Friday 12 October 2012

Why drinkers LOVE slimming clubs

In the 4 years I've been changing peoples shape and life's, one thing that I've noticed over and over again is that the people who 'like a drink' fucking bum the shit out of slimming clubs!



Drinkers love slimming clubs because they can drink and not get told it's wrong or have the health benefits shoved in there face, as long as your dropping weight on a weekly basis be it just half a pound the leader is happy. Slimming clubs this way can keep you longer a drip feed their utter bullshit to you and make you part of their cult, brainwashed following. Did you know the average slimming club client drops a massive 5lbs in a two year period and you pay how much for this privilege weekly four, five pound? Defiantly value for money there then!

It's okay right because you get to eat and drink what you want. Look if losing weight was that easy, we'd all be walking round naked looking like Jodie Marsh but lets face facts Heywood has an obesity level of 24.9%, the England average is 24.1%. Not good reading right?

I'm probably going to piss you off with what I'm about to say here so remove your slimming club glasses for a minute and listen to some harsh truths..

You don't have self control, you lack discipline, you have underlying emotional problems this is why slimming club mentality is perfect for you, you don't have to be strict with your food. you can have 'free' food so you can eat that shit allll day long regardless of it's insulin response to your body. You don't have to follow a plan just loosely stick to the guidelines. Your not held accountable for your actions in fact probably the opposite. Eat & drink what you want and all your bewildered slimming pals will high five you for it because you've drop half a pound this week (*BTW I've had shits weigh more than half a pound)

 

When was the last time your leader called you to say where have you been - Are they even arsed!? Your a number to them, a statistic, more ways to feed the brand and make you buy into it more.

Do you even realise the example your setting to your kids. What would your words be if they starved themselves all week to get pissed up at weekend -  I bet it won't be congratulatory! It's a bad example and you know what it's not all your fault, you've seen your parents do exactly the same and you've picked up their bad habits.

At this moment in time you have an alcohol addiction, when ex slimming club members come into my academy the hardest thing to convince them to do is stop the wine. Most of you drink every night, just one to relax after a hard day which sometimes leads to a bottle - you know why you have bad days EVERY day? It's because your drinking every night and feeling like shit the day after you in a cycle and a bad one at that!

It's alright to drink every night when your younger, you party hard live hard those are the unspoken rules but don't you think you've grown out of that by now? Again a bad example to your kids, if they drank every night what would you say?

You are your kids future so what can you do now to change it?

You need to shift your mindset from slimming club mentality to losing weight mentality, you can drop weight weekly but you'll never look like this in the slimming club mentality

 

 
Instead of using food and drink as your reward system use clothes, holidays, days out instead. If you really need to have one day where you can eat what you want. Find out why this is beneficial here - http://ianforanpersonaltrainerheywood.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/fast-food-your-way-to-weight-loss.html

Reduce your drinking down and feel the benefits of it within weeks. It takes your body 3 days to process alcohol, this means your not burning fat or losing weight for three days. You drink Saturday, your body won't lose any weight till Wednesday, that gives you only 4 days of fat burning. Take drinking out and you can see how this is gonna effect your weight loss.

Not only that but your mental clarity, skin, hair and mood will all benefit. It'll send your oestrogen levels down because you know that's all junk in the trunk your storing.



A party girl called Chantelle came and joined the academy 3 months back - Her message was strong party hard, work hard. I challenged her to give alcohol up for a month before she went to V-Fest to feel the difference. The results we got were amazing not only weight/inches but hair, skin, energy & motivation. She's brought this into her life changed for the better (people actually asked her whats wrong with her now ha). It can be done, you need to want to..I presume you joined a slimming club to lose weight and feel healthy yes?

Now I understand life is a social event and I am human after all and don't mind the odd drink - I'm not some robot, so here's some alternatives I recommend to my members;

Go for cider over lager for the gluten free aspect
If your a shot person go for tequila every time
Choose red over white wine

DON'T do what my mum did and think I've give you license to drink cider now..I'm saying if you have to drink go for these alternatives.

Don't be what the slimming clubs want you to be - a wine drinking, binge eating, happy with half a pound weight loss a week women because all your doing is giving money away. Set an example to your kids and change their lives as well as yours.



REVEALED: The real secret to fat loss

Ever wondered why bad food taste so good & you always want more?

You are wired to eat foods that taste good, this isn't just down to society and the way of life - It's down to your body!!

Within your body you have two 'systems' Homeostatic and Hedonic who work together to keep you overweight..Unless the cycle is broken.

The Homeostatic system is a vicious circle of Adipose cells (Body Fat) working against the body. Adipose releases leptin, Leptin lets the brain know how much fat is in the body. The brain then tells the Adipose cells how much fat the body needs, simple enough right?

Wrong, the higher the levels of Adipose become this then desensitises Leptin receptors which then tells the brain we need MORE Adipose.

