Tuesday, October 30, 2012

The 60-Day Pre-Holiday Bender Part 1: Why I Did It

For the past sixty days I did an experiment.  I ate like crap, worked out very little, and took my supplements on a very inconsistent basis.  I did this because it was right before the holiday season (Halloween-New Years Eve) where people gain 8-11 pounds depending on the source.  I wanted to show fitness enthusiasts how much damage you can do to your body physically, physiologically and mentally while eating bad and working out less over the holiday season (Which many people do). 

This experiment was similar to the one that Fitness Professional Drew Manninig did in 2011.  Manning did what I did for six months so he could relate to his overweight clients better.  While I respect what Manning did, I kept my experiment to sixty days for the following reasons:
  • I was overweight once before (I weighed 239 with a waist size of 38") and I won't go back to looking like that.
  • I noticed when some of my clients and co-workers figured out what I was doing it gave them an excuse to "Slip Up" on their diet more often.
  • I hated not being a good example for people to follow via health and fitness.
  • When I am at my most fit level, I nearly pass out after eating foods like cupcakes.  To go longer than two months would have affected my work very negatively from being mentally off more often.
  • Most people I know in the Upper Midwest really struggle between Thanksgiving and New Years Eve (forty days) or Halloween and New Years Eve (sixty days).  Originally I was going to forty days but with all the Halloween candy in stores right after Labor Day I decided to do sixty days (When Halloween candy is on  the corner of every shopping aisle it can be tough on people via cravings).
 Future posts on this experiment will detail what changes happened to me physically, physiologically and mentally.

Stay tuned!

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