The Fat Loss Coach

Connect to the Power to Lose Weight

2011-12-12T11:47:00.000-08:00

In the state of Connecticut in the last week of October 2011 there was a historical northeastern storm, which produced record snow… The storm caused tremendous damage, because it happened in the middle of the fall season, when the trees still had all their leaves… The weight of the snow on the leaves acted like a heavy umbrella, and destroyed the branches, which took down a major portion of the power lines… The power was still there, but the connection to the power was cut off for must of the states residents…

So what does this have to do with losing weight and keeping it off? Everything, you see knowledge is power, and the knowledge to lose weight, and keep it off, is a power inside each client I work with… The bible teaches, people are destroyed for lack of knowledge… My role as The Loss Coach is to teach every client the knowledge to shed excess fat, without losing muscle, comes with managing their hormonal response to the quality and quantity of the foods they consume… Once they receive this knowledge or power it is stored inside their spirit or sub-conscience, and is always turned on… My client’s role is to consciously connect to it each day…

So then why would someone who has been empowered with the knowledge of a great eater, choose not to call upon their knowledge? They become disconnected their mind loses focus on what they believe, and reacts to some circumstance they are facing… The simple truth to stay connected to the power or knowledge, is all managed with two words, act and not to react…

When my clients act out their belief of eating, they stay stable in consuming four meals in portioned amounts, using high quality foods, which manage their blood sugar levels and balance their hormone response … The end result, muscles are well fed and their bodies become leaner… The secret to stability at losing weight and keeping it off is a daily conscious connection to the power…

When clients react to their circumstance or storm, they are now operating in unstable behavior, causing their blood sugar and hormone response to be erratic, resulting in poorly fed muscle and fat storage… They are cut off to the power…

So when the storms of life come, and they will, many times when we least expect them… Those who have been taught properly have a choice to make… They can chose to act out their unconditional belief to practice good nutrition and reap the benefits of a lean, energized body, or react to the trial and miss meals or eat poor quality foods… The reactive choice always leading to stored fat, lack of energy and a host of many ill physical feelings… It’s hard to debate, if we stay connected, turn on the power daily you will be at your ideal weight and enjoy long life and good health…

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2011-12-08T16:20:00.000-08:00

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Tips for Eating Healthy on a Budget

2011-12-08T05:36:00.000-08:00

Here we are at the end of another year with a new year on the horizon. Many of us are forming our resolutions as we shop for the perfect presents for friends and family. Two of the most common New Year’s resolutions are weight and money related. Whether eating less and exercising more or spending less and saving more, many of us have our work cut out in 2012. How can we combine these goals and be successful? Resolve to be a better you in 2012 with these tips for healthy eating while on a budget.

Plan – Purchase – Prepare: According to Choose My Plate (the new food groups or food pyramid), this is a relatively efficient way to stay healthy while on a budget.

· Plan your grocery shopping trips. Check the ads for sales. Get a customer loyalty card from your local grocery store. Make a list and check the ads for the best deals. Meal planning will help target the food you have and what you need to buy. Planning stew when the grocery store has buy one, get one meat is a great way to stretch your dollar and your meal.

· Purchase items that are on sale and with a coupon. That is the best way to save money on groceries. Eat before you shop and purchase store brand when possible; many times it is the exact same product as the name brand. The smallest portion isn’t always the cheapest so be sure you know the unit price of items. The bigger choice may (and often is) the better deal.

· Prepare ahead of time. Whether meals, grocery list or clipping coupons you will get the best bang for your buck and your belly when you prepare. Items like carrots, potatoes, beans, apples and bananas are available year-round at a relatively low cost.

Here’s to you having a healthier new year!

5 Things to do before 2012

2011-12-01T13:46:00.000-08:00

Oftentimes we wait until the last night or week of the year to think about our goals for the new year. This year I challenge you to think about your goals today so you can be a better YOU in 2012. Whether you want to fit in a pair of pants that are a size smaller, live a healthier life in mind, body and spirit or get up, get dressed and get out of the house, we think you can change your life with these five tips for starting 2012 off on the right foot:

1. Decide: YOU are the boss of YOU. It doesn’t matter how or where or in what conditions you grew up, the decision is yours to be made. So what do you want for your life?

2. Ask for help: As adults we are often afraid to ask for help. Whatever your reason for not wanting to ask, we encourage you to find someone who can be your sounding board. You will meet your goals sooner with a little help. We are here to help you so give us a call!

3. Break it down: Changing your life to lose fat and gain health is a marathon not a sprint. We can help you break your BIG GOAL into manageable steps designed just for you.

4. One step at a time: You didn’t learn to walk in one day. Rome wasn’t built in one day so why do you think you can change your life in one day? You can’t so embrace that fact and take changes one at a time. Put on your walking shoes and walk to the mailbox. The next day walk a bit farther…you will see changes.

5. Reward yourself…in moderation: Part of living a healthier life is knowing your hard work will pay off. Have you lost enough fat to buy a pair of pants one size smaller? Reward yourself with that new pair of pants. That is moderation.

We wish you the best in your journey!

Healthy Holiday Guide to Dinners and Treats

2011-11-23T17:00:00.000-08:00

Whether we work in a small office or are a corporate tycoon we will all have opportunities in the next weeks and months to make choices that we will regret in January. Rather than wait for the first weigh-in of 2012 we want to stress the importance of good food and exercise choices.

We offer the following ten healthy holiday eating tips:

1. Replace eggs with applesauce in baked goods.

2. Fresh onions can replace fried onions on your green bean casserole.

3. Choose low fat versions of ingredients like sour cream, cream of mushroom soup and buttermilk.

4. Use fresh ingredients like green beans rather than their canned cousin. Frozen is healthier than canned too.

5. More protein and less gravy.

6. Plain sweet potatoes are a healthier option than grandma’s marshmallow recipe.

7. Balanced meals with keep you satiated; choose healthy protein, carbs and fat.

8. Some say they eat less baked goods when they are the designated baker for their parties. Maybe after dozens of cookies, cakes and pies they can’t even think of eating anything.

9. Practice portion control.

10 Choose wisely. A cookie here and there will add up in the new year.

We can’t wait to hear how you handled the biggest of all the food holidays – Thanksgiving! We are thankful for you and support you in your journey to a healthier life.

Four tips to NOT eating your way through the holidays

2011-11-17T15:28:00.000-08:00

We understand the holidays are a tempting time for those of us making the change to a healthier lifestyle. Keep your goal in mind as you reach for the eggnog or pie. A slice of pie can mean an extra hour on the treadmill to burn it off. Remember everything in moderation and make good choices for yourself. Here are four tips to not eating your way through the holidays:

1. Be kind to yourself. If you fall off your food and exercise plan, call us because we are here to help you. We all fall off our plan; the important part is to get back on it. You ate some cookies at the office party? Walk for an extra 20 minutes. Don’t beat yourself up and fall into old habits like emotional eating. You can succeed!

2. Pre-party preparation: Drinking water and having a protein filled snack before a holiday party is a great way to not overeat when you get to the party. You will be less hungry and therefore less likely to eat foods that are not good for you.

3. Choices: Choosing healthier options while you are at holiday parties will go a long way to helping you NOT be part of the majority. Most Americans will gain 5-10 pounds during the last two months of the year. Choose vegetables and leave the dip. Choose more turkey and less gravy. Serve green beans rather than the traditional carb filled green bean casserole.

4. Just say no: When your friends and colleagues ask you to take leftovers it is okay to say no. Leave the pies and cookies for someone else. You have goals to meet!

We can’t wait to hear how you’re doing this holiday season!

6 Tips to Staying Healthy during Cold & Flu Season

2011-11-11T19:11:00.000-08:00

“I’m just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.”

– Devil Wears Prada

Contrary to this quote, it isn’t healthy to reach goal weight by getting the flu. At The Fat Loss Coach we create a healthier you. We design a personalized plan to help you decrease body fat without losing lean mass. We also want you to stay healthy through cold and flu season.

Here are six tips to staying healthy during cold and flu season:

1. Garlic is your friend: Fresh garlic can ward off vampires and the common cold. Crushing fresh garlic releases the immune boosting juice. If you’re a smoothie fan, just add garlic!

2. Ginger root is known for its anti-inflammatory properties. As a result it is used to aid allergies, cold, irritable bowel, nausea, poor circulation, menstrual cramps and a host of other ailments. Fresh or pill form are effective; be sure the pill is high quality ROOT.

3. Zzzzzzz: Treat your body right by getting enough rest. Oftentimes our bodies tell us when we are getting sick and a good night of sleep will ward off a full blown cold. Don’t ignore what your body is telling you.

