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5 Surprising Things That Make You Leaner
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Good deal… here’s 5 tips that will help you along…
TIP 1
Ditch The Starch
Starches, such as rice, potatoes, some veggies, oats, etc. are
often considered “health foods.”
While they can be healthy, they can also pack on stomach bodyfat
like crazy if you overdo them.
As you may know, my “Every Other Day Diet” System (EODD) actually
encourages you to eat starches and even sweets several days a week
to get rid of excess bodyweight:
http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/vitallywel <– go
Well… how does THAT work?
Simple: Timing is everything.
And it takes a “weekly” approach to foods rather than a daily
approach. This keeps your metabolism guessing. If your body cannot
figure out what you’re up to, fatburning is that much more
powerful. And you can get by with eating starches… at least a
specific times on specific days.
But if you’re not going to do EODD, then you’ll have to wing it.
And the best way to wing it is to simply cut starches out entirely
for 4-8 weeks. Then slowly add them back a few days per week.
This is no where near as effective (or as fun) as the EODD method,
but it will get you pointed in the right direction.
TIP 2
Can The Sodas
Why diet-sodas? A recent study revealed that people who drank
diet-sodas actually increased bodyfat when compared to those who
drank sugar-sodas.
What the… ??
Yep. Your body cannot be fooled by aspartame and chemicals. Sorry,
but that’s the truth.
Here’s a personal story: When I cut out the diet-sodas my bodyfat
drops like a rock in a pond of clear water.
And that’s what you need to be drinking: A quart of pure water per
50 lbs of bodyweight a day.
Try mixing water with lemon and a bit of Stevia (an herbal
sweetener) and make lemonade. It’s wonderful!
TIP 3
Stay Hungry
It takes a special person to be hungry… and an even greater one
to stay that way.
I want you to stay hungry in two ways: In how you workout and
literally… stay a bit hungry before you go to bed. Not
“starving”… just a bit hungry.
For your workouts, I have a great solution. If you pick up EODD
you’ll get a limited shot at “7 Minute Body”… Jon Benson’s
combination of “7 Minute Muscle” and “The 7 Minute In-Home Workout”
in one book… and for more than half off… but that’s a very
limited deal. Gotta have EODD… you’ll need them both…
http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/vitallywel <– go
You see, progression — “forced” progression — is the best way to
stay hungry. 7 Minute Body forces you to progress without thinking
about it. Progression is built into the System.
As far as staying hungry at night? Check with your doctor and if
he/she okays it take 500mg of potassium and 1000mg of
magnesium/calcium a few hours prior to bed. This helps with the
hunger pangs. Also, keep hard-boiled eggs in the fridge. If you get
really hungry, eat one with half the yolk (toss the other half.) It
keeps you full for an hour at least.
TIP 4
Cardio Clarity
Hours and hours of cardio a day is not the answer. However, you can
do “light” cardio (i.e. brisk walking, or riding the bike at 60% of
your max) just to burn off calories. That’s okay… and personally
I don’t find it that boring if I’m watching a TV show. It does not
interfere with my main fatloss exercise (weight training… YES!)
and it burns off about 400 calories an hour.
What does work is early morning fasting cardio… but you only need
9-15 minutes. Jon Benson explains GXP (Modified) in the 7 Minute
Body book, available only if you pick up EODD, and you can get it
at more than half off:
http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/vitallywel <– go
TIP 5
Get Raw At Night
Raw veggies with your last meal and as a snack will really help
your fatburning along. Try starting with red peppers because
they’re sweet. You you’ll eat virtually every veggie raw at night
without thinking about it. Give this a shot. The fatloss is well
worth it.
P.S. Jon is still giving away “Radical Fatloss Blueprint” along
with EODD for a few more days. And I’m giving a lucky few the
chance to pick up the Supplement-Kit that comes with Radical
Fatloss for almost 100 bucks off… the video and details are here:
http://www.everyotherdaydiet.com/go/vitallywel <– go
Sorry… EODD Readers Only…. so pick it up today.
