“How to Attract the Body of Your Dreams”

“How to Attract the Body of Your Dreams” 

Wouldn’t it be great if we could attain the body of our dreams just by thinking about it? What if I told you that your mind actually plays the most important role in your success in getting fit? Sounds crazy, but it’s true…

 

Our subconscious mind has one all-important job, and it succeeds every time. What is this job? To prove that your beliefs are true.

 

Your beliefs are the truth for your life. It is that simple. Whether or not these beliefs are in fact true doesn’t matter. If you believe something to be true, then your subconscious mind will perceive the universe around you in such a way that makes this belief true.

 

So how does this relate to your fitness level?

 If you have the belief that getting in shape is hard, that eating healthy is boring, or that weight loss is elusive then you will find getting in shape to be very difficult. If you think of yourself as a fat person, or an out-of-shape person, or just an average person then your subconscious mind will do everything in its power to keep you that way.  

It’s the law of attraction… You have seen The Secret, right?

 

Wow—isn’t that amazing? Take a minute to let that sink in.

 

The great thing about our subconscious mind is that we can train it to work for us instead of against us. All we have to do is change our belief.

 

It won’t help if you simply think that it ‘isn’t impossible’ or that ‘it could happen someday.’ These aren’t true beliefs.

 

In order to have your desired result you need to truly believe with every fiber of your being that you will achieve this goal. Then you’ve got to go out there and do something proactive to achieve it.

 

 Visit www.balanceCT.com  and see how fun and easy getting in shape can be!

 

Three Easy Steps for Dropping One Pound a Week with Minimum Effort

Three Easy Steps for Dropping One Pound a Week with Minimum Effort 

Here you are already a full month into the New Year. How is that weight loss and fitness resolution coming along?

If the pounds haven’t budged yet, or at least not fast enough, don’t panic. I have some words of wisdom for you to live by this year—words that will aide in helping you achieve your fitness goals.

Shoot for dropping a pound a week.  

Now, this may not seem like that much, but if you did this consistently for the rest of the year it would result in 50 lbs lost. This may sound extreme to you you, but the good news is that once you achieve your ideal body – maintenance is a breeze! Imagine this…how great would it be to begin 2008 with a brand new body?

This all sound well and good, but how do you go about the business of shedding that pound each week? I am here to tell you that it doesn’t have to be allusive, mysterious or frustrating. In fact, with a little calculation, you can consistently drop one pound a week until you reach your goal.

All it takes are small changes in your daily lifestyle. Let’s break the process down…

How to shed a pound a week: Burn 3500 cal. more than normal.

It’s that simple! No fancy pills or powders necessary, just a progression of calories exerted without an increase in calories consumed. Try the following three steps:

1.      Record your normal weekly exercise – look at everything from walking to participating in local fitness programs such as personal training or outdoor fitness boot camps. This is your starting point. You need to burn an additional 3500 calories on top of your normal weekly exercise.

If you don’t currently exercise, then this step is really easy for you. Commit to doing some form of exercise for at least 30 minutes three to five days per week. A good place to start is at the free Saturday morning fitness boot camps in Chino Hills.

Learn all about it by visiting www.chbootcamp.com

2.      Record your normal weekly food intake – this may be hard to do honestly, but remember that you are only cheating yourself by not recording everything. Calculate the total number of calories that you eat in an average day.

In your quest for dropping inches you shouldn’t exceed your normal daily caloric intake – you should, rather, work at slowly decreasing that number.

Remember, we are going for a 3500 calorie deficit each week – this can be done by a combination of increased calorie exertion (exercise) as well as a decrease in calories consumed (eating less).

3.      Chart the difference — now that you know your starting point for both calorie exertion and calorie intake it is time to turn the tables in your favor. Take every opportunity to exert more calories by increasing your physical activity, and to decrease your calorie consumption by eating fewer calories and by making healthier selections.

Record your progress in a notebook and refer back to it often. You will be surprised how encouraging it is to see the positive changes that you are taking in your life written down on paper. 

 Remember, if you burn up 500 calories a day you will drop one pound of fat every week. Want more fat burning tips, tricks, and strategies? Visit www.balanceCT.com and download the Special FREE fitness report. 

Body fat determines need for diet

Body fat determines need for diet

Relying on body mass index alone might miss risk, new study suggests

Reuters

updated 3:59 p.m. ET, Fri., Feb. 8, 2008

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NEW YORK – Measuring body fat, rather than body mass index, appears to more accurately identify people who need lifestyle interventions to lose weight, study findings suggest.

Excess body fat is a risk factor for many major health problems such as heart disease and diabetes, researchers note in the Nutrition Journal.

When evaluating individuals for lifestyle recommendations to minimize such health risks, body mass index (BMI) under identifies risk, said Dr. Ottavia Colombo of the University of Pavia in Italy.

“The use of BMI alone does not discriminate between fat mass and fat-free mass, nor reflect the fat mass distribution,” Colombo told Reuters Health.

Colombo and colleagues recruited 23 men and 40 women, aged 20 to 65 years, to undergo body composition analysis in the Human Nutrition and Eating Disorders Research Centre at the university. The volunteers were healthy, but led sedentary lives and were not following a low-calorie diet.