4. Be active: An active body has a boosted immune system. If you do get sick be sure to take time to rest before returning to a regular workout.

5. Water: Staying hydrated is an important part of fat loss, weight loss, staying healthy and flushing out a cold or flu. Herbal teas are a great way to stay hydrated and soothe a sore throat or stomach.

6. Eat your fruits & veggies: Don’t forget the immune boosting power of super foods like blueberries and carrots. They are essential to a healthy lifestyle and will help you recover from illness.

As always, we want you to be a healthier you!

Manage Weight and Increase Exercise Performance

2011-11-07T07:25:00.000-08:00

The Power of Rest.

My clients are always amazed when they find out that most of their muscle growth occurs while they are sleeping, and not during their workouts. Recuperation is a subject that receives too little attention and is often misunderstood. We are conditioned to think in order to succeed we must work hard and little value is placed on rest.

During intense resistance training there is cellular damage that takes place in the millions of myofibrils, that make up our muscle structure. As we recuperate from our workout, the hypertrophic or rebuilding response starts to occur. The rebuilding phase, has several stages and requires on average of 72-96 hours to complete. The phases include an inflammation stage, a clean out stage where damaged cell debris is removed and a growth stage. So it takes three or four days before the muscle enters into an environment where growth can occur. Each muscle group should not be worked more than once per week. If a muscle group is trained more frequently, it may not leave enough time for recuperation, and not time for growth.

It is important to receive eight to ten hours of sleep each night, when the body is sleeping important functions for growth and recovery take place. During sleep growth hormones are secreted from the pituitary gland, which aides in the body’s ability to synthesize protein to rebuild muscle tissue. Many of the nutrients ingested during our waking hours are assimilated while we sleep.

Over training occurs when a muscle group is worked too long, or too frequent. Training a muscle before it has fully recuperated will cause further damage to the muscle fibers. The body will enter into a catabolic state (breaking down) and will result in loss of muscle tissue. The body in its inability to adapt to this stress will show signs of over training.

The following symptoms are good indications you are over training. They are lack of energy, trouble sleeping, muscle and joint soreness, no muscle growth, loss of strength and no desire to exercise. If these symptoms occur, the best course of action is rest, a week with no training. During this time off re-evaluate your nutritional program and training routine. After further analysis you will find you either under ate, or over trained.

We all differ when it comes to our recuperative abilities. Learn to listen to the messages, that your body sends. When you experience increases in strength, energy and muscular growth, it should reinforce that your routine is working. On the flip side, decreases in strength, energy and growth should alert you your routine needs to change. Exercise goes against our human nature. Less work will usually mean more results. Learn to relax and enjoy the time away from your workouts. If you train with proper form, with intensity you deserve all the rest you can get.

When it comes to increasing exercise performance and improving body compositiuon, there nothing more powerful than rest.

19 Fun Food Facts

2011-11-03T12:16:00.000-07:00

What do you know about the food you eat? I recently read, “Knowledge is knowing tomatoes are a fruit and wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” This got me thinking about what we REALLY know about our food. Here are 19 fun food facts:

1. Yep, it’s true. Tomatoes are a fruit. At one time they were thought to be poisonous.

2. Peanuts are in the legume family. Other members of this family are red, black and pinto beans.

3. Lettuce is in the sunflower family.

4. Cherries contain the same chemical as common anti-inflammatory drugs.

5. Blueberries are the second most popular berry in the United States. They contain significant amounts of fiber and Vitamin C making them a great snack!

6. There are more than 500 types of bananas. Eating one of each type every day would take you almost a year!

7. Egg yolks are one of the few natural food sources of Vitamin D.

8. Eggcellent: It takes approximately 24 hours for a hen to produce an egg.

9. Apples are a member of the rose family and are the official state fruit of Rhode Island.

10. Asparagus is part of the Lilly family.

11. Pumpkin flowers are edible.

12. Yuma, AZ is the winter lettuce capital of the world.

13. Avocados of medium size are about 300 calories and 20% fat; in moderation they are a great snack choice. The fat is a good type of fat.

14. Honey is the only food that will not spoil.

15. Cranberries are packed with Vitamin C, contain no cholesterol and were used for a variety of purposes by Native Americans. The oldest cranberry vines are in Massachusetts.

16. Florida, California, Arizona and Texas are the largest U.S. growers of citrus fruit.

17. Mango, papaya and pineapple grow well in Hawaii.

18. The five categories of fruits are pomes, drupes, berries, citrus and melons.

19. Almonds are small and mighty. They contain minerals calcium, magnesium, potassium and iron and are the only nut that forms alkaline in the body. Alkaline helps keep you healthy and has been shown to prevent cancer.

We hope we got you thinking about what you eat and entertained you too! Do you have fun food facts? We would love to hear from you!

Four Stages of Successful Weight Loss

2011-11-03T10:34:00.000-07:00

Over the last two decades when I first meet a potential new client, the most common question posed to me is, “can you help me to lose weight”? My response puts the ball back in their court… I can help you to solve your weight problem, if you are willing to complete four stages of behavior change…

They are surprised to learn the first two stages will take place in our first thirty-minute session together…

Stage One – Unconsciously incompetent… I meet all new clients in stage one of the weight problem… They are well aware they have a problem, but unaware what the origin of the problem rarely is… Most think if they could only be taught good new eating habits, their weight issues will disappear… They don’t realize they have an inner identity or character, which has formed to support their poor lifestyle of improper nutrition… Their poor eating behavior goes beyond bad habits, deep rooted, unconsciously in place each day… They have become unconsciously good at being overweight…

Stage Two- Consciously incompetent… You enter stage two when you consciously become aware of why our bodies store fat and lose muscle based on hormonal responses to quantity and quality of foods consumed… This is an understanding, which goes beyond our common sense ability to understand… Common sense would lead you to believe eating less often and lesser amounts, would keep the fat from being stored… This could not be further from the truth… Unfortunately nine out of ten overweight clients I meet are under eaters, not over eaters… They are taught by eating four or more meals, about four hours apart, consuming high fiber, low glycemic foods, portioned 30% protein, 50% carbohydrate and 20% fat, which will cause a slow rise and slow drop in blood sugar… This will bring a homeostasis or balance to the pancreas production of hormones, insulin and glucagons, which feeds the muscle and reduce the fat…

Stage Three-Consciously competent… Stage three is the daily practice of consciously eating the right foods, at proper times, in customized or fitted amounts to each individual… The daily routine of thinking the right thought, speaking it into action, and allowing the repetitive acts to form habits are essential to be in place each day… I believe it takes at least 21 days for these routines to form into a physical habit… The danger is these habits are still not deep rooted into the sub-conscience… If not consciously put into practice each day, they are very vulnerable to old behavior reoccurring… This is most likely during some test or trial, which appears to overwhelm the new behavior… Think of your subconscious as a forest, and every tree in the forest represent a belief or character trait concerning all the aspects of your life… For example, one tree represents your moral beliefs, another your work ethic and so on… These trees are deep rooted and take little conscious effort to keep them in place… As a young boy I was taught stealing is very wrong behavior… So when I visit the mall, I don’t have to sit in my car and go through a check list of make sure you don’t take what’s not yours, even if no one looking… It sounds funny to even say it, because this belief is so deep rooted in me… Well new nutrition routines are a tree, with no roots and must be watered each day… The water is thinking it, and speaking it into action each day… The daily conscious effort allows the roots to go deep into the sub-conscience and become like the other trees in your forest…

Stage Four-Unconsciously competent… This is the goal of each client I work with… To take this new knowledge of nutrition and deeper understanding of their hormonal responses, and develop into a lifestyle… Many times a new client questions me, “how do you think I’m doing”? Sometimes they are surprised at my response, especially if there has been dramatic fat loss… You see I go more by how they sound, than how much the scale is moving… I spend a considerable amount of time on the behavior modification part of my teaching, which I call the “Laws of the Lean”… I know for it to become their lifestyle, and enjoy long life and good health, they must become unconsciously successful in managing it… So what could keep it from happening? I think the most common mistake is the deception of thinking your in stage four, when still in stage three… You see, it takes daily work of self-talk, positive thoughts, goal driven choices to water the tree in stage three… So what causes the deception? Thinking it’s unrealistic to put in all this conscious effort each day, especially when I don’t have to do it in other areas of my life, I manage successfully… The truth is you won’t… You only have to do it until the tree has been watered enough, and the roots go just as deep, as the other trees in your forest… The treasure found in stage four, is it takes the same amount of conscious effort to manage your weight, as it did in stage one of not managing your weight…

So if you are really ready to see your weight problem solved once and for all time… It starts with the word “timber”, this unhealthy tree in your forest is coming down… We will plant in its place a healthy tree of new knowledge and behavior… The daily watering of the tree will have it deep rooted, and like the other healthy trees in your forest… The fruit this tree produces will last and be enjoyed for a lifetime…

10 Ways to Change Your Health TODAY

2011-10-26T17:57:00.000-07:00

With the end of the year looming and New Year’s Resolutions around the corner, we thought we would give you a head start on 2012 goals. Our mission is to make America healthier and offer these 10 ways to change your health today:

1. We are here for you! If you are not near our locations, please call us and find out how we can help you be healthier with a personalized plan.

