"But it doesn't feel like I am on a Diet"

"But it doesn't feel like I am on a Diet" was the best sentence I can ever hear one of my students say.
But I heard it just yesterday.

Why is this so significant? Because your wellbeing/exercise/hormone manipulation plan SHOULD NOT be hard. It doesn't have to be difficult. But yet we all have such negative associations with the word 'diet' and often accept failure before we begin.

If you don't like the wellbeing plan you are on. CHANGE IT! If you are eating foods that you don't like. CHANGE YOUR APPROACH! I always look for the foods that people already like and incorporate them into their meal plan. Do Not start eating foods you hate out of a sense of duty.

We are all creative enough and resourceful enough to find foods that fit perfectly into our plan which we ENJOY!! In fact this will be the first point I make in my upcoming eBook. If you are not enjoying your 'diet', you are doing something wrong!! I have seen this many times before. And I dare say I will see it many times in the future.

If you still are skeptical. Learn more. Buy a book. Ask a friend who cut body fat how they did it. Seek out a mentor. Speaking of which. I want to see a bit more activity in the comments section of this blog. So the person who writes the most creative/thought inspiring comment will get a 30min Skype lesson with me FREE of charge to discuss their specific needs and challenges, and then to put an action plan in place. But hurry up because I might announce the winner at any point.

Until next time, keep cutting body fat, Jack.

Cutting Edge Weight Loss Technique

So you have all heard the standard just eat well and exercise advice.

Well what if there was another more effective way to Cut Body Fat? And I mean really effective.

I bring you 'Cold Exposure.' To see the expert on the subject Ray Cronise talk about it on youtube: Click Here

But if you want the nutshell version of this approach, basically what it involves is lowering your core body temperature through Ice Baths or Cold Showers. How does this help? Well basically, when you lower your body temperature your body does everything it can to warm itself back up again. This requires a lot of energy. The process we are leveraging in this instance is called Homeostasis and refers to the need for the body to keep a constant internal temperature despite changes in the external environment. Tim Ferriss' book 'The Four Hour Body' also explains this concept in great detail and I highly recommend this read.

So how much does having ice baths actually help? To trial this (Which I have done on more than one occasion) I measured fat loss over one week. Then made no other changes but to incorporate 5 ice baths of 20 minutes in length the following week. The difference? I lost 7X as much fat!!! I was losing on average 0.5cm around the waist which in one week increased to 3.5cm. (Waist circumference is a fantastic measurement of body fat reduction.)

As we all know a sample size of 1 is hardly scientific; so I trialed cold exposure with some of my students, and every time we saw a significant increase in cms lost per week around the waist, ie Body Fat loss.

Ice baths were significantly more effective then cold showers, though cold showers tended to increase fat loss on average by about 1cm a week. Keep this change in place for 2 months and that is still a significant amount of extra body fat that you can cut.                  

Here is a photo I took just prior to one of my ice baths:
                                       

Unfortunately I need to get 4 bags of ice to get the temperature nice and low in my bath, but most will only need 2 bags. 8 Degrees Celsius is the temperature I aim for.

Until next time, Keep Cutting Body Fat, Jack

My Lunch Today!

It doesn't look like much. But it is delicious. Very nice, Onion Omelette with Tuna on top. Low carb, very filling, low calorie lunch.

Perfect!

I don't want to waste my money!!!

A very common excuse I run into when people begin educating themselves about investing in a diet program or in a new book is 'I don't want to waste my money!!' WHOA, hold on there, learning about your health is a waste of money? Eating healthy is too expensive?  How so? What is so important that you need that money for that is more important than your health?

It is a strange trend in society that we are reluctant to spend money on education but more than willing to spend money on something like junk food for example. We are very wary of 'scams' and are inclined to be negative towards educational products or services before we are positive.

Well I have another challenge for you; Write down all the money you HONESTLY spend in one week and what you spend that money on. And come back and tell me you have no room in your budget for your health. After all, money something you use to swap for something else. When you buy food you swap survival value (food) for financial value (money). When you buy new clothes you swap social value (clothes) for financial value (money). Money in itself is just a tool used to buy things (most which you probably don't need).

Ok, but let's go through the absolute worst case scenario possible!! You invest in a product or service which turns out to be of no value to you at all. Firstly, you probably didn't spend that much money on it in the first place; Books are cheap, many programs have refund policies, you usually don't have to spend a large amount of money upfront. Secondly you have just worked out what DOESN'T WORK for you, which you wouldn't have found out if you hadn't have tried. As Edison said "I have not failed, I have just found 1000 ways that don't work!" So you have not failed, you have just found a product or service that may not be compatible with you.

Remember, money can be earned back; Health and Psychological problems caused by obesity are often hard to reverse.

As for the notion that it is too expensive to eat healthy; Once again I challenge you to cost out your shopping list for eating healthy and compare it to your ordinary shopping list. Eating healthy isn't expensive, you just may not be educated enough at this point to be healthy on a budget.

I never want to hear that you are wasting your money by improving your health, even as you read this you know deep down that such a statement is ridiculous.

Until next time, Jack. 

Are you a 'tryer'?

It is an interesting phenomenon I see in this day and age where people "Try" things. I will 'try' to cut body fat, I will 'try' to be healthy, I will 'try' to join a gym.

The truth is that the success rate of "tryers" as I like to call them is very low. Let me translate what trying actually means:

Original Sentence: I am going to try to lose weight.
Translation: I like the idea of losing weight but I perceive that it will be hard so I am only going to half commit which I know deep down is as useless as not committing at all, but at least this way I can feel good about it because I 'tried'. I may read about a new diet or google my closest gym, I may even talk about it with my closest friend and ask them what they think regardless of whether they are in any position to give me sound advice or not. But all in all, I know I am not going to commit. I refuse to accept that there are going to be challenges and problems I will need to solve along the way (eg. Hunger, Education, Time Management, Preparing Food) and I will probably give up when faced with the first, second or third problem because 'it is just too hard.' Then again maybe I will just not begin in the first place to avoid the inevitable disappointment I have predestined myself for. Despite being in 100% control of my actions I refuse to take responsibility for them, 'it is just too hard.' People with a low body fat percentage are just lucky that they have 'great genetics.' And people like me with 'bad genetics' can't get healthy, it just can't be done. So I am going to 'try' to lose weight and WHEN I FAIL I will just go back to doing what I have always done and feel miserable about it. But hey, at least I tried and that's what I can also tell other people in case they judge me for being overweight.

This translation sounds ludicrous but it is true of so many people's mindset. Yoda was right; 'Do or Do Not...there is no Try.'

I was recently talking to a student of mine who was 'Trying' to lose weight but wasn't getting the results she wanted. The interesting part for me was that she was a smoker and had fallen pregnant 2 years ago. When I asked whether she smoked while pregnant she said, "Of course not, I was pregnant!!!" Do you think that she 'tried' to smoke less? No Way!!! She just stopped, it wasn't option, there was a 0% chance of failure. She didn't even think about the cravings etc, because her mind was made up, and once you make a decision, there is no stopping you. Then all that needs to happen is for the results to show....And They Will!!!!

If you are a 'Tryer', please stop 'Trying' and start living. Not to mention, you aren't really doing anything about your current situation so you may as well stop lying to yourself and everyone else.

Until next time, Jack.