The keys, as this report described them [...]]]> I’ve just read a report called the 4 Keys to a Faster Fat Loss that’s being offered for Free by Arnel Ricafranca and Joel Marion (author of the Cheat Your Way Thin program). It’s a report which teaches an ambitious workout method to burn lots of body fat fast.

The keys, as this report described them are:

- Increasing the number of repetitions

- Using greater load or simply weight

- Reducing the rest time between exercises in a specific workout

- Doing more rounds of the same workout circuit that you’re used to doing.

I say that this is ambitious as the goal of the report is to show you how it’s possible to do workouts that burn a 1000 calories each. Well, I have to admit that the report also seems to have been made to arouse interest in a program Arnel Ricafranca and Joel Marion are releasing later this month called the 1000 Calorie Challenge.

The report also touches on the nutritional aspects of this program. This part is actually more interesting, at least in my opinion, than the workouts themselves.

How easy it is do such workouts

There is no doubt that doing such intensive workouts is not easy. It takes a lot out of you so expect some difficult moments if you’re going to be doing this kind of workouts. Naturally, as you build your fitness and stamina, it will get easier. The good thing about this report and the workouts it teaches about is that they are mostly made of circuits of strength exercises and not some long and boring cardio workout. I actually like to do long cardio, but if you’re short on time, it can be quite hard to fit into your schedule.

You can get this report for free here: 4 keys to a faster fat loss.

As I understand, it will only be available for a short time and then it’s gone so get it while you can.

It’s called 5 Sneaky Tricks to Triple Your Fat Loss and it’s eye opening for anyone who wishes to burn fat and tone their body:

Click [...]]]> If you’re looking for a way to virtually triple your fat loss, I highly recommend that you grab the Free 27 page report that Joel Marion has published on his site.

It’s called 5 Sneaky Tricks to Triple Your Fat Loss and it’s eye opening for anyone who wishes to burn fat and tone their body:

Click here to download 5 Sneaky Tricks to Triple Your Fat Loss

One of the best things about this report is that it explains the concept of “Cheat Days” something that I know a lot of your are interested in.

Being able to eat things like Pizza and Ice-cream and still shed pounds is something not everyone believes in but it can work if done right.

There’s no better expert on cheating days than Joel Marion, creator of the Cheat Your Way Thin program.

If you want to learn how to lose weight while indulging in some of the most non-dietary foods around, I recommend that you take a moment, download this free report and go through it. You should be able to finish reading it in a very short time.

Click here to download 5 Sneaky Tricks to Triple

This report actually lays the basics of Joel Marion’s new program, Xtreme Fat Loss Diet. I will post more about this program soon, but you can visit the following page to read a complete Review of Xtreme Fat Loss Diet.

I just got an [...]]]> Over the past 2 weeks, the Internet has been buzzing with word of diet expert Joel Marion’s re-release of his popular Cheat Your Way Thin program for the holiday season. The program shows how you can lose weight during the holidays (while most people gain pounds) while “strategically” enjoying your favorite food.

I just got an email from Joel informing me that the time has come to share his method with the rest of the world (a good thing too as Thanksgiving is just around the corner).

The CheatYourWayThin Holiday edition is now available and today it’s at 50% off the regular price.

==> Cheat Your Way Thin Holiday Edition at 50%

The 50% off sale will be on until Thursday, November 26th, but you may want to grab a copy today because Joel Marion is offering a very nice bonus package for people who order today and today only:

1. Bonus #1: A 90-minute Q&A coaching call with Joel AND fat loss expert Vince DelMonte. Vince just used Joel’s exact program to drop down to an all time low 5% body fat for his upcoming photo shoot in the Dominican (while eating WHATEVER he wanted every 5th day), and both he and Joel will be hosting a 90-minute Q&A call exclusive to those who order today.

2. A 20-page report of a recent  interview that author Tom Venuto conducted with Joel, *grilling* him with his toughest questions, causing Joel to dig deeper into the science behind the Cheat Your Way Thin program than he ever has before, revealing a slew of new, powerful, never-before-seen information. It’s called “The Leptin Chronicles” and if you’re serious about dropping body fat FAST this holiday season, it can open your eyes to a whole new way of getting your body to shed fat fast.

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Now, in case you don’t know what CheatYourWayThin is, it’s based on 6 years of research and backed by scientific evidence (check the “research” tab on Joel Marion’s site), and shows you how to lose weight while “using” your favorite foods in the process.

