Bye-Bye Bat Wings

Bye-Bye Bat Wings
Stand in front of a mirror and hold your arm outstretched
to the side of your body. While in place, rotate your arm
forward and backwards fast.

You either:

Like what you see, a tight and nicely shaped triceps area

or

To your horror, saggy skin that swings back and forth like
your grandmother's did when you were a child.

Do you have bat wings that haunt you, thinking there is
nothing you can do to rid them? If so, then this newsletter
will be a treat for you.

I'm going to reveal 3 steps you can implement to say
"goodbye bat wings" once and for all.

Bat wings don't necessarily develop with age, but age can
play a role to a certain degree.

Bat wings are a lack of muscles and excess skin hanging
under your arm when they are stretched out to each side.
It's a common problem with many women.

If you apply the tactics outlined in this article, you can
greatly reduce the amount of flapping skin hanging around
at the back of your arms.

Tactic #1

To reduce bat wings you will have to tighten up your diet
to a certain degree which can results in some overall
weight loss, too.

Eat several small, yet balanced meals throughout the day.
In doing this, you will force your body to burn more
calories and increase your metabolism. Don't take this
tactic lightly. The real key here is several balanced meals
throughout the day.

Tactic #2

With the addition of more balanced meals each day, be sure
to choose foods of quality, such as natural foods. You
should be eating the foods that Mother Nature provided. If
you are grabbing for that deli meat pasta drenched in
sauce, you are not eating quality.

Quality meals are fresh and natural, not boxed or canned,
or loaded with MSG and nitrates. Your body functions on
food, not chemicals.

Tactic #3

Adding triceps exercises 2 to 3 times a week can help build
lean muscle tissue on the back of your arms. As you lose
fat weight you will be building lean muscle mass, which
adds density. Dense muscle on the back of your arm won't
flop around.

Triceps exercises that are effective can take some time
getting accustomed to, as it may feel awkward at first,
especially if they are underdeveloped. The triceps is not a
muscle that's used every day in heavy tasks.

Some exercises you can include are:

Overhead extensions  Begin in a standing or seated
position with a bar or dumbbell extended over your head.
Bend at the elbows, allowing the weight to go behind your
head until the elbows are at a 90-degree angel, and then
press up. Be sure to keep your head up and elbows close to
your head.

Lying triceps extensions - To begin, lie down on a flat
bench and extend a bar or dumbbells over you. Bend at the
elbows and allow the bar to come down to the top of your
head, with elbows at a 90-degree angle, and then press up.
Always keep the elbows as close to your head as possible.

Dips - To begin, face away from a flat bench or chair and
place your hands behind you; just about shoulder length
apart. Extend your feet and keep your knees bent. Keep your
body close to the bench or chair and allow your body to
come down to the floor until your backside touches the
floor, and then using your triceps, press up. Contract the
triceps at the top of the movement. Keep your elbows in and
don't allow them to stray out. Always keep your head up.

Conclusion

Just because you don't go to a gym or don't want to walk in
one, you can still do these exercises. They can be done at
home as well using resistance bands or soup cans.

Lastly, if you lost a large amount of weight quickly or
didn't add resistance training during your weight loss and
have a lot of loose skin on the back of your arms, you may
have to opt for a surgical procedure (brachioplasty) to
remove large amounts of excess skin.

Be sure to implement these 3 essential tactics and then you
can say "bye-bye bat wings" once and for all. Remember that
consistency is the key in any transformation.

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Karen Sessions has been in the fitness industry since 1988.
She is a nationally qualified bodybuilder and holds two
personal training certifications. She has written 6 ebooks
on fitness and has helped hundreds of clients transform
their bodies.

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Hawaiian Problem Solving Technique

Hawaiian Problem Solving Technique
The trend towards so-called alternative forms of healing
has been increasing over time, and perhaps recently
especially. It wasn’t long ago that people who
embraced alternative therapies were generally considered
well out of the mainstream. It may be true today that
alternative therapy seekers are still unusual, but
alternative healing is without question taking hold in
mainstream society, and literally millions of people in
some capacity or other use therapies that don’t come
from traditional western medicine sources.

One fairly popular form of alternative healing is
ho’oponopono. Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian
technique that’s been used for problem solving for
centuries. The premise of ho’oponopono healing is a
belief in making a connection with a higher source power,
and asking that source power for assistance in resolving
problems and difficulties. Though there is an emphasis on
higher source connection, ho’oponopono is not a form
of organized religion. There is no worship or any belief
rituals within ho’oponopono.

