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Ripped in 60 days: Five Simple Rules for Beach Body Madness

Can you get lean, ripped, and sculpted for summer time!?

There you are — on the beach with friends. The warm sun blankets your skin in a great way, and this year — yes this year — people are staring at you.

No, it’s not because you’ve got a boog in your nose. Actually, you look like a damn celebrity with toned abs and buttocks that advertise uber fitness to the world.

You put in the effort, you get the results.

Here’s five simple tips to help you get there…

1. Make time for a great breakfast

Start eating within 30 minutes of waking.

Upon waking, our bodies are able to uptake nutrients at a super efficient rate.

Breakfast is like depositing revenue into your internal bank account. If you eat breakfast, you have more money for the rest of the day. But if you skip breakfast, you’re in debt and the high interest rates screws with your metabolism.

Fact: People who eat breakfast consume less calories daily and weigh less on average.

2. Eat Real Food, not processed.

The more whole foods you eat, the more nutrients you get, and the better physique you’ll have.

Science backs this up. In one study, a group of people who ate an actual grapefruit everyday lost significantly more weight than the group of people who drank grapefruit juice.

Whole foods are like premium fuel for your body. Treat yourself right.

3. Supplement with Omega-3 Fish Oil

Did you think you could eat fat to LOSE fat?

It’s true. In particular, Omega-3’s are essential fatty acids that have a plethora of highly important functions in the body.

One major benefit to the physique conscious is that Omega-3’s promote healthy insulin sensitivity.

In other words, your body is better able to make use of those pesky carbohydrates.

Good deal.

4. Get active!

Physical movement of any kind will help with your beach body.

However, the most powerful of all physical activities is heavy weight lifting. When you lift heavy stuff, your body responds by holding on to its muscle instead of wasting away.

So you burn more fat and keep more muscle — leading to the ultimate beach body.

5. Reduce stress and sleep well

Stress kills.

Reducing stress will help you deal with everything life throws at you — including weight loss.

Likewise, getting enough sleep — 8 hours typically — will make a massive difference when it comes to real results.

BONUS TIP

Allow yourself one cheat meal per week. If you know you’re going to go out with friends and have dinner and drinks, then consider that your cheat meal. It’s life, dude, chill and enjoy.

Our once weekly cheat meal

Then, the next day you just get back on track and keep working towards your beach body.

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Eat breakfast every day

This health habit has bang for the buck.

By eating breakfast everyday, you are depositing money into your metabolic checking account. You’ll have better energy for the rest of the day and you will make better use of food for energy.

Want to gain weight?

  • Eat a big breakfast, then keep eating big through out the day.

Want to LOSE weight?

  • Eat a big breakfast, then eat progressively smaller meals during the day.

A complete breakfast in the morning will kick start your metabolism and help your climb to the top.

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Losing Weight Eating Healthy: Right now is enough

You don’t have to look forward…always.

The feeling of this chair, writing a blog on a computer, what comes next… the moment after this?

That doesn’t matter right now, because I express wellness like a mural and share openly.

Fitness is in the Moment, and the Moment is Health.

But there’s a problem. “Food.”

The situation is appalling to the point of avoiding regular restaurant eating.

How they make you gain fat:

  • Manipulate taste while offering immediate reward at a tricky price.
  • Sugar, salt, and saturated fat and in exceedingly dangerous quantities

So there’s lots of danger in eating restaurant food 7 days a week.

Instead,

I present a better way.

Prepare your own food.

Example Meal Plan for Long Term Health and Leanness

1. Primary mealstuff: Complex carbohydrate with high protein and high fiber

  • examples: Quinoa, Brown Rice, Lentils, and Split Peas

Split Pea Nutrition

2. Plant based nutrition

  • Fruits (3 per day)
  • Vegetables (5 per day)
  • Nuts (2 per day)

3. Protein: necessary and often delicious

  • Wild Fish (the best protein because gives you tons of Omega-3 essential oils)
  • Protein powder (Whey or plant protein, good source of amino acids and immune boosters)
  • Minimal meat protein (puts more stress on the system, but highly athletic individuals may benefit more than average person)

4. Supplement: if you are deficient in a certain nutrient, can make a huge difference in your life

  • Most people need Omega-3 supplement.
  • Vitamin D is popular in the northern areas with less sun.
  • Probiotics aid digestion and immune system
  • Digestive Enzymes save the day in your gut.
  • Fiber mixture helps keep you regular.
  • Soy contains estrogrens that may or may not prevent male prostate enlargement or female breast cancer.
  • Biotin helps grow hair and nails.
  • HEMO-RAGE gets you completely jacked.

