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Healthy Eating

So You Want To Become A Healthy Eater? Read What Healthy Eating Really Is.

Healthy Eating

When you have enough of all the fad diets and miracle pills that do not work and realize that there is much more to weight loss plan then a weight loss diet program by itself.

First you would need to change you bad eating habits to a healthy eating habits. Now that requires some smart and well educated decisions about it.

Only then you can really understand what healthy eating really is and what it is not.

It’s not much about what food you can eat and what food you can’t eat. It’s not about calorie counting or other point systems many diets programs follow.

What you need to get i sthat healthy eating is all about having balanced nutritious meals at least three times per day (and that is a minimum).

You should be eating many different types of foods, not limiting yourself to one particular food type or food group and removing others from your menu list.

Imaging you follow let’s say Atkins Diet. Imagine that they tell you that Atkins Diet is really the healthy eating you can follow for the rest of your life.

They will put you on diet that will lack a lot of good carbs. Now carbs are needed for your brain to function properly and a great energy source.

So when you remove carbs, you will become cranky, you will have tough time concentrating and you would feel sleepy the whole day! Now you tell me if that is healthy eating or “un-healthy” eating.

And I do not want to pick on Atkins Diet Plan, but you should not restrict yourself when it comes down to healthy eating! And many Fad Diets will just do that.

Healthy eating is a way of life, it is not something that you go on for period of time. It is something you do and live every single day. Again  fad diets fall short on the lifestyle promise, because no one can follow diet for long period of time.

Thus weight loss diets can not become part of your lifestyle.

So if you are ready to make a change in your health, energy levels or any other lifestyle enhancing activity, healthy eating is a great place to start!

Good luck and all the best in achieving great wellness,

Brett Slansky

5 Excuses That Won’t Fly in 2009

Don’t Let These 5 Weight Loss  Excuses Your Brain Wants You To Believe To Slow Down Your Weight Loss Progress…
…Just Ignore Them!

5 Excuses That Won’t Fly in 2009

Holiday Eating

Damage Control For Holiday Eating “Accidents” (Part 1)
By Tom Venuto
www.BurnTheFat.com

Tom, If you accidentally pig out or over-indulge at a meal, (a Holiday party for example), are you better off skipping your next meal to keep your daily caloric intake on target, or should you just go ahead and eat your next planned meal and not worry about being somewhat “over” your planned calories for the day?

Michael
Wisconsin, USA

ANSWER:

Tom Venuto

Hi Michael, Thats a very good question, but I have to admit I did get a little chuckle out of the “accidental” part! Do you ever really “accidentally” eat anything? I think we are all responsible for everything we eat and how much we eat and until you consciously realize and accept this, and take the time to do some proactive meal planning, you will probably continue to have lots of “overeating accidents!”

To answer your question: after you overindulge, I definitely do NOT recommend skipping your next meal or skipping meals the next day to make up for it. I usually don’t even recommend cutting back either, although there may be exceptions where you could manipulate your meal size or macronutrient composition.

I generally recommend returning immediately to your “regularly scheduled meal programming,” because this continues to encourage the maintenance of positive habits such as eating 5-6 small meals every day.

I do suppose whether you cut back could depend on whether you’ve been on low calories a long time, how lean you were already, and on whether you were in a caloric deficit already. If you were in a calorie deficit for the day, then the extra calories might only bring you up to maintenance, not “over” your daily limit, which might not be as damaging as if you were in a calorie surplus.

If you were already very lean or had been dieting strictly for a long time (as in a bodybuilder coming off a competition), a large meal or entire high calorie day might not have any negative effect either. Your metabolism has a way of slowing down if you keep your calories too low 100% of the time.

With occasional (planned) higher calorie days, you’d be using the BURN THE FAT “zig-zag” or “cycling” principle, so eating more in this context can be a positive thing. (Note: You can learn more about this technique in the BURN THE FAT program at www.burnthefat.com).

However, there’s a big difference between a planned “cheat meal” or a planned high carb, clean food “re-feed” day and a binge on junk food.

Regardless of total 24 hour calorie intake for the day, you could still store body fat after heavy eating if it’s done at certain times and in a certain metabolic state.

Although I do prescribe calorie levels based on daily (24 hr) needs, I believe you should also pay attention to 3 hour “windows” when you’re thinking about adjusting your caloric intake.

Calories and macronutrients (protein/aminos, carbs/sugar and fat) are partitioned into glycogen, muscle or fat tissue or burned immediately depending very much on present moment energy and recovery needs and on what’s going to happen over the next 3 hours or so as the food enters your system.

