Saturday, September 24, 2016

How Do You Break the Soda Addiction?

Have you ever just had a huge drink of fizzy, sugary, syrupy soda and it burns the back of your throat...and then you feel it in your stomach  that is hanging over your pants? Have you ever been in that predicament? If you have, you definitely know what it feels like to feel uncomfortably bloated, have your stomach churning and sloshing, have a big soda gut hanging over your pants, and just feel bad. If you are like me, you have felt some of these things. I had to do something. If I didn't I knew I would have a soda gut for a long time to come. I was in deep trouble. If you are too, then join me to break your soda addiction as I have broken mine!

1. Perspective
You have to look at soda as poison. Change your perspective. Did you know that sodas have several different chemicals in them that are used for cleaning, de-oxidizing, that there is enough syrup to choke a horse, sugar enough to send your body into shock, and enough acid to acid wash your favorite pair of jeans? Soda is just a poison that is putting so many toxins into your body.

2. Alternatives
Drink alternatives like there is no tomorrow! The only two alternatives that I have found for soda is iced tea lemonade and water. Drinking these two instead of soda will cut your gut and send your body into weight loss overdrive. These alternatives are life savers when it comes to craving soda and something sugary. If you learn to drink water you will find that it really is quite delicious and is phenomenal for you!

3. 19 Days
It takes someone 19 times of not doing it to break a habit. If you can last 19 days with me, I will promise you that you will break your soda habit and your body will detoxify itself to be able to function at a higher level. Your weight loss will be boosted and your body will feel completely different than it did when you were drinking soda. This one is probably the hardest to execute, but its the most rewarding!

I hope that you have enjoyed this blog post. All you have to do to break the habit of drinking soda like water is to follow this really simple guideline. Your body will be rejoicing because you have stopped drinking soda. Believe me when I say that it was no easy task to stop drinking soda. It is literally everywhere and it is pretty inescapable. Sugar is in everything, including soda.

EXTRA (READ THIS IF NOTHING ELSE!)
Try an experiment with me. Pour a glass of soda that you have sitting at home, or buy a cup of soda from McDonald's for a dollar. Next put that cup or glass of soda outside in the heat for a few days. Cover it up or leave the lid on it. After a few days go back to the undisturbed cup or glass of soda and it will virtually be a cup of syrup or really close to it. That is what you're putting in your body! It will be easy to cut soda now!


~Obesity Overload

Saturday, June 18, 2016

5 Motivational Tips to Crush Your Weight Loss!

Have you ever just felt like your are frazzled, or like you don't know what to do? You feel like there should be a magical feeling because of the topic of weight loss, but it's just not there. Have you ever lacked the drive or motivation to go work out, eat better, and do those things for proper and quick weight loss? If you answered yes to any of these questions or you just need some motivation, then look no further than here! We will give you 5 motivational tips to help you crush your weight loss!


1. Don't Give Up!
"It's hard to beat a person that never gives up!" Babe Ruth
If you have ever wanted to give up before in your life, then you know what its like to be in the seat of a failure or things being hard. Babe Ruth had a lot of success, but with that success came a lot of failure in order to get to the point of being one of the best players in baseball history. When you feel down and like you want to give up, remember who ever remembers the people that give up. No one ever does. Obesity and your weight loss can't win if you don't give up!


2. Fail Forward
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life...that's why I succeed!" Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan said that he has failed over and over and over again and that, that is the reason for his success. You see, if you fail and learn something from your failure, you fail forward. You apply to your life what you've learned and the same goes for weight loss. Find what doesn't work and find the one way that does. Don't stop until you perfect that one thing that works!


3. Stop Complaining
"Success trains, failure complains!"
Success trains and failure complains. If you want to succeed in your weight loss, stop complaining about how you look, how you want to look, or how someone else looks better than you. Go and train yourself instead, and you can reach those goals of looking better than those complaints that you would have otherwise had. Get going and stop complaining.


4. Act Like a Champion
"PrACTice like a champion."
Practice like a champion! If you want to be a champion of weight loss and you want that body that you have been dreaming of forever, then start acting and practicing to be like that body. Practice and practice some more, those things that get to your weight loss goals. Act like you have things together. I found that when i lost a lot of weight, I didn't take it seriously and I ended up gaining weight back because I didn't see myself as a skinnier person. Mindset is everything!