Morrnah Simeona is considered to be the founder of modern
ho’oponopono. Simeona was referred to as a Kahuna
Lapa’au. Translated, Kahuna means keeper of the
secret, and Lapa’au means specialist in healing.
Simeona then was essentially a Hawaiian version of a
shaman. Simeona was highly regarded for her
ho’oponopono teachings, and was asked to teach the
method at the United Nations, the World Health
Organization, and other bodies. Simeona died in the
1990’s. Dr. Ihaleakala Len Hew was a student of
Simeona’s, and has since taken on a position of
leadership in the ho’oponopono movement.

Ho’oponopono is not some magic form, nor is it a
means for asking for and receiving any materialistic
possession that one should want. Performing
ho’oponopono won’t make the perfect life
suddenly appear, and it certainly won’t instantly
place a sports car in one’s driveway. It’s
thought within ho’oponopono that outcomes are
dictated by source power, and that these outcomes both in
timing and result are ideal.

Like any method that emphasizes spiritual connectivity,
ho’oponopono has its critics. Some people simply
can’t get around the idea of the existence of
realities beyond what can be experienced by the senses, let
alone being able to tap into these realities and gain from
them. Other people may consider ho’oponopono to be a
form of an illegitimate magic bean that promises the
happiness and satisfaction that seems out of reach for
many. Still others believe that at least some degree of
suffering is a normal part of life. But while
ho’oponopono has its critics, it also has its
supporters who believe in the ho’oponopono method and
the results it produces.

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Zinn Jeremiah is a freelance writer. To find ho'oponopono
resources, visit http://www.hooponoponohelp.com or
http://www.hooponoponohelp.com/god-help-me.htm .

Closet Eating: Emotional Freedom Technique Ends Fears and Phobias In Minutes

Closet Eating: Emotional Freedom Technique Ends Fears and Phobias In Minutes
Are you a woman who lives with a secret shame called Closet
Eating?

A closet eater is a person with a complex about eating in
full view and in front of others. For a closet eater, the
idea of eating food in public creates an excessively
uncomfortable feeling in their body generating fears and
beliefs that people are always watching them and judging
what they eat.

Most people speak to themselves over 10,000 times a day and
according to research done, studies show that the majority
of what we tell ourselves is based on criticism and
negative input.

If you are a woman who’s unhappy with your body and
frustrated with your weight, you most likely are beating up
on yourself with critical self talk. Since you are already
conditioned to think of yourself in negative terms, you
tend to think or believe that others share your negative
opinions and judgments.

If you struggle with feeling ashamed when you eat in
public, you are most likely replaying memories in your mind
of actual events that have occurred in which you felt
uncomfortable eating around people.

For example, as a young teen, like me, you may have had a
very critical Uncle Don, who felt that he was doing you a
big favor by criticizing your body and commenting on what
you ate.

As you sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, with a full plate,
eagerly anticipating enjoying your food, your Uncle may
have made comments about how fat you were and how the food
you’re about to eat will only make you fatter.

Since your brain is always searching to make new
connections, you associate Uncle Don’s scathing
criticism with the awful feeling of shame that you now have
in the pit of your stomach.

In NLP, we call this a kinesthetic anchor. Each time, you
are reminded of feeling criticized or judged, your body,
sends a signal to your brain flooding your body with stress
chemicals designed to alert you to danger. Your body sends
a signal that stirs your brain to remember this feeling of
anxiety, whenever you are in situations involving social
dining.

In specific, your ears sent a signal to the brain that,
“You’re going to get as fat as a house one day
if you keep eating that food.” You already look like
a truck driver from the back.

Desperately wanting to get away from this threat, you seek
to find a way to eat the food you want without being
noticed. By doing so, you create a new connection in your
brain that eating in secret keeps you safe and in control.
Yet because of the flood of stress chemicals that the
negative memories create, and societal pressures to dine
with others, you feel awful hiding and eating in secret.

Therefore, instead of eating Thanksgiving Dinner in front
of everyone else seated at the table, including your Ugly
Uncle Don, as many people would do, a closet eater will
pick at their meal, often claim that they are not very
hungry, and find a way to sneak the food away and eat it in
a place where they can be all alone, feeling safe and
protected from harm.

Until I finally stopped dieting, and learned to trust
myself around food and began to honor my feelings as well
as my body, I'm sad to say that I wasted years eating in
secret too.

