Yep, it’s here!
The first edition of HEALTHY Islington, the new publication that I’m distributing locally within my community in London.
This issue has a focus on fat loss with articles on supplements, training and diet as well as workout videos that you can watch online.
Grab your copy by clicking on the magazine cover above (no opt in subscription required)
Enjoy!
Dax Moy
The UK’s leading Personal Trainer
http://www.mylondonpersonaltrainer.com
P.S – Don’t forget to leave me a comment!
Say the words ‘personal trainer’ to practically anyone and immediately they conjure up in the mind a stereotype of lycra-clad or track-suited fit young guys and girls who hang around in gyms and get paid loads of money to smile at you and count to 10 a lot while you work out.
Sad, but true.
It seems that to the vast majority of the public, a personal trainer is little more than a highly paid rep counter who is merely biding his or her time while waiting for a better job offer to come along.
To make matters worse, the public’s perception is proven right more often than not by the increasingly rapid staff turnover in the high street gyms where trainers seem to come and go with alarming speed, leaving an endless conveyor belt of fresh-faced, newly qualified and largely inexperienced kids to take on the role of safeguarding the health and fitness of the general public.
Not good.
After all, at an average of £40-£50 an hour personal trainers are not cheap to work with. These are professional fees we’re talking about here and the public should, quite rightly, expect a professional level of service in return for handing over their hard-earned cash.
But before you fall prey to the thinking that personal training and fitness coaching is a waste of time and money, think again.
Behind the seemingly endless tide of the new and inexperienced graduates that personal training academies throw at the job market every few weeks are (and always have been) a core of highly motivated, highly knowledgeable, highly experienced and time-served professionals who provide a good bit more than inane encouragement of the ‘just one more rep’ variety.
These true professionals go beyond the basics to provide a truly integrated to health, fitness, nutrition, lifestyle and mindset making them, without a doubt, a truly formidable weapon in the battle of the bulge (or whatever other health and fitness goals you may be working toward).
For instance, a truly great master personal trainer can provide:
In depth assessments of posture, biomechanics, nutritional status, lifestyle habits and much more besides.
In fact, this elite of the personal training profession can best be summed up by their sincere and genuine belief that if you’re not assessing, you’re simply guessing and feel it both unfair and unethical to build a client program without knowing everything that may be keeping you from your goals.
A Detailed and In-Depth Structured Plan For The Achievement Of Your Goals
You can tell the caliber of a truly great personal trainer by the quality and clarity of the plans and programs that they put together to help you reach your health and fitness goals.
Not for them are the one-sided A4 handwritten ‘off the top of the head’ workouts that most industry newbies are seen stalking the floors of the high street gyms with; these guys create veritable masterpieces of planning that encompass everything from the training program itself to detailed prescriptions for nutrition, supplementation, hydration, sleep and literally everything that could possibly affect the goal.
A Tailor-Made Support Structure That Fits You To Your Goal And Works In Real Life
It’s all too easy for a novice trainer to create a ‘perfect picture’ workout plan, put pressure on the client to follow it and then blame and berate them every time they fall off the wagon but the truth is, people have real lives and real issues to contend with around their desire to achieve their health and fitness goals.
‘Stuff’ gets in the way and they find themselves reverting back to their default settings around health and fitness and before they know it their goals come screeching to a halt.
But not with the professional personal trainer they don’t!
Rather than being personally offended whenever their clients break one of their ten commandments, the master trainers both accept and expect that this will probably happen… and plan accordingly.
Blending a perfect mix of ‘what if’ planning that identifies problems BEFORE they arise along with the knowledge of when either a hug, a pat on the back or a kick in the butt is in order these trainers manage to achieve the seemingly impossible and keep their clients on track with a minimum of fuss.
An Accountability Structure That Makes Sticking To The Plan Easy And Giving Up A Tough Option Rather Than The Other Way Around
People quit too easily. This is a fact.
Life gets in the way, results happen slower than they hoped for and somehow, some way their drive to keep walking the path ebbs, wanes and falls off altogether.
A newbie trainer addresses this by hitting their clients with short, sharp doses of motivation that aim to steer the unruly client back on track.
The master trainer knows better than to use motivation as a tool and instead relies on the constant development of inspiration and belief that can come only from within the client themselves. The master reminds them daily about the goals they’ve set for themselves, the reasons they wanted to achieve it in the first place and how it will feel to finally get there.
They also know when to step in and remind the dubious that ‘my belief is greater than your doubt so borrow some from me if you must’.
Personal trainers are NOT all created equal. Results are NOT the same across the board. No two personal trainers, even if they graduated from the same academy, will share the same knowledge, skills, abilities or passions for what they do.