5. Be Consistent
"Success isn't always about greatness; its about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success, greatness will come." Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Being successful isn't about sheer greatness, its about finding that one thing that works. Then, once you have done that, just perfect that and be consistent. If you consistently put out hard work, success will come naturally. If you are sporadic in your training and weight loss, then your success will be sporadic. Be consistent and your success will be consistent.


We hope that you have enjoyed these tips and have gained some motivation to crush your weight loss and ultimately beat obesity! You can do it. The main thing is to find that one thing that does work and then pursue that with everything that's in you. I find in my own life that if I find something small that works, I then compound that one thing, perfect it, and in no time flat, I find that transfer into success. Those that have done great things and have been successful, especially at weight loss, have implemented these tips. Greatness follows those people that get up and get going on their weight loss!

~Obesity Overload


Sunday, June 12, 2016

3 Foods that Slow Down Weight Loss!

If you are like me, you realize that there are some things that just aren't worth eating for your weight loss, even if they are good. We will discuss those foods and I will teach you all how to choose which foods are foods that you are not going to want to eat if you want to lose weight. These foods are foods that are going to want to be avoided. They will slow down your weight loss and may cripple you. Let's dive into these foods that will slow down your weight loss and gain some great information to help you explode into your weight loss!


1. Fruits
Sugary fruits can prove to be even more detrimental to weight loss than beneficial. Fruits are packed with sugar that is what we would call glucose. The glucose is then put into the bloodstream and is converted into fat. Stick with eating fruits like apples, bananas, and other lower sugar fruits. Fruit juice is a weight loss killer that will slow it down and will bring it to a halt. Fruit juice is just as bad as soda. Stick with your vegetables and good fruits and good old-fashioned water.


2. Cereal
There are a lot of different point-of-views that people have about cereal and whole grains. The way I see it is, eating fat doesn't make you fat. If whole grains are fattier grains than crushed grains or processed grains, it would prove to be healthier for your body. That's not the problem with cereal that we will discuss. The problem is that there is so much sugar in cereal nowadays that you have to eat cereal that is like dried cardboard in order to get any nutritional value. I would suggest eating a granola bar that has sugar and tastes sweet, but find one that has honey so that the sugar is more natural.


3. Processed
Processed foods are always going to be bad for you and are always going to slow down your weight loss. Processed foods are WAY too salty and have WAY too much sugar in them. Anything that is made in a tube and that is processed needs to be avoided. Processed foods are classified as foods that are the cheapest food in any grocery store, mainly because they have the least nutritional value for your body and weight loss.


Takeaway
There is a definite takeaway that I want men and women to understand. Not all foods are created equal! A bowl of cherries is not as good for you as an apple, candy-like cereal is not as good for you as toasted oats, and processed food is not as good for you as organic or non-processed food. This is a great tool to use if you want your weight loss to take off. If the food that you're trying to eat has the same calories, sugar, fat and salt as bad foods, then don't eat it! Bad food is poison! You can't put poison in your body. Give us your questions or comments below, we encourage interaction!

Go and kill that obesity and boost your weight loss with avoiding these three foods!

~Obesity Overload


Monday, May 30, 2016

ETL Diet Re-vamped!



Have you ever thought about the diet that you execute every day. Diet does not necessarily mean, "weight loss" automatically. Have you ever heard of the phrase, "So-and-so's diet needs a healthy dose of whatever?" There are healthy diets and there are unhealthy diets. I would like to teach you guys and gals about a diet that is revolutionizing the way you will think about diets. WHY??? Because it is way different than the rest of the diets on the market today.

So, I was sitting down and thinking one day. I was thinking about what all the diets have in common. All of the diets have one thing in common, it is that diets are normally keeping track of calories or keeping track of stuff. It is a pain to keep track of stuff and I was sick of it. There is a benefit to keeping track of stuff, but I felt that keeping track of stuff was pointless and a waste of time and energy. I have come up with a diet that only keeps track of what you eat, not the calories, not the fat, just the substance of what you eat. There is no writing down anything, just thinking and a little bit of common sense. We want to see and realize what it is that we are eating. Let's get started!

ETL Diet
The ETL Diet stands for the Easier Than Life Diet. This diet is easier than life, quite literally! The thing that makes it easy is that anyone can do it and it is completely re-writing the diet and weight loss industry as we speak. The thing that the weight loss industry doesn't want you to know is that you actually have a good chance of GAINING weight on their diet program rather than LOSING weight. Why is that? It is for the sheer fact that people don't want to keep track of EVERYTHING they eat, why they eat it and when they eat it. They don't want to do the point trackers, journals, shakes, jump through the hoops and other malarkey, tricks, and shenanigans to try to lose a small amount of weight. It is very expensive and time consuming to lose weight. Not on the ETL diet!


