[ Note: This article was written by my friend Jon Benson the author of the only diet and nutrition plan i will ever use or promote. I have his permission to share it with you. ]

I took a big, huge, massive sigh of relief today.

Finally… the FDA did something right when it comes to bogus “magic” diet-fatburn pills.

A panel of experts reviewed Vivus Inc.’s new wonder-pill “Qnexa” today.

They gave it the thumbs-down.

Why?

Oh… pesky little reported side-effects like… (are you ready for this?)…

Heart Attacks
Stroke
Increased Risk of Suicide (yikes!)
Memory/Concentration Loss

You know… “minor” stuff like that.

GEEZ. What the hell are these drug companies thinking?

Oh, right…

Quick-Fix =
Big-Bucks

Got it.

So, I am going to believe that YOU are much smarter than the morons who tried to get this drug past the FDA.

I’m going to assume you want a solution to this obesity pandemic and your own fatloss issues (if you have them) that do NOT involve risking your life for a thinner you.

“Oh, Marge… she looks so thin in her casket…”

THIS IS NOT A GOOD EULOGY! : )

Listen: I get it. I really do.

I’m an athlete and we are always looking for tricks to help increase our performance. But your body is simply too smart for these fatloss-pills people are trying to pass off as “a break-through medical discovery.”

Nonsense… more like heart-breaking medical waste of time.

One day… perhaps even in my lifetime… someone will invent a chemical that actually works to shed bodyfat without harming the body. That will be a great day for all of us.

Even so, I can all but promise you that this chemical will have its nasty side-effects and/or be limited in duration or power.

Nothing, repeat NOTHING you can pop in your mouth will give you the JOY that managing your dietplan and bodyweight can give you.

NOTHING!

It’s one of the greatest feelings in the world.

And here’s a fantastic clue for you: The reason we want to be thin is because of the FEELING it gives us. Most everything we do is based on feelings.

Quick-fixes negate the most powerful thing about feelings: Earning the right to have them!

Think of it this way: Would you feel more alive and powerful if you climbed a mountain or if you took a helicopter ride to the summit?

Sure, the helicopter is easy… but which is more personally rewarding?

Think of your own body transformation goals as your personal mountain to climb.

No helicopters… just really good guides (I volunteer) and solid climbing tools (like a great real-world dietplan, solid workouts that work WITH your schedule, and realistic but exciting goals.)

Your goals will become your base camps along your summit of your personal journey to the best you possible.

Color me silly, but I think that sounds FAR more empowering and rewarding that popping pills.

As you probably know I wrote one of the top books in the world on “real-world” weighttloss (spelled that way so the spambox won’t eat your email… : ) I made this dietary System as easy as possible… but NO plan is “easy” and there is NO quick-fixes out there without serious pricetags.

That said, I have some “rebel tricks” to share with you today… and they won’t put you six feet under before your time.

Just click on the page below and then click on “Articles”… then you’ll see it. It’s the first article, “3 Diet Secrets Revealed”.

Go here:

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You can’t sell this stuff in a bottle… but it works to get the bodyfat off and keep it off.

Remember:

Don’t Quit… Get Fit.

Sincerely,

J O N B E N S O N

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P.S. If you pick up my dietplan (on the article page above) you’ll find in the Member’s Area three supplements that actually DO work to help you burn-off-fat… but they do not work like magic. They work like they’re supposed to: Realistically, and without harming your body. I take them. So should you.

[ Note: This article was written by my friend Jon Benson the author of the only diet and nutrition plan i will ever use or promote. I have his permission to share it with you. ]

Another good article appeared today in the fitness section of MSNBC.

Since you’re busy, I’ll do a quick summary of the article — the good stuff, the bad stuff, and what you need to do today to get started…

First, you need to know this…

And this will probably shock you…

Rarely, if EVER, do you need to suppress your appetite!

The real secret is to increase your metabolism… the rate at which your body uses food for fuel.

Then being hungry is a good thing… as long as you’re eating the right foods at the right time.

My “Favorite Foods” plan is a great way to do this…

My “Favorite Foods” Dietplan revealed <== click.

But let’s say you want to curb your appetite at night…. that’s the time most people really lose it on a dietplan. Even on a plan that ASKS you to eat frequently like mine, there are times where night-time cravings need to be put to sleep.

So use these tips from the article to ease the urge to eat at night:

1. Protein First

As I say in my dietplan, “Rise and shine with protein.” What does this have to do with night-time cravings you ask?

Everything.

Set the body up to use your own fat-stores for fuel by eating protein in the morning and your appetite FOR fatty foods goes way down during the day and the night. Protein is “thermogenic”, meaning it helps increase your metabolism. It also acts as a natural appetite regulator.

Notice I said “regulator” and not “suppressant.” That’s because you only need to regulate your appetite, no matter how much bodyfat you desire to drop.

I show you how here:

My “Favorite Foods” Dietplan revealed <== click.

Cool, right?

2. Go For The Grapefruit

In a study at the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, people who ate half a grapefruit with each meal lost an average of 3.6 pounds in three months. That doesn’t sound like a lot (and it isn’t) but that’s ALL they changed.

It doesn’t matter for our purposes… we want to lower insulin at night. Why? Insulin is not only dangerous for your health in excess but it also can cause a LOT of fat storage if secreted too much at night. Enter the lowly grapefruit.

A great snack, especially if you have a few bites of lean protein with it.