This is a fact.
If you’re even thinking about taking up the services of a personal trainer to help you achieve your health and fitness goals then ask yourself “Am I speaking with a newbie or a master?” before you even begin to think about taking them on.
Use what you’ve learned in this short article to help you answer that question and you could save yourself time, money and hassle and achieve your goals faster than ever before.
Or, of course, you could simply hire the first or cheapest personal trainer that comes along.
Your choice!
Dax Moy
The UK’s Leading Personal Trainer
and Fat Loss Expert
http://www.mylondonpersonaltrainer.com
This is an excerpt from my Elimination Diet. You Need To Hear This Today!
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(This section wasn’t in the first couple of editions of the elimination diet.)
Not because it wasn’t important, it is. It’s vitally important.
I kept it from the first editions because, to be honest, I was worried about how my readers would feel about what I had to say.
That they’d stop reading.
That they’d quit the diet before they even started it out of some knee-jerk reaction to my words.
I guess I chickened out.
But now that I’ve had over 42,000 people successfully use the diet I feel I’m ready to say what’s on my mind.
Here it is.
Ready?
If you’re fatter than you should be, if your skin is poorer, your hair more brittle, your energy is lower, your mood lower, your blood pressure higher, your muscles weaker, your bones more brittle or your immune system poorer then…
…It’s YOUR Fault!
I’m not judging you, I’m merely stating a fact, so don’t overreact and quit reading. If you do, you’ll miss why it’s your fault and, more importantly, what you can do about it.
Look, here’s the truth about health.
The truth that hardly anyone out there seems to want to address or talk about, but the one that can and will make all the difference to both the quality AND quantity of your life… if you act upon it.
The truth is, your health is YOUR responsibility.
It’s not the government’s job to keep you healthy.
The government is merely a large ‘for profit’ company of sorts that does what it can to ensure that the profit and loss accounts of a nation remain balanced.
Even if a government could tell you exactly what, when and how much to eat (which they can’t even agree on), you know you’d cry ‘nanny state’ or whinge, whine and moan about freedom of choice and ignore what you were told anyway, right?
You know you would!
Don’t believe me?
How many of the current government nutrition guidelines are you following right now?
See, what I mean?
It’s not the medical community’s job to keep you healthy.
As much as doctors are widely regarded as health experts, the truth is that most of them know very little at all about health. Doctors are, in fact, experts in illness and disease.
When you’re already sick or badly injured a doctor may well be the best person to go to but in terms of maintaining or improving health they know very little indeed. For example, a recent study paper showed that 75% medical schools surveyed failed to reach their quota of 25 hours of nutrition education during the entire 4 year course.
We’re talking about doctors here!
Most of them have not had a single week of nutrition education during their entire educational and professional careers. And if their nutritional education is lacking, their knowledge exercise and fitness is practically non-existent.
Still think it’s your doctors’ job to keep you healthy?
It’s not the media’s job to keep you healthy.
As obvious as that statement is, there are still far, far too many people who get their ‘health’ advice from magazines, daytime TV shows and celebrity watching through the media.
They reason (I guess) that if it’s on TV or in the papers it must be true yet, if it were then it wouldn’t change from week to week would it?
You wouldn’t follow high protein one week and macrobiotic the next just because some Hollywood celebrity was reported to be following it would you?
Yeah, right!
Look, the media are about one thing and one thing only; selling their stories to magazines, radio or TV. It’s not about what’s the best, what’s the safest or even what’s the fastest.
They’re about one thing above all. News. But news doesn’t make you healthy does it?
Nor does following a dietary regime simply because someone from a movie is doing it (Besides, they neglected to tell you about the 2 hours a day with their trainer, the 1 hour a day of yoga, biking for 45 minutes, their afternoon massage and their sauna and steam that they were doing alongside their ‘miracle’ cookie diet!).
It’s not the food producers’ job to keep you healthy.
The food producers aren’t interested in keeping you healthy. They’re interested in keeping you spending!
Who do you think it was that created all the e-numbers, long worded ingredients you can’t pronounce, additives and addictives to your food in the first place?
Who do you think it was that spent BILLIONS each and every year to practically hypnotize you into eating it?
Who stands to lose out if you stop buying denatured, additive enhanced, nutrient poor foods?
So not only isn’t it their job to ensure you have clean, good, wholesome food, it’s not even in their best interests to do so!
See, that’s what I mean about it being your fault because it’s clearly not theirs!
But maybe the word ‘fault’ is a little to strong. Maybe I should have just said ‘responsibility’.
