Greetings to all,
Well,
it’s been a week since “The McDonald’s Diet”
officially ended and the results are in. However, before I
get into that, I’d like to thank all the individuals
that donated their time and effort to help out on the project
– Mike, Carlos, and Michele for their great work on
the web site and postings, Rosalie for keeping my schedule
together and keeping me on track, Scott for making sure the
integrity of the project was sound, Jessie & James for
their creative filming and the incredible documentary that
is coming soon, and all the rest that played a part in the
project – Thank You…
The project was fun and I had a great time doing it – sounds funny given the results that Morgan Spurlock claims to have had from only McDonald’s food. We both (Spurlock & I) knew exactly what we were doing. The difference was that Spurlock was/is playing on the misinformation that the public has in order to make a profit; I was/am interested in educating in order to stop the acceleration of obesity in America. However, am I looking to get something for my efforts? Yes – psychic benefit, a term in economics, which is more valuable to me than monetary benefit.
Spurlock will move on to host a TV show, Truth In Fitness will be starting a new project this month. We’ll be coaching a 55 year-old, obese woman, whom is diabetic, to a new life, and you will be able to track her every step on the web site. We’ll keep a journal, just as before, with pictures and comments from her. The introduction to this new project will have the full story.
Okay, here are the results:
- Weight – I started at 222lbs and in thirty days I dropped 8lbs of “body fat”, ending the thirty days at 214lbs.
- Blood Pressure - I started at 111/71, a bit low, and ended the thirty days at 121/81 which is optimal.
-
Cholesterol – this is where you need
to understand about cholesterol!
- My HDL (the good cholesterol) improved 80%.
- My LDL (the bad cholesterol) went down 2 points. That’s an improvement!
- My overall cholesterol went up 6% because of my HDL improvement, however this is an improvement overall.
- My Triglycerides improved 42%
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: I am saying that exercise was the reason for my improvements and not the fact that I only ate McDonald’s food for 30 days. If you were to take exercise out of the equation, I would have gained 30 to 40 pounds of body fat, and I can not tell you how my cholesterol would have reacted; This is where education becomes very important.
Many people have asked me if it matters where their calories come from. At the most basic, eating exactly the number of calories that you burn and if you are only talking about weight, not fat loss, the answer is no -- a calorie is a calorie. A protein calorie is no different from a fat calorie -- they are simply units of energy. As long as you burn what you eat, you will maintain your weight; and as long as you burn more than you eat, you will lose weight. But if we're talking nutrition, it definitely matters where those calories originate. We will be posting information regarding nutrition soon.
Again, thank you for your support and encouragement.
Sincerely,
Chazz
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