Top 5 Ways to GAIN Body Fat
by Rachel Cosgrove
Are you looking to put on a little extra pudge to keep warm? Maybe your boyfriend or husband wants to see “more” of you? How can you put on that extra layer of fat you’ve always wanted to fill out your jeans?
Follow these five recommendations and you’ll be on your way!
1. Do aerobic exercise every day.
The more aerobics you do, the more efficient your body will be at storing fat, especially if you’re looking to gain some size on your thighs!
Recommendation: Go to the gym every single day and find a treadmill or Stairmaster where you can watch TV while you’re working out. After all, you’re going to be there for a while. Do at least an hour per day, seven days per week at a very steady state (you should be able to carry on a conversation easily the entire workout).
Why it works to store fat: Your body will actually use fat as fuel during this workout (you should be in the “fat burning zone”) which will create the perfect effect we want for the other 23 hours of the day – fat storing mode. Yes, your body will adapt to become efficient at storing fat.
This workout will do nothing to increase your metabolism either. You’ll burn off muscle, decreasing your lean muscle mass, and actually slow down your metabolism. Also, because you’re using your lower body to perform this aerobic exercise, your body will adapt and will most likely store your new fat on your thighs.
So get to the gym and start spending countless hours doing aerobics, burning off muscle, and turning your body into a fat storing machine! This is a perfect way to gain some body fat!
2. Follow a low fat, low calorie diet… and don’t drink any water.
The less you eat, the lower your metabolism will go, which is optimal for storing body fat.
Recommendation: Keep your calories very low and deprive your body. Keep your calories around 1000-1200 per day (which is starving) and don’t eat more than 15 to 20 grams of fat per day. You want your body to think it’s starving so it’ll hold on to body fat at all costs. Also, don’t drink any water. Drink juice instead; it’ll work wonders for expanding your waistline.
Why it works to store body fat: Every time you eat, your metabolism goes up. This isn’t good when you’re trying to store fat. Eating enough food will fuel fat burning, the opposite of what we want. You want your body to be in fat storing mode, which is best accomplished by depriving it.
Also, count your fat grams and keep your dietary fat levels low. This will teach your body to hold on to fat, another excellent method for putting on that extra adipose tissue (body fat)! And drinking water will only cause you to drop any excess water you’re holding, therefore keep the water consumption low to keep you fat and bloated!
3. Avoid weight training at all costs!
Increasing your lean body mass is the best way to increase your metabolism to burn fat. So stay away from any weight training!
Recommendation: Don’t touch the weights in the gym. Or, if you do, only lift ones that are small enough not to build any muscle (you know the ones – the little pink dumbbells in the ladies-only room).
Why it works to store fat: The goal is to keep your metabolism as low as possible to turn your body into a fat storing machine. Any lean muscle would be bad news when you’re trying to gain fat because it would increase your metabolism and cause you to burn more calories! Also, weight training will raise your metabolism for the next 24 to 48 hours, which will never work to get that body fat up!
4. Eat only 1-2 meals a day!
Eating meals less frequently is a great way to keep your metabolism in the gutter all day long and will be ideal for storing fat.
Recommendation: The less often you eat, the better. If you can distract yourself all day and skip a couple of meals, you’ll set yourself up perfectly to store fat. And never eat breakfast to assure that you start your day off in a fat storing mode. For best results, don’t eat anything until dinner and then just eat the one meal before you fast again overnight.
Why this works to store fat: Again, every time you eat, your metabolism increases. If you skip a meal, your metabolism will drop, and if you skip more then one meal you can get that metabolism running very slow – perfect for storing body fat. Having a sluggish metabolism is ideal if you want to put on the chub, and this is a great way to achieve it.
5. Perform the exact same workout over and over without ever increasing the intensity.
Doing the same workout each time will confirm that you haven’t become any stronger or more fit, but instead have stayed exactly the same or become worse.
Recommendation: Go to the gym every day and do the exact same thing. Get on the same cardio machine, in front of the same television, and walk the same speed everyday.
Why this works to store fat: This will ensure that you don’t gain any lean body mass and that your workout won’t limit your fat storing capabilities. You don’t ever want to push yourself harder than you’re used to.
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Starbucks Soy Milk
I stop by Starbuck's every morning for my espresso. The other day I noticed they'd put some pamphlets on the checkout counter about how good their soymilk is for you.
I'd like to share my thoughts on this with you.Many people think of soymilk as a healthy milk substitute - including a lot of my new clients - and I doubt Starbuck's means its customers any harm. But you shouldn't drink it.Soymilk is bad for you. Not just the brand Starbuck's uses - any brand. It's an unnatural byproduct of soy that your body can't digest without processing.
If you were to eat unprocessed soy, it would cause cramping, nausea, and can cause more serious health problems.
Here are a few of the pamphlet's false claims about soymilk (and the truth about them):
Claim: "In countries where soy is a dietary staple, such as China and Indonesia, soy consumption has been linked to a reduced risk of certain chronic diseases.
"Fact: This is only half-true. The soybean itself is inedible. It contains toxins meant to ward off insect predators.
These include:
* anti-nutrients that prevent your body from absorbing essential minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc. * enzyme inhibitors that make it harder for your body to absorb protein.Both of these substances can give you abdominal pain, gas, nausea, cramps, and other gastrointestinal problems.* hemagglutinin, a substance that promotes blood clots. * goitrogens, which cause gout and thyroid problems.
