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New Years Resolution Plan – Day 4

OK today will be the last day that we look at your new years resolutions.

When you look back to what you wanted to achieve this year I suspect that you did have some successes but those failures are the ones that everyone tends to dwell on.

What Makes New Years Resolutions So Great

2015One of the big problems that we run into when we set new years resolutions are that we love the freshness of a new life.

Getting rid of the baggage that we carry year after year is sometimes difficult and of you can just make those few big changes it will change you life.

Well of course doing that is difficult but it all comes down to our values. What do you think that you value and what do you show that you in fact value?

I know that in my case I value eating well and living a healthy lifestyle but even while I do this I will eat bad foods and sometimes those excuses come up that will help me avoid the gym.

Aligning Your Goals With Your Values

So making real change comes down to your value system and making changes to your values. I once heard that changing your values is like turning an ocean liner around.

It is a slow process that takes a lot of time and distance. Of course every day you do wake up and make choices for that day.

When I start faltering in my lifestyle choices I will start getting up a bit earlier and start knocking off some of those to dos that I let slide.

If you start the day worrying about getting everything done then a lot of your decisions are going to be based on today instead of the longer term.

Three Lists To Solidify Your Goals

So today you need to make a couple of lists, and maybe even three lists.

The first list I would like you to make is a list of your values that you need to have to make sure that your new years resolutions succeed. What do you need to have as hard and fast rules so that you will not fail?

The second list that you need to make is your first and maybe second steps for each of your new years resolutions.

To succeed you need to start and often we will not get started because we fail to take that first step. Here are some examples:

Losing Weight – Find out about a trainer. Decide where your fitness level is. Clear out the junk food from your home and office. Research diets

Gaining Muscle – Get a trainer. Join a gym. buy some protein powder. Research gaining programs.

I just wanted to stick to the fitness goals but as you know there are lots of facets to each of our lives and to be well rounded it is a good idea to have goals in each area of your life.

The third list? Well maybe you jumped at those resolutions a bit too quickly.

Why not look back and see if you have chosen the best new years resolutions for yourself at this point in your life and look at maybe changing one or two.

Getting goals that are really exciting and things that will in fact change you life for the better.

The real point of all of these four days will in fact come down to changing your value structure to become closer to what you want to be in the new year.

If you want to look back at the three previous steps here they are

New Years Resolution Plan – Day 1

How to Create SMART Goals

New Years Resolution Plan – Day 3

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5 Bite Diet? Stupidest Thing in Diet History?

I just read on Google that the top search for diets this year was the 5 bit diet. And this has to be the stupidest thing ever.

Dr. Alwin Lewis created this diet and for this diet alone he should probably lose his medical license. The idea is that you have water and coffee for breakfast, five bites of something for lunch (maybe a chocolate bar…seriously), and then 5 bites of food for dinner. Oh, and it is important to take a multivitamin.

This would add up to something like 300 or 400 calories a day plus a vitamin and a lot of water

I would like to explain a few of the reasons that this is the Stupidest thing I have heard in a long time.

What is Wrong with the 5 Bite Diet?

5 bite dietFirst of all the idea apparently behind this is that intermittent fasting is a good thing. I have to agree with that. But this is not intermittent fasting at all.

The idea behind intermittent fasting is that you do not eat for 14 hours of the day and then you eat for the remaining 10 hours. So don’t eat after dinner and then eat a late breakfast, a real breakfast though not five bites of food.

The creator of the diet says that you should not go on this diet long, but people will get used to stupid things and continue if there is any kind of support for it. Listen, if your friends try this do not support them!

Next is coffee for breakfast, Coffee? I like coffee as much as the next guy, maybe more, but coffee with the caffeine on an empty stomach is going to give you the shakes, that is why the ECA stack that was so popular years ago added aspirin, to calm that twitching and shaking from the caffeine.

Next 5 bits for lunch – you finally take in some calories. But you have almost no calories in your system, you have only had water and coffee during the day and no you will have 100 calories or so. Whatever calories you get are going to spike your blood sugar quick and then crash it just as quick so you are going to feel sick from you little snack.

I don’t want to continue this tirade any more but just a couple more things…

the great Dr. Alwin Lewis says that you should not get your BMI (a measurement I hate already) down below 18.5. So lets say I get my BMI down to 19. That means that what I think my healthy weight of 190 would actually be 140 since I am 6 feet tall. I can only imagine how emaciated I would look. Like one of those thinspo models on Tumblr.

And finally, about exercise. No exercise ideas. That means maybe you do or maybe you don’t. As your metabolism craters and you have no energy you will try to walk or run but you can’t. Is this supposed to be a vacation from exercise. Just don’t eat and sit on the couch?

Anyway, to be clear, I like a diet of some kind. The kind of diet that gives you meat and fresh veggies. Food that nourishes your body instead of overfeeding it and living a fun and active lifestyle. Extremes for a short period of time are great including a day or two of fasting but the 5 bite diet is none of this and flys in the face of any sensibility. This is dangerous, misleading, and the worst lifestyle decision anyone could make

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