Nutrition & Tips For Better Health

What's the best way to lose weight?

The best way that I've found is to start changing your life in small ways. If you try to change your diet too fast, you're greatly increasing your chances to fail. We're not on The Biggest Loser Ranch, where you have dietitians and health experts at your every whim. You have to be realistic.

Lets say you are a heavy soda drinker. You try to change your diet by not consuming soda at all. What you're going to experience is HUGE withdraws from the newly formed lack of caffein and sugar. You have to ween yourself off of terrible foods, just like a smoker or alcoholic would ween themselves off of their addiction. Food is just as severe of a problem, if not MORE serious than booze and smoking.

Here's what I would do to change my lifestyle, and how I did it for my own actual benefit.

1. Get educated, before you even start removing or adding anything to/from your life. There's no sense in going in blind. Knowledge is power...no joke.

2. Find out what in your life and diet is leading to your own destruction. Is it soda? Is it lack of exercise? What's causing you to be the way you are?

3. Now that you've identified your problem, and that you've at least done SOME sort of research on it all, you need to take action! Go get a gym membership and a personal trainer to show you how to exercise. There's more people in a gym doing things wrong and blind than there are people doing it right. Ever notice why you rarely see women doing anything but cardio & abs? Ever notice how men do nothing but lift heavy and take long rests?

4. Never let your body conquer your mind. The power of becoming healthy is telling your body, "We're going to change. This...all of this...it's gonna change. I'm not happy with how my body looks and feels. It's time to get what I've desired for so long.". Find a piece of paper and write down EVERY reason that you can think of as to why you want to change. When you're done, post in on your bathroom mirror or your fridge. You need to be reminded of what you're in this for, especially when you hit a bad week.

5. Once you start feeling better, through your changes and exercise, you NEED to pat yourself on the back. You have to appreciate every little change. Even going from feeling like crap, to feeling like you can do more in the gym, or even going through your daily chores without feeling groggy and tired. These are all things you have to celebrate, and I do NOT mean by purchasing poor foods and going back to your old habits.

6. You have to stay with things. Just because one type of exercise doesn't work for you, doesn't mean they all won't. I've gone through countless routines, countless diets, and countless exercise styles to figure out what works for me. You may have to do the same. Remember that we, as humans, weren't built to have a 9-5 job and a couch to sit on after work. We were built to constantly improve the survival rate of ourselves and our loved ones. We used to hunt for hours, stalking and chasing prey. We didn't go to our refrigerators.

7. Stick with your 90-10 rule. It's saved me from giving up SOOOOOOO many times. 90% of the time, you're right on with your diet and exercise. 10% of the time, you're chillin and enjoying a beer or a small treat.

--- I hope that my tips help folks out. There's no excuse for not being healthy in our daily lives. There's enough people eating bad foods and not exercising that you can choose to be the smart one. You can eat healthy and exercise to your heart's every desire.

Also, remember that the media has destroyed the image of what a healthy person should be. Do not think for one second that we are all meant to be straight up ripped and thin. We're not. You will look how you're intended to look. Always remember that FEELING great and PERFORMING great are what makes you healthy. Not what size your pants are!