The FASTEST fat loss system EVER developed

2 things for you today:

One... apparently we had a lot of questions come in yesterday about the 1,000-Calorie Challenge and whether or not it's only for advanced trainees or is suited for beginners  - the answer is YES, it can be perfectly suited to beginners as well!

In fact, the entire 1st phase of the program was specifically created to take you from 300 calorie beginner workouts all the way to full blown 1,000+ calorie advanced workouts in 4 weeks or LESS.

That's actually the reason the program was created - to provide a solution that will progress exercisers as fast as possible to the goal of being able to DO workouts that burn massive calories and fat.

And as a reminder, you can still save $50 on the 1,000-Calorie Challenge program right now during the pre-sale at the below page:

==> http://tinyurl.com/1000-calorie-challenge4u


One other thing we have for you is a short article from Joel explaining one of the methods they use in the 1,000 Calorie Challenge to help you rapidly progress and lose fat fast:


1 Unique Strategy to Go from "Beginner" to Advanced - FAST
By Joel Marion -- co-creator of the 1000-Calorie Challenge


You see, while your level of fitness may not currently be in a place where you can jump right in to doing 1,000 calorie workouts, we can get you there in as little as four weeks--and that's for ENTRY LEVEL trainees.

Been training for a while? We'll get you there in 2 weeks.

It all comes down to utilizing a system that will progress you from burning 300 calories to 450 calories to 600 calories to 800 calories to 1,000 calories in NO time, and that's what we've developed with Strategic Set Progression and R-Quattro techology.

What is Strategic Set Progression?

Well, it's just ONE of the methods we use to push you toward the 1,000 calorie goal FAST, and it goes a little something like this:

In week 1, we start with workouts that implement standard sets in which you rest between each exercise.

Then, on week 2, we move to supersets in which you are alternating back and forth between two exercises with minimal rest.

During week 3 we up the ante even further by switching to tri-sets in which 3 exercises are paired together back-to-back-to-back.

How bout week four? Well, that's where we move from tri-sets to 4-exercise Giant Sets.

And finally, for the 1,000 Calorie workouts, we move on to strategically designed 10-exercise Insane Circuits.

Frankly, by combining brand new R-Quattro technology with Strategic Set Progression, your body fat doesn't stand a chance.

To learn more about R-Quattro technology and 2 MORE methods for burning fat and calories fast, see below:

==> http://tinyurl.com/1000-calorie-challenge4u

So, if you're thinking "I might not be ready for this", that's the EXACT reason we created this program - to GET you ready faster than anything else ever could.

Beyond that, blasting away up to 3 pounds or more of PURE fat EVERY week is pretty cool, too :)

Thanks for your time today...  Enjoy the program!

Do you need to lose weight?

It's healthy to be fat... kind of.

The fat and health issue is a complex one, with many factors to consider. Medical research has raised more questions than it has answered. It seems that, while there are health risks associated with being fat, there are also some health benefits. It may be healthier to remain at a stable high weight than to yo-yo diet.

 World's Fattest Man

Do you want to look like this?

Put that twinkie down then.

The politics of size.

Discrimination is as much a fact of life for fat people as it is for other people outside the "norm." Fat people earn less money, are turned down for medical insurance, jobs, and housing. They are subjected to insensitive remarks and are often judged by their body shape and size as being stupid, lazy, slovenly, unhealthy, and either over- or under-sexed. The stereotypes exist despite volumes of evidence to the contrary and impact our lives in every facet of our existence.

Men were not as heavily penalized for being overweight as women were. Both genders were awarded for being slim and athletic, while both were penalized for being overwight or obese.

Barbie and Ken are hot... or not.

If Barbie were a real woman she would have to grow to be seven feet tall. She would have a bust that was between 38-40 inches, her waist 18-24 inches, her hips around 33-35 inches. Barbie's weight would be 110 pounds. If she were a real woman, Barbie would have to walk on all fours due to her proportions. If Ken were a real man, he would be seven-feet, eight-inches tall. An average man would have to add seven inches to his chest and about eight inches to his neck to equal Ken's measurements. The average man, at least seems to be beating him in one area that is suspicously missing from Ken's anatomy...

Fact: According to the American Airlines manual for flight attendants, 'A firm, trim silhouette, free of bulges, rolls, or paunches, is necessary for an alert, efficient image.

