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Hello Everyone – First Official Post and This Blog’s Mission

By SeanBissell | January 25, 2008

Hey everyone, it’s Sean Bissell,

I founded YummyWeightLoss.com as a resource for people who would like to lose weight but don’t want to give up their lives to do it.

There’s so much information out there right now on the diet/fitness “world” that it took me a really long time to wade through it all and try and make it make sense.

Realistically it took me about a year and a half before I started to become comfortable with the diet/nutrition information and to feel like I really had a grasp on it.

I started working out and lifting weights long before I started learning about diet and nutrition, and I found out the hard way that diet and nutrition is really what causes success or failure for both burning fat and gaining lean muscle mass.

I’d say easily at least 80% of your success will be a direct result of your diet.

As I studied and learned more about diet and nutrition I learned all the “rules” and stuck with them and eventually I did get the results I wanted.

I tended to follow the rules of what many serious fitness “pros” recommended. And believe me, even that can be hard to really figure out what information works and what doesn’t.

And by listening to all the information out there I ended up getting into a grueling routine of:

-Eating every 2-3 hours
-Eating 5-6 meals a day
-Eating at least 1x my bodyweight in grams of protein a day
-Eating only “clean” foods
-Eating only low glycemic-index foods (unless it was directly after a workout)
-Avoiding sweets, chocolate and candy
-Avoiding fast food
-Avoiding “junk” food, like pizza and ice cream
-Avoiding “processed” or packaged foods
-Avoiding eating before bedtime (unless it was a slow digesting protein source like cottage-cheese)
-Avoiding most restaurants
-Drinking a gallon of water a day
-Drinking a whey protein shake directly after working out
-Drinking a whey protein shake directly after waking up
-Working out lifting weights 6 times a week
-Working out doing cardio 3 times a week

And that’s not everything, but I don’t want to bore you too much with even more details.

As you can imagine that routine basically controlled my life.

I was fine with this routine for a little while because I was seeing results, and I stuck with it for about 2 years.

After about 2 years though, I’d had enough.

Although this routine was helping me get to where I wanted to be physically, it was destroying my social life, and my sanity.

So I began researching and connecting the dots, and I’m proud to say that I’ve found another way that works.

It even works based off of the same diet principals of why any successful diet plan works.

But instead of being so restrictive, I’ve found a way to make it easy to use, and you can actually eat the foods you want to eat and still get the results you want.

There are still some rules to follow to get results, but nowhere near as restrictive as most diet plans or routines.

I personally follow my new plan, and it’s really helped me bring back sanity and balance to my life, and I’m still getting outstanding results.

I’ve also helped many other people do the same.

And my mission for this blog is to help you understand how you can break the mold of restrictive diets and you can start eating your favorite foods, break all the “rules” and start seeing great results.

Even while you eat your favorite foods, and not have your diet control your life.

Until next time,
-Sean Bissell

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One Response to “Hello Everyone – First Official Post and This Blog’s Mission”

  1. Irrevenant Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Off to a good start. :) Do I sense “Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle” as an influence?

    BTW, you forgot to mention units in your protein calculation - is that your bodyweight in lbs or in kg?

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