Love Your Body!

Beating your body into submission gets you nowhere. You end up overdoing it and then sidelined the week after. I've done this. We've all done this. Be good to yourself. Love every inch of your body. Enjoy every milestone of your fitness journey!

Cheers!

Why Cleanse?

Finally! A way to release body fat and keep it off. If you are interested in losing body fat instead of valuable muscle, email me at elleneustace@gmail.com

Why Diets Fail

 

The stats are discouraging. Two out of five dieters quit within the first seven days. Only one in five make it three months. Those who do manage to stick to their diets and lose weight, have a low success rate. 80 to 90 percent regain all their weight plus some within a few short months.


Muscle Loss.
Restrictive fad diets put the body in a catabolic state, which causes tissue breakdown that affects both fat and muscle. Typically, a dieter loses 75 percent of their weight as fat and 25 percent as muscle.


Slow Metabolism.
Muscle is a metabolically active tissue, meaning it takes more energy (calories) to be maintained. On very low calorie diets, our body becomes more efficient at storing fat, to be later used as energy. Blame mother nature. It’s a survival mechanism safeguarding our bodies in case of famine. Many dieters bare down and eat even fewer calories, which compounds the problem, destroying the metabolism. When the dieter finally gets disgusted and returns to eating the way they’ve always eaten, they gain the weight back plus a few more pounds.


Nutritionally Lacking.
Fad diets are often lacking essential vitamins and minerals, which leads to irritability, headaches, mood swings, fatigue, and digestive problems.  Low-fat diets lack adequate amounts of essential fatty acids needed for your organs to function.


Poor Satiety.
Satiety (feeling full) is regulated by the appetite hormones, leptin and ghrelin. Leptin is produced by fat cells and sends signals to the brain when a person is full. Ghrelin is known as the “hunger hormone” and is produced primarily by the stomach and intestinal tract signaling hunger. Eating enough protein and nutrient rich foods help you feel full and lessens your chance of binging.

Unrealistic.
Most diets cannot be incorporated into the dieter’s busy schedule. Time and preparation is needed. On some plans, the food combinations are so strange or a food group is completely ignored, making it virtually impossible for the dieter to find food suitable for the plan in a pinch. When the dieter is maintaining, they’ll be less motivated to go the second mile in order to stick with the plan.

No Lifestyle Change.
In order to take the weight off and keep it off, there has to be a lifestyle change! We cannot subsist on very low calorie intake for long. If you go back to eating the way you’ve always eaten, you will gain back the weight and it will all be fat. This sets the yo-yo dieting in motion.

5 Things That Will Transform You Inside And Out

1. 1. Change who you hang around. Plato said that “People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.” For better or worse, we become more like the people that we hang around. Your associations have a lot to do with where you’re at in every area of your life.  Your friends are going to influence you either way, so why not pick the friends who will be a positive influence? Create an “ad­visory board” of friends who will lift you up, challenge you, inspire you, and hold you accountable.
2. 2. Read more. Reading allows you to shape your identity independently of your current circumstances. You internalize the wisdom and knowledge of the authors who you read. They say that there are two types of experiences that we can learn and grow from: personal experience and the experience that we borrow from others. Reading allows you to learn from mentors who you don’t have access to in your daily life. Learning from other people’s stories of chal­lenges and triumph is far less painful and time-consuming than going through those challenges yourself. That is why most of the world’s greatest leaders have been avid readers.
3. 3. Keep your word. Are you a person that keeps your word to others? What about the promises that you make to yourself? If you make your word your bond, both to yourself and to others, you will turn yourself into a person that shapes your own identity through the power of your pledge. Becoming a person that keeps your word starts with doing the little things, like calling someone back when you say you will or arriving to an appointment at the time agreed on. Once people know that they can count on you, you will be seen as a person whose words come to pass. You will come to see yourself that way too. Eventually, if you make a promise to yourself and others to make some change in your life, you will feel bound to keep your word.
4. 4. Challenge yourself. Just like great athletes have to constantly push themselves physically, we all have to take on challenges outside of our comfort level to become champions. If you find yourself in a place where you live your life on auto pilot, going through the motions and never really stretching yourself, chances are you will be in the same spot five years from now that you are in today. Challenges keep us fresh, give us energy, and most importantly, turn us unto stronger people capable of more than we were previously able.  
5. Get crystal clear about your why. For the past ten years I have said that mankind is lazy until something catches his heart. Your why is what fuels your life. If you don’t have a clear picture of your why, you will never stay motivated through the how. Our natural state is to be lazy and to take the path of least resistance, unless we are motivated by the why in our heart. What’s your why? Really meditate on it, write it down and read it often. You will find that you have more energy and more passion. Why is transformative.

