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But first, a quick recap of the previous article:

In the last article it was suggested that you never consume large amounts of fat and carbs together.  Now, there are numerous reasons why the combo isn’t desirable, but the main issue is the insulin secreted from the carb intake and the “storage”  environment it creates in the blood.  Insulin (storage hormone) + fatty acids = more fat storage.

The presense of insulin also cause several fatty acid transporters to relocate to the cell membrane to make for easier fat storage.

Sure, fat can store itself without insulin, but adding insulin makes the fat storage proces easier.  Needless to say, if you’re looking to lose fat, making it easier for your body to store fat is probably the last thing you want.

Moving on to the one nutrient you should ALWAYS eat with carbs:  Protein, and again for several reasons.

Consuming a large portion of carbs generally results in loads of blood sugar being dumped in to the blood stream and a large insulin response.  When you consume protein with carbs, however, digestion is slowed, blood sugar release is more stable, and the hormone glucagon is secreted to antagonize and control insulin.

Basically, carbs + protein is a much better, controlled situation than eating carbs alone.

Take home message:  Never eat carbs alone.

Want to learn 3 other specific fat-burning tips that you can start using today?  Check out the below link:

==> What “special” foods can boost fat-burning by 207%?

 
Enjoy the above tips!

Joel

Well, that’s a bunch of crap. :)

Sure, there’s a time and a place to go low-carb, but there’s nothing “bad” about carbs so long as their the unprocessed, fibrous variety.

That said, there is one little rule that you should always employ when consuming your favorite carb, and that’s this:  never combine fat with carbs.  In other words, limit your fat intake whenever you’re eating carbs.

Why?  When you consume fat, fatty acids are released into the blood stream.  When you consume carbohdrates, the storage hormone insulin is released in to the blood stream.  Fatty acids + insulin = fat storage.

On top of that, insulin also causes certain fatty acid “transporters” to activate within the body’s fat cells, making fat storage even easier.  Essentially, the “deadly combination” that it’s always best to avoid is having high levels of fatty acids and high levels of the storage hormone insulin (caused by carbohydrate consumption) in the blood stream simultaneously.  How can you avoid this?  Avoid eating fat with carbs, and vice versa.

Here’s a good rule of thumb:

If you are eating fat, limit your carbohydrate intake to less than 10 grams in that meal.

If you are eating carbs, limit your fat intake to less than 10 grams in that meal.

Simply by avoiding carbs and fat in the same meal (without even having to change the amount of food and/or calories you’re eating), you’ll create a more optimized fat-burning hormonal environment in your body and you’ll begin seeing faster results.

Want to learn to some other “food” tricks to help you burn up to 10% of your body fat in the next 10 days?  My good friend Isabel shows you here:

==> Burn 10% of your unwanted body fat in the next 10 days

Keep rockin’,

Joel

Just think back to the last time you had a business trip or were required to be away from home for a few days-what did your diet look like?

If you’re like most, the term “healthy” isn’t anywhere in sight.

Fortunately, though, eating healthy while on the road doesn’t have to be an impossible task, and with a little foresight, it can actually become quite painless.

It all comes down to planning.

With a plan in place, if you know you’ll be in a situation where access to healthy food may be scarce, you already know how you are going to handle that situation (instead of winging it once you’re there, which almost always ultimately leads to poor food choices).

Before your next trip, look into the various situations you will be in, and devise a plan of action. Here are a few tips for some of the situations you are likely to encounter:

• Travel: If taking the train, pack a healthy meal to enjoy on your trip. If flying, check with the airline in advance to see if they offer any healthy options on board, or you can pack something easily portable such as a sandwich, fruit, etc.
   
• Long Days: Sometimes you’ll have back to back to back meetings with very little time to eat. If you know this will be the case, plan your course of action in advance. The solution may be to just ensure that you have a local place to enjoy a healthy lunch or to even bring a few healthy snacks along as you go through your busy day.  For these types of situations, I love Prograde Protein (all natural, stevia sweetened protein powder) and their ultra convenient fruit flavored protein packets, Prograde Fusion (pour directly into a bottle of water and shake…couldn’t be easier).
   
• Downtime: Even on the busiest trips, there will be some downtime in which what you eat is up to you. Before you leave, check out the restaurants in the area (many websites have online menus) and pick a few places that you’d like to eat. Additionally, scope out the area for any grocery stores close to your hotel where you can do a little shopping for your stay; just be sure your room is equipped with a refrigerator beforehand.
   