Your 5-Minute Fat Loss Shake
Posted by: | Comments[ Note: This article was written by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. I have his permission to share it with you. ]
Protein shakes are a dime a dozen. However a high-quality protein drink that is both homemade and nutritious is a rare find. Most protein drinks today have traveled the path of least resistance — cheap and potentially dangerous sweeteners, sugar alcohols (in order to bring down the supposed “carb count”), and protein sources that are often dubious…and accompanied with more outrageous claims than grams of the good stuff.
I use a simple, homemade, economic and super-healthy protein drink at least five times a week during my normal nutrition cycle and several times a day during peak training cycles where I need to be in top shape. My strategy for building this drink was simple:
- Go hormone-free and organic with everything possible;
- Go with plenty of healthy fats rather than cheap sugar substitutes to help control insulin and provide more satiety;
- Think ‘raw’;
- Make it delicious!
Below you will find this recipe, complete the the exact ingredients used. It takes less than five minutes to make and keeps me full for 2-3 hours. It is less than 1/3 the cost of an out-of-the-box MRP (Meal Replacement Product) and contains 1/10th the number of ingredients — and that’s a good thing. If you cannot pronounce it, it’s probably bad for you. And it tastes fantastic!
Mix the following into a high-quality blender:
1. One heaping scoop of Jay Robb’s Egg White Protein You will need to adjust this amount to your body weight. I use up to 1.5 grams times my body weight (max) and as low as 1 gram times my body weight when doing two shakes a day. For me this is between 20 and 35 grams of powder. Jay uses the best sources available, including hormone-free cattle and Stevia, a herbal sweetener, to make his excellent protein. There are no additional carbs to speak of and only the bare essentials ingredient-wise. Jay also makes a high-quality whey. I will often combine the whey and the egg white powders, using a bit over half a scoop each.
2. One raw egg (cage-free) Do not worry about cholesterol or getting food poisoning. These claims are mostly media hype. You need the high-quality protein and fats found in the egg. Most people try to go low-fat when making a protein shake. This is a mistake, as fats are crucial to the digestion of protein. As for contamination: Roll the egg on the counter. If it wobbles, you are safe to consume it. I’ve used this technique for ten years and I’ve yet to have one case of food poisoning consuming raw eggs. Oh, and it makes the protein drink taste better (believe it or not.)
3. Five grams of L-Glutamine Powdered L-Glutamine (I use Jarrow’s brand) is one of the healthiest things you can supplement your diet with. L-Glutamine has been shown to be one of the most powerful nutrients for both recovery and immunity enhancement. Bodybuilders will take up to 25 grams per day of L-Glutamine during hard training cycles; I do as well. It makes a tremendous difference in both performance and wellness. It is tasteless, too.
4. Five grams of Creatine Monohydrate If you want more strength and muscle fullness, good old creatine monohydrate (the non-fancy stuff; just monohydrate for me) works like you would not believe. Five grams per day is all you need. Like L-Glutamine, it is tasteless. I use Jarrow Brand.
5. Raw almonds I cannot say enough good stuff about almonds. Besides tasting great, they are loaded with essential fats and healthy fiber. Here is how I measure how much to use. This comes right out of my book “The Every Other Day Diet”.
Get it here:
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The “Cheat To Beat” Diet Plan
You can find 15 other shake recipes and over 40 pages of recipes in my book that fit the bill of being tasty and fantastic fat-burning meals. Here is the trick: Divide your body weight by 10. That’s it. If you weigh 200 pounds as I do, that means 20 almonds. Simple, right? I created an entire measuring system for Every Other Day Diet’s SNAPP! System of eating that is this simple for everything: Calories (none to count), carbohydrates, fats, protein intake… even water!
6. Frozen berries (raspberries mixed with blueberries) Yes, fresh is better than frozen… but frozen makes the shake more frothy. Plus I buy organic berries and freeze them in containers. There is practically nothing lost in the process. How much? Simple: Divide your body weight by 5! In my case this is 40 berries, or about a handful. Once you count them out once or twice you never have to again.