This moment brought to you by…

The smell of a gourmet restaurant in your own kitchen as home-made split pea soup simmers the senses. You may share, or you may not, but you’ve cooked at least 8 servings and can enjoy it for several days.

And if your coworkers label your lunch as “hippie food” or “paleo food” thats simply a reference to its nutritional health.

Ellison Fitness is getting ripped with little effort thanks to this.

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High Blood Pressure? Try Low-Carb Diet

Research proves Low-Carb diet reduces Blood Pressure levels

A study published in the 2010 Archives of Internal Medicine has good news for you. In a group of obese patients, the low-carb diet group lost 9.5% of their starting body weight, reduced blood pressure, and lowered bad cholesterol levels.

So if you want to take control of your health and lose weight at the same time, try a low carb diet.

Dayum, you make low carbs look GOOOOD

Can you handle less than 20 grams of carbs per day?

It makes you wonder, what are you actually allowed to eat…

  • Unlimited leafy green vegetables
  • Lean meat, salmon, and whey protein
  • Nuts, seeds, olives and oils (especially Omega-3)

Low carb isn’t easy, but trust me, it works! If you want fast results, give the low-carb diet a try.

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Fat Loss Mindset

Can you delay short term pleasure in order to gain long term satisfaction?

The hardest part of the day for me is night time. Since I work a long day, I often get home around 10 PM and am ready to snack and relax. Unless I need to prepare food for the next day, I typically am not in the mood to cook a meal. I just want some satisfaction.

Have healthy snacks readily available

I open my refrigerator and see a gallon container of Raw Kefir (freshly home-fermented in within the last few days), a gallon container of fermented Korean Kim Chi, and a big pot of healthy food that I cook a couple times a week. Then there’s my fruits, vegetables, liquid fish oil supplements, raw pickles, sauerkraut, applesauce, almond butter, etc.

Tonight, I drank my Raw Kefir for the protein and nutrients, had a sip of my fish oil (which is good since my raw Kefir contains plenty of fat-breakdown Lipase enzymes), and then some Kim Chi to boost my immune system. Since these foods are all low-calorie, low glycemic index, and heavily nutrient dense, I conveniently burn fat with a healthy metabolism.

Let’s just say, if I had ice cream in my freezer…I’d be screwed.

Take responsibility for your food

If you think your food is out of your hands, then I have to feel a little sorry. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors took responsibility for finding their food day in and day out. They created the division of labor, with the strong as hunters and the socially savvy as gatherers.

We do the same in modern society, except now large corporations such as McDonalds are your hunters, and the meat quality is putrid compared to our ancestors time.

Plan your meals

As soon as you finish your meal, you need to have a plan of what you’re eating for your next meal.

The best way to plan meals is you prepare your own food. A simple recipe I have created involves a whole grain or legume with a variety of vegetables, herbs, spices, and coconut oil. This food is full of fiber, nutrients, energy, and burns a ridiculous amount of fat.

Example recipe:

4 cups Lentils (slow carbs, fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals)

Kale (green), Onions (yellow), Red Peppers (red), Cauliflower (white), Carrots (orange) — see the theme? Diversity in nutrients.

Coconut oil (healthy Medium Chain Triglycerides for energy, metabolism, and oil for flavor)

Herbs, spices (Mrs. Dash is easy, awesome and sodium free)

Get the idea? You can make enough for six+ different meals, which ensures you have a healthy lunch and snack for the next three days.

You have to eat to lose weight

Food is your friend.

You just need to eat the right stuff. And in our urban jungle, that takes constant planning.

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