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GT 10day Food Challenge (First 7 days)
our GT 10day Food Challenge is working out well, through 7days and the holiday weekend I have dropped -4lbs and 2% Fat
(no diet, no pills, no powders, no gimmicks)
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GT Food Challenge: Day 2 Weigh-in – still Balancing my Carbs
Weighed in this morning when I got to the studio and dropped 3lbs on day 2. Mostly water but I’m still pleased bc that’s real weight. I am still making food corrections to level out my CHO and Pro intake bc I don’t want more than 45% CHO for my daily allowance. Too many CHO’s will make my weight go up due to water retention (8lbs a gallon)
I hope your challenge is going as well and keep tracking your food, I’m still torn between MyFitnessPal and LoseIt. They both work great but I can’t decide which one I like best
Related articles
- GT Get Fit Tip: Weigh Yourself in the Morning (dnfitness.wordpress.com)
- Are You Ready? GT 10-day Food Challenge (dnfitness.wordpress.com)
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last supper
my last supper tonight before the food challenge is my favorite mashed potatoes – with baked spicy chicken and asparagus
I will be using the “lose it” app and “food burner” app to track my calories
I’m weighing In at 161 and 13% body fat – my goal in 10 days is 155 and 8-10% body fat
We have 25 people signed in and ready to go – I am very excited to get the results – I will post them soon
Any suggestions or questions please let me know, the 10 day food challenge is a great place for anybody to help start burning body fat
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GT Fit: Tools in your Tool bag to Progress Weight Loss
Want to progress your weight loss? Try adding some tools to your tool bag
1. Looking in the mirror ( yes you can flex ladies)
2. taking pictures every week
3. measurements and re-measure
4. How your clothes fit
5. What your friends and colleagues say about you when they see you again
6. comments from strangers
7. your total weight that is body fat lbs
9. your total weight that is lean muscle tissue lbs
10. Your body fat percentage (most important for women, not total weight)
You have to have a way to measure & track progress. I personally like to see my performance go up in my workouts but some people love to look at the numbers to see change. Doesn’t matter how you look at it but when friends and strangers make comments about you getting in shape then you know you are doing something.
Best part about that is you will motivate them to be fit too!!!
Related articles
- GT Fit live workout: Bicep/Tricep work (dnfitness.wordpress.com)
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GT Get Fit Tip: Release Cortisol – Increase Body Fat
While cortisol is an important and helpful part of the body’s response to stress, it’s important that the body’s relaxation response to be activated so the body’s functions can return to normal following a stressful event. Unfortunately, in our current high-stress culture, the body’s stress response is activated so often that the body doesn’t always have a chance to return to normal, resulting in a state of chronic stress.
Higher and more prolonged levels of cortisol in the bloodstream (like those associated with chronic stress) have been shown to have negative effects, such as:
- Impaired cognitive performance
- Suppressed thyroid function
- Blood sugar imbalances such as hyperglycemia
- Decreased bone density
- Decrease in muscle tissue
- Higher blood pressure
- Lowered immunity and inflammatory responses in the body, slowed wound healing, and other health consequences
- Increased abdominal fat, which is associated with a greater amount of health problems than fat deposited in other areas of the body. Some of the health problems associated with increased stomach fat are heart attacks, strokes, the development of metabolic syndrome, higher levels of “bad” cholesterol (LDL) and lower levels of “good” cholesterol (HDL), which can lead to other health problems!
To keep cortisol levels healthy and under control, the body’s relaxation response should be activated after the fight or flight response occurs. You can learn to relax your body with various stress management techniques, and you can make lifestyle changes in order to keep your body from reacting to stress in the first place. http://stress.about.com/od/stresshealth/a/cortisol.htm
Is that why “red meat” is bad for you?
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When’s the last time you ate a fast food burger? Are you waiting for ground beef to go on sale at the grocery? Did your kiddos eat at the school cafeteria , have you checked the menu lately?
“Pink Slime” is whats being served in most school districts. The slime is essentially the glue holding the meat together. Its not really glue but it can’t be much worse!!
Saving THREE CENTS a pound off production costs and making $440 million/year in revenue the FDA has allowed the beef industry use fatty slaughterhouse trimmings treated with ammonia as a filler in ground beef.
Is that why some critics say that “red meat” is bad for you?
In January fast food restaurants stopped serving pink slime, I wonder what Bowling Green schools serve, does anybody know?
Here is a quick newscast from Denver I found about the pink slime zqak7r04
Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef
Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned
Related articles
- Schools will get to opt out of “pink slime” beef (goerie.com)
- USDA Will Allow Other, Non-”Pink Slime” Beef Choices For Kids (blisstree.com)
GT Get Fit Tip: Analyzing Your Results
This spring makes my 11th year doing personal training and March is always the BEST and WORST month. This time in early spring is a great time to analyze your results. You want to stop now and look at your workouts, nutrition, and recovery to make sure you are on track for spring and summer break.
I track body fat for clients because that’s most important when you talk about being toned, the weight or “mass” is irrelevant when 33% of your total weight is all flabby and muffin top (you skinny bitch!!) I preach all the time about getting stronger, faster and becoming leaner through a little working out and eating fruits and vegetables, I say it over and over and over again. 
My point today is to remind you guys that stepping on the scale and weighing is not the only way to track progress. We all want to look respectable and some of us even want to be a bad ass about it but I want to remind you to be appreciative of your health and well-being and motivate some one else to be happy too.
What does it take to motivate you to lose -5lbs?
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commit 6wks – join a gym, boot camp, hire a trainer or grab a friend, it doesn’t matter how you commit but give your body type 6 full weeks to adapt to the changes you have made. The body works in 4-6wks increments so be PATIENT