3. Smell This!

This is a trick I didn’t know about until recently.

Smelling food can trick your brain into thinking you’ve eaten.

A recent study found that those who inhaled peppermint in scent form every 2 hours at (get this) 2700 calories LESS per week than they normally did.

Let me put that in perspective: That’s a fatloss of more than half a pound a week… from sniffing peppermint!

Vanilla also works. You can keep vanilla-scented drops or even candles around the office and take a wiff every few hours.

How easy is that?

The Bad Part

The MSNBC article goes on with advice like “eat potatoes” and “eat just a little bit of fat”, both of which are nonsense.

Potatoes may fill you up, but they are still starch – and starch should be consumed on your “off” days.

Potatoes are especially bad due to the higher-than-desired glycemic index of 85 (anything over 50 is too high.)

You also need dietary fat… and not just “a little.” You need a moderate amount to stay healthy and keep insulin regulated.

Olive oil and even coconut oil are excellent sources, as are naturally occurring fats in fresh fish, grass-fed beef, farm-raised chicken and whole eggs.

The rest of the article is common sense stuff: Workout, eat dense food that requires you to chew a lot (tire out the jaw muscles and you naturally eat less), etc.

The top 3 are the real winners.

[ Note: This article was written by my friend Jon Benson the author of the only diet and nutrition plan i will ever use or promote. I have his permission to share it with you. ]

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One of the most common questions I get asked is:

“What should I eat before my workouts if I want to get rid of bodyfat?”

The answer?

NOTHING.

I’ve been saying this for almost a decade now… and research is catching up with the idea.

It’s nice to be right. : )

Several studies now confirm that exercising while your body is low on food may be a good way to trim excess fat.

European researchers found that cyclists who trained without eating burned significantly more fat than their counterparts who ate. Now, this is important: Cycling requires a LOT of energy. Far more energy than you need to get rid of bodyfat.

Working out with weights and doing moderate to intense (but short) cardio will take care of 99% of your needs when it comes to fatburning.

But with weights, and espeically with the cyclists that were tested, performance may be an issue.

In fact the members of the group of cyclists that didn’t eat performed worse on the intensive training. Still, they burned a higher proportion of fat to carbohydrates than the group that ate. (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.)

Why? Simple. Your body’s blood sugar is lowest in the morning prior to eating. When you train, moderately or with intensity, most of your fuel comes from your bodyfat and NOT ingested carbs. Isn’t that cool?

Which would you rather burn… bodyfat or carbs?

Yeah, me too. : )

About performance: I have found that my performance only suffers slightly when fasting and training for the first few weeks. After that my performance increases. The body starts to burn its own bodfyat far more efficiently so I find I have PLENTY of energy.

This was not a lone study on fasting and training. In a 2008 study, Hespel and colleagues tested the effects on men who did endurance training without eating versus those who ate. In the athletes who hadn’t eaten, the researchers found a spike in the amount of proteins needed to process fat, meaning their bodies had been primed through fasting to get rid of more bodyfat.

So, now you know the answer to the old question: “What should I eat before training?”

Nothing… or as little as possible.

In my next email I’ll tell you what to eat AFTER your workouts to REALLY jack your fatburning through the roof…

… and no, it’s not “nothing”. It’s something special. ; )

P.S. If you want the best diet possible to turn your body into a fat-burning machine along with my personal workout plan for fasting cardio… and a plan that works in your favorite foods too … then look no further than this:

My Favorite Foods Dietplan <== click here

For years, involved customers and watchdog organizations are screaming {that the} U.S. labeling laws are full of loopholes and in would like of significant revision. After years of speak, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says they’re planning to thus something about it. But can it be enough?

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There are various food labeling issues we have a tendency to could complain concerning, but one of the biggest issues (thanks to its direct relationship to the corpulence crisis) is serving sizes.

I’m not simply talking regarding supersizing. What’s worse is that the actual calories are being disguised with serving size sleight of hand.

Let me demonstrate you some examples:

Tostitos touch of lime. Calories per serving: 150. Not too dangerous for tortilla chips, eh? Not therefore fast. Check that serving size: 1 ounce. That’s a whopping half-dozen chips. There are ten servings re container. That’s 1500 calories within the bag.

Most guys might knock off 0.5 that bag for a cool 750 calories. Ok, suppose you’ve got some control and you merely eat a third of the bag (20 chips). You continue to get 500 calories. But who stops at 6 chips?

Supplement Water. While I may rant regarding how sugar water is being marketed as health food, I’ll stick with the serving dimension sleight for now.

The sticky tag says there are 50 calories regarding serving. Wow, only fifty calories! Plus they add all those vitamins. Should be smart for you and good for dieters, right? Think again. Observe the serving size and servings per container: eight oz re serving and 2.5 servings per container.

Excuse me, but is there ANY reason for making it 2.five servings other than to disguise the actual calorie content?

When you see that the entire bottle is twenty ounces, you realize that it contains 125 calories, not 50. Although 20 ounces may be a giant bottle, I don’t recognize several guys who wouldn’t chug that whole thing.

Sobe Lifewater? Same trick in their twenty ouncesbottles.

Healthy Choice soup, country vegetable. They make these in convenient very little microwavable containers with a plastic lid. Simply heat and eat.

It says 90 calories and 480 mg of sodium re serving. Wow, but a hundred calories. Wait a second though. Flip the container around and you see the serving size is 1 cup and so the servings re container says “concerning 2.”