I used to be very strategic and clever in thinking up so
many wonderful hiding places for food. I had stashes of
cookies in my coat pockets, candy bars under the bed,
wrapped snack cakes behind the toilet. I would eat in
public bathrooms, closets, behind locked doors, in laundry
rooms, anywhere that I could be assured of being alone.

For years I put on a show for everyone, including my Uncle
Don that I was doing my best to diet and lose weight. Yet,
the moment that I was left alone, I would desperately reach
for the food that gave my life comfort and joy. I felt
caught in a cycle of self abuse for decades, silenced by
the secret shame that I felt that I had no control around
food.

Today I’ve found a solution that can help you to end
your secret shame. I want to help you.

As a Professional Coach, I now understand that closet
eating is an example of an eating disorder. Unlike the
purging behavior associated with bulimia or the purposeful
acts of starving connected with anorexia, closet eating is
just as insidious in that it undermines the individual and
reinforces negative messages to their brain, making them
feel shameful and sinful.

If you’re suffering from this painful and shame
filled behavior, there is hope for you. One of the things
that I recommend doing is learning a process called
Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT. EFT will break the
connection that eating in public is shameful and
threatening.

EFT is based on the science of Acupuncture and often
considered to be it's emotional equivalent without the pain
of needles. Anyone can use it anytime to balance their
energy, feel better and overcome negative emotions and
fears in minutes.

The reason this re-balancing of energy is necessary is due
to the fact that when we experience stress and pain, our
bodies hold on to the memory of that event.

Consider that your body is like a smooth running current.
When things are going well, the current is flowing gently
and evenly. Yet when pain, upset or disease occurs,
it’s almost as though a monkey wrench has been tossed
into the works.

This disruption short circuits the entire system, causing
arcing and blow outs to occur everywhere. That’s when
everything goes wonky, your eating goes out of control, and
you feel miserable. That explains why you're reaching for
that food as soon as someone's back is turned. There are
parts of you that are short circuiting. If you want a quick
easy, painless way to smooth it all out again, EFT can
surely help.

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Andrea Amador, CEC, M.NLP is President of The Juicy Woman.
She is devoted to empowering women to love themselves more,
yummy up their lives and lose weight without dieting. Sign
up for her free ecourse, Get the Fat Out of Your Head: How
to Change Your Thoughts to Shape Your Body
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Mental Relaxation and Your Mental Health

Mental Relaxation and Your Mental Health
Relaxation is important to both physical and mental health.
Mental relaxation benefits not just your mind but also your
body.

Stress is part of life; it is almost impossible to avoid
stress. In fact, attempting to avoid stress is enough to
create stress. Stress is what you experience emotionally
and internally in response to a given situation with which
you are incapable of coping. However, stress, ironically
enough, may also be beneficial in that it teaches you about
how to handle difficult situations in life. Learning to
deal with demands in life keeps your mentally healthy, just
as exercise keeps you physically fit.

Stress is related to your feelings, which signal that
“something is not in order.” Stress, therefore,
requires expression of these emotions in an appropriate way
– in the form of mental relaxation.

Mental relaxation is possible only when you have a plan for
a balanced lifestyle, including regular bedtime, even on
weekends and holidays. The reason is that your body’s
biological clock plays an important role in regulating your
sleep patterns, which are critical to your mental
well-being. Plan your daily routine and pace your life.

Take full responsibility for you own stress. This is the
key to managing stress in your life. Never say, “You
give me stress!” Nobody gives you stress but
yourself. You are responsible for your own feelings.
Otherwise, you would be passing the responsibility to
others – that does not work in real life.

Change your attitudes and perceptions of what you
experience in your life. Events that happen to you remain
the same, but your perceptions may vary. Change your
attitudes and perceptions to change the way you think about
your experiences. Learn to laugh at others as well as at
yourself. According to studies, children laugh 40 to 50
times a day, and that is why they are happy; adults, on the
other hand, laugh only 10 to 15 times at the most. Do not
take life too seriously, develop and nurture a sense of
humor, which is a component of mental relaxation.

Enhance your physical capabilities to cope with
difficulties encountered. These capabilities include
physical fitness, good nutrition, and deep sleep without
sleeping aids.

Change the environment that gives you stress. If your job
gives you stress, change the job or take a vacation to
de-stress yourself, although this may be a passive way of
dealing with your stress.

