PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Animals

Task 1: begin elimination of grains, especially gluten. Task 1a: Add back the calories that you are losing. How exactly is that done? With fats. Try some coconut milk, half and half or cream either in your coffee or straight up. Butter is important here as well. Task 2: Protein (animal) is an essential component of every meal. If you don't have a protein portion in whatever meal you are eating, you need to add it.

So far today I have had coffee with whole milk, 8 egg whites/ 2 yolks mixed with whole milk and handful of mozzarella scrambled in unsalted butter, and a 12 oz glass of whole milk.

Exercise for today: Tabata (Pushups, Situps, Body Weight Squats, Pullups)

How(s): Each exercise will be performed for a total of 4 minutes. You will do the exercise for 20 seconds then rest 10 seconds. You will repeat this cycle 8 times for a total of 4 minutes. Then move on to the next exercise and repeat the cycle for it. For each exercise, the minimum reps in the 4 minute cycle is your score for that exercise. Add up your score for all four exercises and that is your first Tabata benchmark. Keep in mind if you go out too fast in round 1, you will fizzle in round 8.

Pushups: obvious
Situps: obvious
Body weight squats: thigh parallel to the ground or lower, extend arms in front for balance, initiate movement by moving butt backwards (think sitting in a chair)
Pullups: overhand grip, chin over bar, assist/scale as needed (bands, jumping, gravitron, lowering only)

Get the Mind Right and the Rest Will Follow

Alright peoples, time to get your minds right. So after a year of serious experimentation with diet and exercise, I have found myself in a position to offer my "services". What I will post here will be for everyone, free of charge, for the taking, to improve your quality of life. Use it like you stole it and if you are successful with it (you will be if you follow it 85% of the time), share your successes.

FIRST TASK: start correcting the metabolic inflammation you have been foisting on yourselves. Feel like crap, have body aches or acne, irritable gut (weight gain is only a small symptom of a much larger problem)...all are related back to a diet with grain products and refined sugars (and sugar substitutes). To fix 50% of the problem, you NEED toabsolutely eliminate ALL grains and refined sugars. I don't have enough room for the whys here, but if you are skeptical, drop me a line and I can provide all the rationale. To fill the caloric hole, you'll need to add back good fats. They are not what you think they are, based on what you've been told by the experts. One last thing. You cannot ABSOTIVELY POSILUTELY outrun a funked up diet not matter how much time you spend on the treadmill or elliptical trainer. It is time for a serious paradigm shift.

So it was suggested that I do it this way... so I will

So here it is in blog format. I will cross post on FaceBook as long as it will let me. Bear in mind that this blog is simply a repository of what I have read elsewhere. The information is not new, nor is it original, but the formulation is completely mine. This blog serves only as a conduit to get the information out that I believe people need to see. It is up to each of you to form you own opinion. I am not a doctor, I have never played one on TV, and I did not sleep at a Holiday Inn express last night.