Ten Secrets to Make You Fit Fast

Are you willing to do what it takes to look and feel your very best?

If so, then we would love to help you achieve that goal as quickly and efficiently as possible while assuring you lasting success.

In order for you to be committed and exercise consistent discipline in our program, it is essential that you understand why you’re doing the things we’ve asked you to do. This will require that you understand a little about how this machine we call “the body” actually works before the magic can take place.

SECRET # 1

Water: Your Body Cries Out for More and It’s Absolutely Critical to Increase Your Metabolic Furnace.

One of the most important secrets to getting fit fast is to drink plenty   of water! It’s been estimated that over 75% of the population consume less than half of the water that they should for optimum health.

Some of  the  symptoms  associated   with   sub-clinical   dehydration   are dry, damaged and prematurely aged skin, thinning hair, constipation, acne, idiopathic dermatitis, impaired digestive function, hemorrhoids and systemic toxicity. Even slight dehydration can zap your energy and cause fatigue.

The Benefits of Water:

• Regulates your body
• Removes cellular
• Carries nutrients and oxygen to your
• Cushions your joints.
• Helps prevent
• Reduces the burden on your liver and kidneys by removing the
• Dissolves vitamins, minerals and other essential

 

Since our entire body mass is 70%  water,  it  only  makes  sense  to replenish what is lost from urination, sweating and metabolic functions. Drinking plenty of water is one of the smartest things one can do to help reduce excess stored body fat and improve the metabolism. Inadequate water intake can seriously damage your kidneys and make the job of balancing fluids much more difficult for your body.

If you’re wondering how much you  need  to  drink  each  day,  take  your body weight and divide it in half and that gives you the number of ounces you need to consume per day. So if you weigh 140 pounds, then you need 70 ounces of water per day, which equates to almost 2 liters.

Remind  yourself…  Drink plenty of water throughout the day.  Carry a bottle  of water with you as you drive to work, run errands or enjoy the day at the pool; and no, this is not just a California thing. When you exercise, always bring a bottle of water with you and drink small amounts frequently. Don’t underestimate the amount of fluids lost from sweating.

If you need to, set an alarm twice a day to remind yourself to drink more water. If you’re one of those people who I’ve heard say, “I just don’t like water,” find a water that tastes better to you and begin telling yourself and others that you changed your mind and you really do like good tasting water. One thing is certain, your body will love you for it!

Never drink tap water, which contains over 2,000 known contaminants! Either purchase a reverse osmosis purification system for your home or buy Arrowhead Springs or Sparkletts bottled water in the store.

A great health  hint  is to go straight to your kitchen first thing in the morning when you wake up and drink a large glass of water since you’re dehydrated after hibernating for 6-8 hours. After your shower and getting ready for work, you may want to drink one more before you leave the house. In this way, you’ve already drank one-fourth of your daily intake, which will make the rest of the day simpler!

SECRET #2

Become A Fat Burning Machine by Fueling Your Body with Protein & A Limited Amount of Complex Carbohydrates

The second secret to permanent body fat loss is  eating  starches throughout the day. Starches you say — isn’t that fattening? Not only are starches not fattening, they are the fat burners! They are also an excellent source of slow burning fuel for the body. However, you must know the right kind of starches to eat.

The best way to kill the cravings is to eat a complex carbohydrate every 4-6 hours throughout the day, especially the slow-burning, fat-burning starches — whole grains, beans and potatoes.

Your  brain  and  central  nervous  system  are  fueled  by  one  thing  only— sugar (that’s been broken down from a complex carbohydrate) The first symptoms to appear from a lack of complex carbohydrates, (the technical term for starches) is altered or impaired psychological and emotional function. The most common are impaired short-term memory and cognitive dysfunction. Many people never stop to ask themselves why they always seem to be so forgetful — probably because they forget a few minutes later that they forgot something a couple minutes earlier!

SECRET #3

Exercise To Change Your Size! 

Exercise is  absolutely  essential  to looking and feeling your very best. If  you consider your fitness training a privileged activity that you “treat yourself to,” then you can once again take pride in your physical appearance and feel really good about yourself.

High intensity weight training combined with cardiovascular exercise has been demonstrated to be the most effective way to increase lean muscle and decrease stored body fat.

Exercise  tells  your   body   that   muscle   is   more   valuable   than   fat.   After all, why should your body keep its muscle if it’s not being used? When you apply our Ten Secrets To Getting Fit Fast, you’ll no longer be a slave to your body; you’ll be in control of it! You  will never have to fear regaining  the body fat that you burned off because you have programmed your body to keep muscle and use fat for energy through aerobic exercise and good individualized eating habits.