1. What Goes in Must Come Out
What goes in must come out. When you eat junk food, you are going to find that you don't feel good. Why do you think you feel bad when you eat McDonalds or other fast foods? It is because you eat GMO foods and straight hormones and chemicals. FAST FOOD COMPANIES DON'T WANT YOU TO DO RESEARCH TO SEE HOW BAD THEIR FOOD IS!!! They would go out of business if everyone knew how bad their food REALLY was.

On the flip side of the coin, when you eat what is good for you, then you will feel better and feel good. Your body will naturally feel better when you begin to eat better. When you eat fruits and vegetables, your body consumes what we would like to call, "healthy fuels." These healthy fuels convert to feeling better. Fresh fruits and vegetables have myriads of good vitamins and minerals in them. I also find that if you can add a supplement such as omega 3 fish oils, vitamin C, or gingko biloba, or panax ginseng, you can help add energy and efficiency to your body and can help you feel better. (Always consult your doctor before adding supplements to your diet!)


2. Watch What You Eat
All you have to watch with the ETL Diet is what you eat. As with the first point, all you have to do is eat better. If what you are planning on eating is not good for you, then you don't eat it. There is no keeping track of calories, carbs, or little meaningless things like that. All you have to do is make common sense decisions on eating good food, such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and stay away from sugar, candy, and soda. It is that easy!
Good food (fruits and vegetables) + Common Sense (thinking about what is good for you) = something you should eat

So many times we eat whatever tastes good to us, and our body naturally craves what is bad. The reason being is that our bodies have grown accustomed to eating the junk and that's what it accepts as good food or food that it wants to eat. Don't follow your tongue! Your tongue doesn't have the brains to know that food is bad for you. You have to use your brain and think about what is good and bad.


3. Think DifferentlyThere is a powerful tool that my pediatrician told me to use and he would suggest you using it as well. There is power in thinking differently. "Think of bad food as poison. This will allow your body to see bad food and the effects that it has on your body better," is what he told me. Think of bad food and drink as poison! If you know that it is going to be toxic to your body, then don't even put it in your body!


4. Exercise 
Exercising with the ETL Diet is this easy. All you have to do is exercise for 5 days a week at an 1 hour a day. With this diet you do cardio exercises, aerobics, weight lifting, martial arts, or bodybuilding. You may choose from these choices. Running falls under aerobics and is considered the best by most beginning dieters. Running at 4+ MPH is the best to start with. 5 days of exercise a week for 1 hour a day is easy. You get two days off and it makes it Easier Than Life. If you want to exercise for more hours on one of the days to compensate for other days in the week, you can do that too.

For those that want a challenge, there are FREE workouts that you can get on your phone or print out and do that normally don't require any equipment! CLICK HERE to take a look at the completely free workouts. No matter what your body type and age, there is a workout on here that will help you lose weight. The HIIT or High Intensity Interval Training workouts will burn the most fat!


5. Share It With Friends
We are trying to go viral and we may write a book laying out our diet if we can get enough people to get on board. I have the book written but we need help in getting the word out there! I have lost weight in doing this. I went from 225 LB. to 180 LB. in a few short months. It was that easy. There was no hassles of starving, no keeping track of stuff, no nothing. I know what it is like to do the point trackers, the shakes, the junk and spending too much money and time on it. All you have to do is think about what you eat, exercise, and live your life!

We have come to the the midway point in the year and I want to encourage you to keep your New Year's resolutions! I urge you to keep going and lose that weight. As we are trying to finish up May, I am challenging you guys and gals to beat those fitness, weight loss, weight lifting, and bodybuilding goals to get to that beach body you deserve! You can do it!

~Obesity Overload

Saturday, May 28, 2016

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~Obesity Overload

Do You Have Diabetes?

Did you know that anyone can have diabetes? You could have diabetes right now and not even know it. Today, I would like to teach you about how to know if you have diabetes. How do you know if you have diabetes or not? Did you know that you can be skinny and have diabetes? You can! We will go through some tell tale signs of diabetes and know when to go to your doctor to receive suggestions for how to cure diabetes.