2. Eat breakfast. Your mom was right and breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. It sets your metabolism for the rest of the day.

3. Don’t skip meals. Your body enters starvation mode when it isn’t being fed. You will store fat no matter how active you are. Eating within an hour of waking also increases metabolism.

4. Snacks are good….if they are healthy snacks. Fruit or vegetable and protein are always a healthy choice.

5. Put your walking shoes on and go for a walk. Even if you start by walking to the mailbox, you have started the path to healthy living. Take one step at a time and you will see results.

6. Healthy and easy to prepare recipes are important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. If you aren’t satiated then you’re more likely to over eat the wrong foods.

7. Stop eating at least three hours before bedtime so food has time to digest.

8. Accountability is important. Write down what you eat and have someone you can confide in on good…and bad days. Grab a neighbor and go for a walk instead of choosing an unhealthy option.

9. You are what you eat. It’s not just a turn of phrase, it is true. Science is providing evidence of diseases caused by obesity such as fatty liver disease. When you eat a lot of fat you become fat.

10. It’s in the numbers. To decrease the number on the scale the energy in must be less than the energy out.

Grab your water, lace up your shoes and go for a walk. It’s your first step to a healthier you!

5 Diseases Associated with Obesity

2011-10-20T19:00:00.000-07:00

America, we’re fat and getting fatter by the hour! The Fat Loss Coach and his team have a lot of people to reach before our mission to have a fat free America is complete. If you think “you are what you eat” isn’t a true statement you’re dead wrong. Excessive fat storage causes and is underlying to a host of diseases. Here are five diseases associated with obesity:

1. Heart enlargement: Increasing body mass as occurs in obese patients means the heart is pumping blood to more areas of the body. As a result of working harder the heart becomes enlarged.

2. Diabetes: This condition is caused when the body doesn’t produce enough insulin. It often occurs when excessive fat accumulates in the body making cells resistant to insulin. In some cases diabetes can be eliminated with proper diet and exercise. The Fat Loss Coach has helped more than 800 diabetes patients beat the condition.

3. Fatty liver disease: This condition occurs when fat develops in the cells of the liver and is irreversible.

4. Depression: When we are active our body produces proper amounts of chemicals that keep us happy and also well-rested. They are called serotonin and melatonin. When these chemicals are out of balance patients experience changes to appetite, depression and insomnia among other symptoms. Having the proper diet and exercise program will help the body produce proper amounts of these important chemicals.

5. Lymph Edema: Commonly associated with cancer patients who have had lymph nodes removed, this disease causes the body to swell. In obese patients this is cause by fat stifling the function of the lymph nodes effectively shutting them down.

If you have any or all of these please call us! We are here to help you learn to live a healthy lifestyle by choosing the right foods and activities.

10 Fat Burning Foods to Fit Your Healthy Lifestyle

2011-10-13T08:49:00.000-07:00

Now that you’ve gone through the Glyco-Cycle your body is a fat burning machine. You are becoming a winner at losing but it will all be for nothing if you aren’t eating the right foods. Before you aimlessly head to the store for groceries, we offer the following ten fat burning foods to keep you on track.

1. Oolong tea: According to thegreenteahouse.com, this tea aids in digestion and dissolves fat in the body. In fast 3-4 cups a day has been shown to lower cholesterol.

2. Calcium is found in dairy products and non-dairy products. Leafy greens, almonds, figs and broccoli are among the best non-dairy sources of this metabolism boosting ingredient.

3. Omega-3 fatty acids have been proven to lower levels of the hormone leptin which increases the rate of metabolism. Omega-3s are found in fish such as salmon and tuna and in high quality fish oil pills. Cold water fish oil pills are safest as they do not contain mercury.

4. Whole grains are an important part of a fat burning lifestyle. They are a great source of complex carbohydrates and fiber and help keep insulin levels lower after we’ve eaten. Lower insulin means less fat is stored.

5. Fiber contained in food like oats and dark colored berries not only keep insulin levels low with less fat stored but it also metabolizes slowly so we are less hungry. Fiber also helps keep our digestive tract in working order which keeps away the fat.

6. Water & water rich foods like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, grapefruit, lettuce, radishes and spinach speed up metabolism to help our bodies burn fat.

7. Spicy peppers such as jalapeno, cayenne or their hotter cousin the habanero pepper contain capsaicin. Capsaicin gives these peppers their pungent flavor and speeds up your heartbeat and metabolism.

8. Lean protein in eggs and meats such as chicken or turkey increase metabolism and burn fat.

9. Healthy fats in sources like pine nuts help prevent dangerous belly fat. They also contain hormones that make us feel full so we eat less.

10. Beans help build muscle which increases metabolism. They also make us feel more full so we eat less.

Don’t fret if this is too much information! We offer nutritional counseling. Make an appointment today!

Fuel Your Way To Your Ideal Weight

2011-10-06T15:30:00.000-07:00

Fuel Your Way To Your Ideal Weight

Over the last two decades after interviewing over fourteen thousand clients and having done more than seventy thousand counseling sessions you could say I have strong opinions on weight management…   My views are based on the evidence historically discovered about behavior patterns, which are common and reoccurring in individuals in need of weight loss…

I believe it will take more than some systematic plan of sound nutrition to solve America’s great weight problem… It will take major lifestyle reformation… Most overweight individuals I meet, have lifestyles outside their bodies hormonal design… Though many are deceived in thinking if someone could just teach me what to eat… The problem is with all the information they are fed, no pun intended, though media sources, they already know about what foods are right… They just don’t know how to0 use them right…

So a large part of my teaching is to explain the biological effect the foods we eat have on blood sugar and our bodies hormone responses… Learning how to manage these responses will do more than lose weight, it will manage body composition (muscle/fat ratio), energy, digestion, mood, recuperation, sleep and many health benefits… he large list of benefits makes this a priority to manage…

Our perception of food is as important to change as the foods themselves… One of my pet phases is food must become nutritional fuel…   Now I know what your thinking, here we go, he’s going to compare me to a car… Well I guess the joke would be on you… Most who struggle with their weight know more about the gas, oil and antifreeze purpose for their car, then protein, carbohydrates and fats role on their hormonal responses…

The shame is it’s easy to learn… I could teach it to your six year old child… No, really… In fact it reminds me of a life changing counseling session I had… The session started with a client who brought her six year old daughter … She said the girl would be no trouble, she’ll just color as we speak… At the end of the meeting, the woman commented, I like your scientific and holistic approach, but I don’t think I would be able to see food is fuel… I said, “I can teach it to your little girl… She was quick to comment, “No you can’t”…

So I turned to the little girl holding up two business cards and said, “Honey in my left hand is a ice cream sandwich and my right hand is a tuna sandwich, which one would you like? She of course said, “Ice cream”… I said, “I understand honey, ice cream tastes better’”… I turned to the mother and asked, “ which of the two will manage your blood sugar?   The woman replied, “tuna”.. Which will feed your muscles? She responded, “tuna”… Which will supply your body with the needed vitamins and minerals? She answered, “tuna”… Which will get you to your ideal weight and keep you there? She responded, “tuna’… Which will improve your blood chemistry and stabilize your energy and moods? Once again, she replied, “tuna’…

I now turn to the little girl and ask, “honey you can have either one, ice cream or tuna, which one do you what? You can guess what came next, the smart little girl got it, she replied, “I’ll have the tuna”…

So if you are in need of weight loss, isn’t it time we lose our child like desires, and learn how to nutritionally fuel our bodies? So the question is, will it be ice cream or tuna?

5 Reasons Fat Loss is Good for You

2011-10-06T09:25:00.000-07:00

Americans are getting fatter by the generation. It’s a fact. This generation of children is the first whose life expectancy is less than that of their parents. That’s to be expected since obese parents are more likely to have obese children. $34 billion is spent by Americans annually on diets that aren’t burning fat and teaching us how to live a healthy life.

That’s where The Fat Loss Coach comes in with his proven track record of helping people lose weight and live healthier lives.

Here are five reasons fat loss is good for you:

1. 10% Rule: Losing 10% of weight can mean a new lease on life for many obese and overweight people. Their medical conditions caused by their weight begin to diminish. They can breathe and move easier.

