75-95% of all diets fail. After dieting, people often gain back all of the weight they lost plus more. Those people that succeed usually had a compelling need or reason. The successful people seemed to either had a heart attack, a stroke or diabetes or some other extreme health problem or they were athletes - weight lifters, boxers, wrestlers and body builders where weight classes separated them into groups. The object usually was the same, keep your body weight close to some weight limit with the maximum amount of muscle.
Teasing From My Sister
Around Christmas 1999, my sister was really giving me the business for being overweight. She was overweight too, but somehow this got me on a kick to cut back on my calories and lift some weights. I lost weight, but I was starting to feel weak again. I weighed around 245 lbs.
My Sister's Birthday Party
Later in April of 2000 I visited my sister again for her 35th birthday. She looked like she'd really improved since the last time I'd seen her. She told me she was following a body building diet and some body building contest.
Body Building
Later that week, I ran the story past a bodybuilder friend of mine at work, Jason Elliott. Jason told me a few things about dieting and that MaxMuscle had a great contest that might help me. He also told me about the best sports nutrition guy in town - Bart Hanks.
Max Muscle
I visited with Bart Hanks and decided to work with him. I started at 245 lbs. and 29.7% body fat. We spent three months raising my metabolism with weight lifting, minimal aerobics and a good diet. Then in August of 2000, I started dieting for fat loss and was urged to get join the MaxFormation contest.
