Brad Pilon has been a guy that I've been following for a couple of years now and he's just so good at putting things into the simplest of terms and cutting through all the junk that's out there to help people lose weight and get into shape.
He had a great blog entry today that I just had to share with you. Take a read:
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Friday, August 7, 2009
Back to Fasting
I was bored this week so I decided to do another fast yesterday.
I wrote a review on a fast I did for a couple of months here following the guidelines of the book Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.
I did it a little different this time. Last time, I would have a meal before I went to bed and then wouldn't eat until the following night, 24 hours later. This time I finished up dinner around 5:30 pm on Wednesday and then didn't eat again until around 5:30 pm on Thursday. It was pretty much a breeze. Didn't even phase me all day that I hadn't eaten.
Drank about 4 or 5 cups of green tea, about 3 liters of water, and I got a Diet Coke in there too.
I can't recommend this type of guideline enough and if you follow it with a Paleo Diet on the days that you are eating, I think you're results will be outstanding.
Both the fasting guidelines and the Paleo Diet guidelines are included in the Lean Body Fat Loss Nutritional Guide that you get whenever you order one of the workouts from Lean Body Workouts. Go and check it out and when you get started on one of the 4-week workouts, don't hesitate to e-mail me at mike@leanbodytraining.com to let me know how it's going.
Have a good weekend.
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I wrote a review on a fast I did for a couple of months here following the guidelines of the book Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.
I did it a little different this time. Last time, I would have a meal before I went to bed and then wouldn't eat until the following night, 24 hours later. This time I finished up dinner around 5:30 pm on Wednesday and then didn't eat again until around 5:30 pm on Thursday. It was pretty much a breeze. Didn't even phase me all day that I hadn't eaten.
Drank about 4 or 5 cups of green tea, about 3 liters of water, and I got a Diet Coke in there too.
I can't recommend this type of guideline enough and if you follow it with a Paleo Diet on the days that you are eating, I think you're results will be outstanding.
Both the fasting guidelines and the Paleo Diet guidelines are included in the Lean Body Fat Loss Nutritional Guide that you get whenever you order one of the workouts from Lean Body Workouts. Go and check it out and when you get started on one of the 4-week workouts, don't hesitate to e-mail me at mike@leanbodytraining.com to let me know how it's going.
Have a good weekend.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Intermittent Fasting Update
Back about a month and a half ago, I wrote a review here of a book called Eat Stop Eat that I read and an eating regiment that I followed for 4 weeks that involved fasting for 24 hours, twice a week. During that four weeks, I lost 8.5 pounds.
I took a week off from the fasting after that the last week that I fasted and ended up losing another half a pound.
A week after that, I went back to fasting twice a week for another 4 weeks. I ended up dropping another 5 pounds.
Then I stopped fasting for two weeks and during that time, I dropped another 2 pounds.
So in 11 weeks, I dropped 16 pounds. Not bad.
I also went and had my bloodwork done after the first 9 weeks to see how that looked.
The last time that I had my bloodwork check I blogged about it here.
This time around here were my results:
Total Cholesterol: 130
HDL Cholesterol (the good stuff): 59
LDL Cholesterol (the bad stuff): 65
Triglycerides: 45
Blood Glucose: 89
Blood Pressure: 108/68
Resting Pulse: 80
Everything within normal range.
So after 9 weeks of fasting, no harmful results on the issue of bloodwork.
It was a great ride trying the intermittent fasting out and I highly recommend it as a way to lose weight safely, and quickly.
I highly recommend that you buy the book here, and after you buy it, the offer is still on the table that if you e-mail me your e-receipt, I'll send you a FREE copy of my diary of what I ate and what my workouts were for the original four weeks that I followed this.
Give it a try. You won't be sorry.
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I took a week off from the fasting after that the last week that I fasted and ended up losing another half a pound.
A week after that, I went back to fasting twice a week for another 4 weeks. I ended up dropping another 5 pounds.
Then I stopped fasting for two weeks and during that time, I dropped another 2 pounds.
So in 11 weeks, I dropped 16 pounds. Not bad.
I also went and had my bloodwork done after the first 9 weeks to see how that looked.
