FAQ about Fat Loss

Concerning Wrong Nutritional Ideas

	Does your belief that soy’s not good for health apply to all people or just to musclebuilders?
	This principle is accurate no matter who you are. I should emphasize, however, that it is especially true for those who are trying to develop their muscular systems. The problem is that soy causes your body to produce hormones that are contrary to your goal. The source of the problem is the phytoestrogen content of soy. The result is that your body reacts to it by reducing your testosterone level. A common place where soy shows up is in powdered proteins and bars, so you need to check the ingredients before buying any of those products.
	Is it OK if the protein-powder I have contains sweetening agents that are not natural?
	I think you can probably tell the answer to that question on your own. The answer is no. Artificial sweetening agents are poisonous and should be avoided. They affect your mind, your metabolic rate, and even organs such as the liver. Stay away from any sweetener that isn’t natural. Speaking of sweeteners, if you’re drinking colas, you should be able to lose ten pounds quickly just by cutting them out of your life.

So Called “Health Food” Is Really Unhealthy – What You Need To Know That “They” Aren’t Telling You

The perception that soy is a “health food” is a very common one. This is highly unfortunate, for a number of reasons which I’ll discuss here.

How Soy Became Known as a “Health Food”

But first, let’s review a bit of the history behind soy that created this misperception in the public’s mind.

Years ago, tropical oils, such as palm and coconut oil, were commonly used in American food production. However, these are obviously not grown in the US. With the exception of Hawaii, our climate isn’t tropical enough.

Spurred on by financial incentives, the industry devised a plan to shift the market from tropical oils to something more “home grown.” As a result, a movement was created to demonize and vilify tropical oils in order to replace them with domestically grown oils such as corn and, primarily, soy.

For the most part, they’ve been very successful in their campaign to paint soy in a healthy light. So, the information I have to share with you may disappoint and challenge many of you, especially vegetarians, because vegetarians and vegans use soy as one of their primary sources of protein.

But I’m here to tell you that after studying this issue very carefully, I’m convinced that unless the soy you’re consuming is  fermented, you’re putting your health at risk.

Fermented Soy is the Only Type of Soy with Health Benefits

There’s only one type of soy that can be construed as a health food, and that is fermented soy.

Examples of health-promoting fermented soy foods include:

* Natto

* Miso

* Tempeh

3 Simple Tips To Get Better Nutrition Even If You Don’t Have Time

Time is one of our biggest enemies when it comes to eating healthy and losing weight. Talking with my clients, I always get the question about how to lose weight fast without exercise ? The answer to this question is you can do it. I don’t recommend it, because exercise is important for your body to be healthy. BUT there are people who can do it. The trick to this is… you have to be very strict with your diet and make sure that you eat foods that are really healthy for you.

I’ve listed below 3 simple tips to get better nutrition even if you are short on time.

1. Cook in Large Batches

This is a must. If you can take 10 minutes and plan out the meals for the week, you can cook a large pot of soup, beans, etc that you can use multiple times throughout the week. Or go ahead and pre-cook your fish and chicken. You can eat these over the next few days.

Cheat Days – Eat Whatever You Want And Boost Your Metabolism!

Cheat days have become the newest fad. This is because if used right, they actually work to bust you through any weight loss plateaus that you are stuck on.

Lori and I have used this method for years with great success. Your body is amazing at 1 thing…. adaptation. You an adapt to virtually any situation.

So what happens when you adapt? Well, to put it simply, you get stuck in a rut. Especially in weight loss. That is why it’s a great idea to “shake things up a bit” hence, the cheat day.

The idea at first was to give you a mental break from your strict diet.  Some programs are very strict and mentally individuals would become tired and start to stray from the program.  Ultimately they “fell off the wagon” so to speak because mentally it is too challenging for them to continue.

So many use the cheat day as a way to give you a break or a reprieve mentally.  It allows you to eat some of those foods you have been avoiding while on your weight loss program.

What some have discovered with research is that something physically takes place when you incorporate a cheat day.

When you diet or restrict calories and nutrients your body will start to deplete a hormone called leptin.

Leptin is a powerful hormone that can influence your weight loss or even cause you to gain weight if it manipulated in the wrong way.

When you diet and start depleting your leptin levels you brain gets sent a signal from leptin that you are starving yourself because leptin is dropping.  This is what some call the ‘starvation mode’ and when this happens it triggers a series of other actions.  Your brain will now send signals to other hormones to slow down your metabolism, shed energy costly muscle and cause your body to start storing more calories you eat as stored fat.

The Top 3 Most Unhealthy Christmas Foods and Why They’ll Make Your Metabolism Cry

Gaining a few pounds over the holidays is as traditional as placing presents under the tree. But this doesn’t have to be the end.  Are you willing to put the work into making your holidays happy AND healthy? If you want to learn how to lose weight fast during the holidays, just take a look at the worst of the worst and a simple resolution to avoid them.

#1: Fruitcake and  other stollen (rich, Germanic breads)

While exact recipes have some considerable variation, there are general common themes that tend to spell bad things for one’s fat tissue levels. These breads are incredibly dense by default, but they’re also crammed full of additives that have had all the nutrition cooked right out of them. Marzipan, sugar, and other fattening products are added on top. Even the ‘traditional’ recipes aren’t safe, as they often add to the sheer density of the food by soaking it in liquids like brandy.

#2: The cheese log

Your standard cheese is far from healthy, of course. But the cheese log you’ll find in most stores is one of the least natural and most fattening. Empty carbs like olives and diced peppers further pad out a log that is mostly, by and large, made of heavily processed cheese and cream cheese. But most of the flavoring and coloring is entirely artificial! You can create a marginally healthier cheese log at home, but the bulk of the ingredients will still be fat, and you’ll still be eating that log with sausage and crackers – more carbs you probably don’t need.

