Is Your Weight Loss Blueprint Set In Stone?

Whenever I take on a weight loss system or fitness program, I try to always start with the idea about what I can expect reasonably. If what I am undertaking isn’t providing me anywhere near my expectations, I have to chalk it up as a dud.

The key is how we as the users arrive at our expectations. Recently with the Michael Thurmond Weight Loss Program, I went into it with the idea that there would be great structure but that I could get great results if I submitted to that structure. 

Michael Thurmond Weight Loss programknown as the 6 Week Body Makeover (not to be confused with the 6 day program found in a previous book by Mr. Thurmond) utilizes a cutting edge approach where your “body blueprint” is created through the process of you ordering a series of very detailed questions about your history and habits regarding eating.   From there you are given a weight loss “type”. It is this type which drives you’re eating and exercise schedule in the system.  What many users have said is that you will feel somewhat constricted because what you eat is carefully monitored.  You are all but cut off from consumption of salt, white flour, and sugar.

What many potential users are most concerned about deals with whether this blueprint and the strict eating requirements are set in stone for life. My answer has to be a resounding no. The essence of any effective fitness or nutrition regimen deals with long-term applicability for the user in a real-world context. Can you comfortably take principles which are shared within in the program and use them daily to make solid health decisions?  We aren’t always going to be doing P90X, or Cross Fit, or 6 Week Body Makeover.  

We want the mental freedom that being in a program simply doesn’t allow. We need balance. While a road map is a must if we don’t have a recent history of being fit. It is clear we don’t have the information we need and this is the value of a structured work out regimen.  The hope is we will take the original concepts that buttress the program and simply take it to our life afterwards.

My impression is that 6 Week Makeover lends itself well to being that kind of program for some users. It doesn’t appear to be universal. This doesn’t mean the program is lacking in any way. It might just mean that most users aren’t used to thinking in terms of flexibility and adopting general concepts.