Life is full of problems. Understanding yourself and the
things that trouble you most is an important step in
solving your life’s problems, thereby eliminating
much of the stress. Your mental health is determined by the
way you work with and relate to others. In other words, you
may have behavioral problems that create stress for you at
work and in relationships. Isolating yourself in order to
avoid these behavioral problems only makes you more
difficult to enjoy good mental health.

To deal with any behavioral problem, you must learn how to
communicate easily and clearly with others. You must be a
good listener. You must be assertive without being critical
or aggressive. You must learn to trust others, and see the
good, instead of the bad, in others.

Eliminating stress is not equivalent to producing mental
relaxation. To help your mind relax, you need to give it
“a break.” When you are asleep, your mind
remains very active and does not “rest.” When
you are awake, your mind is preoccupied with mostly past
and future thoughts. Nearly all your thoughts, including
your desires and fears, are based on either the past or the
future. Your desires are no more than recollection of the
past pleasure and hope of repeating them in the future.
Fears are also memories of past pain, and your desire to
avoid them in the future. To give your mind the rest it
rightfully deserves, help your mind focus on the present
moment. Meditation does just that: it enables your mind to
focus only on the present moment to the exclusion of past
and future thoughts.

In meditation, you focus on your breathing, noticing your
inhalation and exhalation, directing your mind to the
present, thereby shutting off wandering thoughts of the
past and future. In meditation, you are essentially giving
your mind a period of relaxation. There is no other way as
effective as meditation in giving your mind total
relaxation. Modern medicine is beginning to use meditation
to cure mental disorders because it works at your
subconscious level. In Buddhist meditation, you experience
“nirvana” only through meditation, in which you
empty your mind of impure thoughts to arrive at a mental
state of enlightenment.

Meditation, in conjunction with self-effort in changing
attitudes and lifestyle, provides the best mental
relaxation for your mental health.

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Stephen Lau is a researcher, writing synopses of medical
research for scientists. His publications include "NO
MIRACLE CURES" a book on healing and wellness. He has also
created several websites on health and healing.
http://www.longevityforyou.com
http://www.zenhealthylifestyle.com
http://www.chinesenaturalhealing.com

Long cardio is a killer and increases your body fat!

Long cardio is a killer and increases your body fat!
Did you know that long steady cardio exercise, like
running, has now been scientifically proven to be
detrimental to your health? According to research by Dr. Al
Sears all those long jogs can result in cardiac distress, a
shrinking of the heart, a reduction in bone density
(causing osteoporosis) and a general gain in fat once
exercise ceases.

First, let’s look at the distress that long steady
distance running puts on your heart. Evolving from our
hunter gatherer days we had no real necessity to run long
distances, in fact the only running we ever did was in
short bursts to avoid predators or to catch food. Our body
simply isn’t designed to run long distances and the
stress you put your heart under during this time can set
you up for a heart attack. It’s a fact that many
marathon runners do die of heart attacks.

Second, this type of cardio reduces the size of our heart
rather than strengthening and increasing its size. Our body
is a fantastic machine capable of adapting to anything with
time; if we run long distances our body adapts to be more
efficient at this activity. Fat is the preferred energy
source from our body and so the more you train long
distance the more efficient the heart becomes at using less
fat. To be more efficient the heart will shrink in size,
just like the engine in a scooter is more efficient than a
4x4.

Third, repetitive forces that are put through your joints
like the ankles, knees, hips and back not only create
repetitive injury but also reduce the bone density.
Strength training is the key to improving bone density,
keep the exercises short and with plenty of resistance.
This type of training forces the bones to grow stronger,
remember the body is a master adapter, so that next time
you perform your strength exercises your bones are more
capable of dealing with the strain. Long steady cardio puts
your bones under undue distress and causes them to
prematurely break down.

Finally, losing fat is about becoming less efficient with
your fat energy supply so you use up more and produce less.
Long steady cardio does use more fat than any other type of
training during the exercise itself. However, as the body
uses a lot of fat as energy it then turns all further
calories into fat ready for the next long cardio session.
This is fine when you are training regularly because you
are burning the fat during exercise but as soon as you stop
that extra fat is going to keep on being produced. Back to
square one! So long cardio sessions are not good for fat
loss in the long term.

So what is the answer? You must start training your heart
like any other muscle in your body and in a way that it was
designed to be used – short bouts of quick exercise
with high exertion. This type of activity is exactly what
we evolved to do, think back to our hunter gatherer days.
As I said earlier, our body is a master adapter and hard
short bouts of exercise will induce an increase in heart
strength and size. Also, as our body no longer requires the
excess body fat to fuel our runs it will be used as energy
for long term body maintenance. Combine this type of quick
activity with some strength training and you are well on
your way to better health and fitness.