The last time that I had my bloodwork check I blogged about it here.
This time around here were my results:
Total Cholesterol: 130
HDL Cholesterol (the good stuff): 59
LDL Cholesterol (the bad stuff): 65
Triglycerides: 45
Blood Glucose: 89
Blood Pressure: 108/68
Resting Pulse: 80
Everything within normal range.
So after 9 weeks of fasting, no harmful results on the issue of bloodwork.
It was a great ride trying the intermittent fasting out and I highly recommend it as a way to lose weight safely, and quickly.
I highly recommend that you buy the book here, and after you buy it, the offer is still on the table that if you e-mail me your e-receipt, I'll send you a FREE copy of my diary of what I ate and what my workouts were for the original four weeks that I followed this.
Give it a try. You won't be sorry.
www.leanbodyfitness.com
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Delayed Gratification and Childhood Obesity
To stay with the theme of childhood obesity that I've kind of rolled myself into this week, this article talks about a study where it found that children that were able to delay gratification were less likely to be overweight or obese.
From the article:
The conclusions:
The correlation of the parents:
This really makes sense. If you have a mother that is overweight, then there's a good chance that she doesn't have the ability to delay gratification when she's hungry. This easily passes along to the child where mom just instinctively gives the child something to eat when the child complains about being hungry.
This is interesting in light of my review last week here of Eat Stop Eat. You hold off eating for 24 hours. After some time, this helps you hold off eating when not fasting and you start to feel a little bit of hunger. By fasting, you learn to control those hunger "pains" and not instantly go reach for a donut.
I'm NOT suggesting we start getting 4 year olds to follow intermittent fasting. But, if adults would start following this type of protocol, they would learn themselves how to delay instant gratification and thus would be more readily able to tell their kids "no" when they whine about being hungry and telling them that they need to wait until their next meal.
The behavior of parents is what is going to stick with their children, so maybe if we start changing the shape of how parents view instant gratification, we can change that same behavior in children. Something to think about.
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From the article:
In the study, a group of 4-year-olds was asked to choose candy, animal crackers or pretzels as their preferred food and left alone with two plates of different quantities of the food.
They could eat a larger portion of chosen food if they waited until the examiner returned. If they could not wait until the examiner returned, they could ring a bell to summon the examiner back into the room, at which time they could eat the small quantity.
Almost half (47%) of the 805 children failed the test, either by ringing the bell before a seven-minute waiting period elapsed, spontaneously beginning to eat the food, becoming distressed, going to the door or calling for a parent or the examiner.
The conclusions:
Children who had difficulty delaying gratification were about 30% more likely to be overweight by age 11 than those who could delay gratification, says study coauthor Dr. Julie Lumeng, a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at the University of Michigan Health System.
The correlation of the parents:
The weight of the mother made a difference in the child’s ability to wait to eat, Lumeng adds.
“Moms who are overweight themselves have kids that are less able to wait,” Lumeng says. “No study like this one can prove causation, but there’s an association.”
This really makes sense. If you have a mother that is overweight, then there's a good chance that she doesn't have the ability to delay gratification when she's hungry. This easily passes along to the child where mom just instinctively gives the child something to eat when the child complains about being hungry.
This is interesting in light of my review last week here of Eat Stop Eat. You hold off eating for 24 hours. After some time, this helps you hold off eating when not fasting and you start to feel a little bit of hunger. By fasting, you learn to control those hunger "pains" and not instantly go reach for a donut.
I'm NOT suggesting we start getting 4 year olds to follow intermittent fasting. But, if adults would start following this type of protocol, they would learn themselves how to delay instant gratification and thus would be more readily able to tell their kids "no" when they whine about being hungry and telling them that they need to wait until their next meal.
The behavior of parents is what is going to stick with their children, so maybe if we start changing the shape of how parents view instant gratification, we can change that same behavior in children. Something to think about.
www.leanbodyfitness.com
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Eat Stop Eat Review
This is going to be long but well worth it so make sure you read the entire thing and see what kind of FREE bonus I'm offering at the end.
In the beginning of January, I made a New Year's Resolution.