During every workout, you flush and  drain  the  sewage  system  of  your  body, otherwise known as the lymphatic system, which carries waste products away from the muscles, glands and organs of your body. The only pump that this system has to activate this lymphatic drainage is your muscle contraction. This health benefit is a magnificent side effect of weight and cardiovascular training.

SECRET #4

Fat: The good, the bad and the ugly

The bad fat clogs your liver and sticks to your hips and waist!

The Good Fat, Believe It Or Not, Actually Helps You Lose Body Fat!

Many diet promoters mislead the  public  by scaring them regarding the fats and oils they consume. Some promote an almost “fat-free” concept. Still others go so far as to say, “Eat any kind of fat you want, as long as it’s only 30% of your caloric intake.” All of these are fads and are not great advice.

Balance is the secret to the  right  fats  and  oils  you  consume  and  you need to understand that fats and oils contain essential fatty acids or EFA’s. This term indicates that certain compounds within certain fats and oils are absolutely essential for physiological function and without them we will have disease associated with EFA deficiency/insufficiency.

Interestingly, with as many overweight people as we have in America, EFA deficiency/insufficiency is epidemic in this culture. Not only are people eating the wrong fats and oils such as too much red meat, pork, deep fried foods, mayonnaise, margarine etc., they’re also not consuming the good fats and oils such as olive oil, flaxseeds and flaxseed oil, fish, raw nuts and avocado.

You can be confident that the good eating habits and nutritional program we give you will be a healthy balance of fats and oils!

Unfortunately, many people don’t understand how this machine we call  the body actually works. When you deprive the body of the good fats and oils, your body tends to hold on to its reserves and not let go of it. This is a built-in survival mechanism. Many people have been told that eating any kind of fat will feed your fat cells but this is simply not true.

All fat is not dealt with in the same way by your body.

Certain fats like those from land animals, which are saturated, tend to be stored more easily by the body and also give rise to pro-inflammatory hormones. Other fats like fish oil, flax oil and olive oil have a cleansing effect throughout your entire body similar to giving your car engine an oil change. These “good oils” also give rise to the anti-inflammatory  hormones in your body. So you can see why the wrong balance of fats and oils in your body can make you feel so bad and look old while the right balance will make you feel great, increase your metabolic rate and make you look young again!

SECRET #5

The Power Of pH: Achieving Your Peak Performance Zone! 

Bringing Your Body Back To Balance 

 

• The way that your body feels and performs is directly related to the quality of nutrients that you provide for

• The human body has tremendous, God-given healing power when it is properly nourished.

• If the body’s pH becomes acidic, it becomes harder and harder to efficiently absorb nutrients such as vitamins, minerals or herbs. An acidic pH creates a hostile internal environment making the body struggle to get the nutrients it needs for optimal health and performance. The solution is to re-establish the proper acid/alkaline balance of your body, which is the most important first step you can take to optimize your athletic performance. The more acidic you become, the worse you will feel, but as your bodies pH moves into better balance (pH 6.4-7.0) your body easily assimilates minerals that were very difficult to absorb at a lower more acid Keeping your body in the proper pH balance is the most important thing you can do for your health, metabolic rate and for optimum performance.

 

How to Measure Your pH

1. To gauge the body’s pH, collect a small sample of your urine in a clean cup first thing in the morning (do not eat or drink anything before you take the urine )
2. Check the pH of your urine by dipping a small strip of pH tape into your urine; then match the color of the tape to the pH color chart
   1. If your urine pH is below 6.0, your body’s cells are enveloped in an acidic bath, paving the way for future health problems — or reinforcing current ones.

The Ideal Urine pH Range

• An ideal urine pH range measured first thing in the morning upon arising is between 6.4-7.0. Most frequently, urine pH levels have dipped down into the acidic range (below 4).
• Also harmful are high urine pH levels. A urine pH over 7.0 may be a warning sign that the pH balance has become abnormally
• A pH over 8.0 is a serious danger signal indicating the body has desperately recruited emergency supplies of ammonia to use as an alkaline buffer. This response is most often due to a long-standing, highly acidic state which has depleted the body’s mineral reserves — especially calcium.

 

High Tissue Oxygen

• Increases and intensifies metabolic rate
• High vitality
• High energy
• Bacteria, virus and fungus cannot survive
• Good mental clarity
• Exceptional absorption

Low Tissue Oxygen

• Decreases and inhibits metabolic rate
• Poor energy, easily tired
• Breeding ground for bacteria, virus and fungus
• Poor mental focus, poor memory
• Poor absorption

 

Calcium is the gatekeeper of the cell and key buffer that helps maintain the acid/alkaline balance and helps neutralize the many acids and toxins we are exposed to.

