Congratulations on choosing to begin your transformation journey! You have made a choice that will change your life?for the better?for many years to come. We want you to be successful, so Chris and I have made all of the tools we use with everyone we work with available for everyone to use in our books, Extreme Transformation and Choose More, Lose More for Life, and our TRANSFORM app. In both of our books, we?ve outlined everything you?ll need to do to reach your transformation goals, so let?s get started!
Step #1 Promises: The foundation of your transformation.
Making and keeping promises to yourself is the true secret to transformation, and it?s the most important step of your entire journey. Begin your journey today by making and keeping one small promise!
Step #2 Carb cycling: The nutrition plan that fires up your metabolism.
Carb cycling is a nutrition plan with alternating high and low-carb days that not only maximizes your metabolic burn, but it?s also extremely effective at speeding up weight loss while maintaining those fat-burning muscles. It adapts easily to your daily routine for weight loss success, and it helps you avoid that dreaded weight loss plateau. And in carb cycling, you get reward days or meals (depending on the cycle you?re following), so you can still eat your favorite foods from time to time! Awesome, right?!
Learn about the basics of carb cycling, then explore and choose one of the five different cycles: Easy, Classic, Turbo, Fit, and Extreme (the newest member of our carb cycling family). And don?t worry! You can change cycles at any time?it?s that flexible!
Step #3 Exercise: Move your body to accelerate weight loss.
In addition to a sound?and simple to follow?nutrition plan (like carb cycling), you?ll need an effective?and realistic?exercise program to help you reach your transformation goals. Chris and I have put together just the program for you! It combines strength training (for muscle development and maintenance) and cardio (for accelerating calorie burn), to turn your body into a maximum calorie-burning machine. And we?ve outlined everything you?ll need to do?step-by-step?every single day! So learn about the basics and benefits of exercise first, and then get moving today!
When you put all of this together, your journey becomes whole. Take a look at the stereogram image above. This captures the essence of transformation so beautifully. Before you shift your focus, all you see is a chaotic mess of dumbbells and food. Basically, it is the confusing mess of every single diet and exercise program out there for weight loss. But once you shift your focus, the 3-D path of true transformation?and lifelong weight loss?becomes clear.
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Hi, I’ve watched extreme makeover forever and I love it! Quick question; I saw you guys are hosting a dietbet and I really want to join. Thing is, I just finished one this month and I only lost a few pounds, so I lost the weigh in. Do you think it’s worth it to try again for the extra motivation or continue by myself? Thanks:)
Hi Mich: You can do whatever works best for you! Chris and Heidi would love to have you join their game, and maybe this one will be different for you. ?
I say, if couse it is worth it! Join this bet & use Heide & Chris’s tips. You ‘ll do amazing!
Hello Chris and Heidi,
I am very excited to start my weight loss journey with both of you but I am nervous and VERY overwhelmed. I am extremely(365 pounds) overweight and it seems like such a far stretched dream to be a normal weight and it is very overwhelming. I am hoping with your support I can start to see a light in this very dark tunnel.
Now for my question… I honestly have no idea where to start or what to do to start my weight loss journey. Do you have any tips for a “true beginner” on where to start. I also hate to admit this but I have very little money so do you have advice on “cheap, healthy meals and exercises”.
Thank you and again I love you both!!!!
Hi Ashley: You can find all the steps you need in this post. Your first step is to make and keep that first small, simple promise. Then choose a carb cycle, and go! It really is all about baby steps and small goals all along your journey. You can do this! 🙂
I just wanted to send a thank you to both you and Chris. I enjoy watching your shows, and learning from them. I have recently started my own weight loss journey, although over all I’ve been blessed with a pretty high metabolism. With learning more about health and fitness, I’ve lost 15lbs since August, and have hit my goal weight of 145, being 5ft 8 inches tall. I just wanted to send my thanks, and look forward to more episodes, and the help that both you and Chris do!
* Now just keeping active and working on tone!
Hi Liz: This is awesome – congratulations! 🙂
Hello!
I hope you can help me with something. I started my weight loss journey a while ago and have been successful so far. But a lot of bad things have happenend to me lately and I fell back into old habits,mostly stress-eating.
I want to stop it and have tried but right now I need help. CAn you tell me what I need to do differently?
Thank you for your help.
Gabi
Hi Gabi: It’s all about making and keeping those small, simple promises to yourself, so I’d start there. Learn more about promises here: https://heidipowell.net/8679. Make that first promise right now, and go! You got this!
Just wondering what would be the best Machine for a beginner an also bad knees a Treadmill or elliptical?
Hi Lara: You’ll want to discuss this with your healthcare team since they know the exact extent of your knee issues, but either a treadmill or an elliptical could work. The key is to go for low/no impact. Hope that helps!
Hi, I didn’t know where and how to purchase your protien vemme bode. I been wanting to switch over from shakeology to try it . What is the best cite to buy from? I tried on this to the link and it says that it’s out of commission the cite.
thank you very much for responding 😉
is my post been deleted?
No, each post has to be approved, so it doesn’t show up until it’s been approved. 🙂
hello 🙂
I am so inspired by Chris, Heidi and all people which took part in EWL.
My name is Anna and I am Polish but I live in England.
I always had problem with my weight- I meant that I am always been fat. I am 25 years old and my weight is 122,7 kg.
Seen Chris and Heidi helped so many people on EWL I decide its my time to take my life in my hand and from 1 Nov this year I put for myself a goal to run every day for whole year, exercise and eat helthy.
I was wondering if in 1 nov 2016 I become a successful then would be any possibility to sent somewhere emeil where Chris and Heidi would read?
Hi Anna: This is an awesome goal! The best way to contact Chris and Heidi is to leave a post on their Facebook walls. You can do this!
Hello Heidi!
I’m a Cone shaped or V shaped women. Basically I have large breasts, broad shoulders, a tummy, but my legs and hips are small and slender! I’m 5’6 and 172 lbs, and I want to lose weight, so I started working out again, but I’m really concerned when it comes to working out my upper body with weights. I’m already large on top, and don’t want to get any bigger, as I’m already disproportioned, but I really want to tone my upper body too. Do you have any pointers or suggestions for me when it comes to my workouts? Thanks so much!
Hi Lala: It’s really important that you do strength training for your whole body, and as you replace any fat with muscle, you should be good to go. If you’re concerned about bulking up, use lighter weights and do more reps. You can do this! 🙂