Looking at the state of the world, everything seemed so negative. The economies are tanking, people are being laid off in droves, technology is moving forward but, it seems we're kind of at a stand still when it comes to obtaining something earth shattering, and the waistlines of Americans just increased by at least 2 inches each person from the holiday feeding.
The resolution that I made to myself was to keep an open mind about any approach health and fitness related. Don't discard something simply because it doesn't follow what you've read in the past.
Really, this is nothing new to me. Back a number of years ago, I was following the same mantra that everyone else was: Dietary fat was bad, don't eat it. Dietary fat will turn into body fat. If you want to lose weight, take the dietary fat out of your diet.
But then I stepped outside that box and read a book called The Testosterone Advantage Plan. There's some great insight in that book and changed my tune on dietary fat. Dietary fat turns out to actually be essential and is part of the solution of reducing body fat, not the problem.
So I followed the eating plan and did the workouts. Nine weeks later, I was seven pounds lighter.
So I had come to a great discovery that when it comes to losing and gaining weight, it's not the dietary fat's fault, it's the extra calories that you consume that is the main issue.
I learned more and more. Learned about eating 6-7 meals a day instead of the standard three, learned about starvation mode that it was best to eat every 3-4 hours or your body was going to think it was starving and start eating off your hard earned muscle.
I learned about the importance of getting a good protein drink mixed with fast acting carbs after a workout to help fuel the muscle recovery process.
I learned that you should be getting roughly one gram of protein per pound of your body weight.
I learned that you need to do exercises that involve the movement of your biggest muscles such as rows, deadlifts, squats, lunges, bench presses, and pull ups.
I even re-evaluated concepts that I blogged about recently such as starvation mode and ketosis that I had previously shunned.
Back a number of weeks ago, I came across a book mentioned on another blog that I had never heard about, called Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.
Basically, the book outlines an eating plan that is very very simple: Eat normal, but for one or two 24 hour periods a week, do no eat anything at all.
Let me say that again, no eating. Nothing. Nada. No can do. No consuming of calories (including calories from liquids) for 24 hours.
At first, I thought "No way, this guy is crazy. Starving yourself is the absolute worse thing you can do."
But, I remembered that I was going to keep an open mind and to read things that are outside of my "box" to at least see something from a different perspective.
So I bought the book, and read it in a couple of hours (it's not that long of a read).
Then I decided that I needed to use myself as a guinea pig with this approach and see what happens. So I started on my journey of fasting for 24 hours, twice a week and I was going to do it for four weeks to see what kind of results I would get.
But, before I reveal what my results were, there's one important part: You have to do resistance training 2-3 times a week. Doing this resistance training is what is going to preserve that muscle of yours. The resistance training could be anything from bodyweight exercises to full blown barbell squats. All that matters is that you do some kind of resistance training. Not long steady state cardio. Not an aerobics class. Resistance training (although intervals are fine to add in, and I found the I Hate Mike Interval Workout did a pretty good job).
A Typical Fast Day
Here's an example of a 24 hour period that I fasted:
Monday night around 8:30 pm - Had some lowfat cottage cheese and a TBSP of natural peanut butter
Before bed - A cup of Melissa tea
Tuesday Morning around 5:15 am - woke up, got ready for the day
7:00 am - started drink water, had a hot cup of green tea
8:00 am - felt hungry, had another hot cup of green tea
Drank in total about 4 liters of water during the day and whenever I felt hungry, made a hot cup of green tea
4:00 pm - Completed the I Hate Mike Interval workout
Drank more water
6:30 pm - taught my group class
8:30 pm - time to eat. Had a half a can of tuna rolled into a multi-grain pita and ate an orange
Before bed - 1/2 cup of lowfat cottage cheese, a TBSP of natural peanut butter, a hot cup of Melissa tea
Results
Here's a breakdown by week of how much weight I lost:
After week 1: lost 2.5 pounds
After week 2: lost another 1.5 pounds
After week 3: lost another 2.5 pounds
After week 4: lost another 2.0 pounds
Overall weight loss: 8.5 pounds. That equates to a loss of over 5% of my bodyweight in 27 days.
Was it easy? At times yes, but at other times no but after a couple of fasts, you almost forget that you're not eating.