1. Increase in Hunger
Diabetes is a disease that causes your body to work extra hard to fuel your body. Your blood sugar or the glucose in your blood runs too low to fuel your body. Your body will find that it is hungry a lot of the time, but the biggest aspect to this is if you are hungry after eating.


2. Fatigue
Increased fatigue and weakness is another big sign that you might have diabetes. If you reach the end of your energy earlier on in your day than you used to, you may be sleep deprived, but if you're not, then you may have diabetes because your body is running low on blood sugar and energy.


3. Rapid Weight Loss
This is a sure sign that you have diabetes or the possibility of diabetes, especially when you are eating like a cow and you are still losing weight. This should be the most apparent one and will be the one that is most visible. Your body is trying to produce energy from somewhere because it can not get energy from glucose in your blood stream. This is not the good kind of weight loss.


4. Increase in Thirst
Typically when you have diabetes, you will find that you will want to drink more and more. This is due to several factors. These include, eating more, your body not running as efficiently (the body is 75% water after all), and the body needing water to produce glucose.


What should I do if I have these symptoms?
You're sitting here and you're probably thinking, "well shoot, I may have diabetes!" I want all of us to stop and take a deep breath, breathe in, and breathe out. The first thing that you can do is make an appointment with your doctor to discuss the possibilities of you maybe having diabetes. The second thing would be to take a look at a diet plan. (We have one here that is FREE!) If you are dead set on destroying diabetes, I have heard of a plan that will help you destroy it. (Click here for even MORE FREE help!)

I do hope that you feel a bit more educated on diabetes and the possibilities of you having it or not! I hope that you guys and gals take care of yourselves to create the best and longest life filled with good aspects and qualities that you can have. Diabetes is one of the silent killers. Don't let it get you!

~Obesity Overload

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Drink Calories, Diet Killer

I bet you that you never thought that just drinking something would help you lose weight, right? Well, I would also say that you can lose even more weight by removing something from your diet. I'm going to keep it short and to the point. There is a reason that soda is the most popular beverage in the world today. We will take a look at why you should be looking at what you drink, as well as what you are eating.

1. Calories
When it comes to soft drinks or sugary drinks, the calories could be through the roof. According to Harvard University, "A typical 20-ounce soda contains 15 to 18 teaspoons of sugar and upwards of 240 calories. A 64-ounce fountain cola drink could have up to 700 calories." We face a growing problem with consuming too many calories in soda. 

2. Diet Killer, Obesity Feeder
The reason that drinking sugary drinks that have a lot of calories is that sugar converts directly to fat. Eating or drinking fat doesn't make you fat or overweight, eating or drinking sugary foods and drinks make you fat and overweight. Here is the evidence from Harvard University, "Two out of three adults and one out of three children in the United States are overweight or obese, and the nation spends an estimated $190 billion a year treating obesity-related health conditions. Rising consumption of sugary drinks has been a major contributor to the obesity epidemic. A typical 20-ounce soda contains 15 to 18 teaspoons of sugar and upwards of 240 calories. A 64-ounce fountain cola drink could have up to 700 calories. People who drink this “liquid candy” do not feel as full as if they had eaten the same calories from solid food and do not compensate by eating less."

3. What Can I Drink?
Water, drink just plain water! There are 0 calories, 0 grams of sugar, 0 fat, 0 everything! There are so many health benefits to drinking water, many of these include the facts that water is the key to life in the body and it promotes a healthier life. TIME magazine mentioned a study done that encapsulated this fact by asking 84 people to take part in the study for 12 weeks and they said this about the results, "The group that loaded up on water lost about three more pounds than the group that didn’t up their water intake. And the more they drank, the better the results; people who drank 16 ounces before every meal lost about 4.3 kg, or 9 pounds, over the course of the experiment. “That’s about what you get from going to Weight Watchers for 12 weeks,” Daley says. “That’s a real success.”"

To wrap things up, we can gain so many more benefits from drinking water and watching what we drink as well. Cutting these calories and filling up on water before meals can cause us to eat less without even trying. Why do we not utilize this trick more often? For more information on the astounding amount of money spent on advertising for soft drinks that get our minds to buy the sugary drinks and for more information on the study in TIME magazine, click on the links below. Please comment on your successes in drinking water instead of sugary drinks in your weight loss. Now is your time to show off and share with other people to help other people reach their obesity killing goals!

~Obesity Overload


Resources:

Sugary Drinks Facts and Statistics (Harvard University)