Huh? It looks pretty obvious to me that this microwave-prepared container was designed for 1 person to eat in one sitting, thus why not just put one hundred eighty calories per container on the label (and 960 mg of sodium). I guess ninety calories and 480 mg sodium sounds… well… like a healthier choice!

Ben and Jerrys chocolate fudge brownie ice cream.

This infamously delicious ice cream with its own facebook fan page has 270 calories regarding serving.

We generally tend to all recognize ice cream is loaded with calories and ought to only be an occasional treat, but 270 calories regarding serving, that’s not too terrible is it?

Look a little closer at the ticket. The serving size is ½ a cup. Who eats a 0.5 a cup of ice cream? After all, who hasn’t polished off an entire pint by themselves? (the “comment confessional” is below if you’d prefer to answer that)

According to Ben and Jerry, there are four servings in that one pint container. 270 calories times 4 servings = 1080 calories! That’s concerning [*fr1] a days worth of calories for an average female.

I might last and on – crackers, chocolate chip cookies, muffins, pasta, boxed cereals (who eats ¾ cup of cereal), etc. But I suppose you get the point.

What’s the solution to the current mess? News reports within the last week say {that the} FDA could be cracking down. Count me among those that are pleased to listen to this news. One of their concepts is to post nutritional information, together with the calories, on the FRONT of the food labels.

The problem is, this move by itself could really create matters worse. Suppose Tostitos started posting “150 calories re serving” right on the front of the bag. Most people would assume the chips were low in calories. Putting calorie information on the front of the ticket would help only if it clearly stated the quantity of calories in the entire package or in a very traditional human-sized serving!

Ah, but the FDA says they’re on top of that too. They also need to standardize or re-outline serving sizes. Sounds nice, but there are critics who say that customers would take it as approval to eat larger servings thus the strategy would backfire.

Suppose for example, the governing bodythe govt. decides that no one eats ½ a cup of Ben and Jerry’s so they make the new serving dimension one cup, or [*fr1] the pint-sized container. Now by law the sticker says 540 calories regarding serving instead of 270. Is that prefer obtaining official permission to eat twice as much?

I’m not against the FDA’s latest initiative, but what we really want is a few honesty in labeling.

Food makers should not be allowed to govern serving sizes in an exceedingly method that may trick you into thinking there are fewer calories than there really are in a very quantity that you’re certain to eat.

It’d be nice to have calories for the entire package listed on the ticket at a glance. A whole new rating scale for caloric density would be cool too, if it could be simply interpreted. It might even be nice to have serving sizes chosen for quantities that are presumably to be commonly eaten. But standardization of serving sizes for all varieties of foods is difficult.

My friends from Europe tell me that food labels over there are listed in 100g parts, creating comparisons easy. But when you assume about how way every individual’s day by day calorie needs can vary (easily 3-fold or more once you run the gamut from totally sedentary to elite athlete, not to say male and female differences), standardization that applies to everyone could not be possible.

I suppose the recent laws such as requiring calories on restaurant menus are a positive move that will influence some people’s behavior. But no tag changes by themselves will solve the obesity crisis. A real answer is going to possess to incorporate personal responsibility, nutrition education, self-discipline, hard work and lifestyle change.

Changes within the labeling laws won’t influence everybody as the folks presumably to care regarding what labels say are people who have already made a commitment to vary their lifestyles (and that they’re least certain to eat processed and packaged foods – that have labels – in the primary place). Really, for those who care, all the data you would like is already on the labels, you only have to do a very little math and watch out for sneaky label tricks.

There’s one true solution to this portion distortion and ticket lies downside: Become CALORIE AWARE. After all that includes educated sticker reading, but it goes way further. In my Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle system, here is how I outline “calorie counting:”

1. Get a sensible calorie counter book, chart or electronic device/software and find to understand the calorie counts of all the staple foods you eat on a daily basis. Look up the calorie values for foods you eat occasionally.

2. Necessarily have a day by day meal plan – on paper – with calories printed for each food, every meal and that the day. Use that menu as a day by day goal and target.

3. Educate yourself concerning average caloric needs for men and women and learn how to estimate your own calorie desires as closely as you’ll be ready to primarily based on your activity, weight, body composition, height, gender and age.

4. Get a smart kitchen food scale and use it.

Keep counting calories and doing nutrition by the figures until you are unconsciously competent and eating the proper quantities to simply maintain your ideal weight becomes second nature.

Clearly, saying that calories are all there’s to nutrition is like saying that putting is all there’s to golf. Calorie quality and amount are each important. But ,, it’s a mistake to ignore the calorie amount aspect of the game. Serving sizes matter and even healthy foods get stored as fat if you eat too much..

You’ll play “blindfolded archery” by guessing your calories and food parts if you want to. Hey, you may get lucky and guess right. Personally, I wouldn’t recommend depending on luck – or the governmentthe govt. – for something as important as your body and your health. I would advocate the non-public responsibility, nutrition education, self-discipline, hard work and lifestyle amendment…

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Hi, it’s Paul here, after last nights teaser post, i thought you might like a bit more meat, read on….

How To Gain Muscle And Lose Fat At The Same Time

“How can I gain muscle and lose fat at the same time?” That’s right up there with “How do I get six pack abs” as one of the most frequently asked fitness questions of all time. The problem is, when you ask it, you get all kinds of conflicting answers – even from experts who are supposed to know these things. So what’s the deal? Is it really possible to lose fat and build muscle simultaneously?

