Who holds you accountable?

What a ridiculous verticle jump looks like.

As I "stood" there hunched over.....trying to catch what little breath I had.... I hear from a distance....

"LETS GO JAMIE! GET IT GOING"

Argh! FINE!! I got up and finished it off.

Workout was:


5 reps - 155 pound jerks
7 Reps pushups
Sprint 40 yards (there and back)


As many as possible in 15 minutes.... I got...6... and paid the ultimate price of tossing ones cookies on the way to work.

Now, as I have always said, training is the easy part. It's fun, people like to do it. But put a stop watch on you and things get a little...intense. And, well, flat out hard.


Humans are, as we know, inclined to take the absolute least path of resistance in any walk of life.

From what I see, there are only a few true atheletes who can "push themselves" to true and honest maximal effort.

The same goes for diets.... Client 069 had a ridiculous 11 pound drop in a week and a half. She's in constant contact with me throughout the day and sometimes for just a one word answer.

She claims that she's never had this much success before this fast, and that "knowing I had to report to you every day is holding me in check"

People who have failed in diets and losing weight, almost invariably try to do it on their own.

Thing is, you can't, or you wouldn't have got big in the first place. Sorry, and I'm not trying to be a jerk, even though I can be quite good at it.

Hire someone. Ask a buddy to do a weight loss challenge with you. Get a kick ass training partner.... Anything that has built in accountability.

Belive it or not, this is the very foundation of Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and Dr. Bernsteins....

They hold you accountable, albeit in different ways. But all of them are successful.... all of them.

It's when these people "quit" the above groups that they go back right to where they started.

I personally witnessed a former boss lose in excess of 60 pounds on Bernsteins, only to quit because "it's expensive and I will just eat the exact same way and won't break the diet!"

At this point, I knew she was destined to fail.

You see, the weekly "urine sample" that you had to give would show two things without fail.

Ketones or No Ketones.

(ketones are a by-product of fat being used for fuel)

If you had Ketones in your urine, it meant you were sticking to the diet. If you didn't, well they would call you on your crap.

And fail she did...Within months she gained all her weight back.

Thing that most people don't realize is... MOST OF YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT.

You just choose not to - or are helpless to overcome the food cycle.

It wasn't the eating that lead to her diet success; it was someone checking up on her.

This is why the top figure contestants in the world all have trainers. They know what they are doing, but need someone there to call them on their bullshit.

Who doesn't know ... Chicken... Broccoli....Egg Whites.... repeat?

Eat that for 3 days and tell me about the double digit weight loss you have.

Anyway....

With weight watchers, it's the same thing as Biggest Loser, where you have to weigh in infront of everybody. And the group cheers in your successes...

A VERY powerful motivator non?

Self motivated...




VS

Being cheered on and being held accountable..

EGGS ARE A SUPERFOOD!

Protein > carbs for hunger, what a novel discovery***

Nutr Res. 2010 Feb;30(2):96-103.Consuming eggs for breakfast influences plasma glucose and ghrelin, while reducing energy intake during the next 24 hours in adult men.

Ratliff J, Leite JO, de Ogburn R, Puglisi MJ, Vanheest J, Fernandez ML.Department of Nutritional Sciences University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269, USA.We hypothesized that consuming eggs for breakfast would significantly lower postprandial satiety and energy intake throughout the day. Using a crossover design, 21 men, 20 to 70 years old, consumed 2 isoenergetic test breakfasts, in a random order separated by 1 week.

The macronutrient composition of the test breakfasts were as follows: (EGG, % CHO/fat/protein = 22:55:23) and (BAGEL, % CHO/fat/protein = 72:12:16). Fasting blood samples were drawn at baseline before the test breakfast and at 30, 60, 120, and 180 minutes after breakfast.

After 180 minutes, subjects were given a buffet lunch and asked to eat until satisfied. Subjects filled out Visual Analog Scales (VAS) during each blood draw and recorded food intake the days before and after the test breakfasts. Plasma glucose, insulin, and appetite hormones were analyzed at each time point.

Subjects consumed fewer kilocalories after the EGG breakfast compared with the BAGEL breakfast (P< .01). In addition, subjects consumed more kilocalories in the 24-hour period after the BAGEL compared with the EGG breakfast (P < .05). Based on VAS, subjects were hungrier and less satisfied 3 hours after the BAGEL breakfast compared with the EGG breakfast (P < .01). Participants had higher plasma glucose area under the curve (P < .05) as well as an increased ghrelin and insulin area under the curve with BAGEL (P < .05).

These findings suggest that consumption of eggs for breakfast results in less variation of plasma glucose and insulin, a suppressed ghrelin response, and reduced energy intake.

Shocking.... I know.....:)