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Our NEW Solution to Healthy Nutrition and Fat Loss!

Roy and I have been doing a lot of research lately, trying to find a comprehensive nutrition system that we can recommend to you so you can get the best results in 2010.

In the past we had used various nutrition strategies that covered the basics, but we wanted something that could not only get you results, but help you create healthy eating habits for life.

Great news. We’ve found it!

You see, one of the things Roy and I believe is that your nutrition can’t be a cookie-cutter approach. Everyone is different. This program is customized to your unique metabolism and body type. It even has you take a metabolic typing test before you get started, that’s how dialed-in this program is to YOUR body!

It also shows you that it’s not just how many calories you eat but where your calories come from that matters when you are trying to reshape your body and develop your health.

If all we cared about was your weight, we could just tell you to eat celery and non-buttered popcorn all day and you would lose weight. BUT you’d also lose precious, metabolism-boosting muscle tissue, you’d have low energy, get headaches and feel grumpy all day. You wouldn’t even have the energy to exercise properly in that state. Not Good.

In this plan, developed by nutritionist Isabele De Los Rios, you will learn all the best foods to stabalize your blood sugar, maximize your vitamin and mineral intake, boost your energy, and build healthy, lean muscle tissue.

The program comes with a manual, the metabolic typing test, a quick-start guide, a success journal, a shopping guide, and done-for-you meal plans.

The plan also comes with bonuses, including a 14-Day fast results plan, the top 10 nutrition mistakes booklet, and a recipe guide.

I’m even adding in a bonus of my own for you if you order here through our link today, which is an article I’ve written entitled “You will NEVER get a slimmer waistline by doing ab exercises…PERIOD!” This article finally uncovers the truth about getting a flat stomach and what strategy you need to use to get there. (just e-mail me after you place your order and I’ll send it to you.)

One of the best things about this program is that it’s in downloadable PDF form, so you’ll be able to access it and start implementing it right away. You won’t need to sit around waiting for a hard copy, because there is none. Just straightforward information in an easy-to-understand format that you can print it out right there at home immediately after purchase.

I included a link to her nutrition plan and presentation video below.

*NOTE* – The video is very informative and will help you understand a lot about this nutritional approach. However, you need to get past the first 2 minutes or so to get to the good stuff, trust me on this one.

Just click here for your nutrition plan.

Your Trainer For Life,

Forrest

P.S. – You can e-mail me at Forrest@fitforlifesolutions.com if you have any questions. I’m really excited about sharing this program with you, and believe in it’s approach of creating higher energy and burning fat 100%.

Top 10 Worst Foods List

The following is our top 10 list of worst foods. The foods in this list are chosen based on several factors including: “bad” fat content, carcinogens, toxicity to the body, free radical damage, preservatives, probability to raise LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol), liver stress, probability to reduce energy levels, and probability to increase body fat.

We’ll count the list backwards, starting from 10, like the Late Show with David Letterman!

#10) Soda – high fructose corn syrup, caffeine, calories, sugar…lot’s of sugar. Why drink your calories? I recommend a water with a slice of lemon. You don’t NEED the soda to enjoy yourself as much as you think you do.

#9) Fried Foods – Salt, fat and cancer causing carcinogens. Things like eggrolls, fried shrimp, and french fries are all high in fat, raise your cholesterol and put you at risk for heart disease. Is it worth it? I know they taste good, but look for another option on the menu if a healthy body is important to you.

#8) Bacon – Salt, fat, calories, nitrates. Darn! I love bacon! Anything in moderation, right?

#7) Fast Food Burger – Some burgers are over 1000 calories! Other burgers have so many preservatives that you can keep them unrefridgerated for years and they won’t decompose! Not only that, but when I eat a fast-food burger, I feel very low on energy. If you must have a burger, try a home-cooked burger with lean ground beef using the George Foreman Grill. You’ll have less fat, and it won’t make you feel lethargic after you eat it.

#6) Hot dogs and lunch meats – Hot dogs are the mystery meat! Lunch meats and hot dogs are high in sodium, nitrates and nitrites. You have a 67% higher chance of developing pancreatic cancer when you eat these foods! Just check out this link: http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/processedmeat050305.cfm

#5) Twinkies, Ho-Ho’s, Oreo Cookie’s, ect. – high in trans fat, sugar, calories. You know these are bad for you…ever heard of apple, strawberries, grapes? I heard that in the 50’s people stockpiled Twinkies in bomb shelters because they last forever. Preservatives that effective just can’t be good for you!

#4) Donuts – Mmmmmmm…donuts…High in trans fat, sugar, calories, but the cops like ‘em, so they must have some value…NOT! (That’s my Wayne’s World impression for the day!)

#3) Potato chips – MSG, high fat, salt, preservatives, hydrogenated oil, calories. Need I say more? These are empty calories people! Eat something with some nutritional value!!

#2) Onion rings – high fat, carcinogens, calories, sodium. Oh, man! Speaking of onion rings, have you tried the Bloomin Onion at the Outback Steakhouse? This thing is over 2,000 calories and has 135 grams of fat! That’ll set you back a few weeks on your weight loss goals, don’t ‘ya think?