Short answer: Yes, you can gain muscle and lose fat at the “same time.”

Long answer: It’s difficult and it’s complicated. Allow me to explain….

First we have the issue of whether you really lose fat and gain muscle at the “same time.”

Well, yes, if your definition of the “same time” is say, a month or 12 weeks. But in that case, you’re probably not gaining muscle at the “same time” literally speaking, as in, right now this very moment you are reading this, or 7 days a week, 24 hours a day for months in a row.

The best explanation for what’s really happening is that you alternate between periods of caloric surplus (anabolism) and caloric deficit (catabolism) and the net result is a gain in muscle and a loss in body fat.

You see, if you stay in a calorie surplus, it’s the body’s natural tendency for body fat and lean body mass to go up together. And if you stay in a calorie deficit, it’s your body’s natural tendency for body fat and lean body mass to go down together.

There may be exceptions, but the general rule is that it is very difficult to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time – the mechanisms are mostly antagonistic to one another. When it does happen, it’s almost always the result of “unusual conditions” – I call them X factors.

The 4 X-Factors

The first X-factor is “training age” . Ever hear of “newbie gains?” The less trained your body is and the further you are from your genetic potential, the easier it is to gain muscle. The reverse is also true – an advanced bodybuilder with 20 years experience would be thrilled just to gain a few pounds of solid dry muscle in a year!

The second x factor is muscle memory. It’s easier to regain muscle you’ve lost than it is to gain new muscle in the first place (ergo, the fat out of shape semi retired bodybuilder who starts training again and blows up and gets ripped “overnight”).

The third X factor is genetics (or somatotype). Ever heard of the “genetic freak?” That’s the dude who sprouts muscle like weeds even when he’s on the “50-50 diet” (50% McDonald’s and 50% pizza)… and he never gets fat. (That dude chose the right parents!)

The fourth X factor is drugs. It would stun (or sadden) you if you knew how many people take performance and physique-enhancing drugs. I’m not just talking about pro bodybuilders, I’m talking about “Joe six pack” in the gym – not to mention those fitness models you idolize in the magazines. How did they get large muscle gains with concurrent fat loss? Chemicals.

I’m not a gambling man, but I’ll place a wager on this any day: I’ll bet that in 99% of the cases of large muscle gains with concurrent large fat losses, one or more of these x factors were present.

That’s not all! There are actually 5 more X factors related to your body composition and diet status (the X2 factors). But I’ll have to talk about those later.

So you’re not a beginner, you don’t take roids, you’re not a genetic freak and you have no muscle memory to take advantage of. Are you S.O.L? Well, I do want you to be realistic about your goals, but…

There IS a way for the average person to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time.

The Secret: You have to change your “temporal perspective!”

Traditionally nutritionists and fitness pros have only looked at calorie balance in terms of 24 hour periods. At midnight, you could tally up the calories like a shopkeeper closing out his register, and if the balance were positive, you’d say you were in a surplus for the day. If the balance were negative, you’d say you were in a deficit for the day.

But it’s entirely possible that you might pass through periods of “within-day” surplus where you were in a highly anabolic state (for example, you eat the biggest, highest carb meal of the day after your workout), and you were in a deficit the rest of the day.

If you did intense weight training, and you timed your nutrient intake appropriately, Isn’t it possible that you could gain a small amount of muscle during those anabolic hours, while losing fat the rest of the day? Granted it might only be grams or ounces – but what if you kept that up for a week? A month? Three months?

As you pan out and look at the bigger picture, what if most days of the week you were in a deficit for the entire day, and on some days you were in a surplus? If so, then isn’t it possible that over the course of the week, you’d have a small net gain of muscle and loss of body fat a a result of the caloric fluctuation?

These within-day and within-week phases are called microcycles and mesocycles. If you also had a primary goal with a longer term focus of several months, say 12 weeks or 16 weeks, that would be a macrocycle.

What I’ve just described is nutritional periodization. Some people call it cyclical dieting. it’s where you manipulate your calories (primarily by fluctuating carbohydrate intake, hence “carb cycling”) in order to intentionally zig zag your way through periods of surplus and deficit and create specific hormonal responses.

The end result: muscle gain and fat loss during the same time period!

I know that someone out there is having a hissy fit because I’ve only talked about calories: deficits and surpluses. Rightfully so. Calories matter but there’s more to it than calories – most importantly, hormones and “nutrient partitioning.”

If you’re in a calorie deficit you are going to pull energy from your body.The question is: From WHERE? If your hormones are out of whack and you’re eating crap, you could lose more muscle than fat in a deficit and gain almost pure fat, not muscle, in a surplus!

But WHAT IF you could manipulate within day energy balance, use nutritional periodization AND control your hormones with food and lifestyle strategies?

Make no mistake – concurrent muscle gain and fat loss is a difficult goal to achieve. The good news: difficult does not mean impossible. Or as George Santayana said, “The difficult is that which can be done immediately, the impossible, that which takes a little longer.”

The Holy Grail Body Transformation Program: How to Gain Muscle and Lose Fat at The Same Time

You can learn more about gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time in Tom Venuto’s new e-book called, “The Holy Grail Body Transformation System.”

You’ll learn all about nutritional periodization, cyclical dieting, hormonal manipulation, within day energy balance, nutrient partitioning, AND the all the X factors, including the 5 “X2-Factors” – which are the keys to gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time.