Fact: According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the average weight for an adult female in the United States is 162.9 pounds. 189.8 pounds for the average male.

Fact: It's estimated that at least 5-10% of the population has a preference for a large-size partner. Because our society does not view this as a legitimate preference, many people who prefer fat partners face harassment from their families and peers. As the preference for the large-size partner is legitimized, the 5-10% figure may rise.

Weight Loss Supplements - Totally Worthless!

I'll teach you exactly how to lose fat without supplements, drugs, or equipment!
"Weight loss plainly wants right eating habits, and please do not hear to anybody who tells otherwise!"

Does permanent weight loss require supplements or equipment?

I wish there was a way for me to shout "no!!!" loud enough for all to listen my weep. Discontinue investing in a flock of supplements that will ne'er work, regardless how long or often you utilise them (read on to discover why). Never buy gimmicked exercising machines that assure miracle results (whether it be for the tummy, buns, hips, thighs, or any body part), but in the long run, simply serve as an cheap giveaway at your next garage sale.

Abdominal machines assuring to firm your stomach and assist you reduce stomach fat completely in a mere thirty days, don't raise the appearance  or flatten your waistline, and will not burn down single ounce of extra fat. However, they do add nicely to your weight loss related junk collection.

This is just a small sample of the numerous misconceptions concerning permanent weight loss, and in the coming paragraphs I'll try to end whole of the needless confusion.

Realize that body fat not just attaches itself to our stomach, hips, thighs, and arms, but also to our face...losing fat improves the way we look from head to toe! Believe me, I know...as I at one time had an chubby everything...

Why is weight loss so confusing?

In my efforts to become a naturally large muscle-builder, I did numerous dietary mistakes that left me with over fifty pounds of extra fat and a grotesque forty-three inch waist. All individual who's in need of weight loss has got a goal of finding out the perfect formula to permanently lose fat without committing themselves to difficult, unsafe, impractical dieting and exercising routines.

Throughout my first months, I read several books and articles on nutrition, putting the diverse ideas, theories, and plans to the test -- on myself. Few worked better than others, but none worked very well. However, I had a lot weight to lose, and so I continued trying out on different dietetic schemes.

Along with attempting several popular fad diets, I too spent tons of money and time trying out on legal dietary supplements that assured quick, supernatural weight loss. I figured that with so many "fat burners" on the market claiming to quickly and effortlessly get rid of excess weight; at least one had to work as advertised.

After spending countless dollars on best-selling supplements with the words "thermogenic" and "metabolic" printed on the label, I found nothing that came in a tablet, powder, or spray that assisted in getting rid of any excess weight (fat).

What actually upset me was that these companies legally and continually promoted astonishing results, yet delivered nothing but the status quo. I even attempted "stacking" many products at the same time hoping for a hint of progress, but I was left with utter disappointment.

The weight loss supplement lie

How can these supplement companies continue to deceive the public with their outlandish, unproven claims, when pharmaceutical companies must undergo rigid testing prior to releasing publicly consumable drugs? The sad fact is, although the government regulates these supplement providers, claims are rarely examined.

Therefore, well known companies can release a new supplement monthly, advertise results that aren't even possible with illegal drugs, and suffer no adverse impact. They benefit, but we continue to suffer.

Unfortunately, weight loss supplement providers could not continually profit if they offered a product that actually produced permanent results! If you lose weight, you won't buy their next "new, amazing fat absorber", but will keep sending them $200 per month to try the next bottled fad. Amazingly, their goal is to keep you fat! The less weight you lose, the more supplements you will buy! Never forget this!

If supplements can claim to offer an "easy, fast, legal aid to weight loss", we're all going to try the product in hopes of finally achieving rapid and permanent weight loss. Guess who benefits? Not us. This is scary, but very true. Don't fall for it! I did, and am disappointed that it took me years to determine that I was not buying a legal, safe weight loss agent, but rather an overpriced, hard to swallow capsule that added to my confusion.

The key to a flat stomach

Can you obtain a rock hard stomach from a plastic pillow? What about a wheelbarrow? It would be nice if you could, which is why so many people bought those frightening abdominal "rockers" and "wheels". On one box, I saw something like "over 250,000 sold", which means that over 250,000 individuals wasted their time and money on an overblown bird feeder.