7. Pumpkin seeds This was a great find: A super-healthy and tasty addition to my protein recipe, plus a nice bump in the fiber content. Measuring something as fine a seeds is a bit more challenging using my numeric system, so we keep it simple: Use your palm. Just pour the seeds into your palm. Make sure they are not forming a pyramid or overflowing. That’s the ideal amount.
8. 1 to 1.5 cups of pure water I use only 1 cup of water as I like my shake thick.
9. 1 cup of ice Adjust to taste and texture preference.
10. Stevia (to taste) I love Stevia. It is an herbal sweetener that does not cause an insulin spike like sugar or even sugar alcohols can, and does not have the health hazards of artificial sweeteners. I use a few packets as I like my shake nice and sweet.
There you have it: A mostly raw, protein-rich, health-fat, carb-friendly protein drink that will fill you up for hours, tastes great, and contains more raw nutrition than most people get in a week.
P.S. There’s an eye-opening weight loss video you need to see.
Watch it here: Weight Loss Video Watch
Every Other Day Diet Review
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Every Other Day Diet Plan
The Every Other Day Diet has been called the easiest diet on earth. Also known as EODD. Even the name tells you there are no sacrifices greater than 24 hours. Those “sacrifices” are no sacrifice at all, just more foods you love (in smaller portions). Developed by degreed fitness professionals (formerly obese themselves) who came up with an easy diet plan that works for everybody. Using the ultra easy SNAPP System.
Based on science, this diet plan keeps your metabolism stoked and burning fat using caloric cycling. Most diets end up slowing your metabolism by longer term calorie restriction making it easier to put the weight back on when the diet is done. The Every Other Day Diet plan can easily become a permanent weight loss, weight maintenance program.
By maintaining a high metabolism, your body burns fat for energy instead of storing body fat. You enjoy the increased energy and may even feel like exercising. Yes, you do need to get some exercise – brisk walking will do. You’ll definitely want to get off you butt with your new found energy.
Easy Diets
How This Easy Diet Works
- One day you eat super healthy high protein foods that are easy to make (calorie restricted).
- One day you eat “normally”
- Repeat
Think you can handle that? That’s it! It is scaled into 3 separate versions depending upon how fast you wish to lose weight – they all work.
Diet Program Also Includes:
- 3 Every Other Day Diet recipes a week (variety!)
- Weekly Tips and motivational emails
- Lifetime updates (currently version 2)
- A support forum
As you can see, you are not left on your own. You can share your success or ask questions in the forum. A positive place to get encouragement and advice.
Every other Day Diet Benefits:
- A permanent weight loss solution
- Easy diet to follow
- Body never adjusts, metabolism stays in fat burning mode
- No guilt
- More energy
- Foods you love – no strict diet
- Real food – not celery and salads
- No cravings
- No counting calories, fats or carbohydrates
- No diet stress
- Constant fat burning
- IT WORKS
You can see why it is called “The easiest diet on Earth”. There is no simpler, more effective, fat burning diet available. If you want an enjoyable diet that works and has no suffering or sacrificing for weeks at at time involved – This is it.
Click here for The Every Other Day Diet
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Diets in general have a staggering failure rate. They actually set you up to fail by slowing your metabolism, starving you and leaving you with overwhelming cravings. You found one that is easy and avoids all of these common diet pitfalls. Go ahead and try the last diet you will ever need – the Every Other Day Diet!
If you are of extremely low will power, you can always use an appetite suppressant (easy diets) on the restrictive days making it absolutely fool proof.
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Fat, Fatter, Dying
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Below are two videos. Watch them if you dare.
Then, by all means… take action.
Part 1
Part 2
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A Candle In A Dark Week; Defeating Inflammation
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A Candle In A Dark Week
Unless you hitched a ride on NASA’s Lunar Orbiter, you’ve heard the news.
In a single day, we lost two people that almost everyone in this country, if not this world, felt as if they knew personally.
