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January 2010
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Volume 10, Issue 1
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IN THIS
ISSUE:
1. Greetings
from the Editor
2. ArticleEight Natural Ways To Control Your Appetite
3.
ArticleBuilding A Better Body, One Brick At A Time
4. Inspirational Quotes
5.Articles & Web Sites Worth A Look
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Dear Fitness Friends,
Sorry that this issue is so late coming. It has been a busy month.
I got this started a week ago, but life kind of got in the way.
One thing I am happy to say, is that I've been getting to the gym
regularly. What has made it
easier for me, is that I got a workout journal. It helps me keep
track of the exercises I'm doing. It really has encouraged me to
push myself to do a little better each time by adding more weight,
sets or repetitions.
Make the decision to make
it a good year, and then do what you need to do in order for this
to happen. At the end of 2010, will you be able to look back and
know that you took the steps to succeed with your goals for the
year? What do you have to lose?
I wish you all a very happy, healthy & prosperous New Year!

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"To eat is a necessity, but
to eat intelligently is an art."
~~La Rochefoucauld
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Eight Natural Ways To Control
Your Appetite
Be kind to yourself. Stay well away from the pharmaceutical
shelves if you are seeking help to curb your appetite. Apart
from the
high costs of appetite suppressant drugs, their addictive nature
and noted side effects make them a potentially dangerous choice.
Given that in most cases their effects are short-lived and your
weight rapidly rebounds when you stop taking them, they are not
only expensive and dangerous, but really quite useless too.
There are many natural methods for controlling your appetite. The following
eight have been chosen for being effective, cheap and easy for everyone to implement.
#1: Exercise. Contrary to popular opinion, you do not "work up an appetite" through
exercise. Exercise is a proven appetite suppressant. It stimulates brain chemicals
known as endorphins. These are your body's natural pain killers that give you
a mood boost and reduce your appetite. (The corollary is that people who lack
these endorphins due to insufficient exercise tend to boost their mood via "comfort
food" instead.)
#2: Drink more water, regularly. The human body craves hydration long before
it craves food. Modern society and product marketing has 'educated' people into
confusing thirst with hunger. Drinking water at regular intervals throughout
the day will help to keep your appetite in check.
#3: Avoid artificial sweeteners. Despite the well publicised fact of artificial
sweeteners having no calories, they are the enemy of the dieter. Many studies
in both human and animals have proven conclusively that these chemical sweeteners
stimulate the appetite. Avoid them like the plague. Particularly do not drink
diet sodas. Stick with water.
#4: Spice & season your food. A recent study demonstrated that sprinkling
common spices and seasonings such as herbs like oregano and others reduces the
human appetite. The reasoning appears to be that the blander the food, the more
a person tends to eat to feel satisfied. Herbal seasonings have next to no calories
and enhance the flavour of your food, leading to earlier satiety.
#5: Don't miss breakfast. Skipping this most important meal of the day not
only slows your metabolism, it results in snacking and binge eating later in
the day.
#6: Avoid sugars and starches. Eat proteins and non-starchy fibers. Other
than the obvious calorie implications of sugars, sugars and starches are short-chain
carbohydrates that are very rapidly converted into blood glucose, then very rapidly
stored in muscle and fat tissue. This leads to rapid spikes and troughs, highs
and lows, in your daily blood sugar levels and thus the urge to eat to treat
those low points. Protein foods and high fiber non-starchy vegetables are more
nutritious and take longer to fully digest - preventing those blood sugar spikes
and troughs.
#7: Eat slowly. After your first bite of food at a meal, it takes around
twenty (20) minutes for the signal of satiety from your stomach to reach your
brain. Make a habit of taking a bite, then putting down your cutlery while you
thoroughly chew your food. Do not pick up your utensils again until you have
completely chewed and swallowed what is in your mouth. Developing this habit
gives your brain time to recognise what you have already consumed before you
shover too much into your mouth. Eating slowly means that you will feel fuller
on a lower food intake.
#8: Develop healthy sleep patterns. Lack of sleep or disrupted sleeping
patterns disturb several hormonal functions within your body, at least two of
which lead to loss of appetite control. Additionally, most people tend to compensate
for their feeling of a lack of energy caused by lack of sleep by overeating or
drinking calories. A steady eight-plus hours of sleep per night will assist in
controlling those hormonal appetite cravings during the day.