Societies that depend heavily on soy-based foods use traditional preparation methods thousands of years old that neutralize or eliminate these poisons. Tempeh, miso, natto, and soy sauce are fermented products. The fermentation process destroys the toxins. Tofu comes from the pressed "curds" of the soybean. The rest is thrown out - and the bad stuff along with it.
Compare this with the industrial processes that go into making soymilk: washing the beans in alkaline or boiling them in a petroleum-based solvent; bleaching, deodorizing, and pumping them full of additives; heat-blasting and crushing them into flakes; and then mixing them with water to make "milk."This only adds more dangerous chemicals without removing any of soy's natural toxins. This is NOT a "dietary staple" in China, Indonesia, or any other country. And it shouldn't be here, either.
Claim: "Also, interest in soy is rising because scientists have discovered that a soy component called isoflavone appears to reduce the risk of certain diseases."Fact: The opposite is true. Recent science suggests soy "isoflavones" are dangerous to your health. Isoflavone isn't actually a single substance, but a category of substances. Isoflavones include "phyto-estrogens," plant-based compounds that mimic the female hormone. Eat enough of these and you'll upset your body's hormonal balance.
The young are especially vulnerable: research published just last year found that soy-based phyto-estrogens can cause "precocious puberty." The study focused on a four-and-a-half year old girl who had developed breasts because her parents fed her too much soy formula.1Clinical research also links two of these phyto-estrogens, genistein and daidzein, to childhood leukemia and breast cancer.
Stick with a little milk or half-and-half in your coffee. It would be great if Starbuck's offered organic dairy. That would be truly healthy. Keep some on hand at home and in the office if you have access to a refrigerator.
As for soy products, the traditional fermented soy foods like tempeh, miso and soy sauces are safe and healthy. (Again, go organic if you can.)
PS- I will be taking on only 2 more clients for this summer. I have a 7am on Monday Wed and Fri available. You are welcome to train with a friend for added fun factor and lower cost.
Regards,
Marc Plano
www.optimal-results.net
1-877-Plano-Plan
I'd like to share my thoughts on this with you.Many people think of soymilk as a healthy milk substitute - including a lot of my new clients - and I doubt Starbuck's means its customers any harm. But you shouldn't drink it.Soymilk is bad for you. Not just the brand Starbuck's uses - any brand. It's an unnatural byproduct of soy that your body can't digest without processing.
If you were to eat unprocessed soy, it would cause cramping, nausea, and can cause more serious health problems.
Here are a few of the pamphlet's false claims about soymilk (and the truth about them):
Claim: "In countries where soy is a dietary staple, such as China and Indonesia, soy consumption has been linked to a reduced risk of certain chronic diseases.
"Fact: This is only half-true. The soybean itself is inedible. It contains toxins meant to ward off insect predators.
These include:
* anti-nutrients that prevent your body from absorbing essential minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc. * enzyme inhibitors that make it harder for your body to absorb protein.Both of these substances can give you abdominal pain, gas, nausea, cramps, and other gastrointestinal problems.* hemagglutinin, a substance that promotes blood clots. * goitrogens, which cause gout and thyroid problems.
Societies that depend heavily on soy-based foods use traditional preparation methods thousands of years old that neutralize or eliminate these poisons. Tempeh, miso, natto, and soy sauce are fermented products. The fermentation process destroys the toxins. Tofu comes from the pressed "curds" of the soybean. The rest is thrown out - and the bad stuff along with it.
Compare this with the industrial processes that go into making soymilk: washing the beans in alkaline or boiling them in a petroleum-based solvent; bleaching, deodorizing, and pumping them full of additives; heat-blasting and crushing them into flakes; and then mixing them with water to make "milk."This only adds more dangerous chemicals without removing any of soy's natural toxins. This is NOT a "dietary staple" in China, Indonesia, or any other country. And it shouldn't be here, either.
Claim: "Also, interest in soy is rising because scientists have discovered that a soy component called isoflavone appears to reduce the risk of certain diseases."Fact: The opposite is true. Recent science suggests soy "isoflavones" are dangerous to your health. Isoflavone isn't actually a single substance, but a category of substances. Isoflavones include "phyto-estrogens," plant-based compounds that mimic the female hormone. Eat enough of these and you'll upset your body's hormonal balance.
The young are especially vulnerable: research published just last year found that soy-based phyto-estrogens can cause "precocious puberty." The study focused on a four-and-a-half year old girl who had developed breasts because her parents fed her too much soy formula.1Clinical research also links two of these phyto-estrogens, genistein and daidzein, to childhood leukemia and breast cancer.
Stick with a little milk or half-and-half in your coffee. It would be great if Starbuck's offered organic dairy. That would be truly healthy. Keep some on hand at home and in the office if you have access to a refrigerator.
As for soy products, the traditional fermented soy foods like tempeh, miso and soy sauces are safe and healthy. (Again, go organic if you can.)
PS- I will be taking on only 2 more clients for this summer. I have a 7am on Monday Wed and Fri available. You are welcome to train with a friend for added fun factor and lower cost.
Regards,
Marc Plano
www.optimal-results.net
1-877-Plano-Plan
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