Exposure to toxins also depends on food preparation and where and how the product was grown. Examples of these include the countries that still allow curtain pesticides to continue to be used that are known to be toxic or even live stock ingested that ingests grains or grasses that have been sprayed with herb or pesticides. They need to be cleansed from your body.

What exactly is a Toxin?  Toxins are a poisonous substance that is a specific product of the metabolic activities of a living organism and is usually very unstable, notably toxic when introduced into the tissues, and typically capable of inducing antibody formation. Toxins also include medications that are helpful in therapeutic doses but poisonous when used in an excess amount. Most toxins that cause problems in humans are released by microorganisms such as bacteria.

So what can or should we do about the consumption of toxins? First, wash all your fruits and vegetables. Secondly, try to purchase organic foods, produce that has been grown and cultivated without the use of herbicides and pesticides. Third, try to purchase only meat that has been grazed on and feed only pesticide and herbicide free grasses and grains.  Lastly cleanse for life, by cleansing you aide your body in removing toxins. Isagenix uses only the purest product and 100% organic. You may even experience energy boost and weight loss over time.

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From the desk of Chris Martin

So here are a few GOOD reasons to avoid the dieting cycle.

1. Research has shown that the more you diet yoyo you will continue to gain more weight than you lost on the previous diet. Here why. You start a diet most are restrictive calorie, carbohydrate, fat or some combination of these three. Your body says hay what’s happened I had all this food for energy and storage for a rainy day and now I don’t have enough to survive. People think by reducing or restricting their input of food they will lose weight, and they are correct. Their body is gone into self preservation mode. It sees the restriction as a famine and instead of starting to use the fat your body has saved it start with lean muscle. Because lean muscle is the best fuel for your body and it take less energy to get it ready to consume. So now you start losing weight but its muscle not fat. By the way muscle weighs more than fat so you think you’re losing fat but all you’re really losing is you best way to lose fat, because muscle takes energy to do work but fat doesn’t. Now some time has passed and you’ve lost all the weight you had set out to lose or the even that you needed to lose weight for has passed and return to eating the same amount you were before you started the diet. Now the problem starts. You’re giving your body those 2000 calories or so that you did before the diet and maintained your weight at (whatever it was) now your body needs fewer calories because it has less muscle mass to feed. So guess what it does with the extra, you’re correct it stories it for later. And the cycle will continue over and over and over again.
2. Now as if you really need another reason, how about this. New research shows that this same dieting cycle also stresses your brain, causing overeating and anxiety. Have you noticed that once you go off the diet your stress is reduced? When this occurs we normally eat comfort foods which helps use to feel better and then the cycle occurs again. This is in fact similar to addiction to drugs. Have you noted how irritable most people become when they are on a diet? Now you know why. It’s not just being hungry and missing eating it is actually an addiction. What is worse is if you go off the diet or cheat for a day or even one meal the symptoms return with more intense anxiety than before. And the cycle continues.

Conclusion: Stop dieting!  Change your life style.

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Let’s answer the questions.

Is this a healthy way of losing weight? The answer would have to be yes and no. The yes is, they are under strict nutritional regiments guided by a dietician on staff, a professional trainer guiding them through several hours of exercise per week, a doctor that monitors their vital statistics, move to weight lose camp. That would a great thing having no junk food and a much regimented/structured life. Have no job to go to that is going to get in the way of your schedule of weight loss. Lose weight and lastly get a healthy check at the end if you win. The IF for winning is pretty big.

Now let’s look at the no’s. First and foremost most of us don’t have loads of money put some where that we can hire a doctor, dietician, and trainer, go to a weight lose camp, take time off work and not get paid. Lastly and I believe most important spend weeks away from family. Next, if someone does all of those things for you have you truly learned anything. Did you learn how to exercise from home or if you can afford to go to a gym and use their equipment. Have you learned what food to eat or not eat do you know the reason why you shouldn’t eat certain foods. While you were at camp the food was there for you. Have you gone shopping for yourself to purchase your own groceries and if so did you have someone to call or email if you have questions. As for your Doctor if you are overweight, have health issues or just feel you need to be monitored by a doctor then you will still need that.

The bottom line is we need to take responsibility for ourselves. We need to stop blaming someone or something else for our weight. Using excuses like; I have big bones, I have a medical problem, I have bad genes, My parents where heavy, How am I supposed to know what 1 serving looks like? These are but a few reasons/excuse. Realize that you can lose weight and regain your health while living at home.

In conclusion, I recommend you look to someone to give you advice on weight lose. Look for someone that has experience that helps to guide you along. When talking to them ask question like how long have you been helping people lose weight. Feel comfortable with him/her. Once you decide on someone tell them the truth. Take their advice, listen to them. You wouldn’t go to get your car fixed at reputable mechanic then tell him he doesn’t know what he’s talking about! Trust them to tell you the truth even if you don’t like it.  If you don’t understand ask them to explain again and again if necessary. If you’re having a problem with something let them know. I’m not a mind reader and I haven’t met anyone that is. Remember you didn’t the weight over night so don’t expect to lose the weight over night. If you need to purchase a specific product ask questions. Is it all natural, are there any stimulants, is it organic, and is it pesticide and herbicide free? Remember, ask questions. And I tell everyone that I’ve worked with it’s about eh journey not the destination. Life is short, enjoy it. Be healthy.

