Many of us were brought up with the concept that we are not allowed to leave the table until we finished all the food on our plate. While this was done with the best intentions, it is not the way that we should look at eating. You don’t need to eat everything that is on your plate.

If you’ve had enough to eat you should stop whether there is more food available or not. Stop eating and put that excess food into the refrigerator. If you are constantly finding there is additional food left on your plate, simply reduce your serving size, as long as you ensure that you are eating adequate protein, healthy fat and vegetables (as per Naked Nutrition or Precision Nutrition)

Also don’t feel obliged to eat all the food that is placed before you when you’re eating out. Even then you should only eat to feel comfortable and not feel full.

Where possible put the food on your plate that you intend to eat at any particular meal and then take that plate with the food to the table. This will encourage you to put limits on the amount of food that you will eat. Having additional food available at the table only encourages you to eat more. If it is not in sight you are less likely to feel the need to eat it.

Recently Alwyn Cosgrove, one part of the team that brought you Warp Speed Fat Loss, discussed how Warp Speed Fat Loss came to be. You can check out Alwyn’s blog at http://alwyncosgrove.blogspot.com/

Q: How did you come up with Warp Speed Fat Loss?

A: It really started as a conversation between Mike Roussell and myself. What was the upper limit of fat loss per week? The whole “1-2lbs per week” thing just never really sat well with me.

I mean, if you gave two people of the same weight and body fat, the same program and diet – you’d expect that they’d lose the same weight right? But not always.

Additionally I’d seen client results where the average fat loss was 3, 4, even 5lbs per week sometimes. I’d seen research showing programs that resulted in 35lbs of fat lost, while gaining muscle in 90 days. So I had no idea where the 1-2lbs of fat loss came from.

So I asked Mike what he thought the upper limit was…. and we went back and forth sharing ideas and different stuff. Is it Xlbs per week? Is it a percentage of bodyweight? Is it a percentage of bodyfat? How does it change if you are leaner/fatter ?

Then Mike came to me with an idea:

“Why don’t you write an extreme 28 day fat loss training plan, designed to keep lean muscle and make that muscle work so much that you burn a ton of calories round the clock? and then I’ll write a nutrition program that will match the workouts closely, support the plan and really ramp up the results…”

I was resistant. I already had written several fat loss products that I knew worked, were super-effective but were longer. 12-16 weeks long usually. I always felt that fat loss was a steady battle day-in, day-out and people that needed to lose large amounts of fat needed a longer drawn out battle. Bodybuilders and figure competitors also spent 16-20 weeks dieting and preparing for contests.

But then I remembered the Dan John quote:

“Fat loss is an all-out war. Give it 28 days only 28 days. Attack it with all you have. It’s not a lifestyle choice; it’s a battle. Lose fat and then get back into moderation.”

Hmmm.

And I knew that I got emails all the time from people who quite honestly had left it too late to get lean for the summer without doing something more extreme.

It’s a well known fact that the two biggest months for diet book sales are New Years and just before Summer. People procrastinate. They wait until the last minute. And they are embarrassed to show up at a pool party or a BBQ, or go to the beach without wearing a big, baggy t-shirt….

Sure if they had thought about it four or five months ago they’d be in great shape right now — but now it’s their daughters wedding in 30 days and they need to drop a dress size…

So I came up with a plan, and we test ran it with a few participants.

Including Bill Hartman, who lost 17lbs in 21 days!

Around the same time, my buddy Mike Robertson contacted Mike Roussell for some fat loss help – he had a goal of cutting 10-12lbs in a month. Mike gave him the Warp Speed Fat Loss Program. Mike hit his goal in fourteen days!

One of the other participants went from 14% body fat at 155lbs to just under 9.5% body fat at the end of the program (and he missed a chunk of the workouts). Granted he was a smaller guy and the total weight loss was less – but that’s still an amazing change in under 28 days for an already lean person.

We knew we had something at that point. We had read the research – debunked the myths and came up with a plan that delivered better than we thought possible. So that’s really the story.

If you have less than 25lbs to lose and are in decent physical condition and ready to train and diet hard – check out Warp Speed Fat Loss.

It is vitally important that you do not miss meals if you are attempting to loose bodyfat. This is especially important in relation to breakfast. Although this concept does sound anti-intuitive, regular eating has many benefits in relation to fat loss including boosting the metabolism and reducing the likelihood of binge eating.