So, if you’re going to be plopping down on the couch to watch football games for the rest of the day and night after that big holiday meal, beware – you might just want to cut back on that next meal a little, especially starches and sugars.

Bottom line: It’s okay to eat small amounts of your favorite junk foods once in a while as planned “free meals,” and it’s a good idea to eat more in general from time to time to keep your metabolism humming along.

However, your best bet if you’re really serious about fat loss is to avoid huge meals and avoid bingeing in the first place. ALWAYS practice portion control – even on holidays.

If you ever do slip, don’t beat yourself up, just get right back on the wagon with your next meal and remember, the past is behind you and today is a new day.

Your friend and coach,

Tom Venuto, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
www.BurnTheFat.com

P.S. If you’re interested in burning fat naturally in a healthy, sensible way, then be sure to take a look at Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle – it’s the best place to start your journey: www.BurnTheFat.com

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South Beach Diet Explained

Discovering The Simple Truth About
South Beach Diet

There are many of my clients constantly asking me about South Beach Diet. There is always buzz in the media or from their friends and they just want to know the simple truth about South Beach Diet.

South Beach Diet was developed be cardiologist named Dr. Arthur Agatson. He wanted to help his patient to improve their heart health and overall wellness levels.

I guess that Dr Agatson saw the major flaws of Fad Diets (like I do) and realized that  dieting in the terms of removing food groups from your menu or skipping meals is not healthy way to lose the unwanted pounds.

After researching how “bad carbohydrates” and bad fat choices impact human body, Dr. Agatson decided to design a new approach to the word of Diet.

What I like about the South Beach Diet is that you do not need to weight your food portions, you do not need to count calories or deprive yourself from eating like many other “fad diets” will teach you.

South Beach Diet will teach you how to choose the “right kind of carbohydrates”, healthier fat and other menu building tricks.  So you will eat at least 3 meals a day. If you are skipping meals currently, you need to change your eating habits, otherwise South Beach Diet (like any other weight loss diet) will not work for you!

Another thing is that many people have the idea that just going on the diet will help them to achieve their weight loss goals.

That is totally wrong thinking!

If you are among those people and think that just going on South Beach Diet will give you the 6 pack abs, transform your big body to a beautiful slim model figure, you will just fool yourself…

Please understand that there is no diet that will do that!

Do not believe me? Well, I have this challenge for you. Just go on South Beach Diet (or whatever diet you want), eat the way they tell you and see how long you can actually follow the diet. And how much pounds of fat did you actually lose.

So do not forget to measure your fat before you go on the diet, ok?

I guarantee you will quit within the first 6 weeks, having no real fat loss (maybe you lose some water or muscle weight) and being a bit frustrated.

Usually when this happens you will feel like a big failure, but I am here to tell you that you are not a failure. You did notr fail! But the weight loss diet you have followed has failed you!

You see, in order for you to lose the unwanted pounds of fat, you need to do much more then just go on a weight loss diet.

You need to completely change your old eating habits to a new, healthy eating habits and not only that. You will need to learn how to deal with stress, how to exercise right to actually burn the fat off and build muscles, which in return will burn more fat.

Only then you can and you will achieve the six pack beach body you’ve always wanted.

It will not be easy, but nothing what works is that easy. All I know that you can do it. I’ve helped so many people to achieve that, they could not even believe it themselves. But as soon as they started to believe, a miracle happen – they started to changing their lifestyle habits and got a great results.

Of course  do not say that South Beach Diet is not good or that South Beach Diet does not work. All I am saying that to go on South Beach Diet and think that you will become Super-Model is false!

Have a great day and please come back for more information about why you need to stop dieting and start living a lifestyle for the maximum fat loss and health.

Yours Truly,

Brett Slansky
Weight Loss Diet Killer

Pro Bowl Time

What Exactly Has Pro Bowl Time
To Do With Fat Loss?

Amazing! So many people in US want to know what is the Pro Bowl Time“junk food” 2009! I have seen people getting crazy for this event. Buying all kinds of like burgers with fries, tomato pies, sausages (mix of meat you do not even know where it came from), pizza and cheesy bread with buffalo wings and of course…

…lots of cans of “American Beer”...

What a great way to lose fat. I am calling the Pro Bowl Time 2009 the “official fat day” for all Americans following the sport.