Even though I'm a bit regimented on what I eat on days I wasn't fasting, the overall concept of eating what you "normally" eat when you're not fasting and then simply adding some resistance training makes it a lot less stressful in that you don't have to count calories or measure things out or eat this or eat that. All you do is stop eating two times a week for 24 hours and then the rest of the time you just "act normal."
I'm sure this question has entered your mind: Won't I just gain the weight back when I stop cycling fasts?
After I was done with this experiment for four weeks, the following week I ate normal (and worked out four times during the week) and actually saw my weight drop another half a pound.
How YOU Can Lose Weight Like This
So here's the bottom line on what you can do to get results like I did (or even better): Buy Eat Stop Eat.
As an added bonus for buying the product, I will give you a FREE copy of my diary that I kept for the 27 days following Eat Stop Eat.
The diary will give you EXACTLY what I ate and will tell you EXACTLY what workouts I did. If you follow the guidelines set out in Eat Stop Eat as well as in my diary YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT. Whether you've got that 10 pounds of fat left that is just hanging on for dear life or have already lost a significant amount of weight and are stuck at a plateau or you're looking to start losing weight from scratch, this plan WILL work if followed properly.
Click on this link to buy Eat Stop Eat and after you purchase it (it's an e-book so you get the book instantly), forward a copy of the e-mail receipt to me at: eatstopeat@leanbodyfitness.com and I will send you a copy of my diary.
Workout Options
In my diary I list out exactly what my workouts were. You don't have to do exactly what I did. I was using equipment such as a lat pulldown machine, barbells, dumbbells, and a stability ball.
But there are some other options to programs you can do along with Eat Stop Eat that would be a great combination.
1. If you have no equipment available, I would suggest Craig Ballantyne's Turbulence Training Bodyweight Cardio v2.0 workout that you can find here.
2. If you have dumbbells available to you, I would suggest any of Craig Ballanyne's Turbulence Training Workouts that you can find here.
The workouts that you can buy from Turbulence Training are extremely affordable at less than $10 and are some of the most effective workouts I've ever done so you won't be disappointed.
3. If you live local to me, you can sign up for the NEW Lean Body Fat Loss Training Program that I'm offering that would be a perfect fit with Eat Stop Eat.
In Perspective
When I started following Eat Stop Eat, I realized that I was saving roughly $10-15 a week in groceries. So in the course of a month, I saved between $40-60.
What this means is that at minimum, the amount I saved in groceries paid for Eat Stop Eat and at best I actually saved $20 in groceries for the month after paying the cost of the book.
So if you bought both Eat Stop Eat and either Craig Ballantyne's Bodyweight workout or one of the other Turbulence Training programs, they would AT MINIMUM pay for themselves over the course of 6 weeks.
Final Thoughts
There was something very free about not eating all day. I had initially thought that I was going to feel weak and tired without eating for 24 hours but, it turns out that I never felt that way and after the first couple of fasts I actually felt MORE energized.
What it also can teach you is how to adapt to the feeling of hunger. Meaning, once you've fasted a few times, you noticed on other days that you're not fasting and have a busy day and scheduled eating times take a back seat, that after 8 hours of not eating, you're fine. You're not craving or "starving" like you have felt in the past.
This was an eye opening experience for me and quite frankly is without a doubt the best program that I've put myself on that has resulted in weight loss so consistently and SO QUICKLY.
Honestly, I am currently at the weight I was (although a lot leaner) when I was in high school (for those that know me know how long ago that was and for those that don't know me, I'll give you a hint: This guy was big on the music scene at the time...unfortunately..).
I'm going to continue experimenting with this approach some more to get an idea of how it affects other health issues like blood cholesterol and glucose levels so keep checking back to this blog to find out more.
And, I will continue to keep a diary of everything I eat (or don't eat) when following Eat Stop Eat, and all of my workouts and if there are any updates to the FREE diary that you get from me for buying Eat Stop Eat, you will get those updates at ABSOLUTELY NO CHARGE.
Give it a try and let me know how your experiences are with it.
Don't wait. Click here to order your copy right now.
www.leanbodyfitness.com
In the beginning of January, I made a New Year's Resolution.