First off, fat is the only reason why the abs (stomach muscles) are invisible. Case closed! Even if you perform thousands of crunches each day, or even all day, you will never have a firm mid-section when fat hides the underlying muscle! The key to losing this stored fat is proper diet -- you can even neglect exercise completely, and if you follow an effective diet routine, you will burn body fat (exercise simply enhances the rate of fat loss when you follow a proper diet)!

The makers of these machines are well aware of this fact, which is why they include a diet program with each of these contraptions. They hope the user follows the diet plan, and attributes any improvement in their appearance to the dummy machine. Wow! It's nice to see ethical behavior has taken the world by storm! But let's now examine why the machine doesn't work.

Each of these contraptions, by nature, is designed to make a stomach crunch easier, which does nothing to increase firmness and improve tone in your mid-section! In fact, to make crunches effective, you need to increase, not decrease, resistance, which is the exact opposite of what these gadgets offer. Unfortunately, there is no machine in existence today that can offer you such stimulation, so stop searching.

Remember, you need to lose fat from the mid-section to display a firm, athletic stomach, and toy store items like these abdominal chairs and wheels will only eat up your hard earned money. Lose the fat through proper diet (which is the primary factor), and correctly perform crunches (that require no special equipment), to tone your abs. But remember -- you can't define your mid-section without losing fat, thus crunches without proper diet are worthless!

Many perform crunches while following an ineffective diet routine, and achieve nothing, so never forget that proper diet is crucial! No special machines -- no awkward, uncomfortable exercises -- it's not as difficult as people think!

The bottom line on supplements and equipment

I could not even consider naming every available weight loss product that falsely promises rapid, dramatic physical improvements, as the list is endless. This is not taking into consideration the thousands of products not yet introduced -- a new batch of weight loss fantasy gadgets and supplements are released every 1-3 months, and they all fall into the same category (waste of time and money!). If you learn only one lesson from this web site, let it be the following:

Proper diet and exercise is the only road to permanent and consistent weight loss -- there are no short-cuts! No "miracle" exercise device or supplement can burn fat, as the key to transforming an overweight, flabby body is proper diet/exercise techniques.

The above may be difficult to digest, but it is nevertheless the absolute truth. Physical fitness enterprises make their billions by appealing to your inner most senses, creating the appearance of a "do-nothing" approach to achieving dramatic physical improvement. Despite their deception, never forget -- there is no product available now or in the future that substitutes for proper diet/exercise techniques. If you remember this, you've learned more than 95% of the people who are currently pursuing weight loss. Knowledge is key!

Must I exercise to lose fat?

The only required element for consistent fat loss is proper diet, thus exercise is not an essential factor. Yet, if one chooses to engage in regular exercise, fat loss accelerates. For example, if you lose 15 pounds in one month through proper diet techniques (no exercise), you will enhance results by 5-15 pounds (losing 20-30 pounds) through introducing proper exercise variables in conjunction with diet.

Thus, if you wish to enhance the rate of progress, adding exercise to proper diet is a worthwhile technique. Yet, if you are satisfied with the speed of weight loss using proper diet only, exercise is not necessary.

Weight loss clinics?

I don't have any specific gripes with weight loss clinics, but I firmly believe that anybody can lose weight without their symbolic hand-holding. They charge a mint for being a coach while you are putting forth maximum effort, not them. They should be paying you for working your tail, not taking a dollar a pound, or whatever their current promotion absorbs. Once you learn the proper diet and exercise methods, it's unnecessary to spend $200/month for somebody to watch.

How I discovered the proper method for permanent weight loss

From low carb high protein, to high carb low fat, to the strangely popular high fat diet, I experimented with all available options. I found that certain meal plans have some very effective ideas, but none offered all of the necessary ingredients to quickly, permanently, conveniently, and safely eliminate fat.

Low carbohydrate diet?

For example, the low carbohydrate diet plan will cause a reduction in body weight within the first 1-2 weeks, but the majority of weight lost is water / muscle, and not fat. Fat loss will follow, but unfortunately it is accompanied by a metabolic slowdown.

The initial reduction of water/muscle actually decreases the rate at which you burn calories and, as a result, you will gain back every lost pound once you integrate carbohydrates back into your diet! It is not possible to follow a no-carbohydrate diet long term (it is unhealthy to do so), and inevitably you will find yourself introducing them into your regular eating plan after several weeks.