AND, DRUM ROLL PLEASE…………………………

#1) IN OUR TOP 10 WORST FOODS IS:

French Fries! – High fat, carcinogens, calories, sodium, and research shows increases risk of developing cancer. Plus they taste great! No wonder they’re so dangerous!

I’d love to hear your comments! Please give some feedback below!

-Forrest

Nutrition Fundamentals, Macronutrients, and Sumo Wrestlers

In upcoming blogs I plan to go over some advanced fat loss and nutrition strategies. However, sometimes when I get into more advanced strategies I can lose my audience when they don’t have the nutrition basics down. One important basic piece of nutrition knowledge is to understand what macronutrients are.

Macronutrients can be defined as being the classes of chemical compounds humans consume in the largest quantities and which provide bulk energy.

The 3 major macronutrients are: Proteins, Carbohydrates and Fats.

To get a better understanding of the macronutrients, I’ve put together a four-minute educational video. Even if you already know these fundamentals, it’s good to get a refresher course from time-to-time. I also go over examples for each of the macronutrients so you can start planning your healthy eating right away.

You can also find out from this video the nutritional strategy of most sumo wrestlers, how they gain massive amounts of FAT, and how you might be inadvertently eating with the same strategy!!

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- Forrest Folen, MCT

PART ONE – HOW THE BODY GAINS WEIGHT

A 2-year study from the New England Journal of Medicine included a low-fat diet, a low-carbohydrate diet and a Mediterranean diet. The findings indicate that it’s not what foods you eat, but it’s the amount of foods eaten, that leads to weight loss.

I’ll even go one step further than them and say it’s the amount of foods NOT eaten that leads to weight loss.

But before we get into that, let’s talk about what leads to weight gain.

As you already know, the foods you eat are energy. The term we use for that energy is Calories.

Most people that are overweight gain weight as a very slow process.

For instance, if you gain 1 pound of fat, over the course of the month, you probably weren’t sitting around gorging on burgers, fries, and chocolate shakes all day during the whole month…well, hopefully not.

What you did do however was take in more calories than you were expending.

The body burns calories in 3 major categories. The first is the amount of calories your body burns while at rest (RMR). Your body burns calories just to work it’s normal metabolic functions and to keep you alive, keep the organs and brain working, and keep other systems, such as the cardiovascular system, in working order.

The second major category is your daily activity level. In other words, for most of your waking hours, what are you doing? Are you sitting at a computer or in front of a television all day – are you sedentary? Do you stand on your feet all day, like a retail clerk at a grocery store? Maybe you work for UPS and unload 50 lb boxes from trucks all day (I actually used to do that years ago at the Oakland hub). Whatever the case, your activity level is a factor for consideration when determining how many calories you need in a day to lose weight.

The last major category is your exercise. A 180 pound individual burns about 250 calories walking at a normal pace, let’s say 2.5 mph, in one hour. That means that to burn 1 pound of fat, you would have to walk for 14 hours! (I personally prefer higher intensity workouts, such as our bootcamp, to cut my workout time down to only 4 hours…but that’s another article.)

So if you gained 1 pound over the course of a month, that means you ate an extra 3,500 calories – ON TOP OF WHAT YOU NORMALLY EAT. Divide 3,500 calories over the 30 days for the month, and you get 116. That 116 calories per day is all you would need to have eaten over the amount that your body needed to gain weight that 1 pound in a month.

Some days you eat a little more, some days a little less, but your average still comes out to be at 116 calories over your daily need per day.

So let’s say you repeated that scenario over the course of 12 months. Well, that means you just gained 12 pounds, right? Let’s repeat that for 10 years. That means that you will have gained 120 pounds in ten years…JUST BY EATING 116 CALORIES OVER YOUR DAILY CALORIC NEED PER DAY!!

Now this is what I hear all the time. “Forrest, you’re gonna have to work me extra hard today…I just gained 2 pounds over the weekend!”

No you didn’t!

It may say that on the scale, but that’s just water weight (possibly from the alcohol and salty foods you ate at the Olive Garden the night before).

There’s NO WAY you gained two pounds of fat over the weekend. Not unless you ate about 12 big macs ON TOP OF the amount of food you normally eat in a day.

The way weight gain occurs in the real world is in small increments, calorie by calorie, day by day, month by month, and year by year.

So now that we have weight gain in perspective, we can talk about weight loss, and understand that the same concepts apply.

Weight loss, to me, means fat loss. In other words, I believe that when losing weight, it’s best to do weights training, not just cardio and diet, to reduce body weight.

That way, you can keep muscle, and keep your metabolism, and even add to your body’s ability to burn more calories.

More on how the body loses weight with Part II later.

Your Trainer For Life,

Forrest Folen, MCT

The Caveman Diet

Ever wonder why, despite all our low-fat and low-sugar foods, America keeps getting fatter and fatter?

Sorry. It’s not poor will power.

Here’s one perspective that I happen to agree with.

Don’t forget to post your feedback below. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this one!

-Forrest