Pro Bowl Time 2009

What amazes me is that Football is a sport and sport for me is always associated with – “health, fitness, wellness or flexibility, muscles, cardio, power and strength”…

Yet many people would rather watch the Pro Bowl time then just putting on a Football uniform, gear and ball and actually go out and do it!

I have to laught at this. Now I have nothing against “American Football” – do not get me wrong!

But don’t you think that the “Pro Bowl Time Fat Diet” will improve your health? Will it help you to lose some fat? Would it build your more muscles, make you more flexible, fast and powerful?

Well, I know you are smart and I can hear you yelling at me a resounding:

NO!

But, if you actually go and play “American Football” at least two times a week I bet you would build more muscles, burn fat like crazy and who knows… your six pack will appear instead of your “love-handles”…

It’s your choice now! Do you wanna watch Pro-Bowl-Time 09 or are you going to do it yourself? Do something you love and your health would increase dramatically.

Think about it. May be next time you would play in your own Pro-Bowl-Time…

Have a great and official “Pro Bowl Time Fat Day”,

Brett Slansky
Your Fat Loss Weight Management Advisor

Fad Diets

Two Major Reasons Why Fad Diets
Do Not Work

Have you ever seen popular magazines on a newstands? Majority of them
have some well thought headline on their cover - “Skinny And Toned For This Summer” or “How To Lose 35Lbs With This Nutrition Bar” or “Get Ripped, Show Your Six Pack And Say Goodbye To Your Love-Handels” etc, etc…

All these are just brainwashing you, the general public, about some new
fad diet craze.

Now I have promised myself to take an action step, that will help you spot
Fad Diets in a second. That will prevent you from yo-yo-dieting or frustration many of these fad diets put on your shoulders.

Reason No. 1 Why Fad Diets Do Not Work:

This one is just common sense. Look around you! Do you see fat people walking around? Now look at how many fad diets are out there – Zone, Atkins, South Beach Diet, Nutra-System, La Diet, Jenny Craig Diet and thousands of others.

Now, if there are thousands of fad diets on todays market place, don’t you think that you should see less and less fat people around?

It would make sense, but the opposite is true. For which my common sense responds, that fad diets do not work! If they would, you would see skinny people all day long.

Reason No. 2 Why Fad Diets Do Not Work:

This reason is more science based. Many fad diets will want you to drastically cut down on calories, will remove certain food groups from your list and let you starve!

That is not healthy way of eating. Why? Well, if you starve yourself, your body naturally responds and your inside mechanism switch to a fat storage mode.

It’s unconscious and you can not do anything about it when it happens. Basically your brain thinks that you do not have extra food, like from the times of famine and to  protect itself it starts to collect as much fat as possible. This fat is supposed to keep you going a bit.

You see, your brain doesn’t know that you live right next to the supermarket, it does not recognize that you starve yourself “willingly” based on a fad diet.

So what is your goal?

First, you really do not want to follow any fad diet out there, and I do not care what the “diet guru” who came up with that fad diet says.

Second, you want to make sure that you never put your body into that “unconscious starvation mode” switch.

And when you combine that with a regular exercise, like walking, swimming, weight-lifting or what ever exercise you like, you will start seeing dramatic results in terms of healthy fat loss.

Remember: stop looking for a fad diets and change your lifestyle habits to become healthier you again.

Low glycemic index foods list diets

Why Is Glycemic Index Load – Low Glycemic Index Foods List The Only Healthy Food List You Need To Follow To Burn Fat

Glycemic Index Load - Low glycemic index foods list diets book review:

Today I am going to do review of this tiny, in-expensie, but powerful book if  you really want to start burning fat everytime you eat.

It’s called The Transitions™ Glycemic Index Food Guide and this nutrition guide provides both the glycemic index and the glycemic load of hundreds of popular foods and beverages.

It makes foods easy to find by listing them both individually and under helpful categories, including tips to guide you towards the best food choices within a category.

Use at home or on the go as your first resource whenever you want to select a food that can help you reach your weight loss, health and dietary goals.

If you were searching for:

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Your search is over. In this glycemic index book review I talk about one source for low glycemic index food list, glycemic diet tips etc…

And you will understand glycemic index right away.

The guide provides ethnic food lists for use at restaurants and presents easy-to-understand explanations of glycemic index, glycemic load, and other important terms.

The guide answers the most commonly asked questions about carbohydrates, blood glucose, and the glycemic index.

Whether you are interested in controlling your glucose levels to lose weight, promote your heart health, boost your level of energy, or simply support your overall well-being, Transitions Low Glycemic Index Food Guide And Lifestyle System is the perfect place to start.