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Greg is a health and fitness professional based in
Hampstead, North London. He achieves fantastic results for
his clients by using his indepth knowledge and the most up
to date techniques.
http://www.gbpersonaltraining.com

Attention Adults with ADD: What To Do When Hyperfocus Works Against You

Attention Adults with ADD: What To Do When Hyperfocus Works Against You
Adults with ADD are both blessed and cursed with the
ability to hyperfocus.

Hyperfocus is a unique ability that we have to focus
so intensely that the rest of the world temporarily
disappears. It's the the opposite of boredom. Instead of
having difficulty concentrating or getting started, the
hyperfocused ADDer has trouble shifting focus away from the
interesting subject at hand.

Hyperfocus can be a really good thing. If you're highly
interested in what you're concentrating on, then the
ability to hyperfocus is an asset. It can help you get
through a difficult task, like a report for work or a
household problem that needs to be fixed. It can also help
tremendously during creative periods in which your juices
are flowing and you're having fun writing, painting,
crafting, or expressing yourself in an artistic outlet.

This positive hyperfocus is what I call being in the flow.
You enjoy what you're doing--whether it's work,
problem-solving, or being creative. You're productive and
you enjoy not only what you're doing, but also the fact
that you're making progress. Your thoughts and actions are
flowing.

However, hyperfocus can also be a bad thing. Adults with
ADD often go into hyperfocus mode when a stressful problem
or situation presents itself, and the inability to tear
yourself away results in more stress. This can happen when
writing a paper for school, trying to solve a problem at
work, attempting to fix a broken gadget, or even surfing
the Internet.

Negative hyperfocus is what I call being in the stick. It's
really about an inability to shift focus, and the
frustration that results. You want to finish a task or make
progress but your frustration in the situation has you
feeling unable to move on. You become determined to do what
you set out to do at any cost. (Perfectionism often causes
negative hyperfocus.)

In this state, you keep telling yourself, "Just two more
minutes. I've got to get this." But it's never just two
more minutes. Your thoughts and actions are stuck. You
don't feel good about making progress. You feel compelled
to finish what you set out to do at all costs--including
losing sleep, skipping meals, and compromising your mental
health.

In short, positive hyperfocus feels good and makes you
happy. Negative hyperfocus feels bad and makes you stressed.

Negative hyperfocus is very difficult to break out of. It
takes a lot of awareness and a healthy dose of
rationalizing self-talk. Forcing yourself (yes, forcing
yourself) to get unstuck by stopping and de-stressing is
essential to breaking the pattern.

It helps to remember that in that stressed out and frantic
state, the things you actually accomplish are often
inferior to what you would accomplish in a relaxed state.
Operating from a calm and centered place is sure to produce
better results than operating from a stressed and frantic
place.

So the next time you find yourself hyperfocusing, stop and
check in with yourself to determine if you're fantastically
flowing, or stressfully sticking.

Ask yourself: Do I feel good about what I'm accomplishing,
or am I just stressed out? If the answer is "I'm just
stressed," then take a step to break the pattern. Walk away.

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Jennifer Koretsky is the Founder of the ADD Management
Group, Inc. and the author of the new book Odd One Out: The
Maverick's Guide to Adult ADD. Jennifer and her team work
with ADD adults who are overwhelmed with everyday life in
order to help them simplify, focus, and succeed. For free
resources and information on adult ADD, visit
http://www.ADDmanagement.com .

Try These Easy Weight Loss Tips

Try These Easy Weight Loss Tips
Whether you have a little or a lot of weight to lose, it
can seem daunting. Nowadays, we are inundated with stories
of people who lose weight and gain it back again, or who
find it difficult to lose weight at all. Over time, it's
easy to become convinced that weight loss just isn't going
to happen for you, or that it will require a total change
of lifestyle. This just isn't true, as these easy weight
loss tips will prove.

Weight loss tip #1: Keeping in mind that society is geared
toward large portion size and getting more for your money,
simply divide all the portions you've been eating
(especially those you eat out) in half. See how it feels to
just eat half a restaurant meal, then stop. Have the rest
packed up for lunch the next day. Chances are, you won't be
hungry after eating half the meal, but if you are, eat
another quarter. Then have the rest packed up. You're not
depriving yourself - a generation ago, the half- or
three-quarter meal you end up eating is more or less the
same amount of food as a full meal you would have been
served a generation ago. Even cookies and muffins that you
buy to go have been supersized - again, eat half.

