So, you’ve decided to give up, huh?

You’re fed up of all the diets that have promised you great results yet left you hungry, tired, irritable and weak.

You’re fed up of all the ‘wonder workouts’ that have promised you amazing strength, fitness and flexibility ‘in just minutes a day’ but that have left you feeling tired, sore, stiff and, truth be told, no firmer or less flabby than you were before.

But most of all, you’re fed up of all those fitness ‘experts’ out there who tell you how easy it is, how little time it takes and how amazing you’re going to look if you follow THEIR program (ONLY theirs, mind you, no-one else’s will even come near to what they’re offering).

So you’re quitting.

You’re giving up the diet and exercise ‘thing’ and have decided that you’ll just go with the flow and see what happens to your body when the experts aren’t poking their noses into your business and ramming their idea of healthy down your throat.

What a great idea!

No more ‘eat this’ or ‘don’t eat that’, no more ‘don’t forget your cardio’ or ‘weights is better’.

In fact, no more interference of any kind from the countless do-gooders who seem to think that it’s ok for them to advise, nag and bully you into following all kinds of fat loss and fitness advice… as long as it’s theirs.

Good on you!

But before you take the quitters route that most people take, doesn’t it make sense to quit in the right way?

Sure it does!

There’s a science to quitting too y’know and I’m just the person to share it with you : )

So here’s the deal. If you want to quit and quit fast, if you want to pack on pound after pound of soft, warm, figure-blurring bodyfat then you’ve got to have a strategy.

You’ve got to have a plan.

MY plan is easy, straightforward and six-year-old-simple to follow and consists of just seven rules that, if you follow them, will guarantee you the maximum fat gain in the shortest time frame.

It consists of just 7 rules

Rule one: Only eat processed foods

If you’re truly serious about packing on some serious fat-pounds, you’ll follow this rule faithfully.

Without a doubt, processed foods are the No.1 friend to fat due to their denatured, sugar-loaded and mostly synthetic nature.

With most of the vitamins and minerals removed from processed foods, the highly calorific and mostly indigestible remain, creating a massive storehouse of both calories and toxins for you to bury deep within your already overloaded fatty tissues.

Better still, the toxic nature of most processed foods mean that you’ll gain not only fat but a whole lot of subcutaneous water too as your body tries to ‘dilute’ the impact of all the extra toxins you’re holding onto, meaning that you’ll put on extra scale weight and look soft and squidgy into the bargain.

Great stuff!

Rule two: Cram in as many starchy carbs as you can

Starchy carbs eaten in isolation or, better yet, with sugary carbs are an absolutely fantastic way to accelerate the battle of the bulge and gain both fat and body weight at a more rapid pace.

Eating carbohydrates in isolation allows your hormones to engage in a free-running form of guerrilla warfare where insulin levels raise through the roof and, in doing so, command your body to store fat.

A word of warning though; whatever you do, don’t mix your starches with fats or proteins. This reduces both the amount and the effect of all that lovely insulin and will definitely scupper your chances at serious fat gain.

Rule Three: Get to bed as late as you can

If rapid fat gain is your greatest desire, then make sure that you get to bed as late as you possibly can, with the ideal scenario being that you stay up so late every night that you fall asleep on the sofa.

Doing This will ensure a steady supply of the stress hormone cortisol into your bloodstream to help you break down all that energy-consuming lean muscle tissue that’s slowing down your fat gain.

Just don’t ruin the effect by getting to bed by 10:30 or you’ll find that the cortisol levels drop far too low to cannibalise your muscle and you may even find that you lose all your precious fat!

Rule four: Steer clear of water

Drink too much water and you’ll not only do away with your body’s false food cravings (meaning that you won’t eat unnecessarily), but you’ll also create a freer flowing route for the digestion of the foods you’ve eaten.

Obviously, this is a bad thing as it means you won’t keep undigested foods in your stomach long enough for them to go putrid and add to the overall toxic load on your system.

Remember, anything that speeds up your metabolism is bad!

Instead, use coffee, tea and soda to ‘mix up’ your metabolism and increase toxicity.

Rule five: Don’t forget the alcohol!

Alcohol is just about as pure a sugar source as you can get and is absolutely jam-packed with calories that contribute nothing to the function of your body.