2. Fat kills. Morbidly obese people actually have fat on their organs! Their organs are already compromised by their obesity and adding fat to the organ causes organ failure and even death.

3. Diabetes: Some forms of diabetes are manageable with food and diet. Often obese patients who lose weight and continue a healthy lifestyle no longer need insulin. Without the extra weight their bodies are able to function more efficiently.

4. Blood Pressure: Beginning a fat loss plan along with being active will decrease blood pressure in obese patients who previously had high blood pressure. Often they no longer need blood pressure medication.

5. Root Cause: Identifying the root cause of overeating is important to a sustained recovery and healthy lifestyle. Without identifying the cause patients will become obese in the future.

The Fat Loss Coach team will design a personalized plan to meet your personal needs and physical abilities. We want you to be a healthier you!

Source:

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/407755_5

Eight Things You Need to Know Before Beginning the Fat Loss Coach Program

2011-09-29T08:14:00.001-07:00

Wake up, America! We’re eating ourselves into obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and even death. Our children are being diagnosed diabetic at early ages and at an alarming rate. The Fat Loss Coach is here to tell you there is a better way. We are here to support you on your journey and to teach you how to turn your fat storing body into a fat burning machine.

Here are eight things you need to know before beginning our program:

1. We’re eating ourselves to death: Americans are spending $34 billion per year on diets and 2/3 of us are still overweight, obese and morbidly obese.

2. Lifestyle: Weight loss isn’t an annual New Year’s Resolution. It is a choice to live a healthier life that starts by changing your mindset. We teach you how to eat what YOUR body needs to reach optimum performance.

3. Focus: Our focus is on YOU maintaining healthy lean mass and losing unhealthy fat stores. We want your focus to be on YOU creating a healthy lifestyle.

4. Key to success is learning the proper way to feed your body. Many of us are under-eating which means our bodies are not getting balanced nutrition and our metabolism is slow.

5. Muscle loss reduces metabolism creating the plateaus of fitness and weight loss that we have all experiences.

6. Finish what you start: We promise to be with you every step of the way. We want you to promise you will maintain a healthy lifestyle using the tools and techniques we teach you about healthy eating.

7. Glyco-Cycle: Through our Fat Loss Coach Glyco-Cycle three day eating plan we change your body from fat storage to fat burning without losing lean muscle.

8. Most fail on traditional diets because we’re limiting what we can eat. We teach you how to adjust what and when you eat to create a fat burning machine called YOU. We have client testimonials and the support of doctors across New England to illustrate how and why our program works. We look forward to helping you create a healthy lifestyle!

Going On Diet Is Like Eating Kryptonite

2011-09-27T13:56:00.000-07:00

Did the Fat Loss Coach finally gone over the edge, when he recently made this statement at a seminar? Remington said, “Going on a diet to lose weight is like eating Kryptonite… Now most of us know Kryptonite was the substance from Superman’s home planet Krypton, which is famous for being the ultimate physical weakness of Superman… When exposed to Kryptonite, it robbed the super hero of strength, energy and all of his super powers, and would eventually lead to his demise…

So what does Kryptonite and dieting have in common? The way they both make us feel… Over the last two decades when I have interviewed thousands of individuals needing to lose weight, and we go over their past diet experiences, they all say the same thing… They don’t look forward to losing weight, and look to avoid having too… Why you ask? Because of the way they felt on the diet… Most reported a loss of energy, increase in hunger, mood shifts, drops in metabolism and loss of muscle tissue… Maybe this is why the first three letter in diet spell die… When it came to the diet foods they had to eat, many would probably have chosen the radio- active substance kryptonite instead…

So if its time for you to lose weight, be a real super-hero… Learn to eat the right foods, in the right amounts, at least four times per day… This will manage your blood sugar levels and your hormonal response… You’ll lose the unwanted fat, without losing muscle, your energy will be stable and hunger and moods swings will disappear… Learning a healthy nutrition lifestyle, won’t have you leaping tall buildings in a single bound… You’ll just look and feel like you could…

Witness Protection Program For Weight Loss

2011-09-08T08:34:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I received a phone call from someone interested in my help... As the conversation started the female voice said, "I need to lose the size of a person"... What she was saying is a need to lose quite a bit of weight... But my response surprised both of us... I said, "You need to lose the woman, which caused the weight problem, then you will lose the weight... Then it hit me... As a nutritionist, I would need to place this woman in the "witness protection program"... She would need a new identity, to escape from the one which has caused her weight problem...

You see over the last 20 years I have discovered, those who are overweight, have created an identity to support their poor eating lifestyle... So it would take more than teaching her what to eat... She would need behavior modification help... We would need to spend as much effort changing the way she saw herself as developing new knowledge of proper nutrition...

To many times weight loss failures are the result of new knowledge, which lacks ability to be put into practice daily... So if your attempting to lose weight and keep it off, its time to join the "witness protection program" for weight loss... Your new identity will put you on the path to a new body...

Overcoming Mistakes To Reach Your Weight Loss Goal

2011-08-24T07:34:00.000-07:00

It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce, which counts in reaching goals… Over the last two decades I have been asked hundreds of times, “What makes people successful in reaching their weight loss goals”? The answer has many factors to consider, but one, which stands out is how they deal with mistakes…

Mistakes either convict us or condemn, we choose which path they take… When we are committed to a belief, or in this case an eating lifestyle, the voice that directs us is our conscience… The conscience guides us to doing what’s right and warns us when we are tempted to do what we now believe to be wrong… In moments of weakness when we choose wrong, we are confronted with guilt… Is guilt a good thing or a bad thing? Again, this is a choice, and what separates the winners from the losers… The winners see guilt as a good thing, and it guides them back on the narrow path of doing what they believe is right…

In my weight loss concept, I teach my clients to stay in a normal blood sugar zone every four hours… This controls their hormonal response to their meal, and during those four hours, their muscles are well fed and their bodies stay lean… So what happens if we leave the zone? The simple answer is, return back to the zone in the next four hours… It reminds me of a former client, who brought me in a bumper sticker she made which said, “I am ALWAYS FOUR HOUR AWAY FROM DOING WHAT”S RIGHT”… She was a winner at losing…

Free From The Pain Of Yesterday

2011-08-19T12:02:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning with a tremendous pain in my back... I went to bed last night feeling physically fine, where did this pain come from? As I prepared to start my day, I decided I would call the doctor, the pain hurt so bad... When I arrived at work, I made a wiser choice... I sought The Great Healer God...

As I started to pray, I felt the Lord say, "I'm not going to heal your back... I already have... Then the power of God hit me... I was getting ready to ask for something, I already had... I had to make a choice... Speak words of life, or words of death... I choose life... It was amazing... The pain, which had come suddenly, left me just as quick...

The best part, God showed me where the pain came from... It was a hurt from my past, I allowed back in... Thats where the pain formed in back... Wow...

The Lord reminded me of these words, He had spoken to me... I breath My Life of tomorrow into your wound of yesterday… The hands of time will leave a scare… A touch of God will bring forth new life…

I encourage all my friends, we are free from the wounds of are past... Time is not a healer, God is... I speak the healer power of God will touch each of my friends and the chains of their past wounds are broken... God bless...

Is Something Missing From Your Weight Loss Plan?

2011-07-29T14:24:00.000-07:00

Is Something Missing From Your Weight Loss Plan?

Its hours after completing my last seminar… Over my career I have spoken over two hundred times, in front of audiences both large and small, corporations, municipalities, college campuses and hospitals… It is common during my presentation to ask this question… What is the only aisle in the grocery store, where the food comes with any instructions? I remind you, I have asked this question over two hundred times to thousands of listeners, and still to this day, no one has answered correctly… How could the answer elude us for such a long time? So when I posed the question today, I was not surprised in what I heard…

Let me ask you the reader, what isle am I talking about? If you answered the pet food isle, you are probably one of my clients… No one else seems to know it, but more importantly no one seems to care… There could no better example to explain the sad state of the weight loss industry…

I come back to my office and one of the commercials from one of the so-called icons in the weight loss business is basting away… Maybe I should not mention their name, no better yet let me shout their name, “NUTRI-SYSTEMS”, is saying no measuring, no counting, no check-ins… All the variable which lead to long term success, and their advertising it like its their advantage over everyone else… There are no one-size fits all approach to solve our countries weight problem…

Let me share with you this story… I have spent a career teaching, to lose fat, without losing muscle or reducing metabolism, you must control your hormonal response to the amount and quality of the foods you eat… This is easily done by being fitted to the foods based on your percent of body fat and activity level… You can even customize it to only the foods you like and those, which make sense to cerate a lifestyle around… To lose the weight as fat and keep it off, it must become your lifestyle… So in a counseling session I had several years ago, a potential client said to me, “I like what you have to say, it all make sense scientifically and I like your holistic approach but”… WE have all heard it, sounds like the answer I need but… I have heard but so many times, so what was her but? I could never weigh or measure food…

