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Food: How to Save $100 Off Your Food Bill This Month
As you know, I highly recommend the food from Personal Trainer Food (http://www.PersonalTrainerFood.com) 
to 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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Diabetes Reversed
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’m still gathering wisdom. I do want to share with you a Facebook post from a friend of mine, Carl Willman. 
He started eating like this blog talks about in June, and, honestly, he’s cheated too much, too, but he’s down 20 pounds or more and no longer diabetic. I thought you all would enjoy the brief testimonial. He calls it the “Bob Bennett” diet… but it’s really just knowing how to eat better and enjoying it.
Is it easy to gain weight or to lose it?
Google “Why is it easier to gain weight than lose it?” and you’ll get MILLIONS of results.
It’s widely known that it’s easier to gain weight than to lose weight.
But … would you believe that it’s a myth? And unfortunately, a very damaging myth that keeps many people from maintaining their desired weight. Before you call the men in white jackets to come and take me away, think about it. If you have gained above your desired weight, how much time, money and effort did it take to get to where you are now?
As I recently was looking through pictures of my kids when they are young, I realized that it’s been over 20 years since I was at the weight I’m now at. It took me about 20 years and a lot of pain in the process to gain my last 80 pounds. At an average of just $3.50 a meal, that’s over $76,000* — it’s not easy to net that much money. Then I realized that it wasn’t very easy to grow progressively more burdensome to myself and others over 20 years. Wearing out furniture and vehicles faster than ever. How easy is it to spend 20 years with clothes tightening around me before giving in to the next larger sizes, 20 years of feeling yukky after eating the wrong kind of foods, and 20 years of looking in the mirror and trying to avoid the nasty truth that I was looking worse all the time? Who says that’s easy?
And I had it good. No major health problems. No heart attack, no high blood pressure, no diabetes, no stroke, nothing to put me on years of medication. In fact, many people would say I was lucky. I prefer the term blessed by God. For many, giving up their health is another very hard price to pay for gaining weight. You still think it’s easy??
So … compare that with the last year or so. I’ve spent less than $4,000 for food- actually way less- mostly eating as much food as I wanted to, feeling better, getting more work done, reducing insurance premiums, being able to sit down without chairs cracking or cars creaking, wearing “new again” clothes in my own closet that I had outgrown before, not getting tired as quickly … the list goes on and on…
20 years of progressively going downhill, or 1 year of vast improvement? Which is easier?
Yes, I have a way to go yet. I’m not where I need to be … but I will be in another year. So … 2 years to turn the clock back almost 30 years?
That sounds to me like it’s a LOT easier to lose weight than to gain! So what do you think?
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* For those math types, it cost about $950 a pound to gain a pound, and less than $50 to lose one. 🙂
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Nikki’s Story
Got a few extra pounds on you? Check out this inspiring testimonial.
If you’d like to check out the same plan as Nikki did, here’s a coupon to save $50 on your first order of food. Extra tips from me on the food and choices can be found here.
Personal Trainer Food
I 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.
I hope this helps.
[His YouTube at: http://youtu.be/Cp3TT-U4hMs]
Diet Drinks = Heart Disease and Death?
The headlines today are screaming:
Diet drinks linked with heart disease, death!
It’s all over radio, TV, newspapers and the internet. So it must be legit!
Let me save you some time and concern? A 9-year study of women came up with this:
Some sort of heart disease was found at the following rates:
- 8.5% (two or more Diet drinks a day)
- 7.2% (rare or no Diet drinks)
- 6.8% (a few Diets a week)
Hello! Seriously?? The headlines scream that the diet drinks are causing death, while inside those articles it clearly shows that those who drink a few diet drinks a week have less risk than those who don’t drink any? Can anyone say, “headlines lie!”
So what about the higher rate for women who drink more diet drinks? Doesn’t that prove diet drinks are killing them? Again, the answer is right there in the same article:
The women who drank the most drinks were also more likely to smoke, to be overweight, to have diabetes and to have high blood pressure.
Again, the headlines are an incredible lie. The World Heart Federation website says that just diabetes increases the risk factor of heart disease between 200 and 400%. Yet those who are drinking the diet drinks have only a 1.3% increase. It sounds to me like the diet drink factor has incredibly reduced their risk, not increased it.
Similar increase risks are also associated with smoking, obesity, and high blood pressure.
So from this information, the undeniable conclusion is that drinking diet drinks dramatically reduces a woman’s risk of heart disease when combined with any of these other risk factors. It also slightly reduces the risk of heart disease when none of these other factors are present
In other headlines, a 150 year study has proven that, over time, being born provokes a 100% chance of dying.
BUT … there is an incredible hidden danger in most diet drinks that gets almost no press, but will cause a life insurance company to flatly reject your application. Wanna know about it? Read it here.
Related post: Diet Drinks or Not?
Cool man. Really cool!
I have never lost over 75 pounds before in my life. It is really cool. I am not talking about getting all that fat off of me – I’m talking about my temperature.
I am really, really cool. In fact, I am cold a lot.
The thermostats and thermometers don’t show any different than last year at this time. My clothes are pretty much the same. My activity is not really that much different. But now I am colder while doing just about whatever I am doing and just about wherever I’m at.
No, I am not sick and my body is not dying or anything like that. Apparently this comes with the territory.
Something about having a whole lot smaller layer of insulation than I used to have, less blood circulating through that blubber, and less excess fuel (sugar, processed carbs, starchy stuff) that needs to be burned off.
I guess it’s a small price to pay, and I am sure I will be much more thankful for that this summer than I have been during the winter.
Any way … just a fair warning that if you’re successful in trimming down, you might just be cooler in more ways than one. 🙂
GOT MILK? no thanks
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Fast Weight Loss Is Bad — NOT
Tips you can use for weight loss success:
Writing down what you eat every day
… has been shown to double the speed of weight loss. Try it for just 7 days. Then let the scale speak for itself.
Another quick tip…
Commit to healthy eating and weight loss as a group
… with friends and/or co-workers. This will increase long-term success.
Defeat the double-whammy:
The food industry’s push to sell more “health scare” pairs with the industry’s push to keep you dependent on them.
More keys to success: Eat real and healthy food, act healthy, think healthy, have a healthy relationship with God and other people. You won’t get hooked by expensive and unhealthy “health food” choices at the supermarket, and succumb to depression and discouragement.