Now that I’ve finally got a spare moment after getting the Workout Of The Month Club launched, I think everyone is probably dying to know how the Fat Loss Project Guinea Pigs fared in their journey.

Over the course of the next week or two I will be featuring each contestant who completed the FLP by showcasing their before and after photo and their essay.

I have to say that I was incredibly impressed with the results. Every single person who completed the program got great results – as I expected they would. This just goes to show how suspending your judgment, forgetting excuses, and just DOING something instead of over-analyzing every little detail can give you an incredible kick-start.  As a side note – those who strayed from my instructions still got results, but less impressive than those who stuck to the letter – Lesson:  trust me, I know what I’m talking about

I want to point out another very important observation that I had during the FLP.  One thing you will notice as a theme throughout the essays is that many of the Guinea Pigs were surprised at how much their body shrunk, how much looser their clothes fit, and how many inches they lost, but many were confused as to why the scale didn’t show as much weight loss as they expected.

There is such an important distinction that needs to be made here, and most of the Guinea Pigs know this by now, but for the sake of the rest of you -  let me reiterate it here.

The scale is a lying little sack of you-know-what!

If you lose 10 pounds of body fat, and gain 10 pounds of muscle, the scale will tell you that nothing has happened.  You might even think you completely failed.  BUT, you will look more toned, sculpted, and certainly slimmer.  That is why you can’t judge results by a number on the scale.

By taking one look at many of the photos, you would think that each of these women would have lost between 20-30 pounds easily (and many of them have without knowing it).  Their entire body looks smaller!  However, as I already mentioned, many only saw a slight change in the scale.

One look at their measurments tells the whole story though.

These women built incredible amounts of strength, fitness, and endurance during the FLP, and they certainly lost a lot of body fat – but they were all gaining muscle at the same time too.

So a women who lost only 10 pounds, but dropped 2 inches from her waist and hips, is very likely to have lost 20 pounds of fat or more, and then added 10 pounds of muscle.  That’s why I say they’ve lost 20 pounds without knowing it.

Conversely, this is also why so many diet programs out there are complete scams.  Nearly all fad diets revolve around caloric restriction and starvation to lose weight (all of my guinea pigs will agree that I certainly didn’t starve them – in fact many had trouble eating as much as I told them to).  So what happens in a restricted diet, is the muscle tissue gets burned up because it uses up too much energy, while the fat gets to stay because it doesn’t use any energy.  Also, lots of water is flushed out of the body.

What you end up with at the end, is a body that weighs less, but actually has a HIGHER percentage of body fat, because the only thing that was lost was muscle and water.

This person might think they were successful, because they lost weight according to the scale.  However, they would be fatter, weaker, have less energy, and a slower metabolism.

Always take measurements, and if you can, have a body fat test done by a skilled technician with skin-fold calipers for the best results.

ON TO THE RESULTS!!

We’ll start with Carla’s…

Carla lost nearly 20 pounds, and a whopping 14 inches!!

She also got better results in the last 6 weeks, than she did after spending $4000 and 5 and 1/2 months on private personal training!

Check out her essay by clicking the link below, this is very powerful stuff!

Carla’s Fat Loss Project Essay.

Coach Rylan

PS. I have been considering running a second Fat Loss Project in a couple weeks for all of those who couldn’t make it into the first round.  If there is enough interest, then this will be a definite go ahead.  The rules will be the same as the first group.  You pay a deposit, and you get it all back if you complete the program exactly as I tell you to.  Waddaya say?  If you are interested, let me know in the comments section below.