Eliminate Body Fat Now and For Life

Body fat?!?  You got what?!?  No way.  I don't believe it.  Let me guess, you want to tone up the arms, get stronger and loose five to ten pounds of body fat.  Right?  That's not surprising because no matter where you are on the body fat continuum you want to lose more of it.  When was the last time you heard someone say, "Damn I'm just too thin I'd like to have some cottage cheese on my thighs."?  It just doesn't happen.  Funny thing is how specially designed your body is to gain fat.  Millions of years of evolution have made it so.  Fat keeps us alive in times of famine.  Fat feeds and ensures the growth of the brains of infants.  It's intrinsically linked to the evolution and survival on the human race!  It even pads your seat a little.  Quite useful stuff.  Nevertheless, people don't like it and want to be rid of it.  They just can't imagine what they could possibly use it for and they will do anything - even get an operation to have it sucked out of their burgeoning skin folds.

Why go to those extremes when you can simply follow my simple plan and begin burning your belly fat right now!  Hello!?!  This is not a diet nor are the following nutritional guidelines.  Below is a list describing a lifestyle in which one avoids the things that promote fat gain while engaging in behaviors that promote fat loss and lean body mass.  

So here it is in no particular order, The Way to Fatlessness!

1. Drink only water
2. Sleep 8 Hours a Night
3. Eat Lots of Green Vegetables
4. Eliminate, Sugar, Carbohydrates, Fruit Juice, Most Fruits, Alcohol and Fake Sweeteners
5. Walk 1/2 Hour to 1 Hour Every Day
6. Lift Weights 

That's it.  It's that simple.  IF you can stick to this you can not be fat.  Every time you deviate from this you are getting fatter.  Period.

Great Snack: Friendship Cottage Cheese

Here's a protein packed snack that's also low in sugar. Cottage cheese works great to keep you feeling full between meals. For more flavor add blueberries or strawberries DO NOT buy the fruit in cottage cheese (usually it's pineapple) as this product is loaded with sugar.

My only beef with this snack is that it's obviously a dairy product and also not organic. Therefore this choice is not an optimal one. Nevertheless, I give my decision to eat this a grade of B+ when I'm short on time, have few options and am hungry.

Look for another post soon on why I try to limit my non-organic dairy consumption. 

Breakfast #1 Fast Fruity Fiber

Start your day in this order:

1.) Drink 12-16 oz. of water

2.) Spend 10 minutes prepping for your day then make the following. 

• Black Coffee or Espresso

• Kashi Cinnamon Harvest (28-40 squares) with

• 1 cup of unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk (Coconut Milk if you have nut allergy)

• 1/2 cup of fresh Blueberries

Consume it all and monitor how you feel over the next 2-3 hours. 

All About Breakfast

What can I say, I'm all about breakfast. Actually I'm all about whatever meal is next but I'm writing this assuming you want to take on the world and achieve all of your goals making all of your magical dreams come true! Right?! Even if your goals aren't as lofty as being Master of the Universe at the very least you want to feel great, confront the challenges of your day and maybe maintain some lean body mass.

It's my understanding that the world becomes a better place when the people in it become more conscious, capable and responsible. With the abundance of food options out there my clients, friends and family are constantly asking, "What should I eat?!" In this Information Age it seems w all need and are searching for stable pieces of information that can help simplify our decision making. My goal here is not to simply give you a meal plan or list for you the top 20 best rated breakfast foods. My hope is to share my insight and experience of what I choose to eat and why. Hopefully by seeing how I think (or don't think) you will be able to begin to develop your own ideas on how make excellent food choices.

That said, ABC News published the following article on the top 20 foods to eat for breakfast:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/top-20-foods-eat-breakfast/story?id=19295525

Feel free to check it out or read on as I break down their suggested options. I also intend to include other references and options for your fast breaking pleasure. Will we be able to exhaustively cover all breakfast options? Doubtful. I do hope to give you a broad enough picture for you to become able to decide what and how much is right for you and your taste buds, caloric and nutritional needs.

