An interesting article of fat loss

[Labarum]

" The key to getting rid of accumulated body fat is to get back your youthful metabolism by getting back your muscle."


http://www.mikementzer.com/bodyfat.html

I have not yet explored the parent site

http://www.neilmct.com/

[Labarum]

And the parent site might easily bear inspection:

The Hurried Man's Guide to Diet

* Don't eat so goddamn much.

* Eat smaller amounts of healthy foods often. Never be starved. Never be stuffed.

* Protein is good. Eat lots.

* Fats are good, but eat mostly healthy ones with omega-3s and stuff. There's a difference between fish oil and grease.

* Never eat trans fats.

* Carbs are tricky. Get most of yours from veggies, oatmeal, post-workout drinks, and fruits, not flour and sugar.

* If you're drinking full-sugar sodas all day long, stop it. You might as well smoke.

* Food log: Keep one for a few weeks. Learn more than you ever imagined.

* You know all that junk food and fast food you eat? You know it works against your physique goals, right? So stop eating it. Control yourself. Have some pride. Stop acting like a stray dog who eats whatever is dropped on the ground without even sniffing it.

* If you're not making the progress you want to make in the gym, it's probably your diet. Most people can't out-train a crappy diet.

* Your two staple food supplements should be Metabolic Drive and Flameout.

* Fiber. You probably need more than you're getting.

* Plain water: ditto.

* You can learn to like healthy foods and dislike unhealthy ones. If people can learn to enjoy black coffee, sushi, and chewing tobacco, you can learn to like cauliflower and spinach.

* Vegetarians: Please. Embrace reality and have a steak.

* Even the most dedicated and hardest training person in the gym can get home and become a "diet wussy."

* Choose as many "natural" whole foods as possible. Your peanut butter's ingredients should list "peanuts" and that's about it. Your oatmeal should list only "rolled oats." Avoid too many packaged and processed foods with hundreds of ingredients you can't pronounce.

* Food is not a reward, a treat, or an escape. Food is fuel.

* If you want to stay faithful to your spouse, avoid filling your house with nubile, nymphomaniac college girls. If you want to stay faithful to your diet, avoid filling your house with fattening, seductive, "slutty" foods. If they're there, you'll pork them sooner or later.

* The older you get and the more advanced you get with your training, the more important nutrition becomes.

* Most overweight people have "food issues." The mental / psychological / emotional side of things must be addressed to make permanent lifestyle changes.

* Beer belly: Yeah, there's a reason they call it that. See if you can figure it out.

* Cheat meals often backfire because we train ourselves to see bad food as a reward or something positive. Cold turkey tastes best. Cheat meals should be few and far between.

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=931871

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Does all this sound familiar?

[kylie]

That's great! I am laughing so hard my mascara is running!

[HeidiE]

LOL ....The Hurried WOMan's Guide to Diet

* Don't eat so goddamn much.

* Eat smaller amounts of healthy foods often. Never be starved. Never be stuffed.

* Protein is good. Eat lots.

* Fats are good, but eat mostly healthy ones with omega-3s and stuff. There's a difference between fish oil and grease.

* Never eat trans fats.

* Carbs are tricky. Get most of yours from veggies, oatmeal, post-workout drinks, and fruits, not flour and sugar.

* If you're drinking full-sugar sodas all day long, stop it. You might as well smoke.

* Food log: Keep one for a few weeks. Learn more than you ever imagined.

* You know all that junk food and fast food you eat? You know it works against your physique goals, right? So stop eating it. Control yourself. Have some pride. Stop acting like a stray dog who eats whatever is dropped on the ground without even sniffing it.

* If you're not making the progress you want to make in the gym, it's probably your diet. Most people can't out-train a crappy diet.

* Your two staple food supplements should be Metabolic Drive and Flameout.

* Fiber. You probably need more than you're getting.

* Plain water: ditto.

* You can learn to like healthy foods and dislike unhealthy ones. If people can learn to enjoy black coffee, sushi, and chewing tobacco, you can learn to like cauliflower and spinach.

* Vegetarians: Please. Embrace reality and have a steak.

* Even the most dedicated and hardest training person in the gym can get home and become a "diet wussy."

* Choose as many "natural" whole foods as possible. Your peanut butter's ingredients should list "peanuts" and that's about it. Your oatmeal should list only "rolled oats." Avoid too many packaged and processed foods with hundreds of ingredients you can't pronounce.

* Food is not a reward, a treat, or an escape. Food is fuel.

* If you want to stay faithful to your spouse, avoid filling your house with nubile, nymphomaniac college girls. If you want to stay faithful to your diet, avoid filling your house with fattening, seductive, "slutty" foods. If they're there, you'll pork them sooner or later.

* The older you get and the more advanced you get with your training, the more important nutrition becomes.

* Most overweight people have "food issues." The mental / psychological / emotional side of things must be addressed to make permanent lifestyle changes.

* Beer belly: Yeah, there's a reason they call it that. See if you can figure it out.

* Cheat meals often backfire because we train ourselves to see bad food as a reward or something positive. Cold turkey tastes best. Cheat meals should be few and far between.


this sounds kind of like my advice I think

[sweetgirl2]

Those are such great articles!

[julirama723]

I think my favorite part was the "slutty" foods...I'll have to put that one into rotation.

[ValidRouge]

Great find, Labarum!

Julie--I loved that too. I liked everything he had to say. Especially the part about how people have learned to love black coffee, sushi and chewing tobacco and that how hard can it be to learn to love broccoli and cauliflower! HA! Isn't THAT the truth?

[zencyn]

Too funny!

[sannew]

LOL. this was really good!

Sanne

[sallyseachange]

Wonderful!!! Ty ty ty!