Now those of you who know me, know I’m not settling for her but, which you guessed it was causing her to have a “big BUTT”… So I started to redirect her, to why she needed to lose weight in the first place, when what seemed like a miracle happened… She noticed pictures of my two dogs, Cyrus and Shiloh on my desk… She asked, “Are those your dogs?”… They look amazing… After thanking her, she commented she also had a dog… I asked, “how old and what breed? She said, “he is German Shepard and five years old’… Now here’s where the miracle begins… I said, “How much do you feed him? She replied, “two cups in the morning and two cups in the evening”… I quickly responded, “do you ever give him one cup, or feed him once per day?” She said, “no never, the instructions tell me how much, and how often”… Then she became real quite and the epiphany took place… She realized she was willing to do something for her dog, she ignored for herself… The best part was when I asked her, “What shape was her dog?”… Her response, change her life, she said, “He is in great shape”…

She went on to reach her ideal weight and portioning her food was no longer a problem… So what’s missing from your weight loss plan? Learn to eat your meals in the right portion and the proper amount of times per day… Maybe at my next seminar, I will no longer have to ask what isle, when all isles you will have instructions for…

Keep Moving Forward

2011-07-21T11:15:00.001-07:00

I have a simple philosophy about life… God put my eyes in the front of my head, and He pointed my feet forward, because He intends for me to move forward… The windshield of our cars is large and the rear view mirror small… Why? We are meant to go forward, and keep from going back… There could be no getter example than managing our health and lifestyle…

Last week I wrote an article, “Better to Prepare than to Repair”… I felt very moved and spiritually lead to do so… It was a few days later, when a former client called wanting to meet… He sounded desperate… His identity is not important, because I meet so many, too many this way… He had just left his doctors office, and had received bad news… His total cholesterol was over 300 mg/dl, triglycerides over 500 mg/dl, and his fasting glucose over 300 mg/dl, and was being told he was now diabetic…

It had been since 2008, since I had worked with him, and I asked him to bring in his blood lab results… I meant his current results, but to my surprise, he brought the one from 2008, the year I had worked with him as well… He had not had his blood tested since 2008, because after our work together all his levels were in the normal range… He had reach his weight and body composition goal, and from a blood chemistry point of view, in perfect health…

What happened, what went wrong, how could he leave the narrow path of good health and lean body, to a wide road of overweight body and poor health? The answer is simple… He stopped preparing and was now in need of repair… As I commented earlier, this happens far too often…

When our appointment was over, and I had redirected him back onto the narrow path, a word rose up in my spirit… It is a very special word for me, and one I hope you the reader have an ear to hear… Why is it so special to me? It was the first word, I heard in the ear of my spirit, from the heart of our God… It would change my life, and has given me great purpose in helping the thousands in need of help…

So what did God say? These words are not recorded anywhere, for they were written on my heart, and are the spoken word of God… Those who know what I’m saying know them as Rhema words… Ready, so what did God say, “Now is a time of preparation, soon you will enter into this land, I have promised… I am burning up in you, everything not of me… Do not return to places, I have set you free from… As I draw you near to Me, the path of righteousness narrows, but do not be afraid for it is I who set you free”…

I still tremble when I think of this experience, and it happened over thirteen years ago… So what does this mean? God is saying prepare my people, so I don’t have to repair them… My people, are destroyed for a lack of knowledge, teach them what to do… Keep them from going back to their old un-healthy lifestyles… Build their faith and trust in Me, for I will complete in them, that which I began…

I know this will make many of my clients smile… For I have gained quite a reputation for taking my work very serious… Little did you know, who I was really being commissioned by…

Better to Prepare than Repair

2011-07-15T11:12:00.000-07:00

Food is Our Medicine - Part Two

Over two decades I have delivered a constant message to my clients. It is far better to develop a healthy lifestyle, which prepares our bodies and prevent disease, then to repair our bodies after disease. It makes more sense to eat foods to prevent disease, than to turn to them after disease. What truly amazes me,, is the healing power of foods. I have witnessed so many be healed of diseases caused by unhealthy lifestyle. The healing process, just takes longer, than if it had been prevented with a healthy lifestyle. There is no food source, which better represents disease prevention than dark colored fruits and vegetables.

Dark colored fruits and vegetables are part of the largest group of phyto-chemicals called flavonoids. They are characterized by dark colored fruits and vegetables and the best sources are, blueberries, strawberries, cranberries, bilberries, blackberries, apples, red and black grapes, eggplant, peppers, broccoli and onions.

There are more than 4,000 flavonoids and they are broken into subgroups called anthocyanidins, proanthocyanidins, polyphenolic acid, quercetin, ellagic acid and tannins. Studies show that dark colored fruits and vegetables are powerful anti-oxidants, some having fifty times the antioxidant activity of both vitamin C and vitamin E. Studies show that flavonoids in fruits and vegetables reduce the risk of arthritis, atherosclerosis, diabetes and cancers.

They protect the collagen protein in joints and blood vessels from free radical damage, which reduces edema, varicose veins and hemorrhoids. A recent study reported by Cornell University showed the flavonoid, quercetin found in apples could protect the brain against neuro-degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. This was a follow up to an earlier study at Cornell University by Professor Lee, who found that the photochemical in apples and berries has a stronger antioxidant protective effect than Vitamin C against colon and liver cancer cells. Blueberries have 40% more antioxidant than the next highest strawberries. Neuroscientist, James Joseph from Tufts University, discovered in addition to fighting disease and cancer, blueberries prevented short-term memory loss that accompanies aging.

Its time to prepare, than repair, and the best sources of prevention are right in the produce section of your local store. Make time for dark colored fruits and vegtables as part of your daily habit, and you won’t need to make time for repair.

Food is Our Medicine - Part One

2011-07-14T09:13:00.000-07:00

Over a twenty year career of helping thousands lose weight and develop a healthy lifestyle. The part which has kept me most excited is when the clients body is also healed in the process. God has equipped our bodies to heal themselves, and strange as it sounds much faster than they get sick.

Plants, like humans, are susceptible to disease and viruses and have developed their own protective substances, called phyto-chemicals.. Mounting research reveals many phyto-chemicals also protect humans from cancers and diseases. The following is a list of foods, which provide protective plant chemicals and the conditions they protect us from, and the research to support its claims.

Whole Grains - The best sources are wheat, rice, barley, oats and rye. Whole grains are the seeds of the plant and consist of an outer shell called the bran, the middle called the endosperm and inner called the germ. Whole grains are excellent sources of folate, B vitamins, magnesium, iron, copper, zinc, chromium, phosphorus and Vitamin E. Folate helps decrease levels of the amino acid homocysteine in the blood. High levels of homocysteine in the bloodstream are linked to risk of heart disease.

Whole grains contain phytochemicals called phytosterols, phenolic acid and lignans. Studies have shown that whole grains reduce the risk of several cancers and type II diabetes. They lower cholesterol, reducing the risk of heart disease and they reduce inflammation, lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease. In a recent study at the University of Utah, Dr. Martha Slattery found that high intakes of whole grains, especially high fiber cereals, reduced the risk of rectal cancer by 31%. A high fiber diet (more than 34 grams daily) reduced rectal cancer by 66%. In a recent study at Tufts University, Dr. Nicola McKeown reported participants who consumed at least three servings daily of whole grains are less likely to develop insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome which are precursors of type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Whole grains are an excellent source of fiber, both insoluble and soluble. In a resent study reported by Harvard School of Public Health, Doctor Qi and colleagues found that women with diabetes that consumed more whole grains, bran and cereal fiber had lower blood vessel inflammation that has been linked to heart disease.

The foundation of any healthy lifestyle should be balanced nutrition and whole grains playing a major role. Whole grains are excellent sources of B vitamins, which provide energy and help convert the foods we eat into energy.

Your Next Meal Can Heal You

2011-07-13T08:34:00.000-07:00

Over the last twenty years most of my time and energy as nutritionist, has been teaching thousands of my clients my unique concepts of losing fat, without losing muscle. Known to my clients as “The Fat Loss Coach”, I have developed a winning formula for losing. Sound strange turning winning into losing, but thousands of clients are living proof, we can lose the weight, without being tired, hungry or reducing metabolism.