In the same week, there was a candle flickering in the darkness.
A candle fueled by science. By research.
By hope.
We lost Farrah Fawcett to cancer. But this week a promising new cancer drug has a large number of folks highly optimistic.
And of course we lost Michael Jackson. We don’t know why yet. I wonder if we ever will.
But still, the candle burns.
The light here is a light of reckoning. A light that says, “You are but dust in the wind.” To dust, we return.
In a sense, at least.
You are also the stuff of stars.
I’m not talking about movie stars — I mean literal stars.
The inspiration for this article comes from one of my personal heroes, Carl Sagan. In his brilliant book, A Demon-Haunted World, Carl brings is wit, intelligence and sobriety to bear on the candle in the dark — science.
Science has helped liberate us from the dark ages, literally.
Science has cured more people in a single generation than all the wars in “history” have taken. Can you believe it?
During this dark week, science enabled us to launch the most sophisticated lunar probe in history to the moon.
And science will eventually find a cure for that monster we call cancer.
But science may never find a cure for what killed the King of Pop.
You see, I don’t think it is as simple as it seems. It may be. Who knows. But I think Jackson died of loneliness and self-abuse.
It just took time.
That, combined with stress (the number-one killer in the world) is enough to do anyone in.
The candle in the dark? Managing your health is really under your control… more than you think. That includes your mind.
Not totally, but in a few years, who knows.
That’s a candle that burns bright to me.
Brighter than the sun.
A bit of honesty:
My first thought upon hearing Jackson died was, “Wow. Too young. How?”
I’ve always recognized his contribution to music, but I’ve never been “attached” as a fan per-se.
When Kurt Cobain died, I cried. When Gene Roddenberry died, I cried. I cry every time I watch the end of “Contact” that just says, “For Carl.”
When Michael died, I shook my head in disbelief, skepticism, and reflection.
My candle was burning at both ends, I suppose.
How fragile we are. Yet, like Sagan loved to say, we are all “starstuff.” Literally.
Every atom in your body with the exception of hydrogen can be traced to a red star, billions of years old.
That makes me hang my head in utter awe. How beautiful, yet how chaotic our universe and our lives seem to be.
The reason I do what I do is not to try and extend “just years” to your life — it’s to help you make your life the best it can be.
To extend the healthy, happy, joyful aspects of your life.
To give you the candle in the dark called “self-management”.
Your time can come in a snap of a finger. In a breath, your light can go out.
But until then, I urge you to fight the good fight.
And keep your candle lit for all the world to see.
Fit Bits: This Will Kill You. Really.
Inflammation.
That’s the ticket. That’s the answer.
That’s what you must address if you want to live a longer and more productive, healthy life. No ifs, ands or buts.
Inflammation is caused by insulin resistance, among other things.
I’ve decided to share this week’s Fit Bits with you in an entertaining video I made called “Low Carb Lunacy.”
Get ready for the facts like you’ve never seen them before…
Please press the Play button to start the video. Thanks!
P.S. For those of you who really want to take charge of your health, I do encourage you to adopt a dietary plan you can live with. The best I know of is found below.
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Fat Is Not Your Fault
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In this video I hope to shed some light on some provocative issues. First, craving fatty, sugary, high-calorie foods is not your fault. However, it is your responsibility—you have to learn to manage this vestibule pattern passed down through generations of DNA.
I have included a transcription of the video below. Enjoy!
Note: Thanks to too many years in scuba, I continually say “vestibular” in the video. The correct term of course is vestigial. But other than that… ; )
Please press the Play button to start the video…
Note: You can learn more about how to escape the “vestigial loop” covered in this video while still eating your favorite foods and losing all the weight you want by picking up my book The Ever Other Day Diet below…
TRANSCRIPTION
Hi, Jon Benson from Jon Benson Fitness dot com. Again, excuse the video-less video… my iCam is busted, but I’m getting it fixed this weekend.
If you missed the first video in this series, “Low Carb Lunacy”, be sure to check that out. Link below:
Fat is not your fault.