The Vitamin D Connection: Is the Calcium Getting In?

• Vitamin D is an absolute requirement for the intestinal absorption of Without sufficient vitamin D, you cannot adequately absorb calcium.

• Many people do not consume an adequate amount of vitamin D in their diets.

• New research has shown that almost every organ, gland and immune cell in the body has vitamin D receptor

• Studies have shown that activation of these receptor sites facilitates calcium utilization for re-alkalization and rapid destruction of invading organisms.

SECRET #6

Your Bigger Meal Should Be Lunch, Not Dinner!

 Tradition and habit is sometimes our  greatest  enemy,  since  most  of  us  grew up in a home where dinner was the main meal and certainly the largest of the three. Eating a large meal, especially containing meat at night and then going to sleep with a full stomach, is one of the best ways to gain excess body fat and extend your waistline!

This is one of the biggest reasons why there are so many over-weight Americans today. In other cultures where they make their lunch their main meal they do not suffer from excess fat storage to nearly the same extent as we do in America.

Breakfast-snack-lunch-snack-dinner 

In the morning and early afternoon, your digestive enzymes are secreted more efficiently and therefore maximal absorption and utilization of your dietary fats, carbohydrates and proteins takes place earlier in the day.

Your breakfast and lunch should ideally be your larger meals and your dinner on the smaller side. This plan will help you to accumulate less body fat and will begin to mobilize the excess body fat that’s already there.

Eat more great tasting food and lose your excess body fat! The worst thing you can do is to eat all your food for the day in 1-2 meals. It’s disastrous to your metabolism! Eating several times throughout the day — but smaller meals — rather than one or two meals has been shown to block the increase of body fat. Do not underestimate the importance of secret #6 to getting fit fast! 

SECRET #7

No Food Two Hours Before Bedtime! 

This could prove to be one of the most important secrets for reaching your goal quickly  since eating a large meal right before you go to bed causes  the food to putrefy in your intestine and not be absorbed and utilized by your body efficiently. We don’t digest food as efficiently late at night— especially if it’s cooked food. Also, your metabolic rate is decreased in the evening since your energy demands are diminished; so that big meal you eat at 10:00 PM will stay in your intestine much longer causing very restless sleep and making you feel groggy and unrested when you have to wake up in the morning. This is one reason many people feel more tired when they wake up than when they go to bed at night. That meal sitting in your gut creates a state of acidosis in your body all night long, lowering your tissue oxygen and making you feel totally lethargic in the morning. Doyourself a huge favor and make an effort to eat a smaller dinner 1-2 hours earlier than you normally do if you’re one of those who tend to eat late at night. An added secret is to eat a good meal at 6:00 PM so you won’t be so hungry at 9:00-10:00 in the evening. Secret #7 carries enormous health benefits that will make you feel great while also helping you to get fit fast! 

 

SECRET #8

Your Body Needs Good Salt! 

But you’re thinking, “Isn’t salt bad for you?” The answer  is  NO!  Salt  is  essential for normal physiological function. But we are talking about “good salt.” Good salt is unheated, sun-dried only — not kiln dried in at 800-1000 degrees F.  Studies indicate that this highly heated salt does not break down in the body and is associated with high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, kidney disease and many other ailments. Natural, unheated salt is not associated with these disorders and is actually healing and regenerating to your body. Many people erroneously think they get more than enough sodium in their food, however the salt that is in all fast food and restaurant food is unabsorbable and dangerous to the body.

Once you begin to avoid fast foods and highly processed foods, you will want to add the good salt to your food.

If you deprive your body of the “good salt”, you shut down your digestion and then cannot absorb and utilize your food.

Research shows that regular commercial salt from you local supermarket  is harmful to the human body, but not so with natural, unheated seasalt. Salt is chemically known as sodium chloride. The sodium fraction is necessary for proper nerve transmission throughout the body and is  critical for normal fluid balance in your body. The chloride fraction is necessary for your stomach to build hydrochloric acid, which initiates protein breakdown. Eating plenty of vegetables helps provide an excellent source of organic sodium to your body but unfortunately most of us do not consume enough of these mineral rich vegetables. Adding some unheated natural salt to your food will actually activate your digestion and help you to lose your excess body fat!

 SECRET #9

The Three Roadblocks That Prevent the Burning of Body Fat! 

The three most specific factors of impaired metabolic function — otherwise known as too much body fat — are deficiency, toxicity and infection. These three areas of your health directly affect your metabolism, and we will help you to address them by tailoring your program for you as an individual.

• Deficiency/insufficiency: Worldwide research has now been conducted demonstrating that this is one of the foundational factors leading to metabolic disorders and chronic.