Better still, alcohol adds to your toxic load meaning that you’ll hold a large amount of water too!

Rule Six Use the microwave for all of your cooking

Microwave’s are great!

During the heating process they vibrate the molecules of your food so fast that they actually change their structure, meaning that when you eat nuked food, your body has no idea about how to cope with them, let alone extract nutrition from them.

This is fantastic for your fat gain quest because you’ll be adding to your toxic load AND creating a surplus of non-nutritional calories, meaning that you’ll get hungry again very soon after eating and have another opportunity to stock up on calories.

Rule Seven: Avoid all unnecessary movement

There’s no getting away from it, movement of any kind costs you valuable calorie-energy and robs you of the vital fat building stores that’ll be necessary for your quest.

Stay as still as you can to conserve as much energy as possible and commit to using as many labour-saving devices as you can find. Things like remote controls, stair lifts, escalators etc all serve a valuable role in the creation of your fat stores, so use them.

If you are forced to move, then whatever you do, don’t engage in any form of activity that might lead to an increase in strength or muscle mass as this’ll speed up your metabolism and rob you of calories. Instead, engage in steady-state, slow aerobic activities as these are energy efficient and have the added benefit of increasing cortisol and, in doing so, breaking down that calorie-robbing muscle tissue.

So that’s it!

Your seven rules that, if followed, will absolutely guarantee that you pack on fat faster than you’d ever believe possible and allow you to thumb your nose and poke your tongue out at every personal trainer or diet guru who ever promised you a rapid result from following their plans.

Follow just one or two of them for even a short time and you’ll see a rapid softening of the waistline and an appreciable gain in scale-weight. Follow them all and you’ll gain so much weight that you’ll be stunned by the reflection staring back at you within a month.

Give it a go!

Note: If you’re one of those wierdo’s who feel that you’d like to take the extreme approach of actually losing bodyfat then just reverse the rules above to see equally rapid fat loss… I don’t know why you’d want to though : )

Dax Moy
www.mylondonpersonaltrainer.com

P.S – While you’re here, grab yourself a FREE copy of my Elimination Diet in that box up there on the right : )

Working as a personal trainer in London (the heart disease capital of the UK) I’m always being asked for my top tips for keeping the heart healthy and in tip-top shape.

Here’s my answer!

Sea Salt – swap table salt for sea salt – avoid foods with low quality salt already in, and control the amount you consume by seasoning with it only. Instead use more herbs & spices to flavour food.

Improve diet – its not about swapping butter for a margarine with a mind boggling list of unnatural, unrecognisable ingredients. Instead focus on wholesome natural ingredients – vegetables, almonds salmon, walnuts. Cut out refined carbohydrates and sugars.

Coconut oil – although technically classed as a saturated fat, coconut oil can actually protect against stroke and heart attacks. It actually increases HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol).

Countries like Sri Lanka, where coconut oil was a primary fat source, have lower incidences of heart disease. Populations where coconut oil was a key element of their diet also benefit from improved cholesterol readings, lower body fat deposition, higher survival rate, reduced tendency to form blood clots, fewer uncontrolled free radicals in cells, low levels of blood and liver cholesterol, higher antioxidant reserves in cells, and lower incidence of heart disease in population studies.

Exercise -Not only will regular exercise increase fat loss, help weight control & build muscle mass, but it helps lower blood pressure(a major risk factor for heart disease). It also improves circulation, preventing blood clots that can lead to heart attacks and stroke.

Exercise also increases HDL, transporting fat away from the arteries and to the liver for processing, whilst reducing LDL cholesterol that can form fatty deposits and contribute to heart disease.

Fish oils – Higher amounts of two kinds of omega-3, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), may benefit some people with established heart disease or high triglyceride levels and can have an anti-inflammatory effect for people with rheumatoid arthritis. In addition, DHA is being studied to see if it can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

For heart disease prevention, near-maximum benefit comes from eating two 3-ounce servings of cold water fish a week.

Reduce Stress  – Stress activates the sympathetic nervous system, which is what causes a “fight or flight” response. This results in raised blood pressure, faster heart rate, and slows digestion. It can also contribute to weight gain, complicate existing illnesses such as diabetes, and lead to anxiety and depression. These physical reactions all increase your cardiovascular disease risk. Chronic stress, which is long lastinng, such as emotional, or work related stress, as compared to acute stress (when you are being chased by a lion)

Exercise also releases feel-good hormones called endorphins, helping reduce stress .

