Myths, Errors and what’s really Right!

SOMEHOW, the diet and fitness media and marketing world has put together all sorts of assortments that will make you think you will lose the weight, but only to be a selling gimmick! The weight loss industry is one of the largest out there, and why? Because people want a quick pill or device that will melt the fat off for them! Spare yourself the waste and realize this: Losing weight comes down to a very simple equation: If the amount of calories you eat in a day exceed the amount you burn, you will gain weight! If the amount you eat is less than you burn, you will lose weight!

So your journey of weight loss begins with a Healthy Tart style of eating! The 30 day detox is meant to clean up the damage you’ve done to your digestive, endocrine and cardiovascular system, and my workouts will help get you fit, strong and a fat burning machine! So if you haven’t already, you need to seriously bucker down and evaluate what and how much you are putting into your mouth!

Next is exercise. We know that exercise burns calories, and burning fat is all about burning calories.

The thing I want you to grasp is that burning fat and getting fit happen at the same time; they’re not independent of each other.

The more total calories you burn, the more fat you will burn. Therefore, you want your workouts to be challenging and intense!

How to Lose Weight!

If you’re mosying through your workouts, not pushing yourself, and are doing the same thing everyday, DON’T expect your body to change. It won’t. So, progress your workouts! Do things you don’t like doing! You’ll burn more total fat with more intense workouts, and you’ll get fitter, faster!

Don’t worry about the whole “Fat Burning Zone” and “Cardiovascular Zone”! It’s crap! The more calories you burn, the faster the weight will come off and the faster you will become fit!

The unfortunate thing is, if you’ve been sitting on your butt for the past 5-10 years, or even 6 months, you can’t go crazy your first day back, nor your first week! You need to follow your heart rate prescription until you healthy enough to turn on the juice! Don’t worry though, your workouts WILL seem challenging and will make you lose weight, if you haven’t been doing anything for a while. Focus on sticking to your 7 Day Layouts, (not missing workouts) and eating like a Healthy Tart.

I have made your workouts specifically and safely catered for where you are at, and what you can do, each step of the way. They are specifically designed to strengthen up your body, clear, clean and strengthen your cardiovascular system, and make you lose weight at the same time.

As variety is also essential for maximizing fat loss, I have included different kinds of exercise: swimming, aquajogging, track workouts, weight workouts, biking, stair stepper and elliptical. So FOLLOW MY WORKOUTS. They will make you succeed, no matter where you are!

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My workouts are effective, challenging and rewarding. You will get stronger, healthier, more full of energy, and on your way to being in the best shape of your life.

I was recently asked about metabolism and why people can’t just seem to lose weight. Here’s my reply:

In the issue of metabolism, metabolism in the breakdown of calories will be the same for everyone. When you exercise, you burn calories, and the rate at which you burn them wont change unless you have a bunch of muscle mass, for which we women don’t need to worry about.

SO- with metabolism, you’ve got to exercise if you want to burn fat and lose weight. (I’m not addressing the metabolism of food right yet). 95% of the trainers out there train their females WRONG. That is why I highly encourage you both to come to my event. You MUST exercise to burn calories- lots of them. So this doesn’t mean weight training, riding on some stationary bike or even walking (unless you weigh 100lbs too much), this means running, swimming, sprinting- stuff that will burn SERIOUS calories. The good thing is that this form of training is the kind of training that will benefit your cardiovascular health the best… You don’t want to start off right away with that form of training if you’re just starting out, or if you have medical problems, but if should be your goal to get there.

I will talk more in detail during my presentation at the next Healthy Tart event, if you cannot attend, please get a copy of my book, Healthy Fitness Central.

As far as your food metabolism, I haven’t yet heard a woman out there who has a high metabolism. Our hormones were made to store fat, that’s what we were “blessed” with… due to this God given natural phenomenon, we have got to evaluate the foods we are eating. If you think you eat well, but you’re not losing weight, there’s no catch. YOU’RE NOT eating as well as you think. We’re not freaks of nature. Our metabolisms are all pretty much the same. We can alter them through exercise and how much of it we do, and we can alter it through drugs and shots, (which I don’t endorse!).

I can be in denial as much as I want to of why I can’t lose weight, but really what it comes down to is, how much and the quality of food I am eating. You must eat CLEAN food. This probably doesn’t mean what you are thinking.

I want you to take a look at this woman.

http://ola-life.org/videos.php Look at her making Living Cacao Cream Pie, Nori Rolls, and Spring Rolls.

She eats 100% pure and organic food and she is vegan. She is the leanest natural person I’ve ever seen, and she’s pregnant. OBVIOUSLY she’s got it down. She’s serving her body and her body is serving her. She inspires me to want to change and be even better. She eats like a Healthy Tart would.

So, even though you are thinking you are eating the right stuff, you’re not if you’re not at your optimal weight. Something is wrong. Something you are DOING is wrong.

We can explore this further together in the Healthy Tart event.

Yes, your metabolism slightly slows down in your 40′s and 50′s.. WHY? Because you become LESS ACTIVE and you start losing muscle mass because you are LESS ACTIVE. Christine is a testament to that. She easily lost 60lbs and she’s over 50. It’s not rocket science people, it’s really quite simple.