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Train hard: If you want to gain you must train hard. Never do the same thing in the same order. Make your body wonder what is happening today. Always change it up more reps one day and less the next. Remember it is possible to over train there must be time for rest. It takes about 36-48 hours for your body to rebuild depending on your level of health and wellness. If at all possible pay for a trainer. You typically get what you pay for.

That leads us to Rest: If you’re working your body hard then it requires rest not just a good night sleep but time for your muscles to repair and rebuild. Think of it this way every time you do strength training you’re making tiny rips in your muscle if they don’t have time to grow additional muscle strands to mend that muscle in between work outs then you’re wasting time. As stated earlier most performance trainers and sport doctors agree on every other day. So work legs one day and upper body the next or whatever works for you.

Lastly Great Nutrition: A number of years ago there was an add on TV. Man walks out with a body suite that showed your bones and muscles and a song sing you “are what you eat” it would show eating good stuff and the body grows. Well nothing has changed you are what you eat. Junk in, junk out! Does this sound familiar? Good in, good out! So, that being said for optimum work out you need great nutrition. Allow me to suggest, minimum 8-10 glasses of water minimum. If you’re a sweater like me you’ll need to drink much more. Clean filtered water. Not energy drinks or fruit drinks or anything else just water of the water preferably Alkaline Water. NO SODAS at all! Piles of green vegetables (washed of course) a good amount of other fruits and vegetables. Then lean protein. Protein is the building blocks of muscle. Without adequate protein there is really no reason to work you muscles. One of the best protein powders on the market today comes from Isagenix.

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First lack of a plan, you didn’t wake one morning and say “wow I’ve put on some weight” no it occurred over a period of months and sometimes years. I spent 20 years in the military and probably the only thing I can say I really learned and kept was to plan. Weight lose is a planning even. It’s not an event where you say honey let’s go to dinner tonight. It is an event that needs to be planned out. When you’re going to start, how much fat you need to lose. What are you willing to do to achieve the weight lose.

Secondly, and in most cases some weight gain is the body’s way of capturing toxins before they can harm it. It logically follows that a comprehensive weight loss plan that does not remove these stored toxins will ultimately fail.

The solution:

A twofold approach; One a Plan and two cleanse to ensure your success.

It’s up to you, what do you want?

Decide what you want. The decision must be yours. It must be a head decision.

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If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. Think

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1. Look at how your cloths fit not at the scale. Remember you didn’t wake up one morning and found yourself over weight or fat it took time and it’s going to take time to lose weight or shed fat. Life is a journey, enjoy it!

2. Eating five or six small meals per day will also help to lose weight and shed fat. When you eat your meals don’t us a dinner plate us the next smaller one, it looks like you eating more “there is a diet company that advertises on TV that uses this trick, all their meals look big but it’s really the plate that’s small”. If you eat all day you won’t have the urge to eat so much because you won’t be hungry at your next meal.

3. Eliminate (as much as possible) candy, sugar, and soda from your life and for sure diet sodas. If you must have chocolate have dark chocolate and instead sugar use honey or stevia as a replacement. Everything you do will help you shed fat and lose weight.
4. No late night snacks, if you absolutely have to have something try having a small handful of almonds..

5. Avoid diets and micro-wave solutions that guarantee you’ll lose weight, shed fat while you eat all you want and do nothing. Remember what your mom told you “if it sounds too good to be true it probably is”.

6. Eat more complex carbohydrates (brown long cooking (about 1 hour) rise heavy brown breads with nuts or seeds) and ample quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables (as much greens as you want, well rinsed). Having yogurt, make sure it has living coulters though. This will help with regularity and help to lose weight and shed fat.

7. Drink plenty of water at a minimum of 8 cups per day. Your morning coffee afternoon soda does not count towards your 8 cups of water. Try herbal teas with honey or stevia if you like it sweet instead of coffee or soda. Stevia has been known keep your blood sugar flat.

8. I recommend a 30 cleanse and fat burning system from Isagenix. This is a great way to start to lose weight and shed fat, it will also help to reduce craving and improve muscle tone.

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Over 66 percent of adult Americans are considered overweight or obese by recent studies.  It’s not surprising to find that weight loss is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions.  Setting specific goals and reasonable goals and staying focused are the three most important factors in sticking with a weight loss program.  I can help.  Allow me the privilege of helping you lose weight, shed fat and build muscle.  With a coach you are more likely to achieve the goal.  I can help with weight loss.  Changing habits is the key, allowing your body to shed fat naturally.  When you lose weight normally you also lose muscle.   That is not the desired way to lose weight. When you lose muscle it will take you longer to shed fat.   With my program, yes you lose weight, but more importantly you shed fat and lose inches.
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Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

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