Showing posts with label fat loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fat loss. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Admit It. You Gained Weight

Halloween is over. But you still have that bowl of candy sitting there. I heard an interesting stat a while back stating that only about 33% of candy that people buy actually goes to trick or treaters. The other 67%? Well, I don’t think it takes a Ph.D to figure that out…Bottom line: save some of it for your kids, and throw the rest out.



Back around Labor Day I talked about how that time period was an essential time to get on a fat loss regiment (yes, I know there’s irony in me tell you that considering I was telling it to you at the time in a video while I was drinking a beer…). That from the time period between Labor day and the end of the year there were a lot of holidays, events, etc., that no matter what, involves eating lots of food, and more than likely, drinking alcohol. It’s a time period where you could, when January 1st hits, be 10-15 pounds heavier than you were at Labor day.

So how did that work out for you? Go ahead. Get on the scale. How does it look compared to Labor day? If you didn’t take my advice and start some sort of fat loss workout and diet, then you put on some weight.

The bad news is you gained that weight, only after one holiday involving parties, candy, alcohol, and more candy. You’ve still got 3 big ones to go: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years, where you could easily put on another 10 pounds between those holidays.

The good news is that you’ve got some time to go between now and Thanksgiving. About three weeks.

How about you set a goal for yourself to lose a certain amount of weight between now and then? Let’s say, 5 pounds. That’s only about 1 ½ - 2 pounds a week.

The best way to do that? Well, I hate to make this simple but, eat less food.

But that’s probably not very helpful. So here’s a few guidelines.

Make a list of the foods that you can’t live without.

The problem with dieting is that people think that they need to deprive themselves of the foods that they love…forever. That’s just not true. You can still eat the foods that you enjoy, just try to eat less of it.

Need that bar of chocolate every day? Go ahead and eat it, BUT how about just eating half of it and eating the other half the next day?

You NEED pizza once a week. That’s fine. But instead of having 4 pieces, how about eating only 2?

And sugary drinks. You need a Mountain Dew in the morning to wake yourself up and another one in the afternoon to keep you awake. How about giving up one of those and having a hot cup of green tea in place of the other one (there’s caffeine in that so you’ll still get some kick from it..)?

Now make a list of the foods that you enjoy but, you could see yourself doing without. Take that list, and avoid that food until at least Thanksgiving. Now, don’t try and lie to yourself and say “Oh, alright…I’ll give up the veggies, fruits, whole grains, etc…..I can suffer through not eating those foods for a few weeks” when you very well know that you’re not eating those right now anyway! They have to be foods that you are actually eating on a regular basis.

Now, let’s get some exercise in here. You’ve got workouts that you can do, and you can do them for free if you go to my YouTube Channel at this link. There’s beginner, intermediate and advanced workouts in there so anyone can do these and most of those workouts that I’ve got in there won’t take you more than 30 minutes to get through (and most of them are much shorter than that) AND you can do them in your own home with barely any exercise equipment. How about you go through three of those a week? You’re talking a maximum of 90 minutes over the course of a week in exercise. You can do that, don’t you think?

If you want to take it a step further, go ahead and order the 30-minute workout for $4.95 today for either a bulk of eight months worth of workouts or get the most up–to-date workout this month along with a Fat Loss Nutritional Guide. It’s your choice and it’ll only cost you $4.95 to try it out.

Think about that. For less than the cost of a pizza, you could get a workout all written up for you that you can do over the next 3 weeks to drop 5 pounds before Thanksgiving. Then you can sit down, eat a big meal that day, have some wine, and not worry about putting on a ton of weight because, you’re ahead of the game.

Go ahead and order now and start that New Years resolution two months before the New Year.

30-Minute Workout for $4.95

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Lean Body Training and Lean Body Workouts Launch

Well, here it is. I've been on and off on my blogging for the last month or so working feverishly on two new websites, and now, they are officially launched.

www.leanbodytraining.com is the first one I'm going to talk about.

Lean Body Training is going to be the HUB for all my websites as well as my new main site that is going to continually grow with a new blog, a video blog, and anything else that my brain decides to put on there. Go check it out and on the home page you'll find a FREE e-report that I wrote called The Ten Realities of Lean Body Training. It's a great read and also includes 3 FREE Fat Burning Workouts. All you have to do is fill out the form and follow the instructions from there on how to download it.

The next site is www.LBworkouts.com. This is where I'm going to house all the workouts that I build and sell. I've got two different workouts out there right now: the Lean Body Training Fitness Trail Fat Loss workouts and the Lean Body Training Home Bodyweight Fat Loss workouts. These are great workouts that are incredibly cheap (less than $8) to buy and, there's different version depending on your fitness level (beginner, intermediate, and advanced). You also get a BONUS Fat Loss Nutritional Guide with every purchase so it's really a steal to get 2 e-books that'll give you information on what to eat along with a 4-week workout.

This workout site is going to grow more substantially over time so make sure to bookmark it and check back frequently.

That's it. Those were my babies for the last month or so. If you give the workouts a whirl, don't hesitate to shoot me an e-mail at mike@leanbodytraining.com (also, notice the new e-mail address) and let me know how it went.

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Thursday, February 26, 2009

10 Things You Can Do to Enhance Fat Loss

Mike Roussell wrote up a short little report on ways that you can tweak your eating in order to get better fat loss results.

Take a read here and then follow the link in the article to download the free report.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

7 Minutes of Exercise a Week

Some British researchers found that just working out 7 minutes a week can cause an improvement in how the body uses insulin to clear out blood sugar from the blood stream.

But the catch is that the 7 minutes had to be intense:

The volunteers, who were relatively out of shape but otherwise healthy, rode an exercise bike four times daily in 30 second spurts two days a week.


The volunteers did this for 2 weeks before getting tested again.

Although this is some good news, let's not get to excited. This study was only showing the effects of a small vigorous exercise routine on how insulin would react. This study doesn't say either way whether it had any effect on fat loss, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, etc.

It's a good place to start though. If we can get people to workout just 7 minutes a week to improve their insulin reactions, then we might be able to gradually get them up to working out even more for fat loss.

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