Not a Diet Book: Take Control. Gain Confidence. Change Your Life.

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Nothing. It goes away almost completely until your next feeding window. So next time, you’re hungry instead of indulging, test this theory. Hunger doesn’t last forever. Keep your mind occupied and you’ll forget it before you know it. And that is how our friend ghrelin came and went away. Should I workout on an empty stomach to lose weight? Fitness fads exposed Healthista Content you may like: Some parts were too simplistic. And you can’t crush everyone else’s anecdotes and then promote your own...unless it’s you writing your own book...which this situation falls under. Grain of salt and everyone can enjoy it. Plan-based diets are missing important essential amino acids and typically contain less BCAA than their animal-based equivalents. Leucine which is one of the amino acids is shown to be a primary trigger of muscle prothema systematists. So BCAA, leucine in particular, is something to consider if you’re serious about gaining muscle on a vegan diet. If not, save your money because BCAA is abundant in your meat diet.

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Be it running, swimming, cycling or weight training, the type of exercise you do impacts on how you can recover. Not only that the person internal variable such as gender, age, environment, genetics and external variables such as sleep, nutrition, stress and hydration all affect how fast he can recover. Always take a time off than to force it, unless you want to trade a few days of rest for several months of injury. Being fat is when your body starts to negatively influence your self-esteem and your everyday ability to think clearly and act optimally. Is it worth giving up 95% of your life for a 5% change in bodyweight? That’s particularly relevant to females who need body fat more than males. It’s rare someone who sits healthy at a very low body-fat percent without suffering from a range of other health issues. I wish I had this book when I started training for powerlifting/ going to the gym. Will be using this as my go-to for people asking me gym/ diet-related questions in the future. While I had a fairly good understanding of the topics brought up as I have been training for an extended period, this book is a great evidence-based insight into basic dieting and autoregulation without bogging down in research papers. I often use the example of poor Linda from Norwich who’s paying Weight Watchers or Slimming World too much money in the hopes to lose weight, only to be told off for not having her morning s**t because she hasn’t dropped another two pounds. Here’s another analogy for you, they say if you put a frog in hot water it will jump out, but if you put a frog in cold water and heat it slowly it won’t even notice and slowly boil to death. Of course I don’t want my clients to boil to death, but the point is I don’t want them to notice they’ve been thrown in hot water. #3 Fitness doesn’t need to be expensiveSame with food prep programs like Jenny Craig. Yes, you'll lose weight. But you won't know how to do it WITHOUT THEM. And that's what they're counting on. Sometimes being too busy is a valid excuse. There is absolutely no point telling people they have to train four times a week when realistically they can only train twice a week. There’s no solid evidence correlating caffeine to fat loss, yet you can imagine someone energized by caffeine will probably burn more calories. Other than the caffeine, most fat-burners in the market today contain a mix of green tea extract and other ingredients that increase your RMR (resting metabolic rate). That said, we are not able to conclude whether this can lead to actual fat loss.

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James Smith has already changed thousands of lives with his international phenomenon Not A Diet Book. Are you ready to change yours? He says: “No matter what diet you are being sold, or the fitness regime you are paying hundreds of pounds to follow, it all boils down to the same thing — making you eat fewer calories than you use. I honestly don’t care if you want to do the 5:2 method, cut out carbs or go to the gym for three hours a day. Ignore Bod Pod, underwater submersion, body scanners and calipers (aka having your fat pinched). What’s wrong with taking a simple photograph? Describing himself as ‘that keen guy in the office who had protein powder and useless supplements in his drawer and made sure everyone knew I was off to train legs’, colleagues would often ask James for fitness tips and accompany him to the gym during lunch breaks. The personal trainer, 30, has some typically no-nonsense advice for his rapidly growing army of followers: “F***ing stop moaning and just eat less.”

Other than a few more other minor details I disagreed with I think it was a very great, simple way to explain calorie deficits, macronutrients, etc! You might hit your 1,700-calorie target in the week but if you consume 4,000 on a Saturday night, that’s a surplus you need to equal out across the week. To clients who say, ‘I’m overweight but barely eat anything’, I will say, ‘Yeah, during the week mate — but unless there is a scientific process going on that converts air to calories, you are overeating’. But if you think James is just a personal trainer pushing one message about calories again and again, with a few swearwords thrown in, you would be wrong. Instead of wasting your money on these weight loss plans, why don’t you join my academy JSA (James Smith Academy) where you can learn everything you need to know for a fraction of the cost and not be told off just because you haven’t dropped a few pounds of water weight.

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Here are 11 no-nonsense fitness facts James Smith wants us all to know about… #1 Don’t fall for the fads

Even if you work on the seventh floor and your colleagues think your’e a nutter walking up seven flights of stairs, you can tell them that ‘actually if I do this three times a day everyday, I would have burnt an extra 50 calories – that’s 250 calories a week, 1000 calories a month and 12,000 calories a year’. That equates to four pounds of body fat, which is exactly what people want to lose before they fly to Ibiza. In fact, around 70 per cent of the calories we burn a day are burnt without moving and this is what we call BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). Lifestyle choices are everywhere and it’s one of the main reasons people are struggling to lose weight. Newsflash, it’s your lifestyle not your genetics. #7 Ignore the body scanners and take progress photos

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When we get enough quality sleep, we make better decisions and often times this means making correct food choices. But when sleep deprivation impairs our cognitive abilities, things go sideways. We end up eating all sorts of sugary and high-fat foods. Cortisol and melatonin are your sleep hormones Carbs are your allies as long as you’re not going overboard with them. They are our bodies’ preferred source of energy while dietary fats are preferred to produce essential hormones that keep our bodies look and perform at their best. Carbs and proteins both have 4 calories per gram while fats carry double the calories (9 calories per gram). Having said that, fats should make up about 20 percent of your daily diet for your body to function properly. Before qualifying as a personal trainer in 2014, James worked in the corporate world and like many others with an interest in health fitness, he too was confused by all the misinformation that surrounded the fitness world. He says if you miss one work out of if you have a "calorie dense meal (aka cheat meal - he doesn't like to use this phrase) then it's O.K. it's not going to be the end of the world, so you shouldn't hate yourself for doing it. Everything in moderation and if you do it once in a while then it's fine. What is the point in taking the elevator at work to then pull yourself out of bed at 5am to walk on a treadmill for an hour? That isn’t a good deal. Instead stay in bed and focus on becoming more active during your day to day life.Leptin signals you when you fill up the tank that you’re full and there’s no need to add more fuel. Fundamentally, fitness and training has to work for you, there’s now exact amount of time to spend at the gym. #6 Don’t blame your genetics, blame your lifestyle I was lost. I was ten years old and couldn’t get an answer from any adults on how to not be fat. It’s why I have a chip on my shoulder now. James Smith is an advocate of a no-nonsense attitude to health and fitness Credit: David Cummings - The Sun There are some fundamental truths, research and facts that you will hear time and time again, but at the end of the day, what works and what doesn't will depend on the individual applying the methods. And each of us changes - we go through different phases, different levels of motivation and different circumstances.