Check it out here: Cheat Your Way Thin Holiday Edition at 50%

The great thing about this holiday edition is that you can make Thanksgiving a “cheating” day and eat your favorite foods.

This is a great program to use in order to lose weight. I believe it can help to make this holiday season a much better one in terms of your fitness and waistline.

If you want to read a more complete review of it, go here: Joel Marion Review

As you may know if you’ve been following my emails, that I’m a strong advocate of the Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet and have been for over 2 years. In fact, I run the Fat Loss 4 Idiots forum.

Recently, I’ve been writing on the blog about a new program which has similar concepts to Fl4I, [...]]]> Hi,

As you may know if you’ve been following my emails, that I’m a strong advocate of the Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet and have been for over 2 years. In fact, I run the Fat Loss 4 Idiots forum.

Recently, I’ve been writing on the blog about a new program which has similar concepts to Fl4I, called the Cheat Your Way Thin program by Joel Marion. They both involve cheating as a way to help boost the metabolism. Some readers wanted to know what the differences were between these 2 systems. I especially want to thank readers Mike and Jocylene for pointing this need for me.

So here goes, a comparison of Fat Loss 4 Idiots and Cheat Your Way Thin…

Benefits of Fl4I:

• It is a diet with a longer track record and a proven one
• It is the simplest diet to follow that I know of
• Very constructive. You get a menu from a special software and need to follow it
• Involves cheating every 11 days for 3 days
• Gets results for the majority of men and women who use it
• Affordable
• Has a money back guarantee

Cons of Fl4I:

• Does not offer any support (it’s so simple that you hardly need it but still people do have questions as we see on the forum)
• Does not have an exercise section to the program
• Some people find the food choices a little odd. I believe that you can still enjoy using this diet and lose weight with it

Click Here to Read more About FL4i

Benefits of Cheat Your Way Thin:

• Provides support (you can even get 1-on-1 direction from Joel Marion himself)
• Has material on motivation
• A Multimedia program with video, audio, and written material
• Affordable (but is more expensive than FL4I)
• Has a money back guarantee
• Has excellent testimonials from many people
• The Deluxe version also comes with recipes, meal plans, and workout

Cons:

• May have too much material for its own good. I love the simplicity of Fl4I but this is a personal preference. I still recommend this program
• More expensive than Fl4I
• More complicated to follow than the simple menu of FatLoss4Idiots
• Longer to read and absorb than the short ebook of FL4I

Click Here to read more about Cheat Your Way Thin

Just because 2 programs involve cheating as a way to boost metabolism doesn’t mean that they’re exactly the same. There is a lot of difference between them. Some people love the simplicity of FL4I, but others love to know a lot more information and so would find Cheat Your Way Thin better. Fl4I has been around longer and has more users. The fact that it doesn’t offer support is, again, something that some people find annoying while others care little about.

I can’t make this decision for you. If you happen to be already using FL4I, don’t stop using it as long as you’re seeing results. However, if you feel that support is something that you may need than Cheat Your Way Thin offers it while FL4I doesn’t.

FL4I is still the simplest option, but both programs can help you to get lean.

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The Most Important Hormone You Never Heard Of By Joel Marion, CISSN, NSCA-CPT

LEPTI-WHA??

It’s name is [...]]]> Expert nutritionist Joel Marion of Cheat Your Way Thin offered to contribute a guest post for the blog. I believe that this article is super important and an eye-opener. Please, it is a bit long but read it all the way through.

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The Most Important Hormone You Never Heard Of
By Joel Marion, CISSN, NSCA-CPT

LEPTI-WHA??

It’s name is Leptin (derived from the Greek word leptos, meaning “thin”), and it’s without a doubt the most important hormone you probably never heard of.

You see, leptin was only first discovered just over 10 years ago, and as far as weight loss is concerned, that’s extremely recent.

Leptin’s function? To communicate your nutritional status to your body and brain.
Leptin levels are mediated by two things. One is your level of body fat. All else being equal, people with higher levels of body fat will have higher leptin levels than those with lower levels of body fat and vice versa.

Because leptin is secreted by fat cells, it makes sense that under normal conditions there is a direct correlation between leptin levels and the amount of fat you are carrying.

Unfortunately, when you’re attempting to lose fat and begin to restrict calories, conditions are anything but “normal” and the body responds accordingly by lowering leptin levels.