You’ll also get Tom’s new “TNB” training system, as seen in Men’s Fitness magazine (the complete, expanded version that Men’s Fitness didn’t have room to print).

At the moment, The Holy Grail ebook is not for sale separately and there are only two ways you can get it.

From now until Midnight (PST), March 5th, 2010, you can get a copy of the Holy Grail Body Transformation program ebook for FREE when you purchase the Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle e-book from this web page:
www.BurnTheFat.com

The other way you can a a copy is by joining the Burn the Fat Inner Circle at:
www.BurnTheFat.com/innercircle

After March 5th, 2010 at midnight PST The Holy Grail will be taken off the market for a period of time while Tom is collecting case studies and getting feedback from users, to include in the final edition – which WILL be released for sale separately later this year.

Visit the Burn The Fat website now and jump on this deal while you still can.

Ok guys this is your last chance if you seriously want to invest in your body, buy BFFM now and get The Holy Grail free while you can, offeer ends tonight!

Paul x

Wow – I’ve got a real powerful post today, I hope you like it. What are your thoughts on the whole ‘You can’t burn fat AND build muscle at the same time….’ debate? Read on and don’t be surprised if you have a change of view….

This past January the guys at over at the Burn the Fat websites completed their first ever body transformation challenge contest. But their contest was NOTHING like the biggest loser.

In fact, Josh Ketter, the overall men’s winner, and Ryan Cochrane, one of the finalists, only lost a pound.

Now, you must be thinking, “what the heck kind of weird body transformation contest were they running where the winner and the finalists only drop a pound?”

Well, it would seem weird if you thought that success at body transformation meant dropping weight on the scale, but did you ever stop to think about the difference
between fat weight and muscle weight?

Think about it – if those contestants on the biggest loser gain muscle – they get penalized, right? Penalize someone for gaining muscle?

Shouldn’t contestants be REWARDED for gaining muscle as well as burning fat?

That’s the problem with weight loss contests today and with a lot of people in the industry in general – they are obsessed with scale weight but they don’t pay any attention to body composition (the fat-to-lean muscle ratio).

Of course, some of the contestants in that contest did drop a lot of fat – 15, 20, even 25 lbs in only 50 days. But the person who dropped the most pounds was NOT necessarily voted as the winner.

That explains how the judging was done – some of the winners were rewarded because they made tremendous improvements in their body composition, even though their scale weight didn’t change that much.

Josh lost 8 pounds of fat and gained 7 pounds of muscle in just 50 days.  He only lost a pound on the scale because the muscle weight replaced the fat weight.

Ryan Cochrane lost 8 pounds of fat while gaining 7.7 lbs of muscle in 50 days. His weight hardly changed.

Sarah kensington actually GAINED a pound, from 119 to 120 but her body fat decreased from 19% to a ripped 12.6%. Thats a 7.9 pound GAIN in lean body mass and a 7 pound loss of body fat – remarkable for a MAN, almost unheard of for
a woman!

When you look at their before and after pictures, you can see that even though their weight changed by less than a pound, they TOTALLY TRANSFORMED THEIR BODIES!

How?

They gained muscle and lost fat at the same time!

Maybe you’re thinking, “wait a minute, I thought it was impossible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time? Don’t you need a calorie deficit to burn fat and
a calorie surplus to build muscle?”

Well, yes and no. Calories do matter, but according to fat loss expert Tom Venuto, the guy who sponsored the recent body composition fitness contest, it’s much
more complicated than that because of things like within-day energy balance, hormonal fluctuations and “energy partitioning.”

It was these unusual contest results that prompted Tom to dig into the scientific research on concurrent muscle gain and fat loss and create a new program that he calls:

“THE HOLY GRAIL BODY TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM:
How to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time”

This is not an easy goal to achieve – So I’m sorry, but I have no miracle for you. If you’re looking for magic bullets, go elsewhere. This is a serious and very
strategic program.

Concurrent muscle gain and fat loss is the most difficult goal to achieve.

That’s why people call it the “holy grail”; because it’s so elusive.

BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE: IT IS POSSIBLE.

I’m sure you’ve heard this subject debated ad nauseum on discussion forums. Those debates probably left you confused and not sure what to believe either.

This new ebook sets the record straight in such a way that you could say it’s the LAST WORD on gaining muscle and burning fat at the same time; it’s impressively referenced with peer-reviewed research and frankly, it just makes sense.

Tom Venuto’s previous best selling ebook, Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle (BFFM) has become known to many as a “fat loss bible”

Check out the ‘Fat Loss Bible’ here…

But BFFM is designed specifically for fat loss, what if you want to lose fat AND gain muscle?

That’s exactly why this new program was created.

It’s the first course of it’s kind that builds on the techniques of BFFM and teaches a system for gaining muscle and burning fat simultaneously, and explains the process scientifically.

If you’re skeptical, I don’t blame you. Even I was skeptical when I heard about it.

But when you see BOTH; real-world case studies AND the scientific proof, it makes you want to stop and take a look.

Right now the 1st edition of Tom’s new HOLY GRAIL body transformation ebook is available for just the next 2 days in limited release.

It’s actually not even for sale separately yet.

What Tom decided to do was offer the holy grail ebook as bonus with the purchase of his Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle ebook.

The Holy Grail ebook is available only for the next 2 days at:

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle

(offer expires on Friday march 5th, 2010)

On March 6th, he’s going to take the holy grail course off the market for a while, to correspond with some of his new customers and collect feedback and case studies to incorporate in the 2nd edition.