My Bio

I grew up in a small town on an island in the middle of the Ohio River just outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.  Yup a real island called Neville Island, I think about 1200 people still live there.  At the time, it was a depressed community with a troubled economy and little industry remaining after the collapse of the steel industry.  My childhood was comprised of fishing off of rafts built from pieces of drift wood, skateboarding and riding dirt bikes.  Blue collar pride in the rust belt of America. There wasn’t a lot going on and in that vacuum; great temptation to use and abuse drugs and alcohol.  Think Huckleberry Finn mixed with Eminem.  I was lucky though, because my parents and teachers saw a spark in me and in 7th grade rather than going to the local high school that only graduated 60% of its seniors - I went off to a magnet private school.

However, I was less than enthusiastic about leaving my public school friends and took out my frustration on the lacrosse field, the newfound private school sport that I loved!  The fire for fitness was officially ignited! And although I resisted the change of schools I can now see that getting a quality high school education changed the trajectory of my life.  I went on to get my engineering degree from Virginia Polytechnic and State University where I “double majored” in martial arts.  I think in the martial arts classroom is where my true passion for self improvement was first contacted. I could literally see and feel the changes to my body and mind as I practiced complex punches, kicks, strikes etc..  I continued my martial arts study in earnest when I moved to New York City and studied with Master Fuki Yang at Heart Mind Martial Arts.

I’ve always loved the feeling of freedom and power that I have gotten from working out.  While working a 9-5 job back in 2004 I started moonlighting as a personal trainer at New York Health and Racquet Club to try to make some extra cash.  It was so fun and I was so good at it that I was quickly booked up and had to “quit my day job” to take on my burgeoning client list.  Around that time I was also doing stand up and improv comedy.  Another trainer I knew who was also an actor introduced me to his manager and since then I have been steadily booking roles on television commercials in addition to personal training clients.

My attitude as always been that the sky is the limit.  I try to bring that into every one of my training sessions.  I KNOW my clients can do more because I have seen the more troubling side of life and am living proof of the changes and improvements one can make.  You just need the right coaching and support and you can achieve anything.

WHY Film?

I gave some thought to WHY I would like to do this film that I'm working on.  And I think these “whys” could also be incorporated into the character, decisions etc.  I started by writing down every reason and influence I have had up until now that made me want to act and create films.  I’ll spare you the play by play thought process and give you the overview and bullet points.

1.) Almost everyone (especially me!) wants to feel accepted, cool, in control and powerful.  This is reflected in my childhood love for movies like Indiana Jones, Pulp Fiction, Scarface etc…

2.) Our childhood is not and was not our identity - Although at the time it felt that way.  As we grow up we see that the decisions that we make effect others and our future.  Some of us realize this sooner than others.  Some people never realize this and stay stuck in their childish/childlike reality - wearing the same style of clothes, making the same mistakes and never existing fully in present time reality.  I never wanted to live like that and have investigated at great lengths ways to continually evolve and become more of myself, in present time and connected to ever changing reality.

3.) In life one encounters crossroads and at these points one has the option to act out of patterned fear and continue on maintaining the status quo OR to seize opportunities and make BIG MOVES in the game of life.  Based on 1 & 2 above I have made big moves and the decision to do so has changed me for the better.  My examples of this would be working in a salmon cannery on Alaska, quitting my job and moving to New York, volunteering in South Africa etc. etc.

4.) Although I want to make films and probably more dramatic ones at that it could be seen as a distraction that I choose to study so much comedy.  I believe I chose and continue to choose comedy for spiritual reasons.  Comedy seems to have the ultimate power.  I once read that to figure out the meaning of life one must first be able to laugh at death.  Somehow that continues to resinate with me and I feel that even the most dramatic of films or works of art always hit harder when there is some element of comedy.