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At the gym and on the beach where I train regularly I have had a couple of women come up and ask about my fitness routines and workouts.

They’d like some ideas for their own workouts so I start off asking them what are their goals?

The common reply is they want to lose weight, not get bulky or what I interpret is they want a lean and sexy body which essentially means what’s the best way of how to drop a dress size.

Since that’s their goal (different to mine, cause I’d look terrible in a size 0 dress) women do need to follow a different system, unless gaining muscle mass is their objective, NOT!

I found over time that an effective fat loss strategy that works quickly is a system that focuses on a mixture of;

Diet + Cardio + Resistance Training  = Hot Lean Sexy Body

Getting this formula right and I’ve seen people lose weight and fat straight away, better yet for the long term you can continuously maintain a slim looking body. Read the rest of this entry »

My Liquid Lunch In Singapore

One of the best things that you can do in life is to go on holidays, eat as much as you want and still lose weight.

Really I can’t think of any thing better!

Well I did just that and it’s easy when you apply just some basic principals but you need to know some facts first.

Setting the scene; I organised a 2 week trip for my wife and myself to travel to Shanghai China for the World Expo for the first week and then the second week come back through Singapore for the celebration of festival of lights called Diwali.

Now if you know Asia, it has very cheap food and drink and I knew it was going to be a big enjoyable calorie feast for most of the time.

Pre-Planning is critical for a big night out or when you go on holidays which can mean continued fitness success or food binge disaster.

So I had to plan a few things.      Read the rest of this entry »

Crazy Celebrity Diets can work for weight loss over a longer term than just for a few days, celebrities like Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston look fantastic so their diets can’t be that bad?

In Hollywood its good to be different, so diets that make sense are usually based on sound nutritional practices but specially wrapped to sell to celebrities and then onto us, their adoring fans.

As I mentioned in my last article “diets that don’t work” the sole purpose is for rapid weight loss, the better diets are ones you can use and become healthy.

The Zone Diet – (Enter the Twilight 40:30:30 Zone)

A popular diet followed by Jennifer Anniston, Brad Pitt and Rene Zellweger was created by a scientist so not surprisingly that’s why its so formula based.

You eat meals in the ratio of Carbs 40%, Proteins 30%, Fats 30% which controls hormones and the body’s insulin to stay within a healthy region to help lose fat. Read the rest of this entry »

Celebrities have a huge influence on us.

Everything they do is always in the spotlight and at times we want to copy “everything they do”.

One area that gets a lot of attention are their diets and workouts.

Some are spot on with their weight loss but some are so far off the track it becomes dangerous, here are a couple examples of crazy and not so crazy diets they follow.

You might be surprised which celebrity gets its right!

Jennifer Love Hewitt – The Grape Whisperer

This hard working actor would work on set for up to 15 hours a day.

Not having a lot of time Jennifer would go home and make simple but high carb (carbohydrate) meals of mashed potatoes, risotto and pastas and not having the time to work out took its toll on her body as the weight piled on.

When it got to the point that Jennifer felt she need to lose weight the first diet she tried was The Grapefruit diet (also known as the Hollywood diet)  a short-term fad diet. Read the rest of this entry »