How an Entire Year Could Go By With No Results
By Tom Venuto
www.BurnTheFat.com

QUESTION: Dear Tom: I’ve been going to the gym for the past year now, but I have only lost 2 pounds. I eat about 1800 calories a day and I do 3 cardio and 3 weight training sessions a week. I am 5 feet 5 inches and 128 lbs. I would like to be at 120 lbs.

To lose 8 more lbs isn’t a lot to ask, but I’m really frustrated. I’ve been VERY persistent, and I rarely cheat except once each weekend, but at this rate, it will take me another 4 years for me to reach my goal! Please help!

Vicky

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle

Why Is Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle The Best Selling E-Book In Internet History, With Thousands Of Satisfied (And Now Fat-Free) Users In 133 Countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe?

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle

Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle is the #1 best selling diet and fitness ebook in the history of the Internet. In fact, it’s one of the best selling e-books on ANY subject in the history of the Internet -… And there’s a reason why…

It’s because thousands of women and men of every age are burning off BODY FAT – not muscle or water weight – and they’re doing it naturally, without supplements, pills or “magic potions,” simply by using the proven, scientifically-accurate and common-sense advice found inside this amazing diet and fitness guidebook.

Tom Venuto, a respected fat loss expert, natural bodybuilder, and personal trainer, has not just pumped out yet another “diet program” into an already over-saturated market. Tom’s Burn the Fat can be more accurately described as a “Fat Loss Bible.” It is quite simply one of the most complete, detailed, and precise guides to fat loss you will ever read.

What makes it so much different than other weight loss publications on the market?

Well first of all, it’s not a “weight loss” program, it’s a “fat” loss program. This may seem like semantics or wordplay at first, but once you’ve read just the first three chapters, there will be no doubt in your mind that pursuing “weight loss” is not only the wrong goal, it may be the reason that you’ve failed to reach and maintain your ideal body weight.

Burn The Fat shows you exactly why it’s fat you must lose, not “weight” (which includes muscle, water and other lean tissue) and then goes on to show you exactly how to do it.

Secondly, what makes Burn The Fat different is the amount of attention that is paid to each and every element of successful, healthy, permanent fat loss.

Burn The Fat not only thoroughly dispels the lies, myths and fallacies surrounding a very confusing subject, it is simply the most detailed book about fat loss ever written.

By reading Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, (or better yet, “studying it”), you will learn more about fat loss than you could from an entire semester of nutrition classes or from an entire shelf of maintstream diet publications at your local bookstore.

You may be wondering, “Is this a low carb diet? A high protein diet? A high fat diet? what type of program IS it???”

The truth is that Burn the Fat is neither a high protein diet, or a low carb diet. That’s because with the information in this book, you will be able to easily determine your own ideal protein, carbs and fats ratio.

You will be able to analyze your body type (are you an endomorph, ectomorph, or mesomorph?), you will determine your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate, or the amount of “maintenance” calories your body requires every day), and you will find out whether you are carb tolerant or carb intolerant.

This personalized approach makes perfect sense because each of us is a unique individual and no two people are exactly alike in terms of body physiology and personal goals.

One of the most powerful chapters in the book is the first one called, “How To Set Powerful, Compelling Goals That Will Propel You Forward and Charge You Up with Unstoppable Motivation.” In this chapter, you will learn what is probably the ultimate secret to burning fat and getting in shape… and it has nothing to do with diets, supplements or training programs.

There’s also a great quote in this chapter from the legendary Green Bay Packers coach, Vince Lombardi…

“The dictionary is the only place success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must all pay for success.” That line does a nice job of expressing the “no quick fix” philosophy behind the entire book.

In the rest of the book, you’ll learn the complete and exact mechanics of fat loss – explained on both a scientific and a practical level (which you can easily apply in your own daily life in terms of what to eat and how to exercise to burn fat).

If there is any drawback to the Burn The Fat ebook, it’s that it contains so much information, that some readers may find it a bit overwhelming. Those who are looking for a “cliff’s Note’s” quick start type of fat loss program, might be a bit intimated at first.

The good part however, is that even these types of readers can feel confident and assured that it will be worth the effort because this will literally be the last book they ever have to buy on the subject.

Who will benefit most from Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle?

In the broadest sense, anyone and everyone who needs to lose weight will benefit from Burn The Fat. Men, women, bodybuilders, fitness enthusiasts, and especially motivated individuals and avid readers will love this book. Although it was written by a bodybuilder, this book is certainly NOT just for bodybuilders.