Homeostatic Cycle:
HIGHER BODY FAT (ADIPOSE) = LESS SENSITIVE LEPTIN RECEPTORS = THE BRAIN TELLING THE BODY WE NEED MORE ADIPOSE

To break this cycle is a mind over matter situation, you don't want or need that chocolate bar your body fat wants it to feed its ever growing ego.

The Hedonic system works similar to the Homeostatic system and in conjunction are a powerful enemy in the fight against the flab.

The Hedonic part of the body is your reward system, it constantly craves food that tastes good (chocolate, takeaways, sugary/salty snacks) in return for 'good behaviour' it rewards you with dopamine, which is a feel good sensation. Dopamine leads to addictive behaviour eg drugs, alcohol, gambling and food . When dopamine levels increase sensitive body receptors decrease, in turn the body then needs more sugary/salty food to feel the same dopamine highs.

The two systems work parallel and this creates addiction...to overcome this you have to realise you have a problem - Food Addiction.

Once you come to terms with this you have to realise the body wants fat to keep you insulated amongst other things.

You can either let it get the better of you and become obese and unhealthy or fight against it and be in the best shape of your life

Which one do you want to be?

Tuesday 2 October 2012

Why is it so easy to gain weight & so hard to lose it?

Hey there,

  It feels like ages since I last wrote an article, I've been pretty fucking busy of late creating new formula's & dropping women a dress size in 15 days plus booking some well deserved holidays!

I question I seem to be asked a lot over the recent months is

 'Why is it so easy to put weight on but not to lose it'? 

I could say the answers simple but it's not. From my experience every women is a fluctuater, your either losing weight by dieting or gaining weight by having a binge, right? 

You have your time of the months where most of you want to eat your own body weight in chocolate, crisps or biscuits. After this week you 'have the taste for it' I'm not going to baffle you with big words and long explanations but to put it simply there's a system in your body that wants shit food, the more you feed it the more it wants and it goes on until your in a vicious cycle of eating crap and you end up feeling crap, so what do you need? To eat more sugary shite to raise your feel good hormones. Which does work for a couple of hours but you'll then obviously need to raise them again.

This is emotional eating, 9 out of 10 people have an emotional eating problem and to me the problem lies with our parents..Yes I said it our parents, take yourself back to school, when you came home and had a awesome school report what did you get 'treated' with? If you banged your head what was given to you to make you feel better? If you cried what was given you to cheer you up? Do you see a pattern emerging?

Food is and has always been a way of making you feel better about yourself, we're not taught as kids to think of food as fuel we're taught that food is there to comfort you, to DE-stress you, to make you happy. Now I can't solely blame our parents because their parents would have done the same to them, it's passed through. I'm too myself are to blame with my daughter, she gets an award at school or 10/10 on her spellings then it's off out to celebrate by having food out. It's automatic, we don't even think about it we celebrate most things with food - birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, new jobs etc.

Going back to my point this is the reason it's so easy to gain weight you end up in a spiral of uncontrollable eating until at some point, you put a dress on that use to fit and think SHIT I better get myself some weight off sharpish. 

This kick up the arse usually last for around 2-3 weeks before you get bored with eating healthy and not having a social life because your not allowed to have this, that or the other OR you want to stick to it but it is so god damn hard to do it because you've not been taught properly what choices to make instead you look at calorie intake or the 'healthy options' and these aren't as tasty as the meals your friends are having and you feel left out and isolated. 

If you go against the grain and try to achieve your perfect body or even just feel better about yourself, it seems everything in the world is against you. You gain weight quicker because you know no other way of living & eating. 

To live a clean eating lifestyle you would be the outcast, the unsociable one. You'd be the one not drinking while everyone else is 'having fun', you'd be the one not having a takeaway while everyone is scoffing down a kebab, you'd be the one not invited to a meal round at your friends house because your too difficult to cook for.

After spending your life trying to fit in, it'd be a waste to do something different right?

My answer is - how happy are you with your body?

Do you want to change? Most people do but never know how to approach it.

How can you integrate losing weight into everyday life. 

Number one stay the fock away from slimming clubs they promote binge eating and that's the last thing you want to be doing! 'Save your points & starve yourself so you can all out caveman on the weekend' but hey if that's your bag then do it, I'm here only to advise oh and don't do a fad or magazine diet - pointless.

Find something that fits your lifestyle, because you want this long term. it could be you like to have a feed at weekends, in that case eat clean Monday - Friday when your in your routine of work and allow yourself a cheat or two Saturday & Sunday. 

You could be the busiest person alive and 'haven't got time to eat' (BTW I love this one, would you let your child not eat because it's to busy?) if this is the case, GET PREPARED! don't wing it on the day cook your meals in advance Tupperware them up and ping them.

Or use FaceBook, it can let you connect with many a Fit pro, see what services they offer and jump on board, invest in yourself (How much money would you pay so you can spend an extra 10/15 years living?)

           'Proper Planning & Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Preformance'