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Well finally we’re all clearing the Christmas/New Years period (not to mention my family’s annoying birthdays on the 28th & 3rd!), and as usual my partner is saying she’s put on at least a few kilos. Me on the other hand… I’ve dropped weight, because I’m not at the gym. Ah, the curse of the fast metabolism.

I see see the conversation going on in your head right now, “oh poor you, you have to work out to keep weight on, I wish I had that problem.” Well, its a problem none the less, and these days guys have plenty of pressure on them to be buff & strong… and besides… *I* like being buff & strong! The problem is…

I’m just lazy!

And my body knows it. Its telling my muscle cells, “Yo! We don’t need to maintain all this mass any more, the guy’s not using it anymore!” And I lose weight… but gain a tiny bit around my waist.

What am I going to do about it? I said in my Colorado Experiment post I’d read about a guy called Tom Venuto, so I’ve gone and got a copy of his ebook, and I’m putting his eating practices to the test, while sticking as closely to Colorado style rep schemes as I can.

I’ll see what Tom says to do anyway. I’ll also be dragging my other half along, but to be frank with you, there’ll be no before & after shots – we’re just a little too shy for that.

So stay tuned & I’ll let you know what I think of the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book, and then I’ll see what results we get from it, month by month.

While shopping for Christmas presents this year, my partner found a book called “Cook Right For Your Type“. Its a book about how to cook (and eat) for your own particular blood type.

I’ve read the book, and I was fascinated by the background on how blood types evolved, and the rationale about eating particular foods based on your blood type… but the important thing for us is more how eating like this is going to be good for our health and weight loss (or muscle gain, for me!).

My other half has a bit of acne that we’ve suspected has some kind of food related cause (its just a WILD guess), and the book says that a lot of his clients who follow his diet plan lose a lot of weight… So since late November, we’ve been trying to follow what the book says…

TRYING.

You see… Christmas & New Years kinda got in the way a bit, and we’ve been completely unable to see whether we might get any weight loss from following the diet.

The point of this post?

Just letting you know I’m following a B blood type diet, and my girlfriend is following an O blood type diet, almost to the letter according to “Cook Right for Your Type”, and “Eat Right for Your Type”
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I’ll let you know how we go.