Don’t Listen to Tropicana… Listen to me… One really simple tip for losing weight – or rather, for reducing caloric intake – is to stop drinking fruit juices. By fruit juices, I’m talking about orange juice, apple juice, grape juice – you get the picture. Here’s the thing… It’s easy to cut off the Hawaiian [...]
Can 6 Meals a Day Help You Lose Weight
August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the world of fitness, some half-truths and “old wives’ tale” based facts just never go away. Take a look at the standard, “6 meals a day” advice that every fitness guru and would be ripped, buffed gym denizens dispense as vital to either losing weight or putting on pounds of muscle. Let’s be clear, [...]
How To Lose 20 Pounds Really, Really Fast
February 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS www.BurnTheFat.com Back “in the day” when I was a full time personal trainer and I met with weight loss clients in person at my New Jersey Health Club, the first thing I would always ask during the initial consultation was: “Tell me what you want… and I’ll show you how [...]
To Stop Food Cravings That Sabotage Fat Burning
February 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Jeff Anderson If you’ve ever dedicated yourself to a strict diet in order to lose weight, you know exactly how hard it can be to control food cravings. No, those salty or sugar food don’t merely whisper to you, they almost shout your name at times when you’re most vulnerable. Many people are unaware [...]
A simple, yet effective weight loss strategy
February 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
Not drinking fruit juices is a simple, yet effective strategy for losing weight. Rather, replace the juices with water and whole fruit. To be clear, losing weight is multifaceted effort and while this is a good strategy, it needs to be part of a holistic scheme that reduces your overall caloric intake below your expenditures and [...]
Harder for women to lose weight than men?
February 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Stop looking for magic. A lean body does not come from any particular type of exercise or foods per se, it’s the calories burned vs calories consumed that determines fat loss or fat gain. You might do better by decreasing the calories consumed, whereas I depended more on increasing the calories burned, but either way, [...]
3 Under-Rated Nutrition Tips for Fat Loss
January 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS www.TurbulanceTraining.com When you travel, you need nutrition tips for fat loss. But it isn’t easy to lose fat on the road. Fortunately, these 3 under-rated but highly effective diet secrets can help you to get lean and stay lean when you travel. The secret is to follow this #1 nutrition [...]
The Truth About Fast Weight Loss
January 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Tom Venuto, WEIGHT LOSS POP QUIZ: What are 3 things that ALL 8 of these advertisements have in common? “Burn 30 lbs in 3 weeks – no diet!” “Lose 9 Pounds Every 11 Days!” “Lose a pound a day without diet or exercise!” “Lose 2 pounds a day without dieting!” “Lose 30 pounds In [...]
Body Wraps and Waist Wraps – The difference between losing fat and losing inches
January 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Q&A with Tom Venuto, QUESTION: Dear Tom: What’s the deal with “body wraps”? Do they really shrink fat cells or this just another weight loss scam? ANSWER: Body wraps do not shrink fat cells or burn body fat – no matter what type of wrap: bandages soaked in herbs, minerals, enzymes, plastic, foil, vinyl, seaweed, [...]
The See-Food, Reach-Food Diet
January 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Tom Venuto, You’ve heard of the “See-Food” diet haven’t you? No, that’s not the diet where you load up on fish, lobster, crab and mussels. The See-Food Diet is the one that so many of us crack jokes about – it’s the diet where you eat everything in sight! But don’t laugh too hard. [...]
About Your Physiology…
January 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Q & A with Isabel De Los Rios, Author of the Diet Solution Program Q: How important is it to eat based on your metabolism and eat the right foods for your metabolism? Do you touch on this in your program? A: Eating the right foods for your metabolism is so important, that it is [...]
5 Diet Hacks for Faster Fat Loss
January 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS www.TurbulanceTraining.com These 5 “diet hacks” will help you speed up the fat loss process, and could help you lose a record amount of fat in just a few short weeks. Diet Hack #1 – Use “Ritual Eating” for fat loss I first heard this idea from John Romaniello, and it [...]
The Doctor Says, “Aerobics Will Kill You!”
January 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Tom Venuto, I recently got an email from a reader who was told by a fairly prominent doctor/author that aerobics and running will “kill you” (that was more or less the gist of it). As a result, you should avoid aerobics like the plague, says this MD. Since I’ve tolerated enough “steady state cardio [...]
How an Entire Year Can Go By With No Results
January 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Tom Venuto www.BurnTheFat.com If you’ve been doing the same nutrition, same calories, same cardio, same weight training and the same intensity for the entire past year with no changes, then you shouldn’t be suprised if you’ve continued to get the SAME results (very little). If you do more of the same, you usually [...]
Top 7 Weight Loss Mistakes
January 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS www.TurbulanceTraining.com Seven Mistakes People Make When Trying to Lose Fat 1. They fail to consider the consequences of their actions. Alwyn Cosgrove (one of the top trainers in the business) once told me, “I get my clients to think, “Will this help me or not? Is this a positive step [...]