Furthermore, low levels of testosterone (suppressed by raised cortisol levels in “fight or flight” can increase the risk of bone loss and muscle atrophy, having a negative affect on heart health.

Consider taking up yoga, tai chi or other moderate forms of exercise.

Improve your Breath – try a simple pranayama technique called Kapalabhati Pranayama, which requires rapid successive breathing. Focus on expelling the air rapidly on each outward breath whilst  consciously controlling the movement of the diaphragm. This is an exercise for the entire respiratory system, forcing higher oxygen absorption in a very short time. This ensures supply of richer blood to cardiovascular muscles.

Note – that this exercise is unsuitable for those suffering with high blood pressure, glaucoma and other eye disorders.

Ashwaghandha – this fantastic Indian herb has been noted in Ayurvedic medicine for it’s ability to strengthen and give more flexibility to heart muscles. It is also renowned for its recuperative and restoring qualities.

It is also used widely to aid problems such as anxiety, stress, & stress induced insomnia

Stop smoking - Smoking increases the heart rate and certain chemicals in smoke causes blood to clot more easily. Second-hand smoke does the same things as well.

Sleep – Long term consequences of poor quality sleep include, obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, high blood pressure, and stroke. Try to get to sleep for 10.30pm at least 5 night a week.

Julie Winterton is a Level 2 Health Coach, Kinetic Chain Assessment Specialist, & Yoga Teacher at the Dax Moy Personal Training Studios, Islington, London.

She is also the author of the forthcoming cookbook, “Good Nutrition for Food Lovers”

The UN is out there.

It’s watching you.

It’s ready to pounce on you as soon as you make the slightest sign that you’re ready to move from where you are now toward where you really and truly want to be.

If you’ve ever started a diet and quit, the UN had a hand in it for sure.

If you ever skipped a workout in order to do nothing more important than watch TV or surf the net, the UN was there too.

If you’ve ever had a dream or a vision about the kind of person you might become, the things you could do or the many wonderful things you could have, yet done little or nothing about it, then face it, the UN got you.

In fact, the UN has been responsible for keeping your appearance, your health, your fitness, your finances, your career and, indeed, your very life, exactly as it is now and for preventing you from being, doing and having the things you really want in life.

If you SAY you want something bad, REALLY bad, to happen in your life yet you simply can’t ever seem to find the time or make the effort to get started on making it happen then yes, you my friend, have been outwitted, outsmarted and outfoxed by the UN.

But don’t feel bad.

You’re not alone.

The UN has, at one time or another, kicked the butts of every single person on the planet just as it’s kicking yours right now.

Let’s face it… the UN is a bully!

It enjoys pushing you around and keeping you from going where you want really to go or doing what you really want to do, but instead of violence it uses something far, far more powerful against you.

It uses rationalisation.

It uses justification.

It uses distraction.

The UN is most powerful when it uses the rationalisation and justification on you to keep things just as they are now.

Telling you that “now isn’t the right time” or that “just one won’t make a difference” or that “I’ll start monday” is a sure sign that the UN is kicking your butt this very minute.

Allowing yourself to be distracted by things you don’t really want, enjoy or that simply don’t matter is another.

Like I said, the UN is a bully.

But just like any bully, the UN hates being confronted. Confront the UN and, like all bullies the world over, it backs down, runs away and loses its hold over those it once controlled so completely.

Steal away the 3 main weapons of the UN and YOU win!

When you cease rationalising why you’re sabotaging your results and settling for less, when you cease justifying why you’re not taking action on what you say you want and when you quit being distracted by what others ar doing and focus more on what YOU are doing instead, you turn the tables on the UN and send it running and screaming for its mum.

You have the power to beat the UN.

Use it.

Use it NOW!

Don’t let the UN get in the way of what you most want from life or you’ll end up UNfit, UNhealthy, UNwell, UNwise, UNloved, UNwealthy, UNhappy and living a life that feels Unfair and UNlived.

Defeat the UN.

Do it now.

To your success!

Dax Moy

www.themagichundred.com

P.S – The only UN you should consider letting hang around with you is UNstoppable ; )