• Back-up Planning: Things don’t always go as planned, so it’s best to always have “safe” back-up, alternative choices on hand. Throw a couple healthy snack bars (I recommend Prograde Cravers – the best tasting, all-natural organic bar you’ll ever taste), Prograde Fusion packets, or pieces of fruit in your bag just in case you get held up longer than expected.

As the saying goes, fail to plan, and you might as well plan to fail. So, instead, plan to succeed and take a few minutes to incorporate the above tips into your holiday travel plans.

Find this post helpful? Have any additional tips you can share with our members? What are some ways that help you stick to your diet while on the road?

Post your reply in the comments section!

Talk to you there,

Joel

And while at the store, I couldn’t help but notice how just about every “snack food” (you know, pretzels, cookies, crackers, chips, popcorn, etc) now comes in a “100-calorie” snack pack.

And yes, I understand the premise — a well-intentioned attempt at portion and calorie control by limiting serving sizes to a measly 100 calories a pop.

Unfortunately, 100-calorie snack packs suck, and for a couple reasons:

1.  A 100 calorie snack isn’t big enough to cause satiety and a sense of satisfaction.  In other words, you’re still going to be hungry after you eat it, which leads me to my next point.

2.  99% of these 100-calorie snack packs are made up of foods that possess no nutritional value and do nothing but awaken cravings for more unhealthy, processed foods.  In other words, they’re complete crap.

So, not only are you still hungry – you’re hungry and you want more junk.

That’s a recipe for completely blowing your diet if I ever saw one, and we have those pesky little snack packs to blame.

That said, there’s nothing wrong with snacking…in fact, I encourage it.  Between breakfast and lunch, and between lunch and dinner you SHOULD be snacking…but it needs to be with the right foods.

One of my favorite between-meal snacks is Prograde’s Organic Cravers.

Why?

#1 – They are hands down the best tasting nutrition bar on the planet made with real, organic dark chocolate.  Don’t believe me?  Just try them and you’ll immediately be a believer.

#2 – They contain an ample amount of healthy fats which helps to curb appetite and control cravings.

#3 – They’re convenient and ultra portable – just unwrap and enjoy.

#4 – Did I mention they are the BEST tasting nutrition bar on the planet?  Yes, they taste like something you shouldn’t be eating, but they’re 100% healthy, organic, and nutritious.

So, in celebration of the Craver I’m about to eat, I asked my good friend Jayson Hunter over at Prograde to let you try the best tasting nutrition bar in the world at a discount…and for the next couple days you can!

Just use the coupon code cravers15 at checkout and you’ll score 15% off. 

The BEST tasting nutrition bar on the planet <——- Prograde Cravers

Jayson will leave the coupon code active for the next day or two, so if you want to see for yourself how good these things taste while adding a cheap, convenient and healthy snack to your daily diet, go grab your Cravers at a discount here:

The BEST tasting nutrition bar on the planet <——- use code cravers15 at checkout

Enjoy the convenience, enjoy the savings, and enjoy the delicious-ness to come!

Keep rockin’,

Joel

These really are the BEST tasting bars you’ll ever eat:

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Now, generally we’d be a little more laid back when traveling for the weekend, but fact is we’re both currently “in training” for an upcoming deadline and we know that we’ll make the best food choices when we’re in control of the menu.

So we hit the grocery store, and one of the things I happened to pick up was yogurt.

You see, yogurt can be both delicious and healthy, but the problem is that most people are mistakenly buying yogurt that is TERRIBLE for their health and waistline, even though it’s touted as “healthy as can be”.

Take for example, this label from a popular “low fat” yogurt:

Sounds like a healthy option…”low fat yogurt”.  But no.  33 grams of carbs, 27 grams of sugar (most of which is dreaded high fructose corn syrup), and only 5 grams of protein.  That is, essentially, a recipe for fat storage despite the fact it’s “low fat”.

So, what type of yogurt should you be eating?  Without a doubt the answer is plain Greek yogurt.  Compared to the above, plain Greek yogurt has 6xs the protein and 1/3 as much sugar (which is simply the naturally occuring milk sugars lactose and galactose).

That’s 31 grams of protein per 8 oz and just 12 grams of low-glycemic carbs!