Then the grail ebook will be officially re-released later this year at the regular retail price.

So, this is a great opportunity to pick up Tom’s fat loss bible AND get the holy grail ebook for free at the same time.

If you’d like to be in this first wave of people to try this new combined muscle-building and fatburning system, this is the ONLY wayto order at the moment;

Purchase a copy of Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle ebook, and the HOLY GRAIL body transformation ebook comes along with BFFM for free.

Now what do you think, leave a comment and let me know!

All the best, Paul x My Health And Fitness Today

PS. You may have already heard of Tom’s Burn the Fat, Feed the
Muscle book before, so if you already have it, the other way you
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[ Note: This article was written by my friend Jon Benson the author of the only diet and nutrition plan i will ever use or promote. I have his permission to share it with you. ]

Got a minute?

That’s all I need to share my first of many video-based 1-minute fatloss tips.

Go here for the first of many….

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My new design is something to see too.

I have my weekly live 1-minute video, tons of new features… even a “diet quiz” if you care to test your fatloss knowledge.

Plus my main presentation: “1 Tip To A Flat Belly!”

Just don’t laugh at my ballcap/unshaven look in the video… I wanted this to be super-casual, but I may have taken it a bit too far… ; )

Oh… speaking of a flat belly… I’d like to give you yet another reason to eat and workout the way I suggest in “Every Other Day Diet” and “7 Minute Body”…

I had to go to the hospital last week. No worries… I’m fine… just a bit of a scare. Definitely enough to wake you up from walking through life like it will never end! But fortunately for me, only a scare.

Anyway, the doctors in the hospital were amazed when they looked at my heart and lungs (they had to make sure I did not have any infection… and I didn’t.)

“Most 46-year-olds do not have these around their heart,” the doctor said as he showed me the pictures they took. You could see all these vessels around the heart and branching off the main arteries.

“Peripheral vessels… they were formed by your exercise program. Well-done! These help keep your heart strong and healthy.”

Every doc that listened to my heart said, “Wow… strong heart!”

Indeed… resistance training makes it so.

Before I left, after the scare went away, I asked the doctor his opinion on my dietary plan. “Well, obviously you are very lean and in fantastic shape for a man of any age.”

Thanks doc, but I wasn’t fishing for a compliment!  Since this was a heart doctor I was curious as to his thoughts.

“If you had heart disease, or if you want to prevent it, this is the exact dietary plan I would recommend.”

While I expected to hear this, it was still music to my ears.

So, my higher-than-normal dietary fat and protein, lower-carb, and relatively frequent “fun food” dietplan is “ideal” to combat heart disease according to the good doc. And according to my family doctor.

Nice to know.

Read more about my plan here…

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Remember:  A good dietplan and exercise is not always sufficient to keep you disease-freee… but I love what the doctor told me.  “People who exercise and eat like you LIVE through it and recover much faster.”

Fortunately I didn’t have a nasty virus to recover from… but if I did, I know my condition would have helped me do just that.

What’s fiber? Fiber is the indigestible half of plant foods. They are typically the walls of the plant cells, skins and seeds. Thanks to refining of foods much of the fiber has been lost in our diets causing digestive issues and overall poor health.

How does fiber help your digestive tract? It absorbs water when it moves through the digestive tract and forms bulk in the intestines. This can soften stool and help food move faster through the digestive system.

List of common foods that contain fiber:

Brussels Sprouts, 2 grams
Broccoli, 4-5 grams
Bread, four-seven grams – two slices whole wheat, pumpernickel, seven-grain
Carrots, three-four grams
Bran Cereals, 5-10 grams – All-Bran, Bran Buds, a hundred% Bran, Raisin Bran
Beans, half-dozen-10 grams – baked beans, black beans, nice northern beans, kidney beans, garbanzos, pinto beans, white beans
Berries, four-five grams – blackberries, raspberries
Sweet Corn, five grams
Beans
Peas, 7-9 grams – black-eyed peas, inexperienced peas
Greens, 4-6 grams – beet greens, collards, kale, spinach, turnip greens
Bananas, 3 grams – medium eight” long
Dried Figs, ten grams – 3 figs
Fruit, four grams – medium apple, medium pear

In step with the American Dietetic Association a healthy adult needs 20g-35g of fiber per day. However the typical person is solely consuming 14-15 grams. This can be resulting in digestive issues and contributing to the growing downside of obesity. Research is uncovering proof that fiber is helpful in prevention and relief from a variety of serious diseases.

Easy ways that to extend fiber:

Eating brown whole wheat bread instead of refined white bread
Together with more lentils, fruits and vegetables in your diet (see on top of list for a number of these)
Eating brown rice instead of refined white rice
Eating bran cereal or granola cereal for breakfast

After you increase fiber in your diet you may expertise some bloating and gas issues at first. But these will all subside in a matter of weeks as your body gets used to your new improved diet.

Food supplements for fiber: Because it is typically quite arduous to include the number of fiber we tend to want in our diets supplements can generally be taken to increase fiber and for treatment of certain conditions. These will all facilitate digestive disorders.

Psyllium husk- could be a common supplement (Metamucil)
Methylcellulose-made naturally from the cell walls of plants (Celvic, Celevac)
Polycarbophil-relies on plant sources- This may cause less bloating than Psyllium husk (Fibercon, Equalactin) This can be typically used when treating digestive disorders

Vegetable gums: A new type of fiber supplement is Vegetable gums- guar gum (whole name Benefiber) or acacia (whole name Heather’s Tummy Fiber).