#3: Eggnog (Mmmmmmm…. one of my personal favorites)

The Six Pack Secret To Hollywood Abs

The One True Lifestyle for Washboard Abs

It’s not easy to get dreamy washboard abs, and many of you who gaze at magazine covers longingly may believe that you’re even completely unable to achieve that look. You can get there too, but it takes lots of hard work, consistency, and above all else… knowing what kind of lifestyle you need in the first place!

If you go about your fitness routine the wrong way, you’ll end up sweating away for nothing. Instead of treating yourself so harshly, why not get started right by informing yourself on that proper lifestyle beforehand? We’ll spill all the secrets for you right here, right now.

Your lifestyle needs to start with cardio. Yes, that’s right, CARDIO IS THE BEGINNING OF YOUR JOURNEY TO NEW ABS… not ab-based exercises! If some form of cardio isn’t in your life four or five days a week, you might as well not be bothering entirely. That’s because burning off the fat that’s covering your abs is as important as developing your abs!

The next step is, of course, healthy eating and keeping yourself hydrated. Plenty of water a day will give you the fuel you need to keep going through your routine, and the right low-fat foods will make that essential task of losing fat easier.

The better you do on this end, the less difficult the exercise end of things will be. But no matter how well you eat, you can’t get great abs without exercise, and no matter how hard you exercise, you can’t get great abs without eating right!

A Great Daily Fitness Tip

You are going to have to get your metabolic rate elevated in order to be successful at fat loss. The way to make this happen is to stop doing traditional aerobic exercises and begin a new program that features interval and resistance patterns. Right now there is no better way to burn fat than this way. If you want to know what resistance training and intervals are, you’ve come to the right place. 

This combination workout is designed to help you build muscle and burn fat all at the same time, so you get a great body faster. These are fast workouts that let you stay out of the gym rather than spend hours there on the cardio gear.

You shouldn’t do traditional, slow cardiovascular work because it has been scientifically proven to be ineffective for weight loss. That’s why so many people spend more and more time doing it, trying to get some results. There are a lot of reasons for this and I’ve written about many of them. Another thing about combining cardiovascular sessions with intervals is that you get done in less time. Granted, you have to be very intense, but at least you get to reclaim a good portion of your life from the fitness center.

Discover Aerobic Solutions For Losing Weight

You already know that cardiovascular routines aren’t very effective for weight reduction. While you’re moving, you’re working off lard, but the biggest problem it has is that it won’t do much for your metabolism. The increases to your metabolic rate really kick in when you workout with intervals and body mass drills. When you exercise with your body’s mass, you get an intense workout that will help retain muscular tissue, so you’re really better off with that kind of exercise.

You see, when you are exercising with cardiovascular routines, you are burning calories from fat and from muscle. So the truth is that my plan is better than typical aerobic moves any day because you retain your muscles.

Body weight sessions are going to be helpful to anyone who will give it a try. Whether a novice or a pro, this kind of exercises gives great returns on your investment on time. I’m a pro and I still use body weight exercises a lot because I need them too. I practice what I preach in that the same programs I put you and my clients on are the programs that I’m also on.

Learn Why Weights Have Priority Over Aerobics

There’s no doubt that you are going to lose more weight if you will involve yourself in weight training. You might not feel like you’re burning fat while you’re lifting, but you’re going to see the fat melt away. The key to weights is building muscle because you will boost your metabolic rate and consume more calories throughout the day, not just while you’re at the gym. Besides, when you are in a serious weight loss program you can lose muscle as well as fat. Keep yourself up by maintaining your muscle. Continual development of your muscular system will make sure that you stay lean and lose fat at the highest rate possible. 

By using the super-set philosophy, I help you compliment your strength training through an elevated heart rate. This is not the main reason I promote this method of exercise. The real reason is that super-sets will let you get more good done in less time, although you have to work hard.

My Secret Super-Cardio Workouts

You know that cardiovascular routines are unnecessary when it comes to losing weight – right? You need to lose all your memories of that junk people say about getting into cardio fat-burn zones and other meaningless babble. You must instead remember that what you eat has the most to do with your program. Without changing your eating habits, nothing – including cardio – will help you. That’s not to say that cardio will work: it won’t. An eight week evaluation of cardio workouts has recently proven that you won’t lose weight with traditional cardio.

With a traditional cardiovascular routine, you are wasting your life away with moves that aren’t benefiting you at all. You are going to be better off by using interval style cardio. This together with diet and resistance training will help you get going.

This is a lot better than overdoing traditional cardio in desperate attempts to boost weight loss. Cardio with intervals can actually help you. Before I continue, let me tell you of an email I got. This was from a woman who worked an 8-hour regimen of cardiovascular exercises every week.

More Food, Less Aerobics Key to Weight Loss

It’s not every day when you hear a dietary expert tell you that you need to consume more food in order to lose weight. After all, food is what makes you fat, right? Add to that advice a recommendation to ditch your cardiovascular routine and many people think you’re nuts. I remember giving this advice to a middle aged man who had gained a lot of weight over the holidays. He was running several miles every day and had severely curtailed his eating, yet he wasn’t making any progress when it came to the scales. This guy thought he was doing the right thing, only his body was in pain and he was at risk for overuse injuries. I can’t tell you how surprised this man was when I told him that the problem he had was that he was exercising too much and not eating enough.

Once this client listened to my reasoning and took my advice, those pounds started coming off. He doesn’t have a lot of pain anymore and he has shed thirty pounds of weight and over half a foot from his girth. He started doing strength training and intervals and now worked out only three times each week for forty five minutes or less in each period.