• Toxicity refers to chemicals and heavy metals that bio-accumulate in your tissues and organs and lead to impaired organ function. These include mercury, lead, aluminum, cadmium and nickel as well as chemicals such as DDT, PCB’s, dioxin, MTBE

• The heavy metals dramatically interfere with your metabolism by blocking normal enzyme synthesis. All of the essential minerals act as co- factors in thousands of enzyme systems in your Not only do most people unknowingly have some heavy metal toxicity, most of those same people also don’t consume adequate amounts of the essential minerals necessary for normal metabolism. You can begin to see the problem this causes in these extremely complex metabolic machines.

• The chemicals are hormone impostors and they disrupt the delicate hormonal balance throughout your entire Many of these chemicals have been shown to be carcinogenic — that is, cancer causing — in the human body. Your liver has two primary jobs and those are to detoxify dangerous chemicals to render them more harmless in the body and the second is to metabolize or breakdown your dietary fats and oils. You can see why a population of people who have been exposed to a lot of chemicals might also have impaired fat metabolism since your liver is overworked trying to deal with all the chemicals.

Another interesting fact is that  chemicals  are  stored  in  your  liver  and your body fat! Therefore the more chemicals the more difficult it is for your liver to metabolize dietary fats and oils. You then accumulate more body fat, which in turn has the ability to attract more chemicals. So you can see this is a terrible “catch 22.” But don’t worry. We’ve got the solution!

• Infection is more elusive as one of the factors leading to excess body fat. Most people might think, “I don’t have any infection in my body!” Well, maybe you don’t…but you probably do. Current research indicates that almost everyone you see walking around has at least some low-grade infection in their These can be bacterial, viral, fungal, parasitic or other pathogenic organisms such as mycoplasmas and prions. Even in the absence of obvious symptoms, these infections can reside in the teeth and gums, the respiratory tract, very commonly in the gastrointestinal tract and often in the liver, pancreas, gall bladder and urinary tract. There are new and novel ways to successfully identify the location of these   infections and to pinpoint target anti-infective remedies right into those organs. These infections can often be the underlying root cause of the loss of organ function leading to impaired metabolism. We will explain the various options you have in helping to identify these chronic infections.

SECRET#10

Vitamin Supplements: Are They Really Necessary for Long Term Success?

The answer is absolutely yes! Many researchers consider nutritional deficiencies to be the most under-diagnosed and ignored factors at the root of most health problems. Well-designed nutritional supplement programs using products that really work carry the greatest potential for restoring health in the growing number of overweight and chronically ill people.

My doctor told me that you get all of the vitamins you need in your food and if you take vitamin supplements you’ll just urinate them away. 

Over the years, whenever the subject of vitamins comes up, most of us have heard people make two common statements that we believe can be demonstrated to be completely false and erroneous.

The first statement you often hear is, “My doctor told me that you get all the vitamins you need in your food.” The second statement that usually follows it is, “Besides, if you take vitamin supplements, you’ll just urinate them away.”

Both of these are erroneous assumptions. Do we really get all the vitamins we need from the food we eat? Evidently a majority of the American public don’t think so since vitamin supplements have been steadily and dramatically on the rise for the past 20 years. Vitamins are not the only nutrients necessary to prevent disease much less promote optimal  function in the human body. Other nutrients that are absolutely essential are minerals, fatty acids and trace elements.

Nutrient levels in our soil have significantly declined over the past 30-40 years due to agrichemical use such as pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and synthetic fertilizers leading to severely depleted soil incapable of sustaining healthy plants. Composition analysis of plant foods have been conducted at several trace element testing laboratories and have shown many nutrients to be depleted from the plants and the soil they are grown in by as much as 50-75%.

In our increasingly polluted and toxic environment, it’s been shown that our needs for specific nutrients is dramatically increased which is the opposite that we see in our food supply which begs the question, where are you going to get the nutrients if they’re not in the food?

To make matters worse, the average person eats the Standard American Diet, abbreviated S.A.D. which in itself describes the sad state of our food supply. So as far as getting all the vitamins and other nutrients you need in your food, I think the evidence easily destroys that myth.

What we have in our country is an over-consumptive under-nutrition dietary intake. Calorie dense but nutrient poor—too much of too little. The solution is to consume more nutrient dense foods at each and every meal and then supplement what we know is missing in the food supply no  matter how healthy we eat.

So the take away is this: Studies reveal that the soil is severely depleted and our toxic environment requires an increased need for most nutrients — not less of them. Lastly, Just because vitamins like the water you drink both end up in the urine doesn’t mean they did not do something positive and essential on their way through—in fact, they absolutely do!