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Tip #1
Eat MORE to Lose weight
In the Late eighties and early ninties, experts were telling us the best way to lose weight was to eat less and cut your fat intake.
Th issue with this is that there is only so many calories you can cut and not eat until your body completely starts feeding on itself and you are forced to eat more calories to make up for the deficit that you got your body into.
Many people who have gone on a "starvation" diet know this all to well. They cut their calories every week until they are miserable, grumpy and lethargic.
What happens is the dieter eventually will fall off the diet and continue with their old eating pattern and regain the weight that they lost and even more!
Diets never work because you are creating more pain in the body then normal. Going on a diet will force the body to work against its own natural bio-chemistry and ultimately no matter how much will power you have, you will fail at dieting.
Take a look at the word DIET - The first three letters "D-I-E" - are there for a reason, because it feels like your DYING! That's a clue that diets don't work!
Here is what does work - Eat MORE - Lose More weight!
Our bodies are smart and throughout evolution our bodies have adapted to our environments. The key factor here is work with your bodies natural bio-chemistry.
Our bodies need fuel to function properly - If they do not get the right fuel, the body stops responding - or response very poorly (being tired, lethargic, mood swings)
Giving the body what it wants every three hours is an excellent way to release your bodies stored bodyfat. You are working with your bodies metabolism and getting it to work harder and harder - naturally your body will work harder at breaking down and releasing fat, because it doesn't need "stored energy" because you are fueling it with what it needs!
So How do we do this?
The basic way is to eat every three hours. As soon as you get up in the morning you need to be eating within 30 minutes.
Each meal should be comprised of proteins/carbohydrates and fats. (Yes FATS are your FRIEND!)
Meal timing should be every three hours. For example
Meal #1 - 6am
Meal #2 - 9 am
Meal #3 - 12pm
Meal #4 - 3 pm
Meal #5 - 6 pm
Meal #6 - 9pm
This is a perfect way of eating and allows the body to remove unwanted bodyfat quickly and efficiently.
Look for our next tip as we discuss WHAT to eat at each meal.
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Our Latest $10,000 Dollar Winner!
 Our latest winner, Jessica Holladay had an amazing Body Revolution. Jess lost an amazing 30 lbs, 30 inches, almost 8 percent body fat and an amazing 14 percent reduction in her bodyweight in only THREE MONTHS!
Jessica came to us because she was fed up with being the "chubby" girl. She had tried numerous exercise and diet programs, but nothing she did got her results.
As her trainer, Jess had an extremely hard work ethic. Every session she pushed herself hard and she never left anything behind. She always put her best foot forward when we trained together.
Her eating was immaculate, making sure she ate every three hours and she never even had a "treat" meal the whole three months. She claims that we never told her about the weekly treat meals.
In any case her revolution is astounding. You can read more about Jessica's Revolution below.
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Jessica's Success Story
I've always been a "big" girl. I was a chubby baby, a chunky kid and an overweight teenager. As an adult, I've ranged from curvy to outright obese but at no point have I ever been a healthy weight. I've been uncomfortable trying new things because I've been afraid my body won't let me do the things that I want to do. I've been uncomfortable around other people, wondering if they are noticing the rolls around my stomach when I sit down. I've been uncomfortable having my photo taken because it's a permanent reminder of how wide I look in photos, how unhappy I've been with my body. There are events in my life that I should want to remember but looking at the pictures of myself still upsets me.
In February of this year, I got engaged to my boyfriend of seven years. Our big date was set for September 15, only seven months away. This was the wake-up call that I'd been waiting for. My dad having a heart attack, my mom being diagnosed with high blood pressure, me being diagnosed with high cholesterol, none of those things were enough to convince me to break my bad habits. The idea of a white dress, though... that could do it. I'm not sure that makes me seem like a very good person but it's the honest truth anyway. I made the decision that by my wedding day I was going to be fit and comfortable in my own skin. When I put on that dress, I want people to tell me that I look beautiful and I want to believe them.
I started "the wedding diet" with the greatest of intentions but found, like all my other failed attempts at weight loss, that something was lacking. Six weeks in, I was down three pounds and was getting frustrated with my lack of results. After a particularly frustrating day of weighing in with no results, I was driving down Broad St and I saw the billboard advertising the Body Revolution Challenge. Within five minutes I was on the phone getting signed up. I'm a competitive person so I thought that might be just the trick to motivating me. Also, $10 000 would pay for a pretty nice honeymoon.
My first day of the challenge was exciting. As we were weighing in and measuring, despite the uncomfortable feeling of having to show my more unattractive parts to a relative stranger, I was optimistic. I didn't even mind the dreaded "before" photos because I knew that it was the first step to me becoming much, much better. The fitness test was great (I've always been fit but fat). I got my butt kicked and enjoyed every minute of it. The idea of being timed was awesome for me because it gave me a goal to beat for the next week. The week that I had a faster time than Trevor on the circuits was a highlight.
I had my ups and downs through training. I felt like I was getting so strong so quickly. I was losing inches but those pounds just weren't dropping. I quickly got sick of not being able to eat the delicious meals that my boyfriend's (thin) family cooked on Sunday evenings. Not eating cake on my birthday royally sucked. I got a little frustrated some weeks with the scale but I kept showing up and pushing myself as hard as I could (always going home looking like a "sweaty beast"). I didn't always want to be there but I never used that as an excuse to not work my hardest. The last month of training, I finally had the breakthrough that I was looking for and the pounds started to drop off and just kept dropping.
I may not be 100% of the way to my goal (I'll need a little more than three months for that) but I'm feeling so much better about myself. I've started making plans to go out with people, I'm trying new things (just tried mountain biking on trails last week), I walk around in my underwear at home (trust me, this is a big deal for me). I feel awesome. I'm still not 100% to my goal but I know what I have to do to get there and once I get there, I know what I have to do to maintain my results. And I will.
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