Archive for April, 2009
Jason Yun’s training vlog 4/4
Sunday, April 5th, 2009Is your weight loss plan on course for success?
Saturday, April 4th, 2009There is a reason few people reach their goals and make their dreams come true.
Know what that reason is?
It’s because they actually HAVE goals written down. The vast majority of people on this planet do not.
And not only do people that achieve goals actually set goals, they also create a plan to make sure they make things happen.
So where does that leave you?
Do you keep telling yourself you are going to “lose some weight?” Or do you have specific goals and a plan to reach them?
Do you have a plan for what you’re going to eat each day so you’re not tempted to fill up on fast food? Do you have a deadline for when you’re going to reach your goal?
Here’s another one: you KNOW you need to be eating breakfast every day. Do you have nutritious food in the house you PLAN on eating each morning?
If not have you looked into taking advantage of a delicious meal replacement shake like Prograde Lean?
This is YOUR life. Whether you want your body to look better naked, you want to improve your health, you want to have more energy, or whatever your goal is, you MUST have written goals and a plan to achieve them.
Here’s a super healthy milk shake recipe I made using Lean. It’s not even fair that it’s good for you 
Jason Yun Training Vlog 4/2
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Reading Food Labels
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009In order to become the person you want to be and look great naked you need to know what it is you are eating at all times. You need to know how much you are eating. So you need to become a label reader. Below is a picture a typical food label:
Always start off with the serving size, and the servings per container. All the corresponding info in the label corresponds to the serving size, so it’s very important.
If you’re goal is to get 2000 calories for the day, and you know that you will be eating 5 times today then you know you will need about 400 calories per meal. It doesn’t need to be exact as sometimes those meals are not really complete meals, but wholesome snacks to hold you over. So you might have 3 complete meals averaging 500 calories and 2 snacks averaging 250 calories.
Fat grams can add up the calories quickly because they have 9 calories per gram, compared to the protein and carbohydrates at 4 calories. But fat isn’t the enemy. Some fat is good. Most packages will only list saturated and trans fats. If those 2 don’t add up to the total fat grams then it means the rest of the fat is coming from mono- and poly-unsaturated fats, which is good for you.
Try and avoid high calorie foods, high sugar content foods, sodium, and anything with trans fats in it. Most fruit’s carbohydrate will be from sugar, but that is the exception, as it is completely natural. For best results choose foods high in protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals.
Also when looking for what to buy, you need to look at the ingredients list.
The first ingredients listed are the ones that have the highest concentration in the product. If you want to stay healthy and live long and have the most optimal chance for fat loss you will stay away from the following ingredients:
High fructose corn syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, stearate-rich or interestified, hydrogenated oils, partially hydrogenated oils, and any other chemically sounding ingredient.
Watch the ‘TRANS FAT FREE’ Labels too. By law food companies are permitted to list a food as ‘trans fat free’ if it has less than .5 grams of trans fats per serving. And some companies, even went a little further and changed the serving size so they could be under this .5 grams. So instead of 10 being the serving size before, they now changed it to 5, hence making their product ‘TRANS FAT FREE’, and fooling millions of consumers concerned about their health and well-being.
And the same goes for the low-fat, fat-free labels. Fat free needs to be under .5 grams, low-fat under 3 grams. By simply changing the serving size they can put they’re label on it, deceiving millions of consumers.
Learn to read the labels.