Never forget -- losing body fat is your only goal, as reducing muscle tissue and water weight does not improve your appearance, and in fact greatly slows or even prohibits the fat loss process (which is why so many are "stuck" with no further results).

In addition, weight loss on a low carbohydrate plan produces a smaller version of your former self rather than enhancing your physical appearance (due to muscle loss, which eliminates tone, and creates a sagging, unappealing body structure).

Lastly, once you begin to follow a normal, carb based diet (a low carb plan such as the atkins diet is impossible and dangerous to follow long term), within several months, you will likely find yourself fatter than before you started the diet, and you'll quickly search for a new routine. Low carb diets are not a permanent fat loss solution!

Not just weight loss.... Fat loss is key!

Always remember that weight is composed of water, muscle, and fat -- your only goal is to shed excess fat, as muscle is essentially a calorie burning furnace (and will help you to quickly and permanently eliminate all excess body weight, even while resting). Any diet that restricts carbs in favor of high protein or excessive fat intake is counterproductive, and does not permanently eliminate body fat. In fact, most find themselves fatter due to carbohydrate depriving diet plans.

Controling insulin with carbohydrates!

One of the many keys to permanent weight loss is controlling the hormone "insulin". Through proper caloric division, food selection, and protein/carb percentages (where carbs are a part of diet, but properly balanced with protein), coupled with a potent exercise routine (if you wish to accelerate results), not only will you reduce overall insulin secretion, but also cause an immediate release of stored calories (fat) into the blood stream.

Insulin is essentially a fat storage hormone and, if not properly manipulated through dietary variables, will prevent fat loss, even on a low caloric intake (which is the main reason why high carbohydrate diet plans will never promote fat reduction, regardless of what many "dietary experts" have claimed). In addition, suppressing insulin reduces both blood pressure and cholesterol readings, while preventing/curing diabetic symptoms.

High carbohydrate diet?

High carbohydrate diet plans produce a different, yet equally ineffective, response. In cases of high carbohydrate ingestion, the body actually suppresses fat burning hormones, preventing the release of stored calories (fat). In fact, the only enzymes produced through a high carbohydrate focus are fat storing in nature (insulin), meaning unless calories are very low, you will actually gain fat on a high carbohydrate plan!

Even if you were to sharply reduce calories, the excess carbohydrate concentration will continue to prevent the release of stored fat, but will gladly burn up muscle tissue (as protein content in such diet routines is extremely low). 

Thus, common diet philosophies that concentrate on a high carbohydrate, low protein/fat basis provide results similar to that of low carbohydrate / high protein structures -- muscle is lost, and fat percentage increases!

BURN THE FAT Q & A WITH TOM VENUTO

BURN THE FAT Q & A WITH TOM VENUTO
http://www.BurnTheFat.com
http://www.BurnTheFat.Com/innercircle
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QUESTION:

Hi Tom, I'm 4 foot 11 and now weigh 46 kg with 22% Body fat. I am doing 4 weight training sessions and 6 cardio sessions/wk.

The cardio usually fasted, on a treadmill doing 4-5 degree incline walking at 6.8km/h for 40 min and 5-10 min cool down. It says for my weight I burn 362 cals. I'm not sure what i burn with weight training, it takes about 40 min to complete.

I have created my food plan for the week and I'm thinking of doing a 30% deficit which brings me to approx 1280 calories daily.

I wanted to change something (reduce calories) because I haven't had any results for 2 weeks now and I don't think I can fit in anymore cardio sessions. I'm also planning to use your carb cycling approach, using
the 3 low/ 1 high day rotation.

My question: Do I need to eat at or above my maintenance calories to make the refeed/high day effective or is ok if I'm about 150 cals short? I find it hard to eat all the food.

The fat is coming off really slow. Reading about other people's body fat loss in your Inner Circle success stories (I'm a member), is inspiring, but also a little discouraging as mine is so slow.

Also, with the bodyfat scales, why is the BF% reading always higher, in my case anyway, compared to the Accumeasure calipers, which i still havent mastered yet?

ANSWER:

One thing to keep in mind is that at 4' 11" and 46 kg, you have fairly low calorie needs.

You may have heard (or, heh, realized), that it's more difficult for women to lose fat than men. Immediately most people think it must be estrogen or hormonal issues. But perhaps the biggest factor is NOT hormones, but the simple fact that women are usually smaller and lighter than men.