Yeah, that’s more like it.
YOU are responsible for your health. No-one else.
YOU are the only person who can do anything at all about making and keeping yourself healthy across the course of your life and when you’re not it’s because you’ve handed over responsibility to someone else.
Don’t pretend you didn’t know this…
Let’s not kid ourselves any longer.
When it comes to what you’re eating on a day to day basis, you know exactly what’s right and what’s wrong don’t you?
You know, for instance that including plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables into your diet every day is a step in the right direction, right?
Sure you do, there’s not a single person on the planet, kids included, that doesn’t know this yet for some reason it’s a conveniently forgotten truth when it comes to shopping for groceries.
You know also (even if you’re vegan or vegetarian) that a diet that includes fresh meat, fish and poultry is superior in quality that has been allowed to roam free and graze on grass and grain is healthier than animals that are farmed intensively, injected with antibiotics and steroids and fed on animal remains and ‘slops’, yet you still buy the awful stuff ‘because it’s cheaper’.
You’ve known all along that a bunch of food additives that make your drinks and candies fluorescent blue and ‘taste funny’ aren’t good for you haven’t you?
Yet you still buy them for yourself and your kids ‘because they like them’.
You also know that a diet high in sugar is bad for you don’t you? You’ve both seen ad felt its effects in both yourself and others and have often commented that you ‘really should cut down’ but, for some reason, you never really get around to it.
And you’ve certainly known for some time that there are certain things, certain foods and drinks that when you take them just make you feel YUK!
Yet you, like most other people, continue to eat them and drink them because you say you like them when, in truth, you’re addicted to them… and you know that too!
So, you see, its not that you don’t know what to do. You do, and you have all along.
The trouble is, you don’t do what you know.
Worse, you don’t do what you know and you make all kinds of excuses about why you can’t or why it wouldn’t work for you even if you did.
The truth is, if you did what you know you need to do, what your instincts have told you many times that you need to do then you’d see results.
But you’re not… so you don’t.
Time to stop pretending!
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Have YOUR Say!
What do you think about what’s been said here?
Is it right on or way off… and why?
C’mon, I’m a big boy. I can take it : )
Dax Moy
The UK’s Leading
Personal Trainer
You can download the full elimination diet HERE for FREE!
Guest Article By Jon Clark
Jon is a Level 2 Coach At My Islington, London
Personal Training Studios where he incorporates
holistic lifestyle solutions into fat loss and corrective
exercise strategies.
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So, you’re contemplating being a bit ‘healthier’, or you may already be taking steps to eat a little better and exercise. Either way there is no denying the array of influences that can easily lead you away from your goal. Friends, colleagues, parties, endless shops full of food and drink that appeals but doesn’t have our best interests at heart. In those moments, you need a good solid reason not to listen to the sirens trying to steer you towards the rocks.
So here’s one for every day of the week:
1) You’ll feel better about yourself. As well as a stronger and leaner body, your falling body fat is accompanied by a corresponding increase in self-esteem. Ever heard of anyone feeling bad about getting into shape?
2) You’ll raise your metabolism. A larger proportion of lean mass means that you’ll be burning more calories, and not just during your exercise sessions either. An appropriate training session has you continuing to burn calories hours after it has ended.
3) You’ll recover better, from pretty much anything. Whether it’s physical or psychological workload, a healthier you will bounce back a lot more quickly than when you are worn out. This goes for seasonal germs or whatever is going around the office too.
4) You’ll be sharp as a razor. Exercise increases blood flow to the brain, which makes you more mentally alert no matter what your age.
5) You’ll be making your bones stronger. I can’t think of anyone who relishes the prospect of osteoporosis or arthritis, and weight-bearing exercise directly improves the bones that those muscles are pulling on. All the more reason to exercise your whole body.
6) You’ll win more and have fewer injuries. God given talent aside, it’s clear that a better trained and conditioned you will outperform the unfit version. Whatever your game, you’ll do better at it.
7) You’ll live longer. There are countless diseases that can be prevented through simple good exercise and nutrition. No point in dwelling on them, instead you should just enjoy the extra time and energy that a healthy lifestyle brings with it.
There are endless excuses to wander off the healthy path, but just as many reasons to stay your course.
Good luck.
Guest Article From James White.
James Is A Level 2 Coach At My
Islington, London Personal Training Studio
Who Specialises In Rapid Fat Loss Training For
Women.
To Find out How you Can Work With James
Visit http://www.mylondonpersonaltrainer.com
As a personal trainer I get to hear all the most popular excuses you could possibly imagine for not exercising yourself back into great shape.