Weight loss tip #2: Walk as much as possible. Get in the
habit. It's great to go to the gym and work out, but in its
own way, 'built-in' exercise is even better. It requires no
special equipment, you don't have to schedule time for it -
you just do it as a matter of course. Remember, until cars
became commonplace, walking is how most people got around
most of the time. In many European cities, they still do.
And people who do this are seldom overweight - go figure!

Weight loss tip #3: Eat real food. In other words, avoid
boxes and cans, and eat things that are in their natural
form - or as close to it as possible. In the supermarket,
shop around the edges - the meat and produce - and avoid
the inside aisles. Preparing 'real' food might be a bit
more work, but it's very rewarding, and much healthier.

These are not very 'high powered' weight loss tips - you
won't lose a pound a day, or whatever the leading programs
claim. These are healthy, enjoyable changes that are meant
to last a lifetime - and over time, you will lose weight.
What's more, your weight loss will be gradual and safe, and
you'll keep the weight off permanently.

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Does Porridge Make You Fat?

Does Porridge Make You Fat?
Of Course Porridge Oats Don't Make you Fat!

For years now, many weight loss experts, dietitians,
doctors and slimming consultants alike have been telling us
how Porridge Oats or easily the best option for our
breakfast.

Granted most of us now know that breakfast is the most
important meal of the day, followed closely by our choice
of post-workout nutrition, but why?

Well, you see, porridge oats are what are know as a Low
Glycaemic Carbohydrate, meaning that it enters the
bloodstream and is converted into sugar quite slowly, thus
providing a slow release of energy throughout the day.

Hopefully you all know packaged breakfast cereals that are
so common in many cupboards are just processed rubbish that
I guarantee will make you fat- yes even Bran Flakes, All
Bran and the like are very poor choices

Don't let the fact that they have 'added vitamins and
minerals' fool you into thinking your morning bowl of
cereal is healthy. It's not!

After being rendered into a kind of slurry paste, the
grains that were used to make the flakes that you eat every
morning were passed under high pressure and high heat
through a pipe (a process that renders the grains mildly
toxic) before being sprayed with synthetic chemicals and
cut into their desired shapes. This process, known as
extrusion, basically removes much of what was once
nutritious from the food.

Haven't you ever wondered why your cornflakes turned to
mush when you leave it too long? Real food doesn't do this!

So, what is THE best breakfast?

Well, believe it or not it’s a plain old omelette!
And before you game me the ‘aren’t eggs bad for
your cholesterol?’ line the amount of cholesterol in
eggs had no effect on your blood cholesterol. They are a
great from of protein.

Anyway, here’s a study to back it up (you know I love
my studies)

It’s a study done by Dr. David Ludwig at Harvard
University; he studied three groups of overweight
individuals. Feeding each group a breakfast containing and
IDENTICAL number of calories. One group ate instant oats;
one group ate steel cut oats (the type that take 45 minutes
to cook); and the third group had a veggie omelette and
fruit.

They then ate a lunch identical to the meal they had eaten
for breakfast, then after lunch they were told to eat
whenever they were very hungry for the rest of the day. Now
the results here blew me away!

Many of you would think that the healthiest meal would have
been the oatmeal right? It was actually the omelette!

The group that are the instant oatmeal ate 81% more food in
the afternoon than the group that had the omelette. Not
only were they hungrier but the omelette group also had
lower levels of insulin, which means there body was using
fat as energy!

The steel cut oats were slightly better than the instant;
the group still ate 51% more food the rest of the day than
the group who ate the omelette.

The conclusion here for me is that the kind of calories and
not the AMOUNT of calories you consume have a HUGE impact
on how much weight you lose or gain, because different
types of food are metabolized in different weighs- in short
PROTEIN ALWAYS WINS!

Now I’m not an advocate of the Atkins diet which is
little or no carbs but what I am a fan of is low REFINED
carbohydrate, so eat your oats, your brown rice and your
veggies but ALWAYS eat them with protein!

So go get those eggs for breakfast and watch those afernoon
munchies dissapear!

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Paul Mort is the North East’s Number One personal
trainer and fat-loss expert and is head trainer and owner
of precision fitness - the only company in the north east
that can guarantee results 100%. Paul has featured on
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