Need something a little sweeter than plain yogurt?  Throw some mixed berries in (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, etc) and/or sweeten it a tad with some Splenda or Stevia.  DELICIOUS.

This is one of my favorite snacks throughout the day, and it packs a ton of high quality nurtients in to a very filling meal.

Take home message:  Ditch the sugar-laden “junk” yogurt and go with delicious, thick, plain Greek Yogurt instead (look for the 0% fat variety).

 
P.S.  The above yogurt and berry blend was actually a small part of tonight’s HUGE dinner, which also included an ample-sized lean steak, mashed sweet potatoes with cinnamon, quinoa mixed with pumpkin seeds and cranberries, green beans sauteed with garlic and roasted tomatoes, a huge spinach salad with roasted tomatoes, goat cheese, artichokes, blackened chicken and avocado, and jumbo grilled asparagus topped with organic blue cheese crumbles.

And you know what?  Dinners like that are the norm EVERY SINGLE DAY of my brand new rapid fat loss 28-day diet, The HUGE Dinner Diet.

Want a copy of the Huge Dinner Diet?  Well, although you can’t even buy it for another 6 months, I’ve decided to give a free copy of the HDD to any one of my readers that picks up a discounted copy of my buddy John Romaniello’s brand new Superhero Workout program.  Even if you never even open John’s program, you’re going to get my brand new 28-day rapid fat loss Huge Dinner Diet system 6 months early, and cheaper than it will be later.  Think of the Superhero Workout as a “bonus” to an already ridiculous, exclusive deal.

Just be sure to use this link to identify you as my subscriber:

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A few things you should know:

1.  CB-tastic is Craig Ballantyne.  DUH.

2.  I’m releasing a new program called The Huge Dinner Diet tomorrow.  It involves huge dinners.  It also involves fat loss. 

Like, LOTS of fat loss. 

How much fat loss?  Take your body weight and divide it by three.

Now multiply it by a BILLION.

That much.

3.  Secret ingredient foods are by far the best fat burning foods you can possibly eat.  In fact, here’s a list of the foods we included in our HUGE dinner tonight, each of them containing the magic “secret ingredient”:

• Filet Mignon
• Spinach
• Apples
• Blueberries
• Cranberries
• Cherry Tomatoes
• Fresh Mozzarella
• Olive Oil
• Balsamic Vinegar
• Carrots
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Blue Cheese Crumbles
• Wheatberries
• Walnuts
• Pumpkin Seeds

I didn’t lie when I said the dinner was huge.  I also didn’t lie when I said dinners of this size are part of a new rapid fat loss diet I developed, The Huge Dinner Diet, due out tomorrow.  And I didn’t lie when I said that ALL of these foods are made up of secret ingredients.

Do you know what secret ingredient all of these foods have in common?

Simple:  ALL of these foods have only ONE ingredient – the food they are.

Broccoli is made up of broccoli – that’s it.

The ingredient list for raw walnuts?  Raw walnuts.

Hey, what’s in those cherry tomatoes?  Oh, I know!  Cherry tomatoes!

The absolute best fat-burning foods are one-ingredient foods — whole foods that contain only one ingredient.

They’re natural.  They’re not processed.  They contain vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber, and more…in their natural form.

Many folks ask me to analyze their diets and I find that they’re full of highly processed, crapola foods.  If it comes in a box, throw it out.  Instead, try this for just one week:

Eat only natural, unprocessed one-ingredient foods:  meats, fruits, vegetables, oils, nuts, legumes, and seeds.

See how much better you feel.  See how much better you LOOK.

How about you?  How many one-ingredient foods are in YOUR diet today?  Will you join me in eating only one-ingredient foods this week?

At least 100 comments and I’ll randomly select one commenter to receive a copy of The Huge Dinner Diet for FREE.

>> Post Your Comment! <<

Talk to you in the comments section!

Joel

My “Cinnamon Bun” Fat Loss Milkshake

Ingredients:

1 Scoop Prograde Protein (Vanilla)
1 Tablespoon Vanilla Instant Pudding
1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract
1/4 tsp Cinnamon
1/4 tsp Nutmeg
1 Cup Organic Skim Milk
3 Ice Cubes

Directions:

Pour 1 cup of organic skim milk in to a blender, then add the remaining ingredients.  Blend on high for 30 seconds.  Enjoy :)

This creamy milkshake tastes like a mouth-watering cinnamon bun!  Fat loss dessert…Mmm Mmm good :).  Enjoy it as a convenient snack or meal replacement anytime – delicious!