Here are the 5 most common ones!
1) “I Can’t afford it.”
Exercising can be as expensive or cheap as you want it to be. I have given 5 options ranging from very expensive to absolutely free.
i) 5 sessions a week with a top personal trainer and your home gym – If money really isn’t an issue then simply take a spare room in your house and turn it into a home gym. Use your new personal trainer to help you with the design of your gym. With regards to your personal trainer, look for a good one. Make sure they have the experience, qualifications, reputation, referrals etc. Cost = Training – £240 – £400 / week. Gym – £1000+.
ii) A personal training studio – This option involves attending a few weekly sessions with your personal trainer who should help you with every aspect of your health and fitness routine. This will include weekly ‘homework’ bouts of exercise. Cost = £60 – £100 / week
iii) A gym membership – Here you have gym instructors to give you advice on how to use the equipment but also your diet. Be warned though, gym instructors are trained to a very basic level so be careful about who you choose. Cost = £5 -£25 / week.
iv) A few useful pieces of equipment of your own – A skipping rope, boxing gloves and pads, barbell, dumbbells, pull up bar etc. These are fairly cheap pieces of equipment that can assist you in developing a well rounded program. Cost = The initial cost seems a lot but after that there is no cost so after some time of use the cost will be minimal.
v) Simply you and the floor! There is nothing wrong with exercising using no equipment. Actually some personal trainers conduct a large majority of their session using no equipment. Examples are press ups, squats, lunges, reverse lunges, burpees, russian twist, spider mans etc. Cost = £0.
You will see that the less you spend, the more you have to know about exercising so that you can write your own programs as there is no one to tell you what to do.
2) ” I haven’t got enough time!”
The majority of people really cant use this excuse as they spend hours watching television every day. For the people who don’t watch television and really can’t see where they are going to fit time into their day to exercise, try planning out your day with detail of what you do every hour. You can have a good session in 30 minutes If you really cant fit in one block of 30 minutes exercise try breaking it up into two 15 minute sessions. Would getting up a bit earlier enable you to fit in some extra exercise?
3) “I’m Just Not seeing results!”
If you are not seeing results you need to ask yourself if your doing the right thing. Are you following the elimination diet? Are you exercising every day? Are you getting enough sleep? Remember the results you get are a direct reflection of what you put into it. If you think you are doing all the above then visit a personal trainer and find out what your doing wrong.
4) “I Don’t know where to start!”
The first thing to do here is just start! Choose one of the cost categorised options above and get going with it. There is plenty of great information out there in books, web and videos that you can start with.
5) “I just Don’t enjoy it!”
You need to find a form of exercise that you enjoy. This could mean starting a sport, personal training, training with a friend, if you enjoy the out side then go hiking or mountain biking etc. You need to try something before you know if you enjoy it or not.
There you have it!
The top 5 excuses for not sticking to your workouts.
Which one will YOU choose?
If you’re fed up of all those time-consuming, slow and boring workouts that you’ve been using to burn fat and get into tip-top shape then maybe it’s time to shake things up a little with short, sharp and seriously effective training instead.
With just 16 minutes of total training time you can accomplish far more in terms of strength, endurance, cardiovascular fitness and, of course, that all–important fat loss than most people will get from a full hours worth of traditional training, meaning that you’ll be in, out and over while most people are still going through their warm-ups.
Not bad, right? After all, one of the biggest reasons that most people struggle to stick to their fat loss workouts is that they simply don’t have enough time to do them. Well, with this program, time will never be a problem again!
So, here’s how it works; you’ll select 2 exercises (one upper body and one lower body) performing them each for time. In this example you’ll complete 20 seconds of the upper body exercise, rest for 10 seconds then perform 20 seconds of the lower body exercise.
Run through this superset pair four times and, including the 10 seconds rest between sets, you’ll have completed your first four-minute mini-workout.
Simply put four of these four-minute workouts together and you’ve got your very own 16-minute fat-burning miracle!
Even taking a 1-minute rest between each of the mini-workouts will only bring your total workout time to 20 minutes, meaning that you can get on with your day and feel smug in the knowledge that you’ve done your bit in the battle of the bulge.
Don’t let the brevity of the workout fool you into thinking that it’s either easy or less effective than those longer, slower, boring workouts that you’ve become accustomed to. You’d be wrong on both counts. These ‘4×4’ workouts are some of the hardest training sessions you’ll ever do and they’ll burn fat far faster than anything you’ve ever tried before.
In fact, they’ll burn more fat BECAUSE the workouts are shorter and more intense. This type of training has been proven to increase the metabolic rate both during and after training and burn a far greater amount of fat than the steady-state cardio workouts that are so popular in the gyms.
