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Does your diet have to be All or Nothing?
I definitely have many more supplements I want to cover in the next couple of newsletters but I just had to take a break from that series to cover a very important topic and question that I have received from many readers lately…
“Isabel, I don’t think I can implement every single principle in the Diet Solution Program all at once. Will I still lose weight? Will the program still work for me?”
First and foremost, I do have some good news…some great news actually.
DIET, It’s a Dirty Word
Lose the word “diet” from your vocabulary!
According to Miller Jones, a professor of nutrition and food science at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota…
4th graders are aware of the word diet, especially the girls.
One of the world’s largest study of weight loss has shown that diets do not work for the vast majority of slimmers and may even put lives at risk.
Is your Diet Coke making you Fat? + Free diet e-course.
“Isabel. It seems that there are no definite studies that prove, hands down, that artificial sweeteners can be hazardous to our health. Do you still recommend we stay away from them?”
Here’s how to combat Diet Disasters
People often think that in order to reach their Fat Loss goals they have to be perfect all the time. Not true.
Do you think I never “fall off the wagon”?
…Like the brownies at the last party I went to holding me hostage in one corner of the room, rendering me completely helpless with no emergency organic carrots in sight.
Foods That are Promoted as Healthy, But are not in Reality
Just yesterday, I was at the grocery store (supermarket) and had to shake my head at all of the clever deceptive labels with everything claiming all sorts of things that are supposedly “healthy”, but aren’t really. This is food marketing deception at it’s worst.
One of the things I noticed over and over that really disturbed me was that I saw several examples of healthy foods in their natural state, but I saw counterfeit overly processed versions of these original foods claiming that they were healthier than the natural version.
When is it OK to eat Sugar?
One of two things happens when you even mention the word Sugar…people either jump up for joy, salivating for their next sugar fix or they go running in the opposite direction and avoid it like the plague (Hmm Lewis, which one are you?)
The sugar lovers, well, they just love their sugar and would probably sprinkle it on broccoli if that was socially acceptable. While others are so afraid of it they are even scared to eat foods like bananas, carrots and onions because of their high sugar content..huh?
A Double Dose of Metabolism Protection: Strategic Carbohydrate Cycling
In last weeks update I talked to you about the most important hormone you probably never heard of – leptin. If you missed that update, do NOT pass go, do NOT collect $200 until you have read that article. It really is that important and I guarantee you’ll walk away from that article having learned a lot. Click-here if you missed it.
Without a doubt the most important thing you can do while attempting to drop body fat is to maintain high levels of leptin day in and day out.
With Cheat Your Way Thin, we accomplish this via two different means:
The MOST important hormone you never heard of!
LEPTI-WHA??
It’s name is Leptin (derived from the Greek word leptos, meaning “thin”), and it’s without a doubt the most important hormone you probably never heard of.
You see, leptin was only first discovered just over 10 years ago, and as far as weight loss is concerned, that’s extremely recent.
Leptin’s function? To communicate your nutritional status to your body and brain.
Leptin levels are mediated by two things. One is your level of body fat. All else being equal, people with higher levels of body fat will have higher leptin levels than those with lower levels of body fat and vice versa.
Plateaus of Weight Loss- Adaptive Thermogenesis + FREE Download.
Weight loss plateaus can be frustrating and detrimental to your fat loss if not dealt with swiftly and properly. Another way to look at weight loss plateaus is that they are actually your body settling in at a new body weight set point.
The set point theory is basically the idea that your body likes to be at a certain body weight and it will work to keep you there. Chances are you have experienced this in your own life. I’m talking about situations where you will gain or lose weight but inevitably after a couple weeks or months of trying to change you end up around the same body weight (I know for me 175lbs was a set point, in my own system for quite some time).
Is 6 meals a day still the way to go?
The topic of the “6 meals a day for fat loss” has been touted by bodybuilding circles and personal trainers for years now as the best way to eat for fat loss compared to the traditional “3 square meals a day”.
But is this 6-meal per day frequency the ONLY way to do it? And is it really the most effective?
Well, the answer can go both ways. Let me give you my opinion on this…
First, let’s look at what the recommended 6 meals/day instead of 3 really breaks down to calorically… On 3 meals/day, let’s take the example of a normal person that might be eating 3,000 calories per day, but eating those calories in three 1,000-calorie meals (or more likely, two 1500-calorie meals for someone that skips breakfast).
Are your food tastes making you fatter?
Are you “addicted” to overly aggressive food tastes? Is this making you fatter over time? Let’s take a look…
You’ve probably noticed that I like to talk about food… and healthy eating in particular. I’ve always said that healthy eating does NOT have to be boring and bland, and if you know a few preparation tricks, can actually be exciting and delicious.
Lose Fat in the Morning
One of the best ways to ensure you burn maximum fat is to get it done first thing in the morning. A common fat loss tip people often give out is just this – exercise in the morning to burn more fat. Does exercising in the morning burn more calories? Unfortunately there is no scientific evidence to prove that exercising in the morning burns more calories but it may increase your fat loss.
4 Ways To Break A Weight Loss Plateau
Weight loss plateaus are the bain of every dieter existence. There is nothing more frustrating than doing everything that you are ‘supposed’ to do but for whatever reason the weight loss just stops. Before we get into how you can smash through your weight loss plateau it is important to determine if you have plateaued OR perhaps you haven’t actually been following your diet and/or training program.
Carbohydrates and Fat Loss: What’s the Deal?
Carbohydrates play an important role in any fat loss diet. You need them to help you recover from your workouts but you need to limit them so that they don’t inhibit your fat loss. So what is the right balance of carbohydrates in your diet? When you eat carbs and what kind of carbs you eat depends on your body type and the time of day. Let’s look at this idea a little more closely.
Hungry ?
Got a question for you:
Should you “stay hungry”?
Let me explain what I mean.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made a movie a while time ago called “Stay Hungry.” Only a handful of people saw it.
I was one of them.
I loved the idea of “staying hungry” — of never sitting on your rear end too long… of never being totally comfortable… and of always progressing.
Burn More Bodfyat With Spices
It’s the spice of life.
Food that is. Or opinions. I guess there is a lot of things that are officially “the spice of life.”
I think spices are the spice of life.
I have a new-found love of spices since hanging around a killer healthy-food chef for the past week.
Wow oh wow… I had no idea.
Body Fat – Stressing You Out and Making You Stupid
We can all pretty much agree that extra body fat stinks…right? It hides your abs from the world, makes your favorite clothes not fit, and increases your risk of heart disease and cancer. But did you know that you know that it can impair how your body responds to stress?
Here’s how. Increased levels of visceral fat (i.e. not the stomach fat you can pinch, the fat sitting around your organs) lead to increased level of cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone that have been shown to decrease mental performance.
He could lose his shirt.
He could lose his shirt.
I’ve never seen anything like this before.
Nutritionist Mike Roussell and Men’s Health Fat Loss Expert Alwyn Cosgrove have put their money where their mouth is…LITERALLY.
You’ve probably heard of the rapid weight loss program – Warp Speed Fat Loss. It is a 28 Day blueprint for people that want to lose up to 20lbs in 28 days. It works like gang busters.
The story goes…Mike was taking to his Dad the other week and his father didn’t think that people would believe that it was possible – being able to lose 20lbs in 28 day. Especially with all the exotic berry and weight loss scams all over the internet.
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