So it should not sound strange when I say, “are next meal can also heal our bodies”. Bible scriptures from 3,500 years ago show man divinely inspired to write, "God would bless his food and water and take sickness from among them" (Exodus 23:25). As a nutritionist, I have witnessed thousands of patients be restored to health from disorders ranging from gastric disturbances, intestinal conditions, type II diabetes, hypertension, obesity and other diseases. By developing a healthy nutritional lifestyle we can bring a balance and harmony back to our human existence and it can begin with the next meal you eat.

To understand the healing power of your next meal, you must have a basic knowledge of the process foods we eat have on digestion, absorption and elimination. Digestion of carbohydrates begins in the mouth, both by mechanical breaking down of food and chemical digestion through the salivary enzyme amylase. In the stomach, gastric juices consisting of hydrochloric acid and pepsin start to digest proteins, and the partially digested food turns into a paste like substance called chyme. As the chyme is released into the small intestine, digestive bile from the liver, gallbladder and pancreatic enzymes, along with enzymes from the exocrine cells in the mucosa of the small intestine complete the digestion of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. The digested food is now absorbed by the intestinal wall lining called the villi and enters into the blood stream. The nutrient void food then moves into the large intestine, where there is an absorption of water and electrolytes and the formation, storage and elimination of feces.

I have walked you through the digestive process because maintaining good gastrointestinal and intestinal health depends on proper digestion. The following factors, eating slowly, regular scheduling of meals and balanced macro-nutrition (30% protein, 50% high fiber, low glycemic carbohydrates and 20% essential fatty acid fats), can restore health to the stomach lining and improve the detoxification function of intestines. This will prevent unnecessary entrance of toxins into the blood and maintain good colon health. Each healing meal should also provide essential micro-nutrients (vitamins, minerals, enzymes and important phytochemicals from plant-based fruits, vegetables and whole grains). These photochemicals, though classified as nonessential, are receiving much of the recent scientific research moving us from the mind-set of foods preventing deficiencies, to foods healing a disease and promoting longevity.

We must buy into the big picture, we are what we eat. This is well worth the work of food selection, portion and timing of meals. You will be in control of your body composition, and the next meal you eat, will start to heal your body.

Prayer and Meditation for Weight Loss

2011-07-12T16:26:00.000-07:00

As a nutritionist, herbalist and healing minister I believe the power to lose weight and be healed in the process is naturally within each of us. I encourage each of my clients why only rely on the natural, when they could have the supernatural. This supernatural power I'm speaking of in not found in religion, but in relationship with God. So how is this relationship developed? Like any relationship, with time and through prayer. Is the purpose for prayer to change God, or to change you? If you believe God is all knowing, all powerful, and all loving, the answer is clear, prayer is to change you. That is the final piece in is this puzzle of effective weight loss, if your overweight you must change.

Once I was praying with a client and the door to my office opened and quickly closed. A few days later I had heard back that someone had said, "His weight loss concepts are so hard, he has to pray in order for them to work." After hearing this I laughed and responded, "How quickly we can believe in a money back guarantee, but miss the supernatural guarantee, that with God all things are possible."

Many believe prayer to be communication with God. A time where the natural world connects with the supernatural. The question becomes, are you having a one way, or two-way conversation? Do you spend most of your prayer time informing an all-knowing God, what He already knows, or opening up your heart to hear His response? This is the mystery of God, are we waiting for God to act, or is He waiting for us to receive?

Western medicine until recently has ignored the importance of spirituality in the healing process. Though scientific studies and medical research still have natural limitation to prove the power of the supernatural, that gap is evaporating. Science is now quick to ask the question, "can faith heal?" As for millions of Americans, scientific verification isn't required. When interviewed Dr. Harold Koenig director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center was quick to point out, "praying for your health is one of the most common alternative treatments people do on their own. About 90 percent of Americans pray at some point in their lives. I think many people are convinced that prayer works. Otherwise, I don't think they would do it." Dr. Koenig said, His own research and recent studies by other universities have convinced him that prayer, much like diet and exercise has a connection with better health."

In a recent government nationwide survey, 36 percent of Americans over the age of 18 years reported to use some type of Alternative medicine. In the survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, questions on 27 alternative therapies, divided into provider-administered or self-administered were asked. The survey reported the 10 most popular alternative therapies and percent of Americans using them were:

Prayer for own health 43%
Natural products (Vitamins, herbs, enzymes) 19%
Deep breathing exercises 12%
Meditation 8%
Chiropractic care 8%
Yoga 5%
Massage 5%
Diet-based therapies 4%

Behavior Modification for Weight Loss

2011-07-12T08:36:00.000-07:00

Weight management isn't something you simply try to do, it is a lifestyle you develop as you become a healthier person. New eating habits must develop and mature into a way of life. Numerous studies show the highest success rate of individuals who lose weight and keep it off participates in behavior modification. The question becomes, what type of behavior modification works best?

In a study reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers lead by Rena Wing PhD., tracked 314 participants who had lost at least 10% of their body weight in two years. The participants were broken into three equal groups; one group received one on one counsel, the second on-line counseling, and the third, no counseling, but received a news letter on behavior modification. After 18 months of observation the results were reported. In the first group who had received in person counseling 45% had regained weight of about 5.5lb's. In the second group who had received on-line counseling, 55% had regained weight of about 10 lb's. The third group who had received no counseling, 72% had regained weight of about 11 lb's. The evidence is clear the best behavior modification is one on one counsel.

What components should one look for in a behavior modification program for effective weight loss and maintenance of weight loss? Most behavioral experts suggest one on one interaction. The materials used should challenge the participant's attitude to remain positive and visualize obtaining the desired results, before the physical manifestation of them. You should follow a system that requires both short term and long term goals. The goals should be both actions taken and results achieved. Participants should create an environment that welcomes support from family, friends and co-workers. You should commit to a schedule of check-ins creating accountability, first within the participant, and second to someone they view having authority.

The Quest To Reach Ideal Weight

2011-07-11T15:40:00.000-07:00

Becoming A Good Loser

It was late in the day and my next patient I would be meeting for the first time. As the woman entered my office upon introduction I was surprised by her response to my question of how she heard about me. She went on to say it was through an article she read in a regional newspaper about a coach who had become well known for getting his clients to become good losers. Once we had taken seats in my office I asked her, “What can I do for you today?” She answered, “Can you help me to lose weight?” My response stunned her, “Is that all you want me to do?” You see too many times a potential client is focused on getting started and not on what the finish will be. She went on to say that dieting had become a second career. She described herself being very good at losing weight, but no matter what diet she tried nothing worked for very long and the weight always came back, usually with a few extra pounds tagging along to make matters worse. She saw herself as weak, lacking in discipline and her self-esteem was in ruins. I admired her determination; here she was ready to try again, still hoping after all those years of failure. She said, “I’ve tried everything; there’s something wrong with me.” I responded, “There’s nothing wrong with you. You’ve been on diets that are wrong. We don’t fail at diets, diets fail us.

Over the last twenty years I have met thousands of people in the same fix. By the time they come to me, a nutritionist in private practice and known to my clients as The Fat Loss Coach, they have been on every diet imaginable. Their experiences have already proven that diets do not work, but they do not understand why. They come to me searching for a new diet, when what is really called for is a new lifestyle. Why do they need a nutritional coach? They have become good at being overweight and the beliefs and behaviors that support it. It takes more than knowing what to do; you must develop behaviors, which keep you doing what you know.

That was the reason I asked if losing weight was all, she wanted me to help her do. You see, losing weight alone is not enough. To do it right, we would need to make sure the weight she lost was fat, without the loss of lean muscle and bring balance to her metabolism. She commented, “I think my metabolism is dead.” After laughing, I responded by saying,” She would have to break away from the conventional wisdom, which I have proven is not very wise, metabolism is more than just burning calories. I explained, I would teach her the difference between anabolic and catabolic metabolism. In simple terms anabolic means the building up or repairing of tissue and catabolic refers to the breaking down of tissue. To reach her desired ideal weight she would need to learn how to balance both the anabolic and catabolic process. I pointed out, that each time she had lost weight by dieting; her body became stuck in the catabolic mode. Unfortunately, that is why all diets seem to work only in the beginning. The problem with her dieting, as she lost weight, was a loss of both fat and muscle. Muscle loss occurred because her metabolism became trapped in the catabolic phase. Her body was shutting down because it was being under fed. She was fighting against thousands of years of hormonal evolution, that when under stress of under-eating the body wants to store fat. I said, “You are fighting an opponent that is not easy to defeat, it’s a lot easier to work with your body’s chemistry than against it.”