For best results combine big multi-joint exercises like pushups and squats, pullups and deadlifts, shoulder presses and lunges, inverted rows and squat jumps and work as hard as you can with a resistance that challenges you for between 8-12 reps for each 20 second period.
If you can’t reach 8 reps then lower the weight, if you shoot past 12 then put the weight up to keep yourself within range. Simple!
Commit to this 4×4 workout for just 7 days, performing a 20 minute workout each day and you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the changes occurring in your body and I guarantee you’ll be a convert to abbreviated training for life.
Get to it!
It’s frustrating isn’t it? You’ve tried practically every type of diet you’ve ever heard of and yet still that stubborn fat that sits around your waist, thighs and butt just doesn’t seem to shift.
In your quest to go from flab to fab you’ve ‘been there, done that and bought the T-shirt’ on every diet from high carb-low protein to low carb high protein and everything in between.
You’ve lived on ’skinny shakes’, pills, powders and even gone to the extremes of 100% juice diets and the dreaded cabbage soup concoctions that have left you feeling light headed, nauseous and plain awful yet, when the smoke cleared on them all you found that nothing had changed.
Sure, maybe a pound or two here and there but nothing really amazing. And the worst thing is that these couple of pounds here and there ALWAYS seem to come back faster than they left and usually with an extra few pounds to keep them company!
Does this sound like the kind of experience you’ve always had whenever you’ve tried to shift weight, burn fat, tone up and get back into shape?
If it does, don’t panic, you’re really not alone. In fact, this is the experience of the overwhelming majority with only the lucky few be able to boast of dramatic results in short time frames that stay off permanently.
Well, not ‘lucky’ exactly, they’re simply doing things differently to you. Things that work consistently to generate results in terms of losing fat.
One thing’s for sure, they’re not committing the 5 dietary disasters that most people who are struggling with their weight seem to be on an almost daily basis.
Dietary Disaster #1- Eating Refined Carbs: Now, before you go thinking that carbs are bad, think again. They’re not only good for you, they’re vital to your health… as long as they’re eaten in their natural form.
Trouble is, most of the carbohydrates in modern diets are of the the processed, refined kind rather than those coming from fruits and vegetables.
We’re talking white rice, breads, cakes, cookies, pastries, confectionary and plain old sugar, all of which are so refined that the body can’t extract any real nutrition from them. Worse still, the huge surges of insulin that these foods create within your body are literally commanding your body to store fat.
Avoid this dietary disaster by avoiding all refined carbohydrate and eat only those that are still in their natural forms like fruit and vegetables. Not only will you consume less calories overall but you’ll be getting tons of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients that will guarantee speedier fat loss.
Dietary Disaster #2 – Consuming Processed Foods. Almost the same problem as disaster #1 but this extends to all foodstuffs and not just carbohydrates.
Consumption of processed foods is now the rule rather than the exception for the vast majority of people and it is this factor, perhaps more than any other, that practically guarantees you’ll be struggling with both your weight and general health for far longer than you have to.
Simply put, processed foods are denatured. Most of the vitamins, minerals and nutrients that contribute to making a food a useful addition to our health is extracted or changed so much during processing that our body doesn’t even recognise the foods as food.
Because of this, our bodies store much of it as fat and then take on and hold more water beneath the skin to ‘dilute’ the toxic effects of these non-foods. The result is a gain in both weight and fat that goes far beyond the actual calories consumed.
Avoiding this dietary disaster is simple. Eat only fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and poultry. Give the boxed and packaged foods a miss and you’ll soon see the pounds fall off.
Dietary Disaster #3 – Consuming Too Much Caffeine: Talk to anyone about giving up their morning cup of tea or coffee and it’s almost like you’ve asked them to give up one of their children. They’ll fight you every step of the way and probably call you names too.
There’s a reason for this; caffeine is hands down the most widely used drug on the planet. That’s right, it’s a drug, just like cocaine, heroine or crystal meth.
Not only does it change your emotions, your reactions, your physical performance and your metabolism, but it also gives you all the nasty side effects of mainstream drugs when you try to quit it.
Just ask anyone who’s gone cold-turkey from caffeine and they’ll tell you about the massive headaches, irritability, aches, pains and flu-like symptoms they had to go through in order to get clear of the stuff.
Caffeine is powerful stuff. So much so that it pushes the nervous system into fight or flight mode with every sip and, in doing so stimulates your stress hormone ‘cortisol’ which has the effect of making it much harder to lose fat over time.
