HONEY VERSUS SUGAR

**Artificial sweeteners are pretty much one of the most evil things you can put in your body.

This leaves many people confused about what to use to sweeten their tea and other food and drink.

First of all, the less of any sweetener you can use, the better... if you can slowly over time adjust your taste buds to enjoy the natural taste of foods and drink without the need for heavily sweetening them, you'll see many benefits for your body. However, this leaves the question... If I really want to at least use a little sweetener, should I use sugar or honey?

The easy answer is that honey is better for you than refined sugar. Keep in mind that they are both calorie dense and eating large amounts of honey will still make you deposit body fat.

However, refined sugar is a "negative" nutrient...it's literally devoid of nutrition and using it actually makes your body use up stored nutrients toprocess it.

Honey on the other hand has many beneficial nutrients, enzymes, and antioxidants... raw honey is best as typical honey processing destroys many of the enzymes and antioxidants that give the benefits.

I won't use any honey other than raw honey. Also, honey has been shown in several studies to improve the body's ability to process glucose, whereas refined sugar negatively affects your body's ability to process glucose over time. In fact, I don't use refined sugar for anything at all.

It's either raw honey, pure maple syrup (not fake corn syrup), or stevia for all of my sweetening needs. Those are better choices than processed sugar or artificial sweeteners.

PLAN TO CHEAT

Xmas Tip #4 is this....

Are You Ready?

PLAN TO CHEAT!!

That's right. Plan To Cheat.

Pick the days...

Hell, you know what they are.

Christmas
The Office Holiday Party
New Years Eve

You already know them, Those are it or some form of that list. Know that you are going to cheat on those days, but don't go OVERBOARD. Go Overboard ON THE DAYS IN BETWEEN THOSE DAYS in terms of eating right and exercising.

The key is what you do in between those days not on those days!

WHO'S GOING TO WIN?

Tip #3 - MAKE A BET!

That's right.

Make a nice friendly wager with one of your friends.

Each of you put $40 to $50 up and make a friendly wager of who can get rid of the most extra baggage during the holidays.

The winner collects the cash.

Start now and have the wager end on January 2nd!

:-)

That way you will have to be accountable through New Year's Eve.

This is a trick that I've used often with some of my clients.

I'm not a fan of betting but I try to create as much social pressure as possible and try to put in as many accountability measures as possible.

Take care and remember to have a great day.

2ND XMAS TIP

Yesterday I told you how to START and INCREASE in order
to decrease and subtract from your waist during the holidays.

As we gear up for this year's holiday season you have to be
vigiliant. Look at EVERYBODY, every party, every drink, every
piece of candy and every piece of cake as THE ENEMY.

Do NOT allow the ENEMY to make his way into your home.

So with that being said.

If you want to eat a traditional dinner fine.

But...... Here's what YOU should do

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THE TEAMTRAINING SOLUTION
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So here's the secret.

We go to the family xmas dinner and we eat and we eat.

We get FULL and then we leave.

AND MOST OF YOU WONT DO ANYTHING ELSE THAT DAY EXCEPT FOR THAT
BIG MEAL.

NOTHING!!.

You enjoy yourself and then you take your arse home!

PERIOD.
SO DONT HAVE 6 POTATOES, DONT PILE YOUR PLATE SO HIGH THAT IT LOOKS LIKE THE SKY TOWER .AND DONT GO BACK FOR 2NDS ITS JUST STUFFING YOUR FACE AND OVER EATING WHICH PUTS A HUGE STRAIN ON YOUR HEART.

Are you strong enough to do this???

If you chose to stuff yourself you will put away 6000-10,000 calories thats enough for 3 to 4 days

That's unacceptable.

Here' the Plan and the Solution:

1. Wake up in the morning
2. Hit a nice cardio workout.
3. Eat and enjoy the day, dont overeat
4. Relax and feel great not like the beached whale you were the year before
5. Sleep.
6. Wake up - and you'll be the same weight as you were yesterday.
8. DONE!!!

Sub-Tips:

1. one meal not 4
2. more meat than carbs
3. no calories via liquid.

Done.

Done!

Got it?

Good!!!

OVER THE XMAS BREAK

We have had 5 tips sent to us and we think they all make sense. So here's the 1st one - we will post one each day...

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TIP NUMBER ONE
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1. START OR INCREASE

That's it.
START.....
OR
INCREASE.

You know how if you are driving and you are getting
ready to go up a hill, you give the car a little more "gas"
so you can "attack" the hill.

Well, this is no different.

If you drive at the same speed when you get on the hill, the
car is likely to stall.

You MUST attack the hill and you also must ATTACK the
holiday season.

If you are exercising or working out now. Do 2 to 3 more reps
per exercise.

Push a little faster on your cardio training, go a little bit longer,
just 3 to 7 minutes.

Just do a little bit more than normal.

Attack the hill.

If you aren't exercising now.. START.

NO GYM MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED.
JUST START WALKING.
PLEASE.

You CAN walk. It doesn't cost anything.

And this is something that you can do TODAY!!!!
So that's the tip.

INCREASE OR START.