Her next response told me she was starting to catch on. She said, “Are you telling me that I am an over-weight under-eater. I smiled and responded, “nine out of ten new clients I meet are just as surprised as you, when I tell them they are under-eaters not over-eaters.” She went on to say, I’m afraid to eat, I spend much of my day in front of a computer and I was worried that a job with a low physical activity meant I shouldn’t eat more than small amounts at a time and not very often”. I said, “foods not your problem, it will become your solution. I will teach you, the secret to managing your weight lies in three changes in eating behavior. To control your hormonal response you must eat the right type of food, in the proper portion, at least four times per day. This will control your blood sugar levels and the insulin, glucagons and cortisol response to what you eat. Like most clients, you are suffering from peeks and valleys in your blood levels. In peeks the pancreas releases too much insulin and the lean tissue or muscles are over-fed and the excess is stored as fat. In the valleys there is too little production of insulin and the lean tissue is now under-fed. This is what caused your desire for snacking during the valleys and your over-eating late in the day. When you eat too little amounts this increases the production of the hormone cortisol due to stress, which causes increased fat storage, combine this with increased insulin levels during peeks in blood sugar and the fat storage is mainly in the abdominal region.

Losing fat without losing muscle begins with not being too aggressive or extreme with your reduction of carbohydrates. You need carbohydrate management, not carbohydrate elimination. Carbohydrates must be controlled in two ways, first is the glycemic index, which refers to how quickly do the carbohydrate turn to blood sugar or glucose. Second is the glycemic load, which refers to how much glucose it turns into. Over the last thirteen years, working with more than 10,000 clients I’ve found by reducing carbohydrates by 20% of daily needs and within 48 hours replenishing the glycogen (glucose and water) in the muscle by eating 100% of daily carbohydrate requirements, allows for fat loss, without muscle loss. In essence you have two fat burning days, then a recovery day. By doing this you’ll have the best of both worlds. You will experience fat loss that averages between 1-2 pounds weekly, while muscles are being well fed. There will now be a balance between the anabolic, rebuild and repair, and catabolic, breaking down and elimination. The proper amounts of calories you eat on your recovery day will keep the dreaded plateau that most dieters experience.

Her final question was not surprising, she said, “this all makes sense, but how will I be able to keep off the fat I lose? I’ve never been able to keep it off.” My answer however took her by surprise. I said, “You don’t lose fat, you shrink it. You do not eliminate fat cells you make them smaller. If you think you lost something, then you don’t have to manage something you no longer have. That is why you have never made it your lifestyle.” Learning what to eat is half the mission getting to your ideal weight and staying there, you must also develop new eating habits that become your eating character. Managing your weight is a lifestyle, it’s someone you become, and not something you try. I will help you form the belief, discipline and passion to manage your new knowledge of eating. I have helped thousands become their ideal weight from the inside out. Working together we can get you to your ideal body composition by transforming your thoughts and disciplining your habits into a lifestyle.

Charles Remington
Nutritionist
2 Time Mr. Connecticut
http://www.thefatlosscoach.com/

About The Author
Charlie is the author of a nutritional software program that has sold over 100,000 units since 1995. He starred in a nationally broadcast television infomercial that in 1997 was recognized by the Jordan Whitney report as one of the twenty five popular infomerical’s in the U.S.A. Mr. Remington’s expertise and passion has been well demonstrated on several National Television talk shows, as well as regional news broadcasts. He has been the featured guest delivering his message that foods not the problem, it’s the solution over national and regional radio talk shows. He has been recognized in publications, radio and television as an expert in nutrition.

Exercise for Weight Loss

2011-07-11T13:58:00.001-07:00

If your 30 pounds or more overweight and have chosen exercise as your solution for losing weight and keeping it off your chances are only 1 percent. That is if you believe a study called the National Weight Control Registry, headed by James Hill PhD., and Rena Wing PhD. The study which consisted of 784 participants who had lost at least 30 pounds and had kept it off, for more than a year were tracked for similar behaviors. James Hill, one of the founders of the study was quoted saying, "We could identify few commonly shared features of how these people lost weight. The only common characteristic was, 89% of registry participants used both diet and exercise, only 10% used diet alone, and 1% used exercise alone." This supports numerous studies which show exercise alone is a poor solution for long term effective weight loss, however combined with proper diet is the only thing that seems to work. It like having the Yin, without the Yang, the two go together to have balance and make it work.

If you try to separate diet from exercise, it can negatively impact your health, even if you lose weight. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis lead by Dennis Villareal found that individuals who lost weight from diet, without exercise were more likely to lose bone mass. This study points out the importance of both diet and exercise for effective weight loss. It was theorized by the researches that the bone loss came from lack of sufficient nutrients to maintain strong bones and lack of physical stimulation to promote bone growth. Villarel was quoted saying, "Calorie restriction is beneficial, but if you don't combine it with exercise you lose bone, This can be extremely harmful, especially as we age, because the bone loss comes in areas the elderly are at highest risk of fracture; like upper leg, the spine and hips."

The evidence is hard to dispute exercise must be combined with balanced nutrition for effective weight loss. The question becomes, what type of exercise and for how long? The simple answer, the right type of exercise is the one you stay with. Most studies would support the most effective is cross training, one that combines resistance training and aerobic training. Surprisingly, it's not because cross-training offers greater weight loss results, than doing aerobic's alone. It's because cross-training offers a better type of weight loss ( without the loss of muscle) and broader range of health benefits, and minimizes more of the health risks, during the weight loss process. Of special interest, the longer into the weight loss process, more time should be allocated to resistance training than aerobic, which prevents or slows down the weight loss plateau. Most experts agree 30-60 minutes of exercise, and 3-5 times per week will get the job done

Keys to losing FAT without losing MUSCLE

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A study performed at the University of Connecticut showed that exercisers who switched from a balanced diet (proteins, carbohydrates and fats) to a low carb diet experience the following drop's in athletic performance. There was a 7 - 9 percent drop in muscle power and 6 percent drop in VO2 max of cardiovascular performance. Another factor to consider is the recuperation of muscle between workouts is decreased on low carb diets. So why would someone go on a low carb diet, especially when exercising? Because the initial weight loss that comes from the glycogen depletion is believed to be fat loss.

We have become so focused on weight loss, that any weight loss is seen as good. As identified earlier in this article glycogen is a mixture of glucose and water and the majority are stored where? You guessed it, the muscle. A large percentage of the initial weight loss is coming from muscle loss. I don't think any exerciser desires to have smaller muscles as a result of their exercising. The goal of exercise should be to improve body composition, the percentage or ratio of muscle to body fat. This can only be accomplished by losing fat without the loss of muscle tissue. Maintaining muscle mass is vital to sustainable weight control. The following steps will protect your muscles as you are losing fat, while reaching your ideal weight and ideal body composition.

1. Cycle fat burning days with recovery days.

The secret to losing fat without losing muscle starts with not being too aggressive or extreme with your reduction of carbohydrates. You need carbohydrate management, not carbohydrate elimination. Over the last 20 years, with more than 10,000 clients I've found by reducing carbohydrates by 20% of daily needs and within 48 hours replenishing the glycogen in the muscle by eating 100% of daily carbohydrate requirements, allows for fat loss, without muscle loss. In essence you have two fat burning days, then a recovery day. By doing this you'll have the best of both worlds. You will experience fat loss that averages between 1-2 pounds weekly, while muscles are being well fed. You never drastically deplete the glycogen stores in the muscle so athletic performance is not affected like on a low carb diet.

2. Exercise on days where you are receiving more carbohydrates.

Exercising on days where muscle are getting more carbohydrates for fuel and taking days off from exercise when you are being aggressive about fat loss. One of the most difficult thoughts for exercisers to accept is that most of the results from exercise come when we are not exercising. They come after we exercise and in direct response to how the muscles receive nutrition after exercise.

3. Exercise 1.5 - 2 hours after eating when blood sugar levels and insulin levels are slowly declining.

As insulin levels increase in response to a rise in blood sugar after a meal, the cells are in an anabolic state (receiving nutrients). Insulin is the hormone that feeds are cells. As blood sugar levels drop, insulin levels drop and the pancreas produces the hormone glucagon and nutrients stored in the fat cells are released to the blood and used for energy. The management of this blood sugar rise and drop is important. If blood sugar levels go to high insulin feeds the muscle cells and deposits excess into fat cells. If insulin levels go too low, the muscle cells are being under fed. A slow rise in blood sugar provides good nutrition to the muscles and a slow drop allows glucagon to take from the fat cells. Timing your exercise to this blood sugar decline allows the muscles to receive from the fat cells more effectively. It is important to never exercise without having at least one meal left in your day so that muscles can recuperate from exercise.

Exercise & Low Carb Diets Don't Mix

2011-04-28T09:17:00.000-07:00

Over the last twenty five years the most common questioned asked me by frustrated exercisers, has been what exercise routine will get me the body I desire? My answer is always the same. They need to start exercising better judgment and learn that exercise alone will not solve their body composition problem.