Increasing fiber in your diet can help your digestive system operate better. This will end in lowering cholesterol and improving your overall health. With improved health you may be in a position to feel better, look better, suppose better and enjoy your life to the full.

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You’ve heard the popular advice on weight loss diets. Cut the fat! Cut the carbs! Cut the calories! Eat a balanced diet! Yes it’s true.

However it’s confusing. Therefore many people fail because of “information overload”.

How will you eat a diet that is balanced and healthy in order to chop fats, carbs and calories?

Here’s the recommendation from nutritional science:

Cut the JUNK fats: Most individuals don’t need an ultra low fat diet. However most of us may improve our diet by cutting out the junk fats. Primarily, these are the processed fats: hydrogenated fats, polyunsaturated oils that have been heated, and fats that are combined with junk carbs. Processed fats are the fats presumably to place on flab and clog your arteries.

Cut the JUNK carbs. Most people do not need an ultra low carb diet. However sadly, therefore many folks who go on an occasional fat diet still eat highly processed foods – they switch from processed high-fat to processed low-fat. And when food makers create low fat foods, they have a tendency to interchange the fat with junk carbs, which tend to pile on the pounds. Essentially, junk carbs are low-fiber carbs, like sugar, fructose (and every one the other *oses), flour, cornstarch, fruit juice. Yes, fruit juice is a junk carb too! – Once all, how abundant fiber is there in fruit juice? – Nearly none – it’s nonetheless another junk carb. You should eat the whole fruit instead, with its fiber intact.

Cut the JUNK calories. Most individuals don’t need an ultra low calorie diet. But simply assume what your diet would be like if you dropped the processed fats and therefore the low-fiber carbs. You would be eating mainly natural proteins, with tons of vegetables plus whole fruits – and the chances are that you would be eating way fewer calories as well. That is the sort of calorie cutting most folks should be doing.

Eat a balanced NATURAL-FOODS diet. By natural foods, we mean the foods that will are eaten by your hunter-gatherer ancestors: – lots of whole vegetable foods for vitamins and fiber; moderate to tiny portions of meats, fish, seafood, and alternative animal and protein foods, grilled, stewed or baked; and little portions of fresh whole fruit in season. This is often the diet on that the humanity evolved, and also the diet that, for the vast majority of folks, makes for optimum health

So the subsequent time you’re regarding to order a meal with fries and sugary soda, suppose regarding how it could be improved. Replace the fries with a salad, and therefore the soda with mineral water, and you’ve already made significant progress towards a healthier, balanced meal.

And at home, explore for recipes that use whole, fresh foods, with no less than processing. Make positive your meals embody natural unprocessed foods, with heaps of healthy vegetables, each cooked, and raw in salads. Avoid processed fats and processed low-fiber foods.

A sample menu:
– grilled fish with steamed green beans, and peppers
– mixed salad, dressed with tiny amounts of olive oil and vinegar or lemon juice
– contemporary fruit platter
– Sushi : fish and seafood (low-fat and well balanced in terms of nutrition)
– Tofu (bean curd): low-fat, quality protein food. Highly counseled

I personally recommend Sushi for your healthy weight-loss. Cheap junk food is OK(I truly like junk food too). However do not eat junk food too much for health!

Would you like to try sushi? Sushi is terribly healthy.

With the rise in popularity of sushi in western countries you will be invited by friends to hitch them at the native sushi bar. Many of Hollywood celebrities love to eat Sushi in fact. While you may agonize regarding the prospect of eating something raw, don’t worry, all you would like may be a very little bit of information to take the anxiety far from the expertise and enjoy this glorious delicacy.

Sushi may be a very straightforward dish, though the creating of it’s considered an art form. The Itamae (sushi chef) traditionally needs to coach for ten years before being employed to organize sushi. But, the recognition of sushi has forced the hiring of chefs with only some years experience.

There are four main sorts of sushi you’ll order:

Nigiri sushi: nigiri means “grab”. These are hand pressed balls of rice with raw fish on top and little bit of wasabi between the fish and rice.

Sashimi: sliced raw fish (technically not sushi since the term sushi refers back to the rice and sashimi isn’t ready with any rice).

Maki sushi: maki means that “roll”. The maki sushi is rolled with bamboo mats. Historically the seaweed is on the outside; rice on the surface is called ‘inside-out’ (ie: California roll).
Temaki is a hand rolled version of Maki. It is cone shaped like an ice cream cone.

Sushi comes in an amazing selection of combinations, however you’ll realize these common ingredients or garnishes with nearly every version:

The word sushi truly refers to The rice, additionally called ‘sticky rice’. Sushi rice is brief grained and cooked with a 1:1 ratio of water. Sushi vinegar and sugar is added which makes the rice both sweet and tart.

Wasabi: Japanese horseradish. Typically served as a inexperienced paste alongside your sushi as an additional condiment; a word of caution – wasabi is VERY hot, therefore use it sparingly whereas developing a taste for it.

Gari: Thinly sliced, pickled ginger is also served with sushi. Some use it as a garnish although it’s technically to refresh your palette between bites.

Nori: The seaweed sheets used to roll rice for sushi.

Soya Sauce (Shoyu): used as a dipping sauce. The wasabi can conjointly be mixed with the soya sauce for people who relish the extreme flavor.

