Metabolic Reset Plan

Anti-Obesity Housing in NY

2011-06-02T06:31:00.000-07:00

"Anti-Obesity" Housing Unveiled in Bronx

Thursday, Jun 2, 2011

View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com.

"A new Bronx co-op apartment building is designed to help combat obesity.

The building, called the Melody, has a backyard with brightly colored exercise equipment for adults, and climbing equipment for children. It also has both indoor and outdoor fitness centers.

City officials say it's the first in New York to be built with design elements aimed at countering obesity.

Two flights of stairs feature silhouettes of dancing women and jazz playing through speakers and motivational signs posted throughout the building tout the benefits of exercise.

A sign posted between the elevator and stairs, for example, notes that stairs are a healthy choice."

...OK, OK, sounds dumb...you can read the rest here... However, the video attached to the article didn't have anything in it about the apartments...It was about a low carb, high fat diet....something that's worked for over 2 million years, but of course we'll need to study it more...

Amazing Swedish Diet

2011-05-30T12:35:00.000-07:00

Seriously?

I thought is was a spoof until the very end. How can you compete with that?

Science For Smart People

2011-05-18T14:31:00.000-07:00

Please, Please, Please watch this video. Its actually very funny yet covers a serious subject...the science behind many things that most of us have bought into.

Tom Naughton of the Fat Head blog is the man responsible. So unless you want to keep your head in the sand...

TV Weight Loss

2011-03-11T13:10:00.000-08:00

I like to watch these weight loss shows. The effort put forth by these individuals is staggering. They should be commended. I love to see people taking action instead of playing the victim-card. They need the show as much as the show needs them.

Unfortunately, "contestants" are a dime a dozen AND it doesn't seem like these shows are actually helping much...

Stay with me.The reason should be clear by the time you are done reading.

The episodes (contest-style) we were watching depicted a typical week consisting of 21 plus hours of traditional training, mostly “cardio”, while eating multiple, small, “balanced” meals (based on the Standard American Diet (SAD)) ranging from 1200 to 1500 calories, daily. It’s the same deal with the documentary style shows as well.

Here’s the how the math should work...

A typical 300 lbs, 30 year old, 5’4”, female’s BMR is around 2100 calories. If they are strict and only eat 1200 calories (SAD) and burn off 1500 calories with 3 hours of traditional training, at the end of the day there should be a 2400 calories deficit…at 3500 calories per pound, this adds up to 4.8 lbs per week.

Pretty straight forward. Think again, because that's not what we actually see.

Take this past week for example. Several of the contestants lost a lot less than 5lbs. One lost only ONE, another zero! Another GAINED two...but she's a nutcase...Now I’m not so worried about these apparent failures…that’s the least of my issues with the TV weight loss shows. I’m focusing on the message this sends millions of obese individuals, sitting there, watching.

Jane Smith: "Enough already. I know there are NO shortcuts. BUT these contestants are living the life of a pro athlete. Which is bullshit, because all they have to do is sleep, eat and train. Nothing else...and many of them still fail/lose nothing/gain weight...If they can't do it, how am I expected to do it?!"

These shows make it seem more impossible than possible...for many...

How about the frustration and disappointment in the contestants’ faces when they see the scale? What's going through "Jane Smith's" mind when she sees this and has to lose 100lbs?

BTW, did you ever notice there is never a physiological explanation? Just a bit of shoulder shrugging and then a hug. Then you have this other dumb-ass "expert" flapping their lips in another show saying more than one pound a week is unhealthy. WTF! What's healthier? Having an extra 100lbs or losing 3-5lbs per week? I digress...

I'm concerned that the perception of WHEN, not if, the combination of a low calorie SAD combined with traditional exercise, the "gold standard" of the weight loss industry, FAILS to deliver in the optimum environment...does to the psyche of the Jane Smiths of this world?

Maybe its just me. My patients get it. Everyone on our protocol knows you don’t need to train 21 hours per week, eat 6 small meals per day, quit your job and move into a resort (although they’d like to), and leave the kids with the spouse…they’d probably like to do that too!...to lose 3 lbs per week on average. They figure out the real deal with these shows.

Now that I plugged my services. What do you think? I know how it looks superficially, all optimistic, rah, rah, pshychobabble and some good results to boot...but just pretend you were not accepted to participate in the next season...and you need to be on that show.