If you dream of changing your life, you have to first become the person who can bring about that change. As Albert Einstein wisely pointed out, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Patrick Bet-David has been called a renaissance man because of his interesting philosophies on politics, sports, history, humor and life. He is the founder of People Helping People (PHP), a fast-growing financial services company, and the author of Doing the Impossible (www.patrickbetdavid.com).

Read more at http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-transform-your-life

Are You Drinking Enough Water?

How much water are you drinking per day?

Most people think they drink enough water by drinking 6 to 8 "glasses" a day. The glasses are usually tiny. It's best to have your water in a container where you know how much you're drinking. If you use 8 oz bottles or glasses, it's easy to lose count and end up drinking 5 8 oz portions instead of 8. It's better to drink out of water bottles that hold 24 to 32 ounces. At a minimum, you should be drinking 64 oz a day.

Why Drink Water?

Quenches thirst. Drinks loaded with sugar and artificial sweeteners will leave you feeling thirsty.
Water boosts energy. Dehydration saps us of energy.
Helps promote weight loss.
Flush out impurities.
Hydrates and firms skin.
Aids digestion. Water can help prevent stomach acid problems.
Prevent headaches.
Drinking water helps reduce the risk of colon cancer by 45% and bladder cancer by 50%.
Heart healthy. Staying hydrated lowers your risk of heart attack by 41%.

Countdown to Summer 2015

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Why is this date important? This is the first day of summer! That’s 124 days. Are you ready for the beach? Will you be wearing a new bikini or hiding under a sweater?

If you tried every diet under the sun and didn’t get the results you wanted, it’s time to switch to a nutritional cleansing program. Whether you want to lose weight, build lean muscle or have energy to ride the waves, Nutritional Cleansing will help you achieve your goals!

Join our team in our 90-day challenge! Email me today to learn how you can get started! You owe it to yourself to look and feel your best! Make summer 2015 your best summer yet!

The Planet Fitness Nightmare

Here's a funny article about Planet Fitness. Funny thing is, I use that gym now, because it's on my way to the train station and it's the only 24 hour game in town. I'm usually there at 5:30 am. I know I'll outgrow that gym as I'm getting more serious about lifting.

http://www.t-nation.com/opinion/planet-fitness-nightmare

4 Biggest Lies About The Biggest Loser

I just read an enjoyable article about the many ways The Biggest Loser misleads people who want to shed weight and get in shape. I paraphrased it for a quick read. For those of you who want to read the article in it's entirety (and I highly recommend it) the link is pasted below.

http://www.t-nation.com/powerful-words/4-biggest-lies-of-the-biggest-loser/comments

• The Biggest Loser is a show about fitness that teaches people nothing about fitness.
• The show tells uninformed viewers that exercise must be debilitating and that scale weight is the only thing that matters.
• The show keeps people ignorant about the metabolic impact of building muscle and sustained fat loss.
• The Biggest Loser overemphasizes cardio, making its overweight followers injury-prone, metabolically weak, and skinny fat at best.
• The show does have some redeeming factors for already-fit viewers. 

Lie #1: Exercise has to be excruciating in order to be effective. The exercise routines the trainers put the contestants through are not only rigid, they are unrealistic. The competitors train for 4-6 hours a day.

 

Lie #2: The scale is ultimate barometer for success. If you're adding muscle to your body, while losing weight, you won't see such a dramatic drop on the scale. Muscle weighs more than fat. A 150 lb woman with lean muscle is going to appear smaller than a 150 lb woman who doesn't workout.

 

Lie #3: Effective workouts involve tons of cardio. Wrong! The most efficient way of losing body fat and keeping it off is to add lean muscle. Cardio might "get you there" quicker, but most people fail to keep the weight off.

 

Lie #4: Your life must be overhauled to get into shape. Wrong again. The show implies this by moving contestants to a ranch for six months. They are put on strict diets and train 4-6 hours a day. It is unrealistic to keep such a routine in the real world. Most people are going to return to work and get tempted by the morning bagels. People have kids and spouses, who will want to eat the foods they've always eaten. What needs to be overhauled is the way they look at food. They need to look at food as fuel and not as a crutch.