Ok, so most folks are looking for ways to lose weight fast. But they’re not quite sure just how they should go about it.

Now, I’m not gonna treat you like you’re stupid. You know that to lose weight fast, you have to fix that whole "Calories In vs. Calories Out" scenario. Or in other words, you’ve gotta burn up more calories than you consume on a daily average basis.

This can be done one of three ways:

1 – put the fork down and eat less (reduce your calories consumed)

2 – do more work and/or activity (increase your calories burned up)

3 – a combination of 1 & 2 (your best bet)

A lot of the fitness and exercise world will try to make it more complicated than that, because they know that if you think weight loss is complicated (which it’s not), then you’ll have a reason to buy their latest gizmo or gadget because you know they have "true ways to lose weight fast"!

(Don’t believe me? Just ask them – they’ll tell you!)

While there can be other factors at play, for the most part, calories in vs. calories out is all you really need to concern yourself with. In fact, you can lose weight pretty fast even if you’re not ultra-strict about everything, but yet, you simply have a good plan in place. Of course, the more strict you are, the quicker you’ll lose weight, but that doesn’t mean you have to kill yourself.

Remember the whole "80/20 rule" thing? If not, it basically goes like this – 80% of your results, come from 20% of your efforts.

What that means is that basic principles will get you most of the results you need or want. From there, that’s when you tweak little things here and there to make sure you’ve got everything ‘just right’.

But I’ll let you in on a little secret – most people will never need to do that. In fact, if most people would just get the basics down (that 20% of your efforts), you could concentrate on that and really ramp up how hard you hit those basic principles, and achieve some pretty amazing things.

(I know that when I put together weight loss workouts, that’s what I do – focus on basics. Once you’ve got a foundation built, go back and re-perform all your basics, making them even better. It makes things simple, uncomplicated, easy to measure and progress, and yet is still highly effective.)

That’s how the 80/20 rule is applicable to point #3 above – get your diet mostly clean (concentrate on clean proteins, healthy fats, and plenty of leafy greens) and a good workout (I personally feel intense circuit training is best for fast weight loss), and you’ll likely be able to achieve any weight loss goals you have…not to mention:

-making yourself look better

-fit into those old clothes

-be able to perform as well as you look

-being more healthy, vibrant, and energetic

…plus a whole bunch of other really cool stuff. But most of all, you’ll be making a life’s change that you can stick to, meaning no more of this ‘yo-yo’ crap. The weight will come off, stay off, and you’ll look, feel, and perform better for years to come…and you won’t be rearranging your life to do it.