When you have a smaller body, you have lower calorie needs. When you have lower calorie needs, your relative deficit (20%, 30% etc) gives you a smaller absolute deficit and therefore you lose fat more slowly than someone who is larger and can create a large deficit more easily.

For example, if my TDEE is 3300 calories a day (Im 5' 8" and moderately to very active), then a 20% deficit is 660 calories, which brings me to 2640 calories a day. On paper, that will give me about 1.3 lbs of wt loss per week, rather painlessly, I might add.

If I bumped my calorie burn up or decreased my intake by another 340 a day, that's enough to give me a 2 lbs per week wt loss.

That's hardly a starvation diet (Ahhh the joys of being a man). For smaller women, the math equation is very different.

If your total daily energy expenditure is only 1970 calories, even at a VERY high exercise level, then a 20% deficit for you is only 394 calories which would put you at 1576 calories a day for (on paper) only 8/10th of a lb of fat loss/wk.

If you pursued your plan to take a more aggressive calorie deficit of 30%, that puts you at a 591 calorie deficit which would now drop you down to only 1382 calories/day.

That's starting to get fairly low in calories. However, you would still have a fairly small calorie deficit. In fact, I
I would get to eat almost twice as many calories as you and I'd still get almost twice the weekly rate of fat loss!

What this all means is that women who are petite or have a small body size are going to lose fat more slowly than larger women and much more slowly than men, so you cannot compare yourself to them.

It's great to be inspired by our success stories, but if you're looking for someone to model yourself after, choose one of our success stories of someone your body size and wt, rather than the folks who started 100 lbs overweight and were therefore easily dropping 3 lbs a week.

ONE POUND a week of fat loss is much more in line with a realistic goal for someone your body size. Overweight people can lose it faster. You are already 22% body fat at only 46 kg. (so look on the bright side - you are NOT overweight - you are simply working on getting even leaner than you already are).

The numbers of your plan look to be in the ballpark and your strategy makes sense. You simply need to be extremely consistent with your nutrition over time.

Suggestion #1: Weigh and measure all your food any time you feel you are stuck at a plateau, just to be sure. When your calorie expenditure is on the low side, you don't have much margin for error.

Suggestion #2:  Take your body comp measurements with a grain of salt, esp if you are using Bioelectric Impedance Analysis (BIA) scales (they are a bit wonky) and remember that body comp testing is seldom perfect. Pay attention to your circumference measurements, how your clothes fit and how you look in the mirror and in photos as well.

Suggestion #3: You might actually want to take fewer refeeds -once a week instead of every 4th day, or even just once every 10-14 days, so you can get a larger weekly deficit. To answer your question, yes it is ok if your 150 cals short on high carb days if you are full (be happy that you are full - many people have to deal with constant hunger when the calories get low)

Suggestion #4: You may want to take 2 or 3 of your long cardios on the treadmill and switch them to intense intervals or ANY other type of activity that has potential to burn more than 362 calories for an hour's investment of time, or perhaps that equivalent calorie burn in less time. No need to add more days of cardio or more time - get the most out of the time you are already spending.

Suggestion #5: If you do intervals, don't make the workout too brief (ignore the advertisements for those "4 minute miracle" workouts, etc etc), or you may burn fewer calories than you were before! In fact, you might even try the method where you do HIIT for 15-20 min, then continue for another 30-40 at slow to medium
intensity. Increasing total calories burned should be your focus

Dropping only ONE pound per week (or less) may seem excruciatingly slow, but it's actually the same type of thing I do. As a bodybuilder, I go from lean to extremely lean when I diet and I don't expect more than a pound a week during contest cuts.

You are in a similar situation, even if not competing. Even if you get a half a pound a week fat loss, if you get that progress every week, that's what you're looking for - steady progress - even if slow.

It's entirely possible that you HAVE been making progress, only very slowly. With the way water weight and glycogen levels can fluctuate (and lean mass may increase), a half a pound or pound fat loss in a week could have been easily masked...and therefore, missed. That's one of the drawbacks of going by the scale alone.

Understand the calorie math I explained above and be patient, watching for slow and steady progress, paying special attention to the trend over time on your progress chart.

Keep after it - the persistence will pay, I promise!