15% Coupon Code for Prograde Protein! – Use Code Pro15 (Expires Tomorrow)

One reason I love Prograde Protein is because it’s the only stevia sweetened, delicious, cold-processed protein powder I’m aware of.  Oops, that’s 3 reasons :)

Most protein powders are denatured and damaged due to high heat processing, but Prograde Protein uses a low-temperature filtration process that protects the protein as it’s purified.  It’s also naturally sweetened with stevia, which is extremely hard to find when it comes protein powders.  Oh, and it tastes great (which in reality is probably the most important factor).

Uber quality; uber yumminess :)

Grab your Vanilla Prograde Protein at 15% OFF and give this a shot sometime this week!  Or drink it every day like I do :)

Be sure to use the code Pro15 at checkout to save 15% – coupon expires tomorrow!

Keep rockin’!

Joel

ME TOO =)

And even better, you can still have that chocolate peanut-buttery goodness every single day while shedding fat like crazy – just requires capturing the essense of Reese’s in a delicious, fat-burning dessert-esque milkshake.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Fat Loss Milkshake

Ingredients:

1 Scoop Prograde Protein (Chocolate)
2 Tablespoons All Natural Peanut Butter or Almond Butter
1 Cup Organic Skim Milk
3 Ice Cubes

Directions:

Pour 1 cup of organic skim milk in to a blender, then add the remaining ingredients.  Blend on high for 30 seconds.  Enjoy :)

This bad boy tastes like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup milkshake!  Mmmmmmm.  Enjoy it as a convenient snack or meal replacement anytime – pure goodness.

15% Coupon Code for Prograde Protein! – Use Code Pro15 (Expires Monday)

One reason I love Prograde Protein is because it’s the only stevia sweetened, delicious, cold-processed protein powder I’m aware of.  Oops, that’s 3 reasons :)

Most protein powders are denatured and damaged due to high heat processing, but Prograde Protein uses a low-temperature filtration process that protects the protein as it’s purified.  It’s also naturally sweetened with stevia, which is extremely hard to find when it comes protein powders.  Oh, and it tastes great (which in reality is probably the most important factor).

Uber quality; uber yumminess :)

Grab your Chocolate Prograde Protein at 15% OFF and give this a shot sometime this week!  Or drink it every day like I do :)

Be sure to use the code Pro15 at checkout to save 15% – coupon expires Monday!

Keep rockin’!

Joel

People literally FREAKING OUT because the scale reads one pound more today than it did yesterday.

So today, I’m here to help you with some facts and a bit of advice.

#1 – that’s NORMAL.  If you weigh yourself every day, you’re going to see fluctuations in weight throughout the week (mainly due to daily water fluctuations).  That’s normal and to be expected especially if you’re utilizing a program that cycles carb and calorie intake like Cheat Your Way Thin or Xtreme Fat Loss Diet.

The solution?

NEVER weigh yourself more than once a week.  Period.  Anything more than that and you’re just screwing yourself psychologically.  The scale will inevitably jump around and instead of staying focused on your fat loss plan and your goals, your thoughts become consumed with a number (that for all intents and purposes is unreliable on a daily basis).

So when should you weigh yourself?

The key is to keep things as consistent as possible throughout the measuring process:

*Same scale
*Same day each week
*Same time of day
*Same circumstances

For example, if you have a Cheat Day on the same day each week, I recommend taking your scale reading on that day, first thing in the morning before eating or drinking anything, on the same scale each week, unclothed.  Taking measurements in this fashion will give you a pretty good idea of the type of results you were able to achieve from the previous week.

Perhaps an even better indicator of progress is your waist measurement, and as such I recommend taking a waist measurement along with your scale reading each week.  Again, same measuring tape, some spot (around the navel), same set of circumstances, etc.

Even if for some fluke reason the scale doesn’t budge one week, as long as your waist measurement decreases you can rest assured that you’re losing fat because your fat stores are shrinking.

So, if you’re someone who steps on the scale daily, or even worse sporadically throughout the week at different times of day, do yourself a favor and STOP.  Move to once-a-week progress measurements for a much more reliable, stress-free indicator of progress.

Oh, and if you enjoyed that advice, you’re going to LOVE this:

2 “Junk Foods” That Actually Burn Fat