This is because the second mediator of blood leptin levels is your calorie intake. Lower your calorie intake and leptin will fall, independent of body fat.

So, yes, you can be overweight and still suffer from low leptin levels – just go on a diet.

So what happens when leptin levels fall and why the heck does it matter?

Again, under normal conditions leptin levels are normal and the brain gets the signal loud and clear that nutrition intake is adequate. Metabolism is high and the internal environment of the body is one very conducive to fat burning.

Until you start dieting.

Go on a diet and leptin levels quickly plummet (by 50% or more after only one week), sending a signal to the body that you’re semi-starved and not consuming enough calories.

This puts the breaks on metabolism and creates a hormonal environment extremely conducive to fat storage. Thyroid hormones (hormones extremely important to metabolism) respond by taking a dive and the abdominal fat-storing stress hormone cortisol skyrockets measurably.

HELLO belly fat.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, the appetite stimulating hormones ghrelin, neuropeptide-Y, and anandamide all hop on board to make your life even more miserable.

You don’t have to remember any of those names, just remember that when leptin drops, you get seriously hungry.

Despite having a pretty good reason for its reaction, it’s pretty ironic that our bodies are primed for fat loss at every other time except when we are trying to burn fat.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could maintain high leptin levels and a body primed for fat burning while dieting? It would seemingly solve all of our problems.

But in order to do this, we’d have to somehow keep leptin levels high as we attempt to lose those extra pounds.

“HOW ABOUT “SUPPLEMENTING” WITH LEPTIN?”

A couple of problems here: First, leptin is a protein based hormone, which means that it can not be taken orally (otherwise, it would simply be digested). So that rules out a leptin pill.

This leaves the method of “supplemental” leptin administration to injection. And leptin injections DO indeed work, reversing the metabolic adaptations to dieting and “starvation” even while continuing to restrict calories.

In 1996, Ahima et al. used leptin injections to reverse starvation-induced neuroendrocrine adaptations in mice.

“Well, that’s nice and all, but I’m human.” Point taken; research with rodents doesn’t always correlate to similar findings in humans, however…

In 1999, Heymsfield et al. performed a double-blind placebo controlled study analyzing weight loss over a 24-week period in 73 obese humans. Subjects either injected daily with leptin or a placebo (i.e. bogus alternative). At the end of the 24-week period, the leptin group lost significantly more weight than the placebo and a higher percentage of fat vs. muscle.

In 2002, Rosenbaum et al. administered low-dose leptin to subjects (male and female) who had dieted to a 10% decrease in body weight. During the diet period, thyroid hormone levels, 24-hr energy expenditure, and other metabolic markers substantially decreased. The result of the leptin replacement therapy?

“All of these endocrine changes were reversed…”Thyroid output and daily calorie burn increased back to pre-diet levels.

In 2003, Fogteloo et al. showed that leptin injections “tended to reduce the decline of energy expenditure associated with energy restriction, whereas the tendency of energy intake to increase back to baseline levels in placebo-treated subjects was largely prevented in subjects treated with leptin.”

Yeah, that’s a mouthful. Let me put in simple terms: not only did the leptin group experience less of a decline in metabolism, but they were also less hungry, allowing them to more easily stick to the prescribed diet.

In 2004, Welt et al. reported that leptin given to a group of women with thyroid disorder immediately raised circulating concentrations of the thyroid hormones T3 and T4.

In 2005, Rosenbaum and company were at it again, again showing that energy expenditure and circulating concentrations of T3 and T4 all returned to pre-weight-loss levels with regular leptin injections.

So, as theorized, keeping leptin levels high during a diet does indeed solve our dilemma by avoiding the negative metabolic (and perhaps behavioral) adaptations that calorie restriction perpetuates.

The problem?

Daily leptin injections are far too expensive, costing thousands and thousands of dollars per week. So, we can pretty much forget about supplemental leptin as a solution (which is probably moot anyway considering that not too many people are going to voluntarily plunge a needle into their skin daily).

A REAL Solution

Now that we know that leptin injections aren’t going to save us, let’s talk about the possibility of manipulating your body’s natural leptin production.

And I’ve got good news – this can indeed be done, and without involving needles or thousands of dollars. In fact, we’ll swap the injections and mounds of cash out for two things I can guarantee you’re absolutely going to love: more calories and more carbs.