In fact, it’s worse than that. High cortisol levels will practically guarantee that you’ll lose muscle and gain fat; the exact reverse of what most people are hoping for.
To avoid this dietary disaster drop coffee, tea and sodas from your diet and drink herbal and fruit teas and good old water and you’ll soon see and feel a difference.
Dietary Disaster #4 – Cutting back on dietary fat: Most people who’re desperate to lose fat tend to think that consuming fat in their diet will doom them to failure and so they cut back on practically all the fat they can find in their daily meals.
Big mistake! You see, fat is a vital component of a healthy body and healthy metabolism. Drop the fat consumption too low and your body perceives a threat to it’s survival and does the very opposite of what you want it to do.
Instead of speeding up, it slows down the metabolism and does its best to hold on to those precious fat stores that you so desperately want to be rid of.
Let’s be clear here once and for all. Fat does not make you fat. Certainly not the good fats anyway.
It’s those trans-fats in vegetable oils and margarine that are the ones you want to be rid of most, not the good fats that you find in organic farm-reared beef, free range poultry and net caught fish.
Likewise, the fats in nuts, seeds and legumes are really good for you too and should definitely not be cut from your diet if you’re serious about losing fat.
Fat is not bad. It’s not your enemy and no, it definitely won’t make you fat if you’re consuming it in reasonable amounts. In fact, the opposite is true.
To avoid this dietary disaster, cut only the trans fats and vegetable oils from your diet but maintain a healthy intake of natural oils and fats from your foods, especially coconut oil and omega 3 fish oils which are practically a miracle food.
Dietary Disaster #5 – Cutting Calories: Most people who are trying to lose weight use calorie restriction as their FIRST resort rather than their last.
As soon as they decide to lose a few pounds they start upon a program of semi-starvation where they miss meals, reduce all their portion sizes, opt for low calorie and ‘fat free’ options at the supermarket and even sacrifice 2 meals a day in favour of ’skinny shakes’ that promise to get them thin.
Little do that know that calorie restriction is both unnecessary and, in most cases, counter-productive and that there is no reason whatsoever why they should ever have to weigh or measure a food to decide whether or not they’re ‘allowed’ to eat it.
Despite what they’ve been told, weight management has little to do with a mathematical equation such as calories in vs calories out. The body doesn’t work that way at all!
The human body is more concerned with nutrients than calories. If you’re getting all the vitamins, minerals and other essential elements that you need through following a healthy and complete diet you’ll never have to count calories at all!
On the other hand, if your calories are high and the nutrition is low (as is the case in most processed foods) then your body will simply not stop sending you signals to eat regardless of whether or not you’ve eaten your daily requirement.
Hunger and compulsive eating are about malnutrition NOT calories. As long as you eat healthily you’ll never need to count a calorie ever again.
Avoid this dietary disaster by following the guidelines for the previous four. Only consume good quality, preferably organic natural foods that are not processed or tampered with in any away and your body will soon re-establish correct eating habits to maintain optimal health.
Well, there you have it. The five most common dietary disaster keeping you from losing fat and keeping it off for good.
They’re not exactly rocket science are they? In fact, they’re just common sense but, like all common sense advice, it’s not that common to see many people following it.
Try following it yourself by putting the advice you’ve learned here to the test and avoid these dietary disasters for just 30 days and see what kind of results you get.
I know you’ll be more than pleasantly surprised.
Dax Moy
The UK’s Leading Personal Trainer
And Fat Loss Expert Based In London
P.S – Why not download a copy of my Elimination Diet for more guidance in losing fat?
It’s free and it’s right here at the top of this page on the right.
You could have it in your hands in 30 seconds! : )
Is that possible?
I mean, is it REALLY possible that you could drop 5lbs in a week without making a single change to how you currently eat or radically changing your exercise program?
Most personal trainers and fat loss experts will tell you ‘no’. In fact, they’ll probably go further than that by claiming that such a feat is pretty much impossible as losing fat is about nothing more or nothing less than calories in vs calories out.
Burn more calories than you eat, they’ll tell you, and you lose fat, eat more than you burn and you’ll gain.
But they’d be wrong.
On both counts!
Whilst it’s true that calorific intake contributes to overall body mass it’s not the only, nor indeed the most important factor. If it were then those who go on very low calorie diets would ALL drop tons of weight (and they don’t) and those who eat chocolate and cake and pizza every week would all be super-obese and, as we know, neither case is true.
We all know many people who seem to be permanently on a diet yet who struggle to lose even the smallest amount and we also know people who can eat what they want in the most obscene portions yet never gain an ounce or, worse still, show off amazing six-pack abs despite ‘doing everything wrong’.