Get it? I'm trying to be nice here. So if you do "get it"...please share it on your social networks and even good old e-mail. I don't have a TV show and this might help someone.

Have a great week!

You Are Too Smart For Your Own Good

2011-02-09T13:12:00.000-08:00

I saw this on Julien Smith's blog the other night and thought how it applied to myself and also a special class of patients that I used to deal with in the past...the PITA's (pain in the ass)... That's about as delicate as I can put that, but you know who you are (or were). Hey, It's not like every doctor-patient relationship is a bed of roses.

Briefly: My definition of PITA's...They're the ones who think they know more about what I do than even me! Thank you Google for making my professional life a living hell...I imagine many doctors rue the day Al Gore invented the internet.

Look, It's not as if I'm NOT guilty of being a "know it all". Heck, it's gotten me into more trouble than I'd like to admit. Sometimes it takes something like that blog, or a ruthless trusted-adviser like Marc Swerdlick to rattle my cage enough to open my eyes (he said it a million times)...so I thought some of you past and potential PITA patients might benefit from this.

Here we go: If you'd get your butt out of the self help aisle, stop googling or lurking outside my office, you would, in no particular order:

Realize you're spinal structure or metabolism aren't going to fix themselves. Something more than a temporary patch is needed to deal with this correctly and that "something" is NOT going to be a walk in the park.
Realize Structural Correction and Metabolic Correction are not a quick fix
Realize you can't get any real, predictable structural correction with home equipment and exercises
Realize the Metabolic Reset Plan's results are predictable if you follow the protocol EXACTLY as described. There are no substitutions.
Actually follow ALL my recommendations and ask me if you are doing them correctly
Actually Commit instead of waffle (Right out of Smith's blog. It's dead on)
ONLY focus on the ultimate result, not the day in day out stuff
Face facts...you can't live like this anymore and you can't go back, unless you want to start all over again...which I am always up for!

Wouldn't you?
There is so much more you could benefit from, besides my services, if you would wise-up and realize that maybe you are too-smart for your own good. ( basically reworded from here.) Don't worry, we're all guilty.

OMG!... WTF? Sahra and Barack...Please Translate This...

2011-01-28T12:59:00.000-08:00

The Feminization of America

Man Boob aka Wheat Belly aka Metabolic-Syndrome-Beyond-Belief!

This will be a wake-up call for those of you who haven't been paying attention to what I'm saying about Metabolic Syndrome. Just a quick re-cap...you eat the wrong foods (not, NOT, calories) and you damage your metabolism giving yourself Metabolic Syndrome (a PRIMARY CONDITION)...which MAY predispose you now to a VARIETY of SECONDARY CONDITIONS such as cholesterol issues, blood pressure issues, blood sugar problems, type 2 diabetes...to name ONLY A FEW...and now you can add MAN BOOBS!!!! YIKES...

The poor guys above submitted this picture himself, to wikepedia of all places..looks like one of those weird myspace pictures. What's going on here?

Have a great weekend!

The fat packed around the organs (visceral fat) makes estrogens out of testosterone. Translation...guys are turning into chicks!

Blood Sugar Problems? Traditional Advice May Be Wrong. Again.

2011-01-21T10:08:00.000-08:00

If you are a Type 2 diabetic, or know you have blood sugar problems, you know the sage advice..."eat every couple hours to keep you blood sugar in check". I cringe thinking about it.

I can't think of a better way to burn out the Beta Cells in your pancreas...That old advice makes no sense what so ever...yet here we are. Somebody decided to compare the effects of eating LESS often to eating frequently...major taboo...and it revealed of all things, if you eat lots of meals, you have higher blood sugar levels if you eat lots of meals.

If you understand insulin resistance you'll get-it. Read it to believe...

Effect of meal frequency on glucose and insulin excursions over the course of a day

Received 7 July 2010; accepted 5 October 2010. published online 25 October 2010.

Breakfast Myth Debunked

2011-01-19T09:31:00.000-08:00

Sorry to burst your bubble....AGAIN!

First it was the "eat every two hours/6-meals per day to lose weight" myth and now its the "if you wanna lose weight, eat breakfast" myth. Sorry to pull the rug out from your "Bro-Science"...