Looking at the state of the world, everything seemed so negative. The economies are tanking, people are being laid off in droves, technology is moving forward but, it seems we're kind of at a stand still when it comes to obtaining something earth shattering, and the waistlines of Americans just increased by at least 2 inches each person from the holiday feeding.
The resolution that I made to myself was to keep an open mind about any approach health and fitness related. Don't discard something simply because it doesn't follow what you've read in the past.
Really, this is nothing new to me. Back a number of years ago, I was following the same mantra that everyone else was: Dietary fat was bad, don't eat it. Dietary fat will turn into body fat. If you want to lose weight, take the dietary fat out of your diet.
But then I stepped outside that box and read a book called The Testosterone Advantage Plan. There's some great insight in that book and changed my tune on dietary fat. Dietary fat turns out to actually be essential and is part of the solution of reducing body fat, not the problem.
So I followed the eating plan and did the workouts. Nine weeks later, I was seven pounds lighter.
So I had come to a great discovery that when it comes to losing and gaining weight, it's not the dietary fat's fault, it's the extra calories that you consume that is the main issue.
I learned more and more. Learned about eating 6-7 meals a day instead of the standard three, learned about starvation mode that it was best to eat every 3-4 hours or your body was going to think it was starving and start eating off your hard earned muscle.
I learned about the importance of getting a good protein drink mixed with fast acting carbs after a workout to help fuel the muscle recovery process.
I learned that you should be getting roughly one gram of protein per pound of your body weight.
I learned that you need to do exercises that involve the movement of your biggest muscles such as rows, deadlifts, squats, lunges, bench presses, and pull ups.
I even re-evaluated concepts that I blogged about recently such as starvation mode and ketosis that I had previously shunned.
Back a number of weeks ago, I came across a book mentioned on another blog that I had never heard about, called Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon.
Basically, the book outlines an eating plan that is very very simple: Eat normal, but for one or two 24 hour periods a week, do no eat anything at all.
Let me say that again, no eating. Nothing. Nada. No can do. No consuming of calories (including calories from liquids) for 24 hours.
At first, I thought "No way, this guy is crazy. Starving yourself is the absolute worse thing you can do."
But, I remembered that I was going to keep an open mind and to read things that are outside of my "box" to at least see something from a different perspective.
So I bought the book, and read it in a couple of hours (it's not that long of a read).
Then I decided that I needed to use myself as a guinea pig with this approach and see what happens. So I started on my journey of fasting for 24 hours, twice a week and I was going to do it for four weeks to see what kind of results I would get.
But, before I reveal what my results were, there's one important part: You have to do resistance training 2-3 times a week. Doing this resistance training is what is going to preserve that muscle of yours. The resistance training could be anything from bodyweight exercises to full blown barbell squats. All that matters is that you do some kind of resistance training. Not long steady state cardio. Not an aerobics class. Resistance training (although intervals are fine to add in, and I found the I Hate Mike Interval Workout did a pretty good job).
A Typical Fast Day
Here's an example of a 24 hour period that I fasted:
Monday night around 8:30 pm - Had some lowfat cottage cheese and a TBSP of natural peanut butter
Before bed - A cup of Melissa tea
Tuesday Morning around 5:15 am - woke up, got ready for the day
7:00 am - started drink water, had a hot cup of green tea
8:00 am - felt hungry, had another hot cup of green tea
Drank in total about 4 liters of water during the day and whenever I felt hungry, made a hot cup of green tea
4:00 pm - Completed the I Hate Mike Interval workout
Drank more water
6:30 pm - taught my group class
8:30 pm - time to eat. Had a half a can of tuna rolled into a multi-grain pita and ate an orange
Before bed - 1/2 cup of lowfat cottage cheese, a TBSP of natural peanut butter, a hot cup of Melissa tea
Results
Here's a breakdown by week of how much weight I lost:
After week 1: lost 2.5 pounds
After week 2: lost another 1.5 pounds
After week 3: lost another 2.5 pounds
After week 4: lost another 2.0 pounds
Overall weight loss: 8.5 pounds. That equates to a loss of over 5% of my bodyweight in 27 days.
Was it easy? At times yes, but at other times no but after a couple of fasts, you almost forget that you're not eating.
