NO Sugar!

If YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT I always tell people to avoid sugar at all costs. If you stop eating sugar, you will immediately start to see weight loss, I promise you. Sugar is found everywhere, not just in candy. It’s in most of your drinks: juices, smoothies, sodas, alcoholic drinks, Starbucks drinks… It’s in your food: fruit, dried fruit, anything packaged, all simple carbohydrates such as rice, pasta and bread. Sugar not only stores excess fat, but it ruins your teeth! Is sugar like cocaine? According to studies, the brain’s reward region releases dopamine, the same hormone released when taking drugs, has the same effect when eating/drinking sugar. Just like over-using drugs, the more you eat – the less you feel satisfied! I don’t think we should go EXTREME and abolish sugar from our lives, but if you try to be as NATURAL as possible – and only eat sugar that comes from nature (I’m talking about fruits and figs people) then I think that’s acceptable. Everything else IS NOT!

Sacrifice...

Let’s face it. Even though becoming a healthier person is obviously a very good endeavor to shoot for, it is definitely a challenge to stay focused, determined, persistent and consistent. There are going to be times when you have to choose between two equally important things and you have to choose fitness. There are going to be temptations to eat bad, drink, skip workouts, not workout as hard, etc. However, if you want to realize your fitness goal, you have to make these necessary sacrifices. The amount of what you are willing to sacrifice is what will determine how successful you will become. At the same time, while these sacrifices sound harsh, the good part is: is that the more you make fitness a successful habit, the less ‘perceived’ sacrifices you will have to make. In life, everything comes with a sacrifice. If you want to change your life to get to higher goal, then expect sacrifice to be part of the game plan. Be prepared that the road to your destination will not be easy, and understand that nothing great occurs without sacrifice.