We know that leptin levels decrease by about 50% after only one week of dieting, but fortunately, it doesn’t take nearly that long for leptin to bump back up with a substantial increase in caloric intake.

In fact, research has shown that it only takes about 12-24 hours.

So, the answer to the fat loss catch-22? Strategic high-calorie, high-carb CHEATING.

By strategically cheating with high calorie foods (and yes, even stuff like pizza, ice cream, wings, cookies, burgers, fries, etc), you can give leptin and metabolism a major boost mid-diet which sets you up for plenty of subsequent fat loss when you resume your reduced calorie eating regimen.

This means greater net fat loss week after week, and ultimately, a much more realistic, maintainable way to bring you to the body you truly want and deserve.

So what’s so special about carbs?

Well, leptin, carbohydrate and insulin have been shown to have very strong ties.

Calories alone don’t get the job done, as research shows that overfeeding on protein and fat has little effect on leptin.

In order to get a strong leptin response from overfeeding, there needs to be plenty of carbs in the mix. In fact, the relationship is SO strong that research conducted by Boden et al. at the Temple University School of Medicine shows that leptin levels will not fall even in response to all-out fasting so long as insulin and blood sugar are maintained via IV drip. That’s CRAZY.

Because of this carbohydrate/insulin-leptin relationship, it makes sense that foods combining both carbs and fat (like pizza, burgers, cookies, ice cream, etc) work best for reversing the negative adaptations caused by dieting because of the BIG-TIME insulin response they produce.

THIS is why strategic cheating with your favorite foods is so powerful. THIS is why you truly can use your favorite foods to lose fat faster than you ever could with restrictive dieting. THIS is freedom.

Essentially, it’s everything “typical” dieting isn’t.

With regular dieting, come week two, you’re screwed.

With strategic cheating, you can literally use ANY food you want to *ensure* that you never go a single day without a body primed for fat loss.

The cheat or not to cheat? I think the choice is clear.

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I hope you enjoyed this article as much as I did. Joel is currently holding a limited time 50% discount on his Cheat Your Way Thin system.

If you want to learn a new and powerful way to shed pounds while still enjoying your favorite foods, I recommend that you head on over to this page ASAP: Cheat Your Way Thin 50% Off

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As you already know as someone who reads this blog, I hate diets with a vengeance. I used to be overweight, and I  know how disappointing following a diet can be. Often, what you see in the infomercial has no relation at all to the actual result people get. It’s frustrating, annoying, and infuriating.

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As you already know as someone who reads this blog, I hate diets with a vengeance. I used to be overweight, and I  know how disappointing following a diet can be. Often, what you see in the infomercial has no relation at all to the actual result people get. It’s frustrating, annoying, and infuriating.

Today, I want to review a totally different (And controversial) weight loss program called Cheat Your Way Thin, by Joel Marion.

Check out the website here for some before and after pictures

Cheat Your Way Thin is a program which is the result of over 5 years of research and study by Joel Marion, an expert trainer and nutritionist who discovered a way to allow people to eat their favorite foods (in a specific way) whether they be pizza, pasta, and more fatty and calorie rich foods and still lose weight at a rapid pace.

The statistics state that over 95% of regular diets fail miserably. Either you don’t lose weight or you lose some and gain it all back again (and sometimes more). Why is this happening to so many people. What is wrong with diets these days?

The reason why so many diets fail is that they work against the body and not with it. They don’t realize how the body truly functions and they try to do things in a way which your body resists.

Most diets work on depriving the body of nutrients like carbs or protein or fat (which is also important to eat) and simply starve you to get you to lose weight. This is working against the body and not with it. Your body feels as if it’s under attack, it believes it is starving.

The result is a slower metabolism, a slower rate of calorie burning, tiredness, lack of energy, irritability, not to mention cravings and psychological stress.

The solution is to find a different way to eat , discovering a way to eat your favorite foods once in while without ruining your diet and without feeling guilty. This is the core of Joel Marion’s Cheat Your Way Thin Program

This program is based on “cheating” which means eating fatty things in order to keep the metabolism running high and preventing your body from feeling that it’s starving, but doing it in a smart way to still shed pounds fast.

This needs to be done in the right way to get the best results. That’s why I highly recommend Joel Marion’s Cheat Your Way Thin Program because this is a well-crafted program which works with the body and not against it.

This program has helped many people achieve excellent results, stay fit, firm, muscular and shed body fat fast. It’s a reliable program to use.

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