Even though I'm a bit regimented on what I eat on days I wasn't fasting, the overall concept of eating what you "normally" eat when you're not fasting and then simply adding some resistance training makes it a lot less stressful in that you don't have to count calories or measure things out or eat this or eat that. All you do is stop eating two times a week for 24 hours and then the rest of the time you just "act normal."
I'm sure this question has entered your mind: Won't I just gain the weight back when I stop cycling fasts?
After I was done with this experiment for four weeks, the following week I ate normal (and worked out four times during the week) and actually saw my weight drop another half a pound.
How YOU Can Lose Weight Like This
So here's the bottom line on what you can do to get results like I did (or even better): Buy Eat Stop Eat.
As an added bonus for buying the product, I will give you a FREE copy of my diary that I kept for the 27 days following Eat Stop Eat.
The diary will give you EXACTLY what I ate and will tell you EXACTLY what workouts I did. If you follow the guidelines set out in Eat Stop Eat as well as in my diary YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT. Whether you've got that 10 pounds of fat left that is just hanging on for dear life or have already lost a significant amount of weight and are stuck at a plateau or you're looking to start losing weight from scratch, this plan WILL work if followed properly.
Click on this link to buy Eat Stop Eat and after you purchase it (it's an e-book so you get the book instantly), forward a copy of the e-mail receipt to me at: eatstopeat@leanbodyfitness.com and I will send you a copy of my diary.
Workout Options
In my diary I list out exactly what my workouts were. You don't have to do exactly what I did. I was using equipment such as a lat pulldown machine, barbells, dumbbells, and a stability ball.
But there are some other options to programs you can do along with Eat Stop Eat that would be a great combination.
1. If you have no equipment available, I would suggest Craig Ballantyne's Turbulence Training Bodyweight Cardio v2.0 workout that you can find here.
2. If you have dumbbells available to you, I would suggest any of Craig Ballanyne's Turbulence Training Workouts that you can find here.
The workouts that you can buy from Turbulence Training are extremely affordable at less than $10 and are some of the most effective workouts I've ever done so you won't be disappointed.
3. If you live local to me, you can sign up for the NEW Lean Body Fat Loss Training Program that I'm offering that would be a perfect fit with Eat Stop Eat.
In Perspective
When I started following Eat Stop Eat, I realized that I was saving roughly $10-15 a week in groceries. So in the course of a month, I saved between $40-60.
What this means is that at minimum, the amount I saved in groceries paid for Eat Stop Eat and at best I actually saved $20 in groceries for the month after paying the cost of the book.
So if you bought both Eat Stop Eat and either Craig Ballantyne's Bodyweight workout or one of the other Turbulence Training programs, they would AT MINIMUM pay for themselves over the course of 6 weeks.
Final Thoughts
There was something very free about not eating all day. I had initially thought that I was going to feel weak and tired without eating for 24 hours but, it turns out that I never felt that way and after the first couple of fasts I actually felt MORE energized.
What it also can teach you is how to adapt to the feeling of hunger. Meaning, once you've fasted a few times, you noticed on other days that you're not fasting and have a busy day and scheduled eating times take a back seat, that after 8 hours of not eating, you're fine. You're not craving or "starving" like you have felt in the past.
This was an eye opening experience for me and quite frankly is without a doubt the best program that I've put myself on that has resulted in weight loss so consistently and SO QUICKLY.
Honestly, I am currently at the weight I was (although a lot leaner) when I was in high school (for those that know me know how long ago that was and for those that don't know me, I'll give you a hint: This guy was big on the music scene at the time...unfortunately..).
I'm going to continue experimenting with this approach some more to get an idea of how it affects other health issues like blood cholesterol and glucose levels so keep checking back to this blog to find out more.
And, I will continue to keep a diary of everything I eat (or don't eat) when following Eat Stop Eat, and all of my workouts and if there are any updates to the FREE diary that you get from me for buying Eat Stop Eat, you will get those updates at ABSOLUTELY NO CHARGE.
Give it a try and let me know how your experiences are with it.
Don't wait. Click here to order your copy right now.
www.leanbodyfitness.com
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