What gives?
Well, it’s not too tricky really. No smoke and mirrors or ’secrets’ that any of the rest of us couldn’t employ immediately to get great fat loss results for ourselves.
It’s not just calories and activity that’s for sure.
It’s about hormones.
It’s about balancing the hormones that course through our veins every waking moment of our lives so that they work in our favour rather than against us.
And this first ’secret’ I’m going to share with you is about rebalancing one of the most important hormones of them all.
Cortisol.
This ’super hormone’ is our body’s anti-stress hormone which is designed to help us re-stabilise and rebalance the body when our system becomes overloaded with physical, emotional and environmental stress. Trouble is, if it remains elevated for too long because our daily stress refuses to come down then it wreaks havoc on the body, cannibalising your muscle tissues, affecting the other hormones in your body and, effectively, putting your metabolism in reverse gear.
There are numerous things you can do to re-balance your cortisol and we’ll be discussing many of them over the coming weeks but by far the most important approach you can employ right away is the very simplest of all.
It costs you nothing, requires no pills, powders or shakes. It doesn’t ask you to count calories, change your eating habits or start exercising daily in order to melt off fat.
It requires just one thing.
Go to bed earlier.
Seriously, the most important thing you could possibly do to bring your cortisol levels down and immediately start to reboot your metabolism into fast fat burning mode is to get to bed earlier.
Why does this work?
Well, without getting super technical about it, the body works on what’s called a ‘diurnal rhythm‘ meaning that a cycle of activities repeat themselves on a daily basis.
Part of that rhythm naturally sees cortisol reach its low point between about 10pm and 2am with a peak in growth hormone and testosterone/estrogen at the same time. This is a perfect design from a fat loss perspective as it allows for maximum muscle repair and growth (meaning increased metabolism) and minimal stress and breakdown (meaning slower metabolism).
The problem is, when you habitually stay up watching TV or answering emails beyond 10.30 at the latest, you’re causing your metabolism to shift the other way. Cortisol stays high, growth hormone stays low and your internal environment simply cannot do what it’s supposed to do in terms of efficient fat burning.
If all of this talk of hormones is freaking you out, don’t.
The message is VERY simple.
Get to bed by 10pm to 10.30pm at the very latest is you’re serious about burning fat fast.
You may not 100% believe that this’ll work for you but that’s not necessary right now. Just suspend your disbelief and give it a go and see what happens.
If you’re like the majority of my personal training clients after just a week of earlier bedtimes and better quality sleep you’ll see a 5-7lb reduction in fat levels from this one strategy alone.
In fact, this fat loss technique is so powerful that when combined with proper nutrition, exercise and a hormone rebalancing supplement program many people will lose twice that amount over the course of the week.
Why not try it for yourself?
Get to bed every night by 10.30 and then come back here and post to this blog what kind of results you’re getting. Go on, put me on the spot and make me prove that this works : )
You game?
So, you’ve decided to give up.
You’re fed up of all the diets that have promised you great results yet left you hungry, tired, irritable and weak.
You’re fed up of all the ‘wonder workouts’ that have promised you amazing strength, fitness and flexibility ‘in just minutes a day’ but that have left you feeling tired, sore, stiff and, truth be told, no firmer or less flabby than you were before.
But most of all, you’re fed up of all those fitness ‘experts’ out there who tell you how easy it is, how little time it takes and how amazing you’re going to look if you follow THEIR program (ONLY theirs, mind you, no-one else’s will even come near to what they’re offering).
So you’re quitting.
You’re giving up the diet and exercise ‘thing’ and have decided that you’ll just go with the flow and see what happens to your body when the experts aren’t poking their noses into your business and ramming their idea of healthy down your throat.
What a great idea!
No more ‘eat this’ or ‘don’t eat that’, no more ‘don’t forget your cardio’ or ‘weights is better’.
In fact, no more interference of any kind from the countless do-gooders who seem to think that it’s ok for them to advise, nag and bully you into following all kinds of fat loss and fitness advice… as long as it’s theirs.
Good on you!
But before you take the quitters route that most people take, doesn’t it make sense to quit in the right way?
Sure it does!
There’s a science to quitting too y’know and I’m just the person to share it with you : )
So here’s the deal. If you want to quit and quit fast, if you want to pack on pound after pound of soft, warm, figure-blurring bodyfat then you’ve got to have a strategy.
You’ve got to have a plan.
MY plan is easy, straightforward and six-year-old-simple to follow and consists of just seven rules that, if you follow them, will guarantee you the maximum fat gain in the shortest time frame.
