Energy

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about energy. Stuff, items, people in my life that give energy and those that take energy. Exercise gives me energy, TV takes energy. Fresh home cooked food gives energy, processed foods take it away. Folks with a sense of humor and an easy smile give energy, those with excess drama take it. Having clutter takes energy, organized spaces gives energy. I want to bring energy into my life, and give it out too.

In the past couple of years I’ve really pushed myself to grow as a person. Pushing myself to put kindness first. To be vulnerable in friendships and relationships. To be the first one to smile or offer help. I’ve stopped waiting for other people to be the better person. And by doing this, my energy has lifted. I’m still not perfect at this, because it’s truly a challenge.

Being better everyday takes a lot of energy. To be the person I know I can be- takes lots and lots of energy. And I wasn’t sure until now that I was up for the challenge. Some days I still don’t think I am.

Being a healthy person inside and out takes a lot of work. It’s work to take care of myself when I’d rather sit and work for hours (forgetting to eat, drink or even pee). It takes energy to show up and be there for myself- to exercise, to make an alternative food choice, to eat less. To show up and not tune everything out is hard. To shut down when stress steps in, or when things aren’t going my way.

When I don’t take care of myself I want to zone out with bad food and TV. I’ve seen this pattern over and over in my life. Escaping when I stop nourishing my body and mind.

I say part of this to say that when Miranda mentioned giving up TV for Lent I jumped on board. What in the world would I do instead of watch TV? Probably lots of good, energy giving activities. Maybe I will just sit outside and stare out. Maybe I will learn to sew myself a skirt. Maybe I will write a kind letter to a friend. I want to get energy and give it back by not watching TV. Watching TV doesn’t nourish my soul or give me energy in the ways I always hope it will.

So instead of giving it up just for Lent; I just need this now. I’m giving it up for two months starting today. The only exception, of course, will be in case of an emergency and exercise DVDs. No more jeopary, marathon episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, or my beloved PBS specials about things like wolverines.  I’m kind of excited, and kind of scared.

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Cheating day on a diet

Cheating day on a diet

Cheat Day on a Diet

Taking a day of your diet is good. A diet is a great example of having commitment to what you want and I applaud anyone and everyone that does a good job of committing themselves to staying healthy with a good diet. The trouble is trying to stay on a diet every day for months or years on end. This is what people aspire to but it is not very easy to do.

Cheating day on a diet confuses your metabolism

A few diets seem to say that you should try to confuse your body by staying on your diet for a few days or a couple of weeks at most and then getting off your diet for anywhere from one to three days. What do you think of this? Well the idea behind the days off on a diet is that you need to confuse your body so that it does not just adjust to lower caloric intake or just lower your metabolism to maintain fat levels.

Diets with a Cheating Day

Would you like to know examples of off day diets? There is a Weight Watchers diet adjustment that involves changing the amount of points you eat a day and cycling though these. You could do a kind of day off on this plan. The Body for life plan is that you do diet and exercise six days a week and eat whatever you want for one day a week. And finally there is the fat loss for idiots program that has you do the diet for 11 days and then take 3 days off before you do it again. This is the most confusing for your body (this is good) and easiest for you to manage.

Rules for a Diet Cheat Day

The best way that I see people doing there diet with days off is to have rules still for your days off. Try to follow the following rules:

  1. The idea is to eat what you want but do not overdo it.
  2. First of all you need a good regimen for your diet days and then for your days off the rules should be about how you cheat.
  3. Try to make sure that you are not being ridiculous because it is your day off. Do not eat a whole large pizza or a gallon of ice cream.
  4. Do not binge, no huge meals just meals that make you comfortably full
  5. This is the day that you go to a restaurant if you want.
  6. Do not eat three days worth of food in one day. The idea is that you can cheat but you don’t want to spend the whole week just catching up.

I hope that this plan for days off helps. I know that I have struggled with this in the past but the best thing is to just expand on your regular diet and at the same time make sure that get to eat those things that you are craving, in small measures of course.

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Heavy – Weight Loss Series Starts

Heavy   Weight Loss Series Starts

Heavy TV Show

My wife and I caught a new series on A E this weekend called Heavy. The show was pretty good but again it called into question an individuals responsibility to themselves as well as those around them.

Here is the way that the TV series Heavy is setup. Each week there is two people and those two people are huge. There are two trainers and over a few months time each of these trainers work with one of the two people to try ot help them lose weight.

Heavy – The TV Series

I have lots of questions. First, were do they find these people, second are we going to have the same trainers every week, and third are there going to be updates later as to how the people are doing?

First the people – Heavy Season premiere had Jodi, a childcare worker who started at 367 pounds and dropped down to 289 pounds. And Tom who started at 638 pounds and got down to 476 pounds. Both of these people had no real strength and their motivation was lacking compared to the people on a show like Biggest Loser. In fact Tom was living in his bed and had trouble walking to his car in the driveway. Just getting to the gym was terrible for both of these guys so it was great to see them transform into tougher, stronger people.

