If you try to make the jump all at once, your mind is going to rebel too.I know you want to get your 6 pack quest complete as fast as possible. You don't have the abs you want, or you wouldn't be reading this. You won't be able to do everything in the exercise program, and your stomach will be screaming for its daily extra-cheese pizza, you won't see any results right away, and you'll give up on your 6 pack quest in disgust. You're going to have to make some pretty significant changes to go from where you are now to looking like you could be on the cover of a fitness magazine. We have a hard time with half measures. The first is death. This is an especially tough concept to swallow for us guys. It's too much change all at once. So there's the secret. Most of the time, people need to modify and tweak things as they go along to keep the progress coming. Cutting out the morning bagel caused your workouts to stink this week? Replace the bagel with whole grain toast or a piece of fruit and see if that solves the problem. Then you can decide what to do if those results are out of line. You won't freak out and quit because it is too hard. You get the picture.
If you try to go from little or no exercise and pigging out to major workouts and eating like a model in one leap, your body is going to rebel. I know you're tired of being embarrassed to take off your shirt in public. You won't know which changes were effective and which weren't. Your body needs time to adapt to changing demands and nutrition. We sit on our butts all week at the office, then expect to be able to beat our teenager at basketball on the weekend. Instead you'll have one success under your belt and be ready to go after the next one. Even so, lets look at this logically. I mean that figuratively, but if you're really out of shape, it could be literally. Change gradually for the best results. But gradual change is the name of the game, no matter how anxious you are. This wouldn't matter too much if you could jump right into a program that worked great for you and got you the abs you want without having to make any mid-course corrections. Gradual change is a better way. You wouldn't know how to tweak things since you dived right into the deep end and changed everything at one. Author's Resource Box Changing gradually instead of drastically is only one of keys to completing your 6 pack quest. You might not get there as fast as you would if you dived in head first and changed everything at once, but when has that approach ever worked for you anyway?