No “Metabo” citizens for them. “Metabo” is a Japanese code word for overweight.
* What if your employer said you were too fat to work there?
* What if your government said slim down or pay for it?
* What if you had to get on a scale every few month as part of your job?
Sounds crazy? Maybe to some. (more…)
Since moving to Phoenix it has been a long time since I had to do emergency shopping for a snowstorm. If you have never had to do it, picture this:
A weather man is freaking out on television stating the obvious: It’s snowing. It’s going to keep snowing and it might be a while for the roads to be clear enough for throngs of people to drive. So you need to prepare for getting locked in your house for a few days. Now everyone heads to the local grocery store to stock up.
Smart people buy items like extra fruits and vegetables and some eggs and chicken and of course, you need fat free hot chocolate when it is going to be 20 degrees, right?
What do most people get? Bags and bags of crap! Chips, cereal, pasta, gallons of milk and last but certainly not least, BREAD.
If you don’t know by now, white flour is a huge killer of any training program. It zaps energy, adds unwanted fat, and is a huge part of the cyclical process of eating empty calories.
One of the first things I tell my clients when they start a program is to make sure that when they eat out (which a lot of my clients do because they are career-type people) is to tell the server at a restaurant to not bring them bread.
That is not to say that restaurants are the only culprit. Your pantry is mostly to blame. Toast for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, bread basket at dinner…you get the idea.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not preaching you should never have bread ever again (A person has to have a life). What I am saying is 4-5 servings of any type of bread product every single day will make you gain weight, ensuring you never lose your unwanted weight which can lead to diseases like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
So here are a few nutrition programming strategies I utilize to help me fight the battle of the bread and reduce cravings:
So there you have it. Shock yourself and see if you feel better and look more trim by only cutting out the bread for a week and then tell me about
At this time of year, people tend to be losing track of their New Years resolutions. The reason is most likely due to a person’s everyday habits. Some work well, like making sure you brush your teeth when you get up and before you go to bed. Others are not so good, like missing a meal and then binge eating later in the day.
No matter what your bad habits are, the only way to achieve true success is to make sure you break those habits permanently.
Here are some of the most common bad habits I see my Arizona personal training clients making on a daily basis, just to name a few:
Most people don’t realize the true damage they inflict upon themselves. A research study from the University of Alberta shows that while people know about the obvious bad habits, such as smoking, they don’t truly understand the problems associated with binge eating, for example.
Unfortunately, there is virtually no information being publicly announced regarding the true detriments of something like overeating. Sure cigarettes have warnings and we see commercials everyday that stress the downfall of not kicking the habit, but think about it.
Many smokers smoke because they are truly stressed out from being workaholics. In America this is considered to be an honorable trait. AND many people smoke because they think it will keep their weight in check. So they rationalize by claiming that by doing so they are adding at least a little benefit to their lifestyle.
Let’s take another thing we all know to be true but completely ignore. How many times have you heard, “I am just getting a base tan so I don’t get a sunburn.” Like we all don’t know that ANY long term exposure to the sun is bad. SO we make it sound good by saying we are preventing the ultimate poor choice of getting sunburned?!
The bottom line is that many times the rationale is socially acceptable. But that still doesn’t make it right.
So, WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?
Many times adding a positive change will truly take care of ridding yourself from the negative. For example, if you cut down on TV… you probably will cut down on snacking. If you start a running program, then if you smoke, you will probably quit or at least cut down. They simply go hand in hand, right?
The bottom line is that you need to recognize what the bad habit is that is causing you to not succeed. Now pick something that will replace the bad habit or at least make the bad habit more challenging to be appeased.
Then and only then can you eliminate the things that sabotage you. When that happens… the skies the limit!
There is only ONE SECRET
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