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T-5 Days, The Flu, Books, Tom Brady’s Ankle, and some more random stuff

Tom Brady’s Ankle & The Flu

So I was ransacked by the flu over the past couple days. This resulted in me being banished to the couch in my living room. I started my journey through sickness watching SportCenter but then realized after about 1 hour that despite the Super Bowl being less than a week away no one had anything interesting to talk about and thus the commentators spent all their time speculating over Tom Brady’s ankle. Now I’ma die hard Pats fan but….boring!

Books

Two books that I’ve recently read (or reread) deserve mention here on the Naked Nutrition Blog. The first is one of my all time favorites – The New Psycho-Cybernetics. I recently reread this book (4th time I think). It has HUGE applicability to people that have struggled with weight loss or are chronic yo-yo dieters. If you haven’t read it. Definitely pick up a copy.

The other book that I wanted to mention is the TNT Diet by Jeff Volek and Adam Campbell. This book is great. I’ve read a lot (probably all) of low carb diet books and this one if probably my favorite. Jeff and Adam layout an extremely practical approach to living a low carb life. They tell you exactly what to do each day (training, nutrition, etc). I’m in the process of writing up a more indepth review that will be posted on the blog. In the meantime, pick up a copy.

 

T-5 Days

In 5 Days, possibly sooner I’ll be sending out an email to Naked Nutrition Owners a.ka. Team Naked Nutrition with some information that will accelerate their fat loss like they never imagined.  This is really cool stuff. I’ve been working on it since May ‘07 and it is finally ready. It will give people access to me and two other top level fitness pros like never before.

So Team Naked Nutrition, look for my email on Monday (maybe on Saturday).

Foods to Eat

Here is a list of 4 foods that you should make sure to add to your diet:

• Amaranth – complete protein, tasty, and a nice break from rice
• Greek Yogurt 3/4 the carbs and 2x the protein of regular yogurt
• Quinoa – like Amaranth but nuttier – mix it with salsa
•  Kale – Green leafy veggies at its best – saute onions in a pan, added vinegar, hot sauce, and a little water and steam
• Omega-3 Eggs – You get all the benefits of eggs (protein, essential amino acids, fat soluble vitamins) plus long chain omega-3s (yes!)

No one ever got worse from being stronger – The Fear of being strong

When I sit with people and talk to them about their fitness goals and ambitions, I am still amazed at home many people are truly fearful of gaining strength. Some people have a misconception about what being physically strong is and what it isn’t. Women in general (yes, ladies…I am generalizing here) are more fearful than men in this regard. I hear things like… “I really don’t want to lift anything heavy” or “I have no desire to get strong, I only want to tone up and lose my belly.” The truth is, being strong never hurt anybody. As a matter of fact, increasing your strength will only help you reach your fitness goals sooner and help you more than you ever thought in your daily life. Read more

Back on the Wagon

Holidays are awesome…parties, family, fun, presents, football games on TV, time off (some of us), etc… The Holidays can be an excellent time to reconnect with family and friends and with that, partake in many activities that can side track your fitness goals. For some, the stretch between Thanksgiving and New Years day can add 20 pounds, and seem to wipe out all of that hard work from months before. Read more

Fat in 2008? It isn’t your fault Part 2

Yesterday we ended with the following…

Let’s recap so far.

1. People eat away from their homes more than ever.

2. People are terrible at estimating the caloric value of foods.

How does that make you being overweight not your fault?

….you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out

Many of you may be wondering where I’m going with this. Here we go.

Restaurants and other foods serving places (those are places that call themselves restaurants but their food is so bad they shouldn’t fall into the “restaurant” category) have begun to do something very sneaky. In an effort to boost taste, flavor, and perceived value they have figured out ways to cram inordinate amounts of calories into “normal” looking foods.

This results in our inability of judge caloric value of foods even MORE detrimental to our health especially when you couple this with the fact that people eat out more than ever. Here are some really good examples (courtesy of Men’s Health):

Ruby Tuesday’s Turkey Bella Burger - Turkey burger. Must be healthy right? It even has portabella mushrooms. It also has almost 1200 calories! 1200 calories!!!! Are they serious? when should a burger ever have 1200 calories? Seriously, give me an example, Ruby?

Massive Burritos – There is a whole crop (crop or crap?) of Franchises popping up that serve massive burritos. I recently spoke with a friend of mine who opted for the lower calorie version (no rice or beans). It still ended up being ~800 calories!!!

Here’s another one

Boston Market Rotisserie Chicken (Dark Meat), Sweet Potato Casserole, and Market Chopped Side Salad - Good? Only to the tune of 1400 calories.

While I know that one would not call these items low calorie but I doubt anyone would guess that they are such high calorie. Also, I am not about giving people excuses for carrying around overweight. Poor eating and lack of exercises are the two main reasons and you have control over those things. But you may not have known about the insane caloric inflation that is going on at restaurants across the country.

But now you know.

You have not excuse for the extra fat around your midsection anymore (well you never did but it made a good title).

Have a great weekend (and be skeptical about caloric values when you eat out)

-Mike

Fat In 2008? It isn’t Your Fault

How about that?

Let’s say you’re a little overweight. Maybe you’re more than a little overweight.

Good news…it isn’t you fault.

Seriously. I’ve been thinking about this a bunch over the past week or so. What do people do more today than ever? Other than sit on their rear end.

Eat out.

People are always eating on the go.

We also know from studies done decades ago (some before I was even born!), that people don’t do a very good job of estimating the caloric value of foods. Let’s be honest. People are TERRIBLE at looking at a food, saying “Yeah that’s about 257 calories.”, and being accurate. So next time you look at that heaping spoon full of peanut butter and say “That’s about 2 tablespoon.”

STOP before suck down what is really ¼ cup.

Let’s recap so far.

1. People eat away from their homes more than ever.

2. People are terrible at estimating the caloric value of foods.

How does that make you being overweight not your fault?

….you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out

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