{"product_id":"9781614645986","title":"MizFit: How to Build Muscle and Lose Weight Without Losing Your Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy story about weight loss and finding my healthy living path is an uncomplicated one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI shed 35 pounds nineteen years ago and never looked back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever regained. Never got off track. Maintained even when Master’s degree, marriage, and motherhood conspired to derail me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe more challenging piece to explain (and the question I’m most frequently asked) is how I’ve stayed on track and maintained my weight loss for so long.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know the statistic is hotly debated, but somewhere around 90% of all weight loss is regained within five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer I give for the reason I’ve stayed in the tiny ten percent? I realized it was what’s on the inside that mattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI gained the majority of my weight in college. I drank lots of soda (and various other things), ate many late-night junk food meals with friends, and basically enjoyed my college experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf by “enjoyed” you mean I packed on pounds quickfastandinahurry—which I do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike many of my peers I was pretty okay with my weight gain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe morning I discovered my pants no longer buttoned, did I commence dieting and self-flagellation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNope. I bloused a sweatshirt over the top of my jeans and proceeded along my soda-drinking way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat said, when graduation loomed, and the time came to don interview suits, I was faced with the reality that none of them zipped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot only could I not employ my fluffing-the-sweatshirt trick with a skirt-suit, but I’d grown while my bank account had not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacking the funds for new clothes, I commenced an exercise and revised eating routine, which after many months resulted in a fitter me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI discovered weight training. I rediscovered my old eating habits. I paid close attention to what I put inside my body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought I had it all figured out. I did not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI consumed lots of processed white flour (hello, bagels!), ate virtually no fat (fare thee well beloved salmon!), and was a lean, mean, and exhausted shell of my former self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I finally grew tired of being tired I stepped back and recorded precisely how I felt after eating various foods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreads and pastas? I was still famished, usually swollen, and broken out in a rash. In addition I was definitely, clearly lethargic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFruits, vegetables, complex carbs, and lean proteins? I was a force to be reckoned with. I possessed boundless energy, my swelling\/rashes disappeared, and after eating I was satiated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile all of this reads as a no-brainer, it transpired long before others were eating gluten-free and far before I realized when I feel healthier on the inside, everything else (including my outsides) follows suit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeight-loss maintaining isn’t even a concept I consider these days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy focus, and the one that has facilitated my maintenance for close to two decades, is on fueling my insides and exercising in a way that allows me to live my life as energetically and healthfully (and rash-free) as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI approach healthy living as I do all areas of my life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI read. I research. I experience. I seek gurus. I talk to my peers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet I remember, at the end of it all, I am the expert of my own body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe may all have the same healthy living goal (longer, healthier lives), but it’s ok for each of us to construct our own path to get there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre you ready? It’s time to start creating yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Carla Birnberg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hyperink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130328334576,"sku":"9781614645986","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614645986_p0.jpg?v=1763849103","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614645986","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}