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3 Simple Ideas for your Slim Waist

Weight loss should be easy!

In fact, weight loss is easy as good choices become habitual.

Fitness is habitual

You’re a busy person, with places to go and people to see. You’ve tried to slim down before, but each time you grew frustrated with the effort costs and lack of results. Pause, for a moment, and focus not on weight loss — but on these 3 Simple Ideas that can improve your life and slim your waist.

Idea #1: Eat Carbs+Protein with Breakfeast, everyday.

Have you ever said, “I don’t have time for breakfeast” or worse, just have a donut and coffee?

Breakfeast accomplishes two things:

  • Refuel you after a long night of sleep
  • Provide energy for the first half of your day

Together, both of the above sends signals to your body allowing you to eat a higher dose of carbohydrates and protein that can actually help you lose weight!

Example breakfeast: Oatmeal (carbs) + Whey (protein). OR… Yogurt (protein) + Berries (carbs).

Idea #2: The (EllisonFitness) Grapefruit Diet

Grapefruit, you make me healthy

Versions of the Grapefruit diet have been floating around since the 1930’s. These previous diets mostly consist of very low caloric intake, but I do NOT believe in starving yourself.

Grapefruits are considered a SuperFood based on high vitamins, phytonutrients, bioflavonoids, and enzymes that boost digestion and metabolism. Grapefruits are also in Season.

How: Prepare slices of grapefruit in the morning, and consume 1/3 grapefruit Before each meal.

Since grapefruit prepares you for digestion and contains dietary fiber, you may be compelled to eat less food in your meals because you will be easier satisfied. This, of course, is in addition to all of the metabolism boosting health effects of Grapefruit.

Eat on!

Idea #3: Walk, Talk, and Enjoy it a Lot. Or Take a Hike!

Fall in Ravenna Park, Seattle

Enjoy the seasons, wear warm clothes, and go for a stroll in the park with friends. This type of exercise not only burns calories, but also puts you in a more balanced mood — allowing for better weight loss progress. We know that a positive social support system is Essential for healthy weight loss.

Feel free to run up the paths, explore new areas of the city. Or better yet, go hiking! Since Hiking requires long endurance, your body can better utilize Body Fat as a source of energy — more than jogging! This means you burn more fat, and keep more lean muscle!

Any additional walking will make slimming down just that much easier!

Simple tips, not miracles.

Weight loss is a process that happens over time. It requires a combination of Healthy Food, Physical Activity, and a Positive Social Support System. Add more activities that include these three pillars of health, and you will be closer to the slim waist of your dreams!

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Sex, Sugar, and dozens of lies

Whats the difference between sex and refined sugar?

Your body wants to avoid just one of the above.

Seduced, this time, and what about next time?

What is it that makes us feel so much sensual pleasure together? The gratifying texture, the sweet smell, the mind controlling urges — coming together. Yes, I’m talking about Sugar here.

Sugar is like unprotected sex for your taste buds

…eventually, you’re going to get sick!

Sugar provides no benefits whatsoever — consuming it is a pleasurable experience with deadly consequences.

The fast food restaurants and processed food corporations continue to seduce with beauty and pleasure, but there is nothing beautiful about decay.

How Sugar Kills

Cravings may never completely end.

Day by day, slowly…over time, there is decay:

  • Sugar contains ZERO nutrition
  • In order to digest sugar, your body leeches essential vitamins and minerals from itself.
  • Inflammation
  • Diabetes
  • Blood Pressure
  • Cholesterol
  • You will get Fat, or…
  • You will get Sick.
  • Even when you’re sick, you still want more sugar.

Refined sugar:

Keep it to LESS than 50 Grams per day.

+ A Natural Alternative +

Sugar found naturally in food is SAFE for consumption. Fruits, even those high in sugar, are so nutritious that the benefits outweigh any of the low sugar contained within.

Enjoy, with me:

  • Apples, Oranges, Grapefruit
  • Watermelon, Kiwi, Cantaloupe
  • Banana, Mango, Peach
  • Blueberries, Raspberries, Blackberries
A healthy alternative

A healthy alternative

Almost everyone who cuts Refined Sugar out of their diet will lose body fat. This is a bold statement, but I stand behind it.

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Eat like a Model, look like one too?

Blessed by one part genetics, but also takes care of herself.

If you need relationship advice, you don’t ask your single friends.

If you need weight loss advice, you DO look at what the fit people are doing. Marisa is fit, in shape, and doing everything right — because her job depends on it. Does your health matter?

Marisa treats herself well

1. Breakfeast

  • Ezekiel bread
  • Omelet with cheese and vegetables

2. Lunch

  • Chicken
  • Spinach Salad

3. Snack

  • Dried fruits / Nuts
  • Protein bar

4. Dinner

Tuna mixed with…

  • Apple, Celery, Mayo, and Lemon Juice
  • Bed of vegetables

Lesson learned:

  1. Whole foods + protein supplement
  2. Carbs in morning, protein in the evening.
  3. Plenty of fruits and vegetables
  4. Only eat like me…if you want to look good too.

Stay tuned for more.

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Drink light beer?

Light beers account for $50,000,000,000 in U.S. sales per year.

chill, drink Select 55

Alcohol = Weight loss??

Keep in mind that alcohol contains 7 calories per gram, whereas protein only contains 4 calories per gram. This means that calories from alcohol adds up a lot faster.

With Americans fighting the battle of the bulge, our beer companies have obliged to demand by producing lighter and lighter beers for heavier and heavier people.

Your low calorie beer options

1. Miller Genuine Draft 64 contains (you guessed it) 64 calories with… 2.8% alcohol. You would need to drink two of these to equal one ‘standard drink.’

2. Anheuser-Busch Select 55 has its calorie count in the name as well, with a whopping 2.4% alcohol.

So far, responses to the beers have been positive in terms of popularity and revenue. We’re talking millions of dollars in sales, for beers that people say, “tastes kind of watery.”

This blogger would like to take a moment and state the obvious, that at 2.4% alcohol, it is almost entirely water!

Alcohol is NOT weight loss friendly

With high caloric and toxic effects on the body, alcohol will never promote (safe) weight loss. We all know that alcohol in excess harms the body, so keep it in moderation.

Pick your poison, then drink to friends and good times.

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How Much Protein?

Latest research says excess protein may be wasted.

This guy eats more than 20 grams of protein at a time

This guy eats more than 20 grams protein per meal

Recent studies indicate that 20 grams of protein at a time is all you need for optimal muscle synthesis.

But…this doesn’t tell the whole story.

Why More than 30 Grams Protein at a time is a Good Thing:

  1. Protein requires more energy for the body to digest — therefore protein is more Fat-Burning!
  2. If you don’t get those extra calories from protein, then you have to make up for it in carbs or fats. Either way, high protein diets build leaner bodies.
  3. More benefits including metabolism, growth hormone, cardiovascular health, increased performance, and lean body composition.

For more, check out John Berardi’s excellent protein article at Precision Nutrition.

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