Craving foods high in fat is not your fault.
Craving foods high in sugar is not your fault.
Craving high-calorie foods is not your fault.
Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Well, it’s a biological and evolutionary fact.
BUT….
Guess what.
Just as a ruptured appendix is not your fault, it’s damn well your responsibility.
Just as your appendix is primarily useless; a vestigial organ no longer required for daily function, so is… yep.
Your cravings for sugar, fat, and calories.
Picture yourself living on the Savannah countless thousands of years ago. Everything you ate you either hunted or gathered—and for most of your days hunting was far more rewarded by your clan and by the females than gathering.
Gathering was the sign of a poor hunter. In fact, there’s an old joke: Vegetarian in the Cherokee tongue means Bad Hunter.
Turns out there may be more to this joke than you think.
On the Savannah, you might go days without food. Hunger and discomfort was associated mentally with “gathering” — picking up second choice. Is it any wonder so many of us as children seem to have a built-in aversion to vegetables? Our ancestors probably viewed what little vegetables were available during the warmer seasons as scraps from a table — not nearly enough calories, protein or fat to sustain themselves against the ravages of the day.
But bring home a nice tiger or lean game and presto: Hero status. The clan celebrated. The women swooned (great hunters were like rock stars in that day, or so I can imagine.) And the clan ate like crazy. Why? Who knew when the next high-fat, high protein, super-filling meal would come?
Folks, this same pattern, now just a vestigial mental organ if you will, is very much alive in your DNA. The problem? That tiger is now conveniently packed in your grocery’s freezer section. You may expend about 75 calories driving to the store, picking up a nice fatted piece of beef, drive home, cook it, and serve it. Hardly worthy of lavish praises from the female in your “clan”… but again, that genetic memory is a monster. It kicks in. The “provider” is still “worshiped” in the recesses of your DNA guys.
Unfortunately, it’s now a matter of economics, not hunting prowess. And being good with money rarely entails expending calories. So, that same drive to collect high-calorie, high-fat, energy-sustaining food is all but useless in today’s evolved society.
Same with sugars. When sweet fruits were in season on the Savannah, they provided the energy needed for the hunt. They tasted great. They were, as some anthropologists suggest, a type of early aphrodisiac. Sugar can trigger powerful “feel good” hormones, especially in its refined form. So, if you cannot eat filling food, how about a quick fix of feel good food?
Again, you were rewarded for this, albeit probably not as much — and definitely in different ways — back on the Savannah.
So you’re bucking eons of societal evolution folks… countless thousands of years of how humans ate, every time you sense hunger. Every. Single. Time.
Only now, everything is at your fingertips. Ladies, you no longer need a “hunter” — you can “hunt” for yourselves. Unfortunately you expend far less calories than males, both then and now. Some theorize than the females were responsible for preparing the meals. that, in and of itself, was very demanding calorically. Now… er… not so much. Guys, the hunt is over. All that’s left is brining in the cash to pay for the meals — one of the reasons, btw, many psychologists believe women are attracted to security of wealth. Yep — it all goes back to the hunting fields.
The obvious problem is that we now have these foods — but we have them at our fingertips and we have them on steroids multiplied by infinity. Our sugars are 100x sweeter than any fruit ancient man could have ever tasted. Our beef is loaded with hormones and unhealthy altered fats never known in the ancient world.
But our vestigial cravings are still there.
So, while craving foods that are high in sugar and fat makes perfect biological sense, it is no different than your appendix. It is a useless vestigial organ if you will, and it must be removed.
That part is your responsibility. It is the price we pay for societal evolution. But you can do it. As we’ve evolved, we’ve also become far more intelligent. More aware of our actions and their consequences. And we can fool the body quite nicely into thinking it has all the nutrients it needs.
I cover more about how to trick the body out of this historical “loop” of hunter/gatherism in my book The Every Other Day Diet…
Think about it. Comment below. Let me know if this resonates with you at all.
Thanks.
