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Food: How to Save $100 Off Your Food Bill This Month

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As you know, I highly recommend the food from Personal Trainer Food (http://www.PersonalTrainerFood.com) Personal Trainer Foodto help you get started eating healthy and heading towards an ideal weight. I just got this in an email from them, and want to pass it on to you. Please take advantage of it. It only lasts for a few days:

Black Friday Sale on All Food!

Save $100 off any meal program

Use code BF100 at check out. Offer valid through Monday (December 1, 2014) at midnight.

http://www.PersonalTrainerFood.com

 

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Food, Health, Personal Trainer Food, Weight Loss

Personal Trainer Food

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187I came across a video on YouTube where a young (26 – less than half my age), tall (6′ 2″ – 4″ taller than me), skinnier guy (only 205 pounds) used Personal Trainer Food for his first month and felt better and lost 18 pounds. A couple people asked about how the food was, and if the plan was one that would work out good. So I posted the following, and I copied it here in hopes it might help you, too.

Just came across this video, and saw the questions asked. I’ve been doing PTF for about 8 months. I was over 130 pounds overweight, and I’ve come down over 75 pounds, and am well on my way to my goal. There are more details about some of my findings on http://www.FatIsFun.com if you want to check out and subscribe to my blog.

So, Brad … the ONLY reason this is working for me is that it’s common sense, delicious, flexible enough to do when you don’t have the PTF on hand, and beats everything else I’ve ever seen or tried. 

Jen, the food quality is excellent. You can choose EXACTLY what you want to receive each time you order, down to the snacks (even gluten-free, and onion-free). I have about 30 different favorites I order a lot of, and try out almost anything new that is added. The meats are typically seasoned and flavorful. The veggies are good, but are not seasoned, but they give you some extra bottles of seasoning for them. Personally, I prefer Lawry’s seasoned salt on mine.

Plans — take the all-inclusive first. Yes, it costs the most, but it’s really all your food for a whole 4 weeks. I mean ALL you’ll need to eat.

From that, you’ll learn how you can make adjustments and get by with either cutting out snacks or breakfasts sometimes. For instance, if someone in the house is already cooking up eggs and sausage for breakfast, save $2 a day and eat theirs. If you don’t eat the snacks at all, save $1 a day (but if you like almonds, it’s hard to get them cheaper).

Recommendations: most of it is your own personal taste. But here are the only little things I think you should just not mess with: the “egg patties” for breakfast (the eggs and omelets and patties are all fine). And for snacks, I’d avoid the cheese and meat sticks. They’re really pretty small, and I love cheese!

If you buy PTF, sometimes discounts can be found.  To make it easier, here is a link to your first $50 off: http://ptf.refr.cc/3C6WG3X — please let me know if this ever stops working.

I hope this helps.

[His YouTubeat: http://youtu.be/Cp3TT-U4hMs]

Food, Weight Loss, Workout

Getting Started

Read Myths & Secrets yet? No? Go back here first.

Week ZERO … before you begin your new lifestyle …

Start

Exact steps you should take before you start:

  1. Remove the wrong food so it’s out of reach.  Clear out your fridge, your freezer, your pantry. If you hate to waste it, then throw a party and/or give the wrong foods to others around you who don’t believe you’re going to lose the weight.  🙂
  2. Set up a treadmill in front of your TV — Google an inexpensive treadmill … or get one on Craig’s list.  $100-$150 should be fine.  Why?  So you can consistently walk for about 5 minutes a day … rain or shine … easily and quickly while you’re at home and it’s not a bother.  Yeah, it’s that important. Not a grueling workout — walk for 5 minutes.
  3. Toss the scale to the side.  You’ll hear Mike say to throw it away.  OK, he’s a personal trainer looking at training your body.  Personally, I’m wanting to lose weight, so I say to keep it.  Just don’t weigh every day, expecting to be down in weight every day.  Not gonna happen!  Actually, you’ll have more ‘up’ days than down.  Body weight fluctuates.  Remember, you’re in this for the long haul.  Instead, check it about once each week in the morning (after using the bathroom, and before eating or drinking).  And keep a chart or an App (Argus is good) to record the dates ONLY when the scale shows a lower number.  You can get false INCREASES just about any time of any day … but you can’t get false losses!  And success tends to encourage more success, so only record the number when it’s lower.  You’ll be amazed how consistently the numbers will fall. Here’s what mine looks like over the past 5 months.

2014-03-05 02.34.29Notice that long level spot in the downward chart?  Yeah … about 2 weeks.  Holidays at the relatives home for about 3 days … I explained the program I was on to the cook.  She said “Great!” and then cooked 90% starch and sugar foods.  It was good … I ate very modestly and avoided the worst of it, but as you read in Myths & Secrets, it shut down my fat burning and turned on the fat storage.  Huge lesson learned.

OK… now you’re ready to get with the program.  So what exactly IS the program?  You’ve already heard in the videos.  But here’s the recap … very simple.  Very powerful:

Just remember: Five Fingers to  a New You

Food, Health, Myths, Secrets, Weight Loss

Myths and Secrets to Weight Loss

Start with READ ME FIRST!

Why, despite doing the “right” things … do my efforts to keep my weight under control not work?  I’m such a failure!! I’m just too lazy. This will never work.  I give up!

How many times have we ALL said these things?  Too many to count?  Feeling that sustainable weight loss is just not achievable? You’re not alone.  Watch this:

Diet Myths:

  • The Calorie Counting Myth
  • The “Don’t Eat Fat” Myth
  • The Low Carb Myth
  • The Glycemic Myth
  • The Motivation Myth
  • The Starvation Myth
  • The Burn-it-off Myth
  • The “I’m too Lazy” Myth
  • The Weight Myth

What Works:

  • Ignore the myths and noise about weight loss and healthy eating
  • Focus on the mental aspect — focus on simple routines and habits
  • KEY is eating properly:
    • Eat the right foods, your body will burn body fat and be healthy
    • Eat the wrong foods, your body will create body fat and issues
    • ANY processed starches and sugars will turn into fat. Avoid them all the time.
    • Fruit sugar stimulates the body to create body fat. Avoid them until you reach your desired body weight.

How We Will React:

Doing these things forces the body to turn the body fat into fuel.

Conclusion:

Right now, your body is very efficient at MAKING fat.  By following these guidelines, your body becomes and efficient fat BURNING machine. It takes time, and most important … DON’T CHEAT YOURSELF.

This all is useless unless you GET STARTED!