I believe the number one reason for starting an exercise program is weight reduction, even before fitness and health concerns. Exercise by itself is a poor weight manager and it increases the need for better nutritional requirements. I believe I would receive very little disagreement that a combination of nutrition and exercise is the answer to improvement in weight loss (fat loss), fitness and health risk concerns. With obesity reaching epidemic rates and the dropout rate of most health clubs remaining high this article intent is to lay the foundation why exercise and low carbohydrate diets are poor partners.

Over the last three decades I have seen extreme changes in the macro nutrients (proteins, carbohydrates and fats) combinations in our quests for the ideal body. Everything from high carbohydrate, low fat, high protein, to the current low carbohydrate craze has bombarded us, though the failure rates in managing our weight continue to rise. The problem lies in our bodies ability to adapt to change, especially extreme change. If your goal is to lose fat you must provide your muscle enough quality fuel without being over fueled. This is especially true if your goal to lose fat includes exercise. The secret is not found in elimination of macro nutrients, but in management of them. Understanding how to fuel your muscles prior to exercise sessions and replacing fuel after workouts is critical or your body will break down muscle for fuel.

Understanding how our muscles use the calories we eat as fuel for muscle contraction is the first step in knowing what to do and not to do. A basic nutritional knowledge tells us that proteins repair and rebuild cells, carbohydrates energize cells and fats provide hormonal foundation for cells. When we lack balance in protein, carbohydrates and fats are bodies adjust and can use all three as a source of fuel for muscle contraction and cellular energy. Though energy is needed for all cellular function, the focus of this article is muscle contraction and body composition. All muscle contraction derives energy from adenosine triphosphate or ATP. The primary source of ATP comes from glucose, which is stored in the muscles and liver as glycogen (glucose and water). Muscle contraction during anaerobic activity ( resistance training ) can use glycogen directly to form ATP. The process is anaerobic glycolysis, meaning it can use the glucose as energy with very little oxygen (90% glucose, 5% oxygen and 5% fatty acid). Our muscles only store enough ATP for short periods of muscle contraction, when depleted this leads to muscle failure. The rest period between weight training sets allows additional ATP to be produced. During early stages of aerobic exercise, ATP is again created primarily from glucose until the heart and lungs provide enough oxygen to the muscles to allow fatty acids to be used to create ATP. So there you have it during resistance training and the beginning stages aerobic training the primary source of fuel is glucose.

This supports my claim that low carb diets and exercise make poor partners. To uncover why, we need to quickly look at the concept behind low carb diets and how they work. Any diet that provides 100 grams or less of carbohydrate daily. This article classifies as low carb diet's. This will quickly deplete the glycogen stores in the muscle and liver. This by itself is testimony that our muscle's primary source of fuel is glucose. Fatty acids stored in the adipose tissue (fat cells) are now released into the blood and processed by the liver and some are turned into glucose (gluconegenesis) and some remain fatty acids and both provide ATP for muscle contraction. One of the byproducts of this process is ketone bodies which can provide energy to brain and nervous system. The problem gluconegenesis (non glucose turned into glucose) provides fuel to the muscle less efficiently than glycogenesis (glucose). The end result is increased muscle fatigue, decreased muscle power, which leads to poor athletic performance.

7 Reasons Why Low Carb Diets Can Be Harmful

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Obesity is reaching epidemic levels in America and is now the second leading cause of preventable deaths. The medical community used to see it as simply the result of poor eating habits or a lack of will power; now they are beginning to define obesity as a disease that poses a dire threat to our public health. Low carbohydrate diet's have become popular as the solution in our battle to lose weight. Unfortunately the human body is equipped to use carbohydrate as its' primary source of fuel. Sadly the latest low-carbohydrate fad diets are not the fuel the human body was designed to run on. Low - carbohydrate diets can cause several health concerns over time.

Here are the top seven:

Gout

Gout is a form of arthritis that occurs when excessive uric acid levels, start to crystallize in joints, leading to pain and inflammation. Uric acid is a waste product in the liver's metabolism of protein. Excessive amounts of protein may lead to an inability of elimination of uric acid. The FAT LOSS COACH recommends you should not to exceed 1-1.25 grams of protein per lean pound of body weight.

Kidney Stones

Kidney stones are hard masses that form in the kidneys when uric acid or calcium oxalate crystallizes and over time form stones. Insoluble fiber found only in carbohydrates reduces the absorption of calcium, which cause urinary calcium levels to drop resulting in prevention of kidney stone's formation. The FAT LOSS COACH recommends the consumption of 30 or more grams of fiber daily. This is not attainable on low carb diets.

Constipation and Poor Intestinal Health

To maintain good intestinal health our bodies require thirty or more grams of fiber daily. Fiber is divided into two types soluble and insoluble. Insoluble fiber is vital in formation of stools and decreases the time process of waste elimination. Low carbohydrate diets are too low in insoluble fiber and increase risk of constipation. Poor transit time of waste material increases risk of certain colon cancers. Insoluble fibers prevent the buildup of mucus on intestinal walls which lead to poor absorption of nutrients into the body. Low carbohydrate diets are inadequate to maintain good intestinal wall health. The FAT LOSS COACH program uses whole grains, oats, beans, fruits and vegetable which are rich in soluble and insoluble fiber. This lowers the risk for constipation, irritable bowel, diverticulitis, Crohn's disease, hemorrhoids and colon cancers.

Increases Risk of Heart Disease

Risk of heart disease increases on a low carbohydrate, low fiber diets. These diets promote excessive amounts of animal protein, cholesterol and saturated fat. Exuberant amounts of protein increase homocysteine, which is a bi-product of the amino acid methionine. Many experts believe that high homocysteine levels have many toxic effects which lead to increase risk of heart disease and hardening of arteries. Low carbohydrate, low fiber diets reduce the absorption and elimination of digestive bile in the intestines. Digestive bile is produced in the liver from cholesterol. A decrease in digestive bile production raises blood serum cholesterol levels which increases risk of heart disease. The FAT LOSS COACH recommends a nutritional balance. Unlike low carbohydrate diets the FAT LOSS COACH promotes nutritional balance providing 30% protein, 50% high fiber carbohydrates, 20% fat.

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is the reduction of bone density, due to the loss of calcium over long periods of time. Several dietary factors increase the risk of osteoporosis. When dietary protein reaches excessive levels, so does the loss of calcium in the urine. Most studies show that a life - long high protein diet results in an increase of osteoporosis. Poor intestinal health due to low fiber diets cause inadequate absorption of calcium in intestines contributing to poor bone formation. This would suggest that all low carbohydrate diets cannot become a lifelong lifestyle of eating. This is only one of many reasons why low carbohydrate diets provide poor Long Term Weight Control. Interestingly, a diet too low in protein can also increase risk of osteoporosis. There is no one size fits all when managing our weight. The FAT LOSS COACH recommends a balanced nutritional program. All FAT LOSS COACH programs are customized to the individual providing the right balance of protein, carbohydrate and fat.

Loss of Muscle and Reduced Metabolism

Any diet that applies the restriction of calories less than the body's daily requirements over long periods of time will result in the loss of lean muscle tissue and a decrease in the metabolism. All low carbohydrate diets are focused solely on weight loss. The loss of fat comes at a high cost, which is the loss of lean muscle. The loss of muscle reduces the resting metabolic rate, which is the major cause for rebound weight gain. Research shows 95% of all dieters' will regain that weight back. The FAT LOSS COACH Program is nutritional breakthrough. because of its three day eating cycle, called the GLYCO - CYCLE. The secret is we don't try to lose fat every day. That would result in losing muscle and reducing metabolism

Poor Exercise Performance and Recovery

Carbohydrates are the primary fuel for your muscles and brain. Eating a low carbohydrate diet prevent proper maintenance of muscle and liver glycogen ( storage form of carbohydrate and water ), decreasing muscle performance and increasing muscle fatigue. ATP is the main source of energy for all muscle contraction. When a muscle is used, a chemical reaction breaks down ATP to produce energy. There is only enough ATP stored in the muscle for a few contractions. More ATP is needed. There are three enzyme systems that can create more ATP. The three sources of ATP for muscle contraction are carbohydrates, fatty acids and amino acid proteins. Carbohydrates metabolize efficiently and are therefore used first. If carbohydrates are not available, your muscles metabolize fatty acids and amino acids as secondary sources of ATP. These secondary sources are not efficient, which consequently cause your strength and endurance to drop drastically. The FAT LOSS COACH is customized to your amount of muscle and exercise schedule. It provides 50% of your calories from high fiber, low glycemic ( turn into blood sugar slowly ) carbohydrates which are metabolized into muscle energy best. This will lead to increases in strength and muscle endurance.