize your weight.

Does that change a persons desire to use it like it's some street carnival fortune teller? Heck no!

Do I shutter when people become so obsessed with their numbers that they forget that they need to build muscle mass? Yes!

Most of us want to be the number we were in highschool, and yet we forget that those lanky bodies were equated to youth, walking immensely, and keeping active. As we get older we lose muscle mass, become sedentary, drive, and yet we continue to eat the same diet we consumed in our youth, expecting similar results of yesteryear.

Very rare occurence that you will achieve your highschool weight.

If you really want to have a sucessful weight loss program, measure yourself at the onset if you must, and then in 6-8 weeks (again if you must). Otherwise let your clothes tell you how you are progressing. In that regard, find an outfit you love and try it on in the size you realistically want to be. In the progress of a well structure exercise program and a modified portion controlled diet, try that garment on regularly. Notice the changes?

Scales are E-V-I-L! Women beware!

Do YouTube?

While taking my brisk walk through the Oxygen message board and debating with a fellow 'gymrat' about lean look through yoga, I found a fantastic link to youtube. Now I am already a fan of the site so it doesn't take much for me to hop a link, especially if it's a five year old tike rapping to single mothers to 'keep ya head up'. But on this day I found an online personal trainer and fitness coach. His channel BodyPerformanceTV is just about the best information source on the subject that I have seen online. He has about 200 episodes posted and counting. He is a rare jewel to have been found.