Jimmy's Better Life

Don't believe everything you hear on late night television, especially those fitness infomercials. These infomercials are largely slick marketing stories to teach the public to believe that they can “flatten” their stomach by doing twenty or thirty minutes of ab exercises each other day.

As important as the machines themselves in these ads are the super attractive, smiling fitness models who demonstrate how these fantastic products have made their incredible abs possible. These hot people almost make it look like it is fun and easy to use their ab machine.

However, what these super-healthy fitness models don’t tell you is that they were born with super-lean bodies and had great looking abs even before they used an ab machine.


The Truth About Ab Machines

Ab machines do one thing well, they strengthen your ab muscles. But that is all they will do for you, they will not make your waistline slimmer. Let me put it another way, ab machines make your ab muscles stronger but do not make your stomach smaller.

Are you having an "ah, ha moment" right now? You could actually have rock hard abs packed under layers of fat and no one would know (unless they punched you in the gut).

My favorite example is the offensive and defensive lines of any football team. American Football players are huge, many are overweight, their stomachs are bulging under their uniforms. However they can take a hit like anybody's business partly because they have got a massive amount of fat tissue over hard muscle. Football players are very strong but many are also very fat and they all work out all the time on weights and even ab crunch machines.

So should you not buy or use Ab Machines?

Of course not. If you want a thinner, smaller waistline then you must first lose the fat around your mid section using a good diet plan and exercise. Then your stomach muscles will be visible. Once the fat is gone, then you can firm up your stomach and build those rock hard abs you always wanted. Remove the fat tissues over your tummy and then build and strengthen your abs.

So the truth is, ab machine companies just want your business and if one model does not work for you, they are happy to sell you another. But if they revealed that you needed to go on a diet first most of them would be out of business because most overweight people want to lose weight first before building a muscular body.

To begin losing weight fast (and to get a slimmer waistline) I think using the new Fat Burning Diet from Fat Loss 4 Idiots is more effective. This is a brand new type of diet never seen before and you can read more about it & also receive special offers by joining my free weight loss newsletter which has more great articles and stories to help you lose weight.

Welcome to my blog. I am a little late to the party but hey, I am blogging thanks to Google, Web 2.0 technology, and all those nerds who have made this possible.

Have you ever had those "I am fed up and take it anymore" moments? Sure, we all have. Right now, I am at the end of my rope. Life has gone completely wrong and I am looking for a fresh start. While there is quite a few things I need to change about myself, I don't think revealing every deep dark secret about myself on this blog is something I feel comfortable doing but I will admit my appearance has gone down hill over the past decade.

Yes, I am getting fatter by the year and now could lose twenty pounds or so. My skin is both oily and dry with blemishes and my teeth are crooked and not quite white. And that is just my good side. Appearances have not been high on my list of things I care about but now it's time I buckled down and fixed how I look because if I don't take care of myself, who will? Besides fat & old is way worse than fat & young and I can't stop father time. Looking good does help you feel good and feeling good is what it is all about.

So join me in my journey, as I try different methods and products to lose weight and clear up my skin, maybe even get a six pack or massive muscles. My weight goals are to get a 32 inch waist, down from a 34 inch belt, cut my body fat percentage from 20% to maybe 12%, go from 175 pounds to 155 pounds, be able to run a mile without gasping for air. My facial goals are to get a stylish haircut, clear up my skin and get my teeth super white. I might even get eye laser surgery to replace my glasses.

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