Fitness Protocols: About The Book (Book Preface)

This book is a practical guide for people who want help accomplishing lasting weight loss and fitness improvement, and are ready to do it.

This is not a typical weight loss, fitness, or diet book — it is a unique, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow guide designed to help you overcome the common issues that make lasting weight loss and fitness improvement so difficult to accomplish.

The content is primarily based on the lessons I learned, and the knowledge I acquired over the nine years since I lost, and have successfully kept seventy-five pounds off.

I had struggled because of my poor fitness for a while before l lost the weight. I was a typical yo-yo dieter. My weight struggle started about one year or so after I quit smoking in 1984. I remember joining my first diet program when I was living in Connecticut around 1986. Thereafter, I remember entering into what I recall were bi-annual yo-yo cycles. I would typically lose weight during the summer and would regain it all back and then some during the winter. I did that year in and year out.

I reached my tipping point at 250 pounds and a 44-inch waist to boot. It was not pretty. My fitness was very poor. I had low energy, not much strength, poor flexibility, and little to no stamina. My day-to-day life was not very joyful. I had a hard time just doing the basic things like bending down to put my socks on and tying my shoes.

Then one day, fed up with my fitness condition, and disgusted with the image I saw in the mirror, I made a decision to make a change for good. One year and a few months later, I had dropped 70 pounds of body weight and ten inches had come off my waist.

In order to find a long-term solution, I did a lot of homework and sought the help of a number of professionals. I read many books and articles, and I hired a fitness coach, a dietician, and even a psychologist to help me find the best way. In the process, I learned a lot about nutrition and the human body and the mind. Just about a year after I had lost the weight, I started to write a book about it. I have finally completed the book after nine years of experience maintaining the original weight loss. This is a claim that apparently very few can make.

The book helps the reader accomplish four things: