quit smoking ....lose toxic water wieght

Quit smoking ....lose toxic water weight! After over ten years smoking a pack per day, I have decided to put the cancer sticks down in hopes of getting rid of toxic water wieght and belly fat. Each and every cigerett you smoke, introduces thousands of different toxic chemicals into your blood stream. Since your body can not use these chemicals, in fact manny of them are very harm full, so your body is forced to wrap and store all the chemicals it cant sweat out in water and fat tissue. This leads to even more flabby storage than just eating an unhealthy diet and lack of regular exercise alone. So after years of abusing my body, I have decided to start using my body to work towards a healthier, happier me. It makes absolutely no sense to continue to smoking cigeretts, while eating salads, drinking water and hitting the gym six days per week. My goal is a lean, cookie cutter body, and my smoking addition is just another obstical standing in my way.

Carbs and Sugars are the Devil to your Fat Burning Metabolism

OK. So for the past year and a half of my weight loss journey, I have been literately driving my self crazy on Google doing hours of research, trying to figure out the sercet to dropping the pounds of fat from my body and transforming myself into the super hero / action figure that I want to become. Although I have made a TON of progress over the past few months their is still a boat load of work that has to be done if I want to look like the plastic version of the New Zealand rugby player, Dougie Howlett, pictured above. I religiously hit the gym 5-6 days per week, do about an hour of cardio (tread mill) each visit to Retro Fitness, along with about another hour or two of weight training, and while I am definitely seeing results, I know that my diet has to be having an effect on my progress, and the fact that the fat around my belly is just so freaking stubborn.

Don't get me wrong I have been eating pretty darn health lately, I have cut out soda completely and switched to water and natural juices, I have switch my white bread for whole wheat bread, replaced burgers and red meat with chicken and white albacore tuna (stored in water NOT oil), and started drinking whey protein shakes with banana and peanut butter once or twice a day. It seems like a pretty healthy diet to me. Especially in comparison to what I have been eating for the past few years and compared to the diet that many of my peers eat. But is my current diet enough? I mean honestly at the end of the day I am not like most of my skinny peers with super fast metabolisms, who can eat what ever they want and not gain a single pound. When I eat junk food, I get fat, and this is a fact I need to deal with and except if I am going to loose the rest of this weight.

So I have decided to start cutting out ALL the carbs even the whole wheat bread because that stuff turns into sugar in your blood anyway and cut the juices and fruits out of my shakes because fruit is sugar too and all this sugar in my blood stream is making my body produce insulin and STOP burning fat!

So it looks like I need to be on a stricter diet if I wanna get that summer body by Christmas. LMFAO.

Problem is after the last two or three days of TRYING to cut the sugar, I have failed and it seems that my body may be still addicted to it. But I have been making progress, the past two failed days I was pretty much able to hold out the entire day without any carbs or sweets.

Day One Diet

Breakfast

Whey Protien with milk and Ice

Lunch

Chicken Salad

Diner After my work out

Tuna mixed in a dash of olive oil mayo and ketchup

2 pieces of Sliced Tomato

Two slices of american cheese

Two slices of whole wheat toast

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All meals were supplemented with plenty of water drank through out the day . . . and I know that I cheated with the whole wheat toast but right after my work out I really felt like I needed some carbs.

By that toast did not provide me wit the sugar fix that I was so desperately craving through out the day.


So before bed time I fixed myself a Whey Protein, Banana and Peanut Butter smoothy . . . . and I know it may SOUND healthy to some but that Banana has ALLOT of sugar loaded into it. Despite the Banana contains NATURAL sugar it is still sugar and it is going to spike my insulin levels and in return make my body STOP burning fat! After a three hour workout?!?!?!

That is no good!


So today I once again tried to cut that carbs and the sugar. Did a little better but still failed.



Breakfast


Almonds and Water


Lunch

Nice big Grilled Chicken Salad with red peppers, avocado, cucumbers, tomatoes ect

Water

Coffee with a splash of milk (no sugar)

After-noon snack

More Almonds

Then After my work out I was so drained that I ordered a whey protein shake from the gym where I work out.

I had my boy put a real banana in it along with some peanut butter and some weight loss multi-vitamin power they have their at the gym.

But I felt so guilty that I didn't finish the whole thing and that sugar rush was kind of making me feel uncomfortable. Hopefully my body is starting to kick the sugar and tomorrow I can start completely detoxing myself from carbs and sugar all together.



Diner After my work out

Tuna mixed in a dash of olive oil mayo and ketchup

This time I decided to dice the Tomato up instead of slicing (primarily because of the fact I WASN'T making a sandwich) and I melted one slice of american cheese into a bowl with the tuna and mixed it all together. It tasted very good and I ate half the bowl when I got home and the rest a few hours later.


I am going to give it another shot tomorrow and hopefully I wont crack towards then end of the day.

This is a GREAT video that explains the whole carbs and sugars vs fat loss and insulin BUT it is a commercial for a product called "Bios Life Slim" which I have never trying and DO NOT ENDORSE! Just eat right and cut out the Carbs and Sugars . . . thier are no magic pills!

Review : Six Pack Shortcuts by Mike Chang (SCAM IS SUCH A HARSH WORD)

OK I have seen this dude's channel on YouTube . . . and while it may seem like a scam . . . . I really isn't . . . . I haven't bought the eBook/Video Training package myself so any full review would be unfair but from looking at all the FREE videos the guy has on YouTube . . . it isn't hard to tell the type of program it is and the fact that the little Asian dude is in fact legit . . . that being said that does not mean that it is anything special or SECRET about it either . . . . HARD WORK . . . HIGH INTENSITY CARDIO . . . AND A BALANCED DIET . . . are the only things that get you to LOSE FAT and get those six pack abs . . . from watching what is free on YouTube it looks like he does a type of HYBREAD version of both the popular 90x and the Insanity workout programs (from Beach Body) and combine them with some traditional trains exercises. HIGH INTENSITY CARDIO WORKOUTS MAKE YOU SWEAT and that is why they are so damn effective. I have been doing Insanity in the house before I goto the gym and I really like it. I also goto the gym and do weight training for about an hour every day and then try to do another hour on the tread mill everyday. I just started the Insanity Workout so I can speak on results just yet but I know that it is making we sweat HARD and really gets my HEART PUMPING so that is why I know it is going to be good. I walk fast paced at 4 mph and leave the hill all the way up to a 15 incline . . . then when that gets too easy I will lower the incline to about 7 or 10 and raise the speed up to 7 or 8 mph for about 60 seconds too get my heart racing again then I lower the sped and raise the incline again. I do this for 45 to 60 minutes a day. Then I lift weights and again I try to keep my intensity high by doing super sets (not resting in-between sets) and really trying to push myself hard, make my self sweat, and keep my heart rate up. I try not to stop sweating and only really take rests for water and air until I am done. I have lost about 35-40 pounds in about 3-4 months and I have gained some much needed muscle as well.

My diet consists of allot of protein and very little carbs. I NEVER TOUCH WHITE BREAD! And I consider wheat bread to be a treat which I do not consume everyday. I have a glass of water, then a glass of OJ and a peanut butter banana whey protein shake for breakfast, chicken or tuna salad for lunch, another protein shake after my workout and some more chicken or tuna with broccoli or green peas for dinner. And I drink allot of water throughout the day. I am NOT where I want to be yet but I can tell that I am not too far, maby another 3-4 months and another 30 pounds and Ill be able to use my before and after shots to sell an ebook . . . lmfao . . . But I know now that their are no shortcuts but that hard work and discipline do pay off in the long run as long as you stick to your goals, work hard and try not to cheat your-self.



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Anyway back to sixpack shortcuts . . . . SCAM IS SUCH A HARSH WORD . . . after watching all Mike Chang's free videos, I dont doubt that he lost the weight (and got the sixpack abs) he has from doing the workouts and following the basic diet that he is going to teach you in the PAID WORKOUT PLAIN that he sells but I think that could get very expensive to say lease and it sounds like he takes your credit card and will continue to charge it monthly for more videos / support if you dont cancel the membership early so be careful to listen up and read all the fine print.

That being said, I do encourage you to tune into Mike Chang's Youtube Channel @ http://www.youtube.com/sixpackshortcuts he will teach you allot of good techniques and training tips in his video library. Good Luck.