The researchers obtained each person’s BMI as well as body-fat measurements including waist circumference and total percent body fat. The also calculated a measurement similar to BMI that identifies fat mass called body fat mass index. The investigators then compared the percentage of the study group that would be told to lose weight according to each calculation.

BMI calculations, they found, identified 11 percent of the group as needing strong recommendations to lose weight and 41 percent as needing basic recommendations to lose weight. By contrast, waist circumference measurements indicated about 25 percent would need strong recommendations to shed pounds and 36 percent would need basic weight loss recommendations, Colombo said.

Moreover, 29 percent and 48 percent would have received similar weight loss recommendations according to total percent body fat measurements, while 21 percent and 54 percent would receive the same, according to body fat mass index.

“Using criteria based on body adiposity (fatness) rather than body weight would result in a much greater proportion of the study population receiving recommendations for weight loss,” Colombo said.

Studies that focus on changes in body fat among larger groups of people recommended for lifestyle change, might better identify which body fat index is most clinically relevant, the investigators say.

Copyright 2008 Reuters. URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23072865/wid/11915773/

My Take on “Lab Study Ties Artificial Sweetener to Weight Gain”

I am sitting in Wayne Airport in Detroit MI and CNN reported on the new study of sugar substitutes and weight gain.  I turned to the stranger next to me and said “I’ve been saying that for years”.  “A little bit of the real stuff is better than a lot of the fake stuff.” I declared to him.  “yeah” he says with a voice of pacification.  I explained to him that I was a personal trainer so he wouldn’t think I was some sort of “weirdo”.  I think it vindicated my comment.

We (”smart” human beings) have to respect the complexity in which we were created.  And how we fit into the universe and the cycle of living things.  Food is made to nourish the body.  Each food is more than just a collection of calories.  When it enters our body it not only effects the amount of fat we store, but it effects our hormones, our chemical make up, our brain, and every other internal organ.  Food changes our psychological dispositions and more.  So why are we surprised that this study shows that our body hold on to more fat when we try to “trick” it.

The best lesson we can take from this is

#1 – We can never be smarter than nature and the God that created it.  We are symbiont creation.  We work in conjunction with plants and animals and we can not try to get around the nature in which we were created.

#2 – There is no better diet plan than eating REAL food in the proper portions. – There has never been a study that disproves complex carbohydrates, lean proteins and lots of fruits and vegetables.

Lab Study Ties Artificial Sweetener to Weight Gain

Lab study ties artificial sweetener to weight gain

Rats fed food with saccharin added more body fat, researchers found

Reuters

updated 6:30 p.m. ET, Sun., Feb. 10, 2008

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WASHINGTON – Using an artificial, no-calorie sweetener rather than sugar may make it tougher, not easier, to lose weight, U.S. researchers said Sunday.

Scientists at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, studied rats that were fed food with the artificial sweetener saccharin and rats fed food with glucose, a natural sugar.

In comparison to rats given yogurt sweetened with glucose, those that ate yogurt sweetened with saccharin went on to consume more calories and put on more weight and body fat.

The researchers said sweet foods may prompt the body to get ready to take in a lot of calories, but when sweetness in the form of artificial sweeteners is not followed by a large amount of calories, the body gets confused, which may lead to eating more or expending less energy than normal.

“The data clearly indicate that consuming a food sweetened with no-calorie saccharin can lead to greater body-weight gain and adiposity than would consuming the same food sweetened with high-calorie sugar,” Purdue researchers Susan Swithers and Terry Davidson wrote in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience, published by the American Psychological Association.

“Such an outcome may seem counterintuitive, if not an anathema, to human clinical researchers and health care practitioners who have long recommended the use of low- and no-calorie sweeteners as a means of weight control.”

Other artificial sweeteners such as aspartame that also taste sweet but do not lead to the delivery of calories may have similar effects, the researchers said.

“Animals may use sweet taste to predict the caloric contents of food. Eating sweet noncaloric substances may degrade this predictive relationship,” the researchers wrote.

“With the growing use of noncaloric sweeteners in the current food environment, millions of people are being exposed to sweet tastes that are not associated with caloric or nutritive consequences,” the researchers added.

The research was the latest to examine the question of whether artificial sweeteners — used in many soft drinks and other foods — help or thwart those trying to lose weight. Various studies have offered mixed results.

Industry responds
The new research drew criticism from the food industry.

“This study oversimplifies the causes of obesity,” Beth Hubrich, a dietitian with the Calorie Control Council, an industry association representing companies that make low- and reduced-calorie foods and beverages, said in a statement.

“The causes of obesity are multi-factorial. Although surveys have shown that there has been an increase in the use of ’sugar-free’ foods over the years, portion sizes of foods have also increased, physical activity has decreased and overall calorie intake has increased,” Hubrich added.

The council also said findings in animal studies may not be applicable to people, which the researchers acknowledged.

Davidson said by e-mail that the implication of the council’s statement “that they, too, are interested in the health of the public seems insincere.”

“If they were sincere, one might expect that they would be alarmed by findings from animal or human models suggesting that their products might be contributing to the obesity epidemic that continues to expand and do its damage,” Davidson said.

Copyright 2008 Reuters.

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