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Amp the Fat-Burning with Complex Carbohydrates for Fat Loss

A delicious way to Burn the Fat!

With your friends, ‘Carbs’ no longer needs to be a dirty word. Complex Carbohydrates are a great way to live.

Primal complexity from a carbohydrate!

Made possible by Complex Carbs

Now, to harness the energy...

Three good reasons to eat complex carbs

1. Awesome energy for daily duties and leisure.

2. Beneficial to the digestive system, you enjoy certain regularity.

3. BURN THE FAT!

It’s all about the ingredients.

Split Peas or Lentils – boil water and simmer till ready

Add these…

+Extra Virgin Coconut Oil

+Braggs Liquid Aminos (instead of salt)

+Mrs. Dash seasoning

Then to boost the nutritional content, add any sort of vegetable you could possibly want.

Top it off with fresh avocado and you’ll be in heaven.

Stay fit, my friends.

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How to Lose those Last Few Pounds!

Losing the last few pounds is the most difficult.

If you have reached a weight-loss plateau, then the first step is realizing that you need to change what you’re doing. You need to give your body a real reason to burn those last few pounds.

The last few pounds almost always come from the belly.

You gotta want it.

Sure, you occasionally go out and eat delicious restaurant food and maybe you even got a dessert. You still lost weight for a couple months, but now the scale just ain’t movin. Whats the deal, yo?

Clean up your diet.

Every single piece of food that you consume will either work with you or work against you.

Let me repeat that.

Everything you put in your body is either friend or foe when it comes to fat loss.

You must eat it to burn it!

  • Choose the right foods — fruits, vegetables, some grains, lean protein, and health supplements.
  • Eat breakfast within one hour of waking, everyday.
  • Drink lots of pure water.
  • Have small snacks when you’re hungry — if it comes in a bag and has a brand name, it’s probably not a healthy snack.
  • Consume balanced meals with plenty of whole food.
  • Enjoy more carbs in the morning, and more protein in the evening.
  • Keep your eye on the prize: DELAY INSTANT GRATIFICATION!

And thats it. Burn that fat, baby!!

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Revealing the Secrets of Weight-Loss Food

Weight loss foods have the most authentic character.

A congruency within the body. Thats how we know the apple is so healthful.

Did you hear? She's dating Johnny Appleseed now.

The apple is but one character in the massive undertaking of digestion.

To truly benefit, you need to know the secrets behind Weight Loss Food so that you know it when you see it.

Weight Loss Foods…

  • are Fresh.
  • high in at least one of the following:
    1. fiber,
    2. protein (essential amino acids),
    3. unsaturated fats (essential fatty acids), or
    4. vital nutrients from fruits and vegetables.
  • consists of one ingredient: itself. (or part of a team of weight loss foods)
  • are consumed at optimal periods during the day

If it comes from a restaurant, has more than six months shelf life, or contains processed sugar, it’s probably not a weight loss food.

I challenge you

Eating healthy is not as easy as going to drive-thru’s five days a week.

Take responsibility for your food. Make it at home and earn the sense that life is more valuable from here. It feels good every time.

All you need is a cooler lunch box (the boxes designed to hold a six-pack are great), some reusable containers, and a gel ice pack.

What are you waiting for? Go eat some Weight Loss Food and say goodbye to belly!

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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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Ellison Fitness to BURN Excess Weight and Get Ripped for ’20-TEN!

New Years Resolutions raise a certain feeling.

There was a lot of food during the holidays. I felt like I could hold myself back, but once the warm freshly baked smell penetrated my senses… there was no going back. Let’s face it, when the food is even more plentiful than the eating team, feasting becomes festive.

STEP 1) Create realistic goals

I don’t care if you want to lose 30 pounds, it’s not going to happen until you get real with yourself.

My Realistic Goal: Eat very clean for the next 26 out of 30 days (1 relax day per week), enjoy a plethora of healthy home cooked meals, and BURN OFF PURE FAT STORES.

STEP 2) It isn’t about what you can’t eat, but that which you CAN eat.

Too many people focus on what they shouldn’t eat instead of  viking raiding the river of what you CAN eat. There are a lot of good foods out there!

My Eating Plan: Consume the following foods within a 30 day time period:

  • Seven apples
  • Two giant servings of Kale
  • Broccoli for three days
  • One salmon, prepared for a king.
  • Raw Sauerkraut OR Kim Chi for 15 out of 30 days
  • Fresh Kefir probiotic drink for 15 out of 30 days
  • Whey Protein after workouts
  • Leverage the power of spices to create my own lentil soup recipe
  • Two grapefruits
  • Quinoa 7 out of 30 days.
  • Seven cucumbers
  • Walnuts or almonds on 15 out of 30 days.
  • Be flexible, quality produce goes on sale regularly

STEP 3) Get Movin’

Even if exercise didn’t burn fat, and even if exercise didn’t boost metabolism, I would still do it for the mental health benefits. Exercise has been proven to help your body adapt to stress, reduce risk of depression, and keep you motivated to eat healthy.

Now we just have to get up and out.

My Workout:

Fitness Regime.

  1. Monday: Warm up with 10 minute treadmill, then Full Body Workout
  2. Thursday: Warm up with 10 minute dynamic drills, then Lower body workout, and flexibility
  3. Friday: Warm up with 10 minute treadmill, then Upper body workout, and flexibility

Wildcard: Add an additional FOUR days of cardio workouts, anytime in the next 30 days.

STEP 4) Track Progress, Adapt and Move Forward

Damn, I just ate a bucket of wild gooseberries with coconut ice cream and a bottle of gin. Can I forgive myself?

YES!

Recognize that we can’t be perfect. However, the ways in which we respond to “failures” can bring us closer to our goals than ever before.

Then, continue to hold yourself accountable by tracking progress.

My Method of Tracking Progress:

  • Take full body pictures in two week intervals in order to track progress.
  • Weigh myself at same time as pictures.

Assess: How much weigh did I lose? More importantly, am I preserving muscle and how much pure fat did I burn?

STEP 5) Mission Accomplished

I learn a new lesson every time I work on goals like this. More importantly, I create healthy habits that are valuable — so valuable that people pay me for my time.

Health is all about Lifestyle

Even though revenue can be generated from fitness expertise, my motivation is purely intrinsic. That is, I am driven from the inside. This is an indispensable trait that can be cultivated through mind-body connection and whole foods.

Prepare yourselves for the after-pictures. There will be abdominals.

Blog & Personality Physical Fitness by Dre Power of the Mind Weightloss Now