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"If anything is sacred, the
human body is sacred."
~~ Walt Whitman
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"If you don't do what's best
for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."
~~Julius Erving
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Building A Better
Body, One Brick At A Time
The quest to develop a stunningly fit, lean and attractive body
is a long, slow journey. It's not something you achieve overnight
by popping a few pills or strapping an electric gizmo to your belly.
Which reminds me, did you know that by the time the FTC finally
blew the whistle on the electronic ab belt scam, the makers of
those "ab zappers" had swindled over $100 million dollars
from unsuspecting consumers? Fortunately, some of those companies
had to pay it back, and then some! The FTC charged three companies
- Fast Abs, Ab Tronic and Ab Energizer - with false advertising
and deceptive warranty practices for these "ABSurd" gimmcks.
But I digress. back to what I was saying about the journey to
a better body...
Last week I looked out my window, and where there was once nothing
but a dirt-filled empty lot, there stood a sprawling six story
brick condo complex. If someone looked at this massive completed
structure for the first time, they might not be impressed. However,
since I observed the entire construction process unfold from my
living room window, I was impressed - amazed even - at what goes
into erecting this kind of structure.
I remember watching the crew humming around diligently every day
like busy bees, laying one brick after another. From one day to
the next, it didn't seem like much changed. But slowly, over a
period of a year and a half, I watched the building gradually morph
into the finished product.
When you look at someone with an incredible body as a finished
product, you often tend to dismiss the long, arduous journey and
hard work it took to build that body. Unless you were side by side
with that person in the gym (and in the kitchen), observing the
work involved, it's easy to attribute such a chiseled physique
to genetics or give credit to a supplement (they just took product
XYZ and voila - overnight abs). What you don't see or appreciate
are all the months and years of sweat and hard work.
Getting in shape is a lot like a construction project. First,
there must be a picture in the mind. Then the vision goes onto
paper as a blueprint. It takes months just to lay the foundation.
More months of work will follow. On a daily basis, it doesn't seem
like much is happening. You look in the mirror and appear, for
the most part, the same as you did yesterday. But sure enough,
the small improvements are slowly accumulating like compounding
interest in the bank. One day, you look in the mirror and "suddenly," your
blueprint has become reality.
The body of a fitness model, figure competitor or bodybuilder
is no more likely to be built overnight than a high rise is to
be built overnight. It's not physically possible. Accepting the
idea that any type of pill, powder, drug, supplement or machine
of any kind will make it happen sooner than nature intended (without
negative consqeuences or side effects) is pure folly. You can't
force it.
Growth and development of any kind always requires a gestation
period. For a baby, it's nine months. For corn, I believe it's
about three months. If you were an expectant mother, would you
want to hurry the process? Could any new development in nutrition
or medical science speed up this wonderful miracle even one iota?
If you were a farmer, would you try to harvest your crop before
it was ripe? Would you dig up your seeds to see if anything was
growing down there?
The answers are obvious. If only we would adopt the same patient,
nurturing "mother's" or "farmer's mindset" towards
getting in shape, then no one would waste their money on "fast
abs" or "exercise in a bottle" or any such silliness
ever again. We would understand that one must sow first, then reap
the harvest, but that you can't sow and reap in the same season.
If you ever get frustrated with the rate of progress in your fitness
or weight loss program (and who doesn't), just remember; success
is always guaranteed to the persistent. Nothing in the world can
stop someone who knows what they want and is willing to continue
paying the price until they get it. It just takes time.
Become the architect and builder of your own dream body. You WILL
build the body you want eventually if you're patient enough and
you refuse to quit. And set your goals HIGH! Create a fantastic
blueprint. Michelangelo said, "the greatest danger is not
that we set our goals too high and miss them, the greatest danger
is that we set our goals too low and we reach them." Envision
a castle - a veritable Taj Mahal of a body! There's nothing wrong
with building castles in the sky, as long as you patiently work
at putting the foundations underneath them. There are very few
unrealistic goals; only goals with unrealistic deadlines.
So keep laying those "bricks" - every day - one at a
time - and sure enough, eventually, you'll build yourself a palace.
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"Goals help you channel your
energy into action."
~~Les Brown
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