You will find no “30 lbs. in 30 days” miracles at work here. It’s all about intelligent eating choices, planning, hard work and lifestyle change. As Burn The Fat author Tom Venuto says,…

“Burn the Fat is simple, but it’s not easy.”

In terms of graphic design, Burn the Fat is a clean and professionally formatted PDF e-book. It’s a little on the plain side, being just text, but that makes it ideal for printing and reading in the comfort of a favorite chair. Because of it’s size, it does require a robust printer and a good stack of paper.

Initially, some people thought that Burn the Fat was priced a little on the high side because $39 might seem like a fair chunk of money for an ebook download. However, after they saw the amount of information contained within Burn The Fat’s 340 pages, along with the special bonus ebooks and reports that come with it, they said it was not only worth the $39, but many times that amount.

As with any how-to publication, you’re not really paying for the materials used to compile the document, but for what the information can do for you, and clearly, this publication has changed many lives and the hundreds of testimonials and success stories found on the Burn The Fat website are proof of that (I recommend you take a look at that “testimonials” page on the Burn The Fat website because some of the before and after transformations are simply incredible – as well as inspiring).

The Bottom line?

Anyone looking for a quick fix solution to fat loss, anyone looking to be told fairy-tales, and anyone looking for a “magic bullet” offered by the likes of body wraps, fat burning pills, diet shakes, or “fat-burning” creams and gels might be best advised to steer clear of Burn the Fat.

On the other hand, anyone tired of “spinning their wheels” going nowhere, who wants the truth about fat loss and who is ready and willing to put in the hard work and discipline and make the lifestyle changes necessary to get a fat free body, will find Burn The fat to be one of the best investments they ever made in their lives. Click here to learn more about Tom Venuto’s Burn the Fat

Tom Venuto

I really think that Tom Venuto is as close to my “healthy weight loss without dieting” philosophy as possible. Therefore I recommend to read his Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle book to all my clients and now to all readers of my stopdietingbotcamp.com blog. Of course, if you still want to yo-yo-diet and spend hundreds of dollars per year on fad diets, you really do not need to read this awesome book.

I wish you good luck to your dream body,

Brett Slansky
Your Healthy Weight Management Coach

Healthy Eating

Do You Still Think That Diet Is The Same Thing
As A Healthy Eating?

Do you? Well I hope that information on this page will change your mind very quickly. Because diet and healthy eating habits are just two completely different things.

So what is a diet?

Diet is a simply stated a way of eating! Diet is not something you go to lose weight as many people believe. And I do not blame them. The media used the word “Diet” and made it as a synonymum for “losing weight” -  and I am here to challenge the media, expert authors or whoever tries to convince you that you will lose weight on a diet.

Now, what is your diet? Well, take a pen and paper right now! Go and take a look inside your fridge and write down what do you see.

Do you see fresh fruits, vegetables, lean chicken breasts, fish etc…? Or
do you see cans of fruits, frozen vegetables, burgers, sausages and a piece of McDonald Cheeseburger from your last lunch?

Think about what you have just done for a moment.

Now. Conclude your own resolution.  Is it healthy eating what you are doing? Or is it not healthy eating, based on what you saw in your refridgerator?

Now, which one is a diet? Clue: Both!

One is good diet, or “healthy eating diet”. The second one is what I call “junk diet” and it is not healthy, but it is a form of a diet!

So all you have to do is change your healthy eating habits! And your own body will do all the rest by itself. No need to count your calories, remove certain foods from your diet or taking some “miracle weight loss pill”.

What Is Healthy Eating?

I am glad you asked!

Healthy eating is a simply balanced diet which includes all the nutrients necessary for your body to function at your maximum best potential.

Healthy eating will consist of consuming protein, healthy carbs, fiber and pytonutrient rich fruits or vegetables. When all mixed together, your plate will look nice and fresh. The best part of this healthy eating habits is that you will be eating foods you normally eat anyway. But this time we will change it a bit.

I hope you got the basic idea I am trying to get inside your head. It is a “secret” many gurus will not tell you (because they will be not able to sell you on somethig, losing your money…psssst I did not tell you this, ok?)…

Inside this blog, you will get many ideas about healthy eating, what are the good carbs and bad carbs, healthy recipes etc…

So if you really want to change you eating habits, burn fat like never before – I urge you to visit this Stop Dieting Bootcamp very often. The easiest way would be to submit to my RSS feeds…Just a suggestion

To Your Healthy Eating Habits Change,

Brett Slansky
Your Healthy Weight Management Coach