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  1. Butter – Good Fat Or Bad Fat

    September 15, 2009 by admin

    People are often shocked when they see how much butter I use and eat in one day. But I know the real truth; Butter is a good fat and can actually help you to lose weight.

    Unfortunately, a person thinking butter is unhealthy is a very common misconception. People still think that butter and saturated fats are the reason for heart disease. It is one of the top killers in this country (and now in many other countries as well). The truth is that it’s not the natural fats that are causing this epidemic, it’s the sugar, processed and packaged foods and overconsumption of refined oils that are causing so much disease (and you can add Diabetes, High Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure to this list as well).

    I go into this topic in much greater detail in the Fats Chapter of the Diet Solution Program but here are a few nuggets of info to ponder:

    1. Did you know that during the 60 year period from 1910-1970, the proportion of traditional animal fat in the American diet declined from 83% to 62%?

    2. During this same time butter consumption plummeted from 18 pounds per person each year to 4 pounds per person each year.

    3. During the past 80 years, the consumption of dietary cholesterol intake has increased only one percent.

    So where is the problem? Why all the heart disease?

    1. During the same period, the average intake of dietary vegetable oils (margarine, shortening, and refined oils) increased by about 400%.

    2. During the same period, the consumption of sugar and processed foods increased by about 60%

    Those are the facts, but there’s never better proof than the results I see with my clients and my readers. When people finally stop eating margarine, refined oils, “fake” butters, sugar and processed foods made their health sky rockets! (and by sky rockets I mean, gets better, greatly improves, elevates to whole new levels). Not to mention all the body fat they lose off their body (now isn’t that just an awful side effect?)

    It’s important to mention that the butter I use is organic and grass fed. It has this beautiful deep yellow color and is not white like most conventional butters. It has gone through minimal processing and has no added growth hormones and antibiotics.

    Now that I told you butter is ok to eat, here is a delicious chicken recipe you can enjoy:

    (Please remember that the mad scientist in me sometimes forgets to document the exact amounts so you may need to play around with this a bit.)

    Chicken with “I’m not afraid of butter” dressing

    Ingredients:

    2 large chicken breasts (approximately 1 lb of chicken)
    6 Tbsp of melted butter
    lemon juice from 1/2 large lemon
    1/4 cup olive oil
    salt, pepper and garlic powder to taste

    Directions:

    Melt 1 tbsp of butter in a large pan. Season chicken breasts with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Cook chicken breasts in butter covered on a very low heat. Do not let the butter get brown. Pour lemon juice in a separate bowl. Slowly stir in the remaining melted butter as you stir mixture. Then slowly add the olive oil as you stir mixture. Season with salt, pepper and garlic powder.

    Once the chicken is cooked through, serve on a plate and pour the “dressing mixture” over your cooked chicken breasts.

    Don’t be surprised if you are tempted to pour this dressing on your veggies and just about every other food item you can think of. It’s delicious!

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  2. A Little Bit Of Exercise Motivation

    August 10, 2009 by admin

    Many people know how important exercise is as an integral part of their weight loss and health plan but still have a difficult time fitting it into their busy lives.

    One possible reason could be that, yes, exercise can be challenging when you first begin your program or you just give yourself the excuse “I just don’t have the time.”

    What I have figured out for myself and for hundreds of my clients that no matter which exercise program they choose, it must be something they enjoy. Especially when it comes to the setting and location.

    For me, I have converted the 2nd bedroom of my house into my “home gym”.

    NO, home gym does not mean I have the most expensive, high tech equipment. To be honest, the only items that make up my home gym are: an exercise ball, 2 adjustable weights, an exercise mat, and an old Spinning bike that I bought used from a local YMCA. That’s it! Nothing expensive or high tech about it.

    Many times in the past I have joined gyms and told myself I was going to go. But like many other gym members, I never go! Now, I do really enjoy exercising so why wouldn’t I actually use my gym membership?

    I figured out that I really love my exercise room. It’s my private time to myself and I don’t have to worry about who else needs the equipment or who’s lurking around the gym. I get an hour to myself and it’s a great way to start my day.

    I asked myself if this could possibly be what’s stopping many people from exercising. “Is this most people’s problem? Do they not like where they work out so they just don’t want to go?” So it’s really not the actual workout but the environment that they’re in.

    Now maybe for you the situation is just the opposite. You don’t like working out in your home and you would much rather get out and be motivated by other healthy people. Whatever the case may be, choose something you enjoy! You will never make a lifestyle change to include exercise on a consistent basis if you don’t enjoy it. Who wants to do something that feels like torture? Not me. I love my morning exercise time and if it felt like torture, I just wouldn’t do it.

    My question to you is: What do you have to do to make your workout time enjoyable? Or (heaven forbid) something you actually look forward to? Join an adult sports league? Start your own exercise group? Join a new gym? Set up a home gym? Find a workout partner? The choices are endless.

    Try many different options and figure out which activity you would enjoy best and I assure you, exercise never has to be a drag.

    Get started on a new healthy nutrition and exercise plan right now with the meal plans and exercise programs in The Diet Solution Program.

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  3. Simple Tips To Remember If You Want To Lose Weight And Start Living Healthy

    June 29, 2009 by admin

    A lot of diet programs out there claim to be the best way to lost weight. The fact is, most of these diet and exercise programs are not as effective as they claim.

    Statistics show that approximately 75% of Americans are overweight, and 40% are suffering from obesity.

    We all want to be fit. We all have inside us the drive to turn our lives around, and just seriously live a healthy lifestyle. As the cliché goes “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” As much as you want to be healthy, years of unchecked diet and little to no exercise kind of grows on you too well. For some, it’s the frustration of trying out several diet and health programs and not finding results that’s pushed them to just give up.

    Here are a few easy to remember facts that will teach you how to eat healthy:

    1. Go organic: At the start of the organic bandwagon, these kinds of food were priced quite higher than their regular counterparts or non-organics. Also, organic food was a tad smaller than chemically boosted non-organics. But today, as more and more people are switching to organic, the prices are getting lower and the quality is getting higher.

    Organic food is simply healthier than non-organics. For instance, farmers who are switching to organic are required to “clean” their soil from chemical pesticides, a months-long process. Each food item market organic goes through very strict guidelines in order to pass as organic foods.

    Dietary professionals even consider organic as the backbone of the best diet plan: for its nutritional value and lack of chemical additives and genetic interference. Organic really is the best way to eat.

    2. Stop the sugar: It should come as no surprise that sugar is the number one factor in most regular diets that sustains weight gain.

    Thoroughly inspect the nutritional value of a food item before you buy. Don’t totally eject sugar from your diet, just minimize it.

    3. Healthy and unhealthy fats learn the difference: Low fat diet recipes means recipes that contain little to no unhealthy fats. Salmon, tuna, raw nuts, avocadoes, whole eggs, these are all good and fairly easy to find sources of healthy fats that should be a staple in any healthy dieting program.

    Avoiding unhealthy fats means avoiding unwanted fatty buildups in the body, therefore promoting weight loss.

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