Sushi can be created with one ingredient or several. Single ingredients include avocado, cucumber (kappa), tuna (tekka or maguro) or salmon (sake ? however not the rice wine). There are many modernized combinations designed to please Yankee palettes. These embody the California roll made with avocado, crab, and cucumber and the Philadelphia roll made with smoked salmon, cream cheese, and cucumber.

As you’ll be able to see, despite the unusual presentation you can simply find identifiable and delicious mixtures you’re certain to enjoy. Despite what you may think, the nori (seaweed) has very little flavor and is sort of undetectable when combined with the flavors of the sushi and the addition of soya sauce or wasabi. After all, like several other converts, you’ll just have found yourself a replacement addiction!

Yes – A healthy, balanced diet can be that simple!

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[ Note: This article was written by my friend Jon Benson the author of the only diet and nutrition plan i will ever use or promote. I have his permission to share it with you. ]

It was the weirdest thing …

I mean, I’ve been around you know? I’ve had just about every body and fatloss experience you can think of… the good, the bad, the ugly…

… and now the really bizarre.

Here’s the story:

I took off on an 8-day cruise to the Caribbean. This was a “business” cruise (yeah, right)… and I knew there was no way to eat the way I prefer to eat. At least not ideally. After that I had to speak in Tampa Florida at a fitness summit, then off to Las Vegas for yet another summit meeting.

All-in-all I was gone for almost three weeks.

First thing that I knew had to go was my “ideal” dietplan.

That’s my “Extreme” Plan on the Every Other Day Dietplan…

click.here———-> www.everyotherdaydiet.com/video.php

There are three plans in EODD:  The Primer Plan, which is literally “every other day”. You get to eat your favorite foods within reason every other day or so on this Plan. It’s perfect for folks who ‘hate’ dieting because, let’s face it, anyone can diet-for a day, right? Right.

Then there’s the Lifestyle Plans. These are two days of “burn eating” followed by a day of eating favorite foods. Most people use this because it too is so simple to use.

Then for we athletes and fitness pros there’s the Extreme Plan. This is for ultimate bodyfat loss and muscle-shaping. I love this plan.

But hey… it’s a vacation. And so I decided to eat on the Primer Plan… remember, that’s every other day. So every other day on the cruise I had a small dessert (sometimes two), pizza, or pasta… whatever I wanted within reason. The days before I did perfectly, substituting my morning shake for egg white omelets with a bit of cheese and a lot of veggies. Yum! 

Within three days I had LOST more than 4 lbs… or about 2 kg. Pure fat… well, a bit of water I suppose, but mostly that stubborn bodyfat around my middle that’s the last to go.

What the heck was going on?

Wait… the story gets better…

I move on to Tampa, and then Vegas, and now I’m 11 lbs (about 5 kg) down. My jeans ALL require a belt, only this time it’s not a fashion statement.

Frankly, I’m as surprised as you may be.

But I figured out why this happened. And I want to share it with you so you can use EODD (or another plan if you want… but mine is the best… : ) when you go on vacation or take a break.

Here’s why I dropped the last bit of my bodyfat:

First, I was on a VERY large cruise ship. I knew my weight training would not be as intense (the weights were not that heavy) but I also knew I could just make it work… train a bit more and go for the “pump”… just a good, quick workout. I ended up training 5 days on the cruise without a problem (and only ONE day of cardio for 20 minutes… you see, you do NOT need cardio to dump bodyfat!)

But the difference was in the WALKING. The ship was the largest ever built… the size of 2.5 football fields. And I walked everywhere… on the islands, on the boat, even to every meal. Just walking burned off FAR more calories than my normal lifestyle, which like most of you has a lot of sitting down to it. ; )

Walking… my favorite “Cardio” to this very day.

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My Supplement Tricks

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Second, I took extra potassium, along with all of my Radical Fatloss Blueprint Supplements. I carried them all on board.

You can read more about the supplements I take for “radical” fatloss here:

click.here———-> www.radicalfatlossblueprint.com

The two that really did the trick for me was the Aqualize (also known as Acquacil), only 1-2 a day, along with the amino acids.

Finally, I realized that I need MORE food than I’m eating now in order to increase my metabolic rate. Just a bit… about 400 calories a day more than I have been eating. Doing just that rebooted my metabolic rate and presto… 11 lbs of bodyfat and useless water is history. My abs have never looked better.

I hope this gives you some encouragement when it comes to being on the road or on vacation. With the right plan (like EODD and Radical Fatloss) you can actually improve your body…

… and best of all, I enjoyed every minute of my vacation! 

P.S.  An important note was that I made a decision not to drink on the cruise or elsewhere. I had one small glass of wine last night to celebrate with my largest affiliate and business comrade. He flew in from Israel just for this meeting, and it was the least i could do. Roei and I had a blast all day.

The reason drinking is a problem is that alcohol shuts down fat-burning for several hours… sometimes longer. But a glass of wine or two a week is not going to hurt you. I just made that one small “sacrifice” so I could enjoy ice cream, pizza (I ate four slices one night at 3:00am and woke up leaner!) and all the yummy food the boat had to offer.

So, my final tip:  Make a decision to cut out just ONE thing when you’re on the road. Alcohol was easy for me as I do not drink that much as it is.

Read more about my personal dietplan and my supplement plan here….

www.everyotherdaydiet.com/video.php

www.radicalfatlossblueprint.com