The problem with relying on public company multiples to do business valuations of private companies in a slumping economy is two-fold. First, an investor will rarely if ever, take a controlling interest in a publicly traded company at a price anywhere near the stock’s 52-week low. In fact, the price to which the selling shareholders will agree will likely be closer to the 52-week high. How many times have public companies’ stock prices spiked 25% or more on the announcement of a merger or acquisition? Finally, using public company multiples in private business valuations suggests the business has limited future earnings potential based on present economic conditions. The discounted cash flow model is the best business valuations tool because it clearly identifies the price an investor should pay for the business based on that investors IRR guidelines, not on the depressed market price of a public company’s common stock.

Before you set out to visit every gym in your local area, lets consider first how much weight loss has to happen for you to be healthier and to get back your self confidence. Let’s say it’s 20lbs this month that would make you happy and you want to get started right now. The first thing I would recommend is that you weigh yourself in order to find out how many calories at your current weight is needed to produce rapid weight loss. Once we have the weight, for this experiment we will say you are 165lbs, and you’ve created a calorie count, we next need to determine how many small meals it will take to accomplish the calorie goal. You can use any online calorie count tool to figure this out. For this example we will say it will take 5 small meals to consume 1450 calories for  you to  lose weight fast. This is very important because now you have committed yourself to eating cleaner and cutting out all junk food consumption for now, plus it will kick in your metabolism to start burning food for energy and stop storing it as fat. As you get closer to your goal weight you can have a cheat day every 7th day to keep your sanity.

For our second part of this rapid weight loss goal you will have to pick 3 days out of the week that you can commit an hour to each day for exercise. Let’s say it’s Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings, you need to devote 30 minutes to weight training and 30 minutes to cardio. The weight training will promote strength and most importantly lean muscle while the cardio will burn calories and get you to lose weight fast.  I cannot stress this enough, you have to do both in order for rapid weight loss to take place. You cannot do cardio but skip out on resistance training! It doesn’t make sense and you will be robbing yourself of a well balanced body and your results will be one sided.

Now that you have committed yourself to eating more nutritious foods more frequently and your working out at least 3 days per week I would recommend that you measure your results every 2 weeks. The reason behind this is you have to decrease your calorie consumption and change up your workouts as you begin to lose weight fast. My suggestion would be to knock off an extra 100 calories every 2 weeks and change up whole body workouts to split body part workouts. Very easy to do! As you get the hang of this you will no longer have to count calories and changing your workouts will be like second nature to you. Remember, in the beginning, you will lose a lot of access water weight and body fat will convert to muscle very fast making your rapid weight loss very quick.  Before you know it a month will have past and you will be a new you because you have now lost 20lbs this month. One more very important detail in order to lose weight fast is to never give up on your goal. If you concentrate and give it 100% you will always be able to lose weight fast anytime you want!