Train hard and expect success,

Tom Venuto author of
Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle
http://www.BurnTheFat.com

Founder & CEO,
Burn The Fat Inner Circle
http://www.BurnTheFat.Com/innercircle

PS. You can learn about more fat loss strategies (including the details about the carb cycling method) inside my ebook, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle. Learn more and see some of the inspiring before and after success stories at: http://www.BurnTheFat.com

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Even though, she helped people lose over 56,562 lbs total and counting with her amazing secret, she noticed an unsettling trend. She found that there was no problem for them losing the weight but, to her disheartenment they seemed to be struggling to keep it off!

We have all gone through this. It seems too familiar. Lose the weight….gain the weight...lose the weight…gain the weight… this viscous cycle of yo- yo

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What This Blog Can Do for You

This Blog not only gives you tools to help you to evaluate how over fat you are and what diseases you are at risk for, it gives you a strategic plan to take off the excess fat and keep it off. Here is some of the important fat loss information you will receive from this blog.

1. Changing a relationship with food is not like changing a relationship to drug addiction. I can’t tell a person who is morbidly obese, “You’ll never be able to eat again for the rest of your life.” That’s impossible. But in this blog I can teach you to transform food from an enemy into an ally by explaining how it works in the body. The food program in The Fat-Burning Bible is not only delicious but will never leave you hungry.

2. People often ask me, “Is all fat bad?” No, it is not. Everyone has to have a certain amount of body fat to survive. But there are healthy and unhealthy body fat percentages. Most important, there are healthy and unhealthy ways for fat to be distributed in the body. A normal man carries his fat above the waist. A normal woman carries hers in the hips and buttocks area. When your fat crosses the line and your body begins to take on the fat pattern of the opposite gender, then you have developed a potentially dangerous configuration known as a reverse fat pattern. This blog shows you how to identify that pattern and how to eat in a way that will help burn fat and normalize where you carry your fat weight.

3. Studies have shown that women burn more fat at low to moderate levels of exercise intensity and men at moderate to high levels of exercise intensity. The exercise program in this blog is designed to capitalize on these findings to help you boost your metabolism and achieve maximum fat loss for the time invested. During the basic four-week Fat-Burning Metabolic Fitness Exercise Plan, you will be performing 300 minutes of specially designed exercise per week, six days a week. If you wish to capitalize on your new found metabolic efficiency and fat-burning capacity and lose even more weight, I offer you two more four-week programs that decrease in time but increase in intensity. In the second month, you will only need to exercise for 260 minutes per week, five days per week, and by the third month you will only need 200 minutes four days a week. My maintenance program, which is 150 minutes a week of moderate exercise, will keep you slim for life.

4. If you faithfully follow the Metabolic Fitness Plan, in as little as four weeks you will see a dramatic improvement in your overall appearance. You will lose an average of 14 to 16 pounds of scale weight in one month. For each pound lost, you should lose an average of three-quarters of an inch in your total body measurements. You will drop 0.75 percent of body fat/week. (If you continue into the third month, you will lose 1.5 percent body fat/week.) If you are a woman, you will drop two to three dress sizes in one month. If you are a man, you will see 2 to 4 inches disappear from your waistline.

5. If you choose to go to your doctor and get a lipid profile, you will most likely see an improvement in your total cholesterol, HDL (good cholesterol), triglycerides, and glucose. While heredity plays a part in the lipid profile—for example, high cholesterol runs in some families—studies have shown that people can control approximately 70 percent of hereditary factors through lifestyle.

6. If you suffer from imbalances in your levels of human growth hormone, thyroid, testosterone, and estrogen, you will see dramatic improvement in your hormonal profile in as little as four weeks.

7. Fifty percent of our children are obese or overweight and a significant number of kids are already experiencing major health problems such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, deformities of the hips and knees, asthma, premature puberty, increased triglycerides, high cholesterol, and decreased levels of HDL. When an airplane is in trouble, parents are told to put on their oxygen mask so that they can help their children.

The only way that we are going to save our kids is to put on the mask—to take responsibility for developing healthy nutritional and exercise patterns ourselves. This blog will give you powerful strategies to deal with fat accumulation as you age. As fat-related health problems spiral out of control in our society, the knowledge I am offering you here can literally save your life. If you are just beginning to put on fat, it can reverse this dangerous trend and keep you from succumbing to diseases prematurely in your thirties and forties.