by Chelsea Terris (I’m pretty sure this is the first guest blog post on EatBlogEat… Bold was added by me on the parts I really liked / found interesting)Losing weight and getting fit is all about the body, right?  Wrong. Undertaking any weight loss program, be it diet, exercise, or weight loss surgery, requires a complete shift in mental perception to establish true change.Ever lost weight but still functioned like an overweight person, feeling critical of your image in the mirror or engaging in habitual lack of confidence? The great Greek essayist Plutarch stated that “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” If this is true, then making changes to our bodies begins and ends in the mind, where seeds of success must be planted to bear hardbody fruit.Sound like a pile of motivational munbo jumbo?

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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article all about Intermittent Fasting: What It Is and How To Do It. (If you didn’t get a chance to read it, you may want to give it a quick look.)The article inspired much conversation, so I thought a “Part 2” was in order. Today, I will answers the questions I received from you: “What should I be eating on a day that I do an Intermittent Fast?” and “How do you know if you are eating enough on those days?”INTERMITTENT FASTING DOES NOT MEAN EATING LESSThe biggest misconception about IF is that you will be consuming fewer calories than if you were eating consistently throughout the day. This is not the case

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A Deeper Insight on the Most Effective Tabata Leg WorkoutsThe four-minute revolutionary workout called Tabata Training is gaining more popularity online. This is because a lot of people have watched videos on YouTube and success stories on different blogs all over the internet. For those who are still unfamiliar with this workout, here is a bit of an introduction to let you know what the training is all about. © Dmitriy Shironosov | Dreamstime.comTabata training is a 20 seconds high intensity workout followed by a 10 seconds rest, to be done 8 times and all in a span of 4 minutes

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I don’t count calories anymore…but I used to.I consider calorie counting to be a type of mental food training – it’s a step in the process, but it’s definitely not the end goal.Put another way, calorie counting is how you gain control, but is not control in-and-of itself. Put another way, it’s one of the biggest steps in gaining control of your eating, but it is not the final step.By focusing solely on the act of calorie counting, and not the lessons learned from it, you never really learn what “too much” feels like, or perhaps more importantly you never learn what “Just right” or “not enough” feels like.You simply spend your life eating to an amount of calories that a calculator estimated you should be eating, and you do so by adding up all the estimated calorie contents of the foods you ate, based on estimated portion sizes… Not my ideal way to let go and be less obsessive about food.Instead of tracking my daily calories I now rely on the feelings of  “not enough, just right and too much”. Combined with fasting once or twice a week this has served me incredibly well over the last half-decade.It’s tricky, but learning what ‘just right’ actually feels like is far more valuable than trying to excel spreadsheet your way to weight loss by working off of estimated calorie counts on estimated weights of foods that you track…And I know that the idea of eating by ‘feel’ is probably a little to wishy-washy for some people’s obsessive compulsive need to track EVERYTHING in their lives, but basically what I’m saying (or trying to say) is that once you get the hang of it going by ‘feel’ is probably no less accurate than calorie counting –since as I said before with calorie counting you are still counting other people’s guesses aiming for a calorie total that may or may not be right for you.I will say there are some caveats to this approach.Firstly, there are some foods that are ‘hyper-palatable’ that you need to be aware of – These are foods and drinks that are really high in calories, but they don’t make you feel as ‘full’ as you should – Regular soft drinks (non-diet) would be an example, as would some pastries/sweet baked goods and many fast foods (For a good book on hyper-palatable foods check out The End of Overeating).You can still eat these foods (I had an ice-cream filled donut sandwich over the weekend) you just have to be aware that the days you do eat these food are more than likely days you went ‘over’ even if you don’t have the normal feeling you’d associated with eating ‘too much’.The other caveat is that in order to get to the point where you can eat by feel you will probably have to spend a good amount of time calorie counting – in order to train yourself to know what each feeling represents.The bottom line is that calorie counting is an important part of the process but in my eyes becoming an expert in tracking your calories on a spreadsheet shouldn’t be the end goal of stress free weight maintenance – instead it should be a training tool to get you to the point where you can eat and manage your weight, based on feel.BPPS – This is also how I choose which days I’m going to fast, and why my book Eat Stop Eat is based on one OR two fasts per week… the “OR” really depends on ‘feel’…basically your feel of how much you’ve eaten during the week.Tagged as: calorie counting, counting calories