It consists of just 7 rules
Rule one: Only eat processed foods
If you’re truly serious about packing on some serious fat-pounds, you’ll follow this rule faithfully.
Without a doubt, processed foods are the No.1 friend to fat due to their denatured, sugar-loaded and mostly synthetic nature.
With most of the vitamins and minerals removed from processed foods, the highly calorific and mostly indigestible remain, creating a massive storehouse of both calories and toxins for you to bury deep within your already overloaded fatty tissues.
Better still, the toxic nature of most processed foods mean that you’ll gain not only fat but a whole lot of subcutaneous water too as your body tries to ‘dilute’ the impact of all the extra toxins you’re holding onto, meaning that you’ll put on extra scale weight and look soft and squidgy into the bargain.
Great stuff!
Rule two: Cram in as many starchy carbs as you can
Starchy carbs eaten in isolation or, better yet, with sugary carbs are an absolutely fantastic way to accelerate the battle of the bulge and gain both fat and body weight at a more rapid pace.
Eating carbohydrates in isolation allows your hormones to engage in a free-running form of guerrilla warfare where insulin levels raise through the roof and, in doing so, command your body to store fat.
A word of warning though; whatever you do, don’t mix your starches with fats or proteins. This reduces both the amount and the effect of all that lovely insulin and will definitely scupper your chances at serious fat gain.
Rule Three: Get to bed as late as you can
If rapid fat gain is your greatest desire, then make sure that you get to bed as late as you possibly can, with the ideal scenario being that you stay up so late every night that you fall asleep on the sofa.
Doing This will ensure a steady supply of the stress hormone cortisol into your bloodstream to help you break down all that energy-consuming lean muscle tissue that’s slowing down your fat gain.
Just don’t ruin the effect by getting to bed by 10:30 or you’ll find that the cortisol levels drop far too low to cannibalise your muscle and you may even find that you lose all your precious fat!
Rule four: Steer clear of water
Drink too much water and you’ll not only do away with your body’s false food cravings (meaning that you won’t eat unnecessarily), but you’ll also create a freer flowing route for the digestion of the foods you’ve eaten.
Obviously, this is a bad thing as it means you won’t keep undigested foods in your stomach long enough for them to go putrid and add to the overall toxic load on your system.
Remember, anything that speeds up your metabolism is bad!
Instead, use coffee, tea and soda to ‘mix up’ your metabolism and increase toxicity.
Rule five: Don’t forget the alcohol!
Alcohol is just about as pure a sugar source as you can get and is absolutely jam-packed with calories that contribute nothing to the function of your body.
Better still, alcohol adds to your toxic load meaning that you’ll hold a large amount of water too!
Rule Six Use the microwave for all of your cooking
Microwave’s are great!
During the heating process they vibrate the molecules of your food so fast that they actually change their structure, meaning that when you eat nuked food, your body has no idea about how to cope with them, let alone extract nutrition from them.
This is fantastic for your fat gain quest because you’ll be adding to your toxic load AND creating a surplus of non-nutritional calories, meaning that you’ll get hungry again very soon after eating and have another opportunity to stock up on calories.
Rule Seven: Avoid all unnecessary movement
There’s no getting away from it, movement of any kind costs you valuable calorie-energy and robs you of the vital fat building stores that’ll be necessary for your quest.
Stay as still as you can to conserve as much energy as possible and commit to using as many labour-saving devices as you can find. Things like remote controls, stair lifts, escalators etc all serve a valuable role in the creation of your fat stores, so use them.
If you are forced to move, then whatever you do, don’t engage in any form of activity that might lead to an increase in strength or muscle mass as this’ll speed up your metabolism and rob you of calories. Instead, engage in steady-state, slow aerobic activities as these are energy efficient and have the added benefit of increasing cortisol and, in doing so, breaking down that calorie-robbing muscle tissue.
So that’s it!
Your seven rules that, if followed, will absolutely guarantee that you pack on fat faster than you’d ever believe possible and allow you to thumb your nose and poke your tongue out at every personal trainer or diet guru who ever promised you a rapid result from following their plans.
Follow just one or two of them for even a short time and you’ll see a rapid softening of the waistline and an appreciable gain in scale-weight. Follow them all and you’ll gain so much weight that you’ll be stunned by the reflection staring back at you within a month.
Give it a go!
Note: If you’re one of those wierdo’s who feel that you’d like to take the extreme approach of actually losing bodyfat then just reverse the rules above to see equally rapid fat loss… I don’t know why you’d want to though!
Dax Moy
www.daxmoy-pts.co.uk
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