Are you a 70 percenter?

People spend hours at the gym at a time to get that perfect body they have always dreamed of.  They push and pull and squat like there is no tomorrow.  They run for miles, swim lap after lap, bike mile after long mile.  Yet they are still the same.  Many don't get any closer to their goals and they give up.  It isn't that their body just won't get there.  It is that they don't know how to eat.

The way you eat is 70% of how you mold your body.  It is 70% of how healthy you are.  It is 70% of what you need to do to reach your fitness goals.  The portions you are eating at 70% of the amount of weight you need to lose or gain.  Working out, is only 30% of those goals. 

Ever hear the expression, "You are what you eat."?  If you are putting junk in, you can bet you are going to get junk out.  If you want to look like Adonis or Aphrodite then you got to eat clean and work out dirty.  That means whole foods, in their appropriate portions.  If you eat clean but still eat double the portions, you are still not going to see the results you desire.  When you go grocery shopping, try to stay to the outer aisles.  These are going to be your healthier choices.  If you are going to buy processed foods look at the ingredients, if it contains high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, corn sugar or sugar period and you aren't getting a cake for an occasion, leave it.  If there are ingredients that you don't know or can't pronounce, LEAVE IT! 

Why would you want to leave it?  Your body has to process those chemicals.  Some of those chemicals stay in your body and prohibit the nutrients your cells need from entering.  You can eat how you want or you can be healthy.  You can't have it both ways. 

Sometimes you may be out and unable to eat clean.  This won't bother you occasionally, however, if you want to stay on that clean eating kick, then take some fruit with you.  I love to take a shaker cup, Shakeology and maybe a P90X protein bar.  That will usually satisfy me for three to four hours.  If you want to know more about them then you can go to Http://beachbodycoach.com/coachseanx

You can also check out the programs there too.  They come with a nutrition plan so it takes the guess work out of everything.

Eat clean and work out dirty.

Winter Goals

How are things going?  I hope all finds you well.  We are getting to a cooler part of the year.  Many people slow up their fitness goals in the winter.  They tend to think about homey things.  Things that warmed them like curling up on the couch under a blanket, watching a movie, while eating those sugary snacks, sipping hot cocoa.  People also tend to forget about their workouts this time of year.

Now is not the time to slack off.  You should be bringing it just as hard as ever.  The cooler months is when your body wants to add that extra fat.  That fat you worked so hard to take off.  Don't make it a chore to remove once again.  Keep it off and improve upon the foundation you already have established!  If you have hit your goals, then make NEW ones.  Always look to improve.  That is how we live life to the fullest.