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| E-mail| PrintLast week Thursday I posted this blog about Intermittent Fasting. In it, I mentioned that there are lot’s of weight loss systems out there that work. More often than not, it’s about picking ONE system, following it, and sticking with it long enough to actually see some results.I also gave the link to Precision Nutrition’s founder, Dr John Berardi and his free e-book which gives a lot of information about IF, some different IF approaches, and Dr Berardi’s personal feedback on his successes and struggles with it.On Friday, I posted a follow up blog that gave some reasons why IF probably isn’t ideal for everyone and why.  I also briefly spoke about why I am trying it out myself.So then, which IF methods AM I trying and how is it going?It’s going slowly. Very slowly.

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A missing aspect in most people’s approach to health and fitness is the idea of a target, an end, or at least a goal that you could call completion.For many, the idea of ‘completion’ of their weight loss and muscle building goals is almost blasphemy.  Most people approach fitness under the concept of CONTINUALLY losing fat and gaining muscle, because they don’t want to think about the idea of an end.Without diving deep into a discussion on genetics and phenotypes, let’s just agree that their is such a thing as an Ideal body for you.Lets also agree that we can all move close to our ideal body, and this ideal is defined by the limits of our own individual bodies.For some reason it’s not ‘right’ or ‘correct’ to talk about an ideal shape or an ideal body, even though we have a large body of evidence that this very thing exists. Instead, we’re supposed to all be happy at any shape or size, of body fat, or muscle mass…and somehow the message of ‘be happy’ has been mutated into “don’t strive to improve, and think poorly of those who suggest that improvement is possible” leading to the inability to fathom the idea there even being a true ideal.But an ideal does exist.  Anthropometric data (body measurements) on professional athletes and body transformation winners, combined with military data all all point to a very specific shape that signifies and ideal, healthy body.  We may not all be able to hit the goal, but we can all get very close to it by using exercise and diet as treatment – In this way, exercise and diet are corrective.Accepting that there is an ideal or a goal body that represents a true ‘finish line’ leads to the philosophy that the farther you are from this ideal, the more severe the treatment needs to be, but the closer you get the less severe the treatment becomes. Very similar to treating being ‘out of shape’ as a form of sickness – you treat the sickness, but once it’s gone you switch to attempting to prevent it from coming back.The point is to move from harder to easier, to the point where you are simply fine tuning the result… putting in the amount of effort needed to maintain, maybe tinkering with the process a bit, but not purposelessly putting in more and more effort in the hopes of achieving a goal that is not measurable or describable.Once you realize there is a point where you are no longer ‘sick or broken’ that you are OK, Fine, even… done, then you can you train less and eat more of what you want. This entire approach can be ruined by the concept of ‘Sick mentality’ which I learned about from some friends who have gone through cancer treatment.With cancer patients one of the most important things is to stay positive through your chemotherapy.

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We all live busy lives and there are a lot of people who claim that they simply dont have time to go to the gym for a long cardio workout or strength training routine. The good news is you don’t need to spend hours on the treadmill or elliptical to burn some serious fat. All you need is four minutes.The type of training I am referring to is a different form of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) called Tabata.

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Dear Fitbabe, What are your thoughts on intermittent fasting? I have heard about this a lot in the media lately. Do you eat this way? Thanks, HenryDear Henry, Intermittent Fasting is the process of taking a break from eating for a certain period of time

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This is day 49 of my Transformation Challenge and my day of rest from workouts. Tomorrow I will be back hitting it hard with the first workout of week 8 of the Challenge. I decided to post a Saturday blog.

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| E-mail| PrintA new diet has become all the rage in Britain and is now making landfall on our shores as well. It’s called the “Fast Diet” and millions of weight loss candidates already swear by it.Like all commercial diet programs, this one promises quick results without much effort and little changes in established eating habits. Followers can eat anything they want for five days but then have to undergo a fasting period of 48 hours where they cannot consume more than 500 to 600 calories per day.The authors, Dr. Michael Mosley, a medical journalist, and Mini Spencer, a food and fashion writer, claim they both have experienced amazing weight loss successes themselves while experimenting with various forms of intermittent fasting

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