Heavy TV Series Trainers – My wife and I were blown away by one of the trainers, the guy was very big and ripped. I wish I could find their names but I will have to search some more. The lady trainer was great and tried to motivate Jodi but was having trouble getting a bond with her which was too bad.

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I first learned about the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle program a few years ago from a personal trainer I was friends with. I was skeptical, but I trusted my friend, so I ended up getting the burn the fat feed the muscle program. Boy am I ever glad that I did!

When I first started the burn the fat feed the muscle program I was pretty wiped out! I was not sure if I would be able to stick with it for two weeks, but I made a commitment to myself, and I was not going to give up until I had seen it through.

But after that draining first day, guess what? I had a lot more energy! So, I kept going and going, and every day, I started to feel better and better. It was like drinking 3 cups of coffee, without feeling jittery!

After being on the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle program for 12 days, I stepped on the scale, and had lost 5 pounds! My clothes fit so much better. And then, when I saw my personal trainer friend for the first time since going on the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle program, he was absolutely shocked at how I looked.

One thing that I will say about this program is that you may not lose a lot of pounds, but that is because you are going to gain muscle. And muscle weighs more than fat. Besides, weight loss is not the primary goal here, fat loss is. And as the author Tom Venuto explains, that is your number one goal. And this is true for both men and women. If you are a woman, you want to make sure that you try to gain muscle, because increased muscle will burn more fat. As a woman, do not worry about getting too big and bulky, because that is really not possible without supplements.

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burn the fat feed the muscle – Review of Tom Venuto's Book

While I was looking through the most popular fitness / fat-loss e-books out there. I found a book under the name burn the fat feed the muscle. This book seems to be many reviews of others as the best book of fitness available, a book written by a natural bodybuilder with a lot of experience, he IINT fitness industry, has named Tom Venuto.

burn the fat feed the muscle is a book created by a bodybuilding champion by the name of Tom Venuto. This book attempts to teach people all the important aspects of losing weight, muscle, while earning. burn the fat feed the muscle has been called the greatest book ever fitness. With this kind of severe beating, I wanted to look inside. I wanted to see if it really live up to its great reputation. I have been bodybuilding for many years and being a fitness freak, so I wanted to see what the real information in this book fitness.

My review of burn the fat feed the muscle

This book fitness can be found on the official website of burn the fat feed the muscle – You'll have to go through its long sales letter. I wonder, since this book is meant to be the best, why it has such a long sales letter. This sales page is about the average number of pages you go to find any product like this being sold on the market today, full of information and success stories to draw you to him. Reading these stories of success, made me realize this book was actually live reputation. The sales letter is based on the history of 14 years Tom Venutos weight and food / fitness research.

The book itself:

burn the fat feed the muscle is an impressive 340 page book. The book is full of informative and writing tables. Not even a photograph. So there is much reading to do if you want to read it cover to use the best of your advantage. I advise you to print it all out, because you drive crazy reading all of your screen.

What is burn the fat feed the muscle does it contain?

burn the fat feed the muscle contains 17 chapters, a conclusion and an appendix page. Each section is divided into smaller sections, making it easier to read, even if it is a very important book.

Here is an overview of the book:

burn the fat feed the muscle Section One: Introduction

In this section, the author stresses the importance of certain specific principles such as quick fixes, weight loss is not the same as fat loss and even if the book is not only to lose fat, but it's also about making people healthier.

burn the fat feed the muscle second section: setting goals, strategies and motivation.

Goal setting is naturally one of the most important things to achieve what you want with your health and fitness. Tom Venuto has done an excellent job in expressing the art of setting a goal for this to work so much better for almost everyone.

burn the fat feed the muscle: Third Section: body types and how to identify what you need

Tom Venuto breaks down how people have different body types. Most people assume that the body for almost everyone will react the same, although his easy assumption, because we're all human, but this book stops that idea.

burn the fat feed the muscle: Section Four: Frequency of meals and macronutrients

This section discusses how to eat meals and the relationship between proteins, carbohydrates and fats to a diet even though you can live with life.

I will not go into details, but I hope it gives you a good picture of the nature of information in this book cover.

Tom 5 lists of bonus materials:

Bonus 1: Foods That Burn Fat.

Bonus 2: Foods That Turn To Fat.

Bonus 3: The A food B food lecture: How to get good grades on your food choices.

BONUS 4: FREE Updates to burn fat, Feed the Muscle e-book. (Value: AT LEAST $ 197. 00).

BONUS 5: Free subscription to the Burn The Fat Clients-Only Newsletter and The Burn The Fat Weekly fat loss Tips E-Zine

Burn the Fat Feed Muscle Conclusion

I was skeptical at first to burn the fat feed the muscle, just as I am sure you are since lets face it – we've seen hundreds of these books announced – but are they all work? I doubt. However, I must conclude that this book surprised me and I am happy to have found.

The thing that I tend to do with some exercise books is that they tend to cover only one or a few subjects that is good or bad, and I've seen so far for many of these books.

I thought that burn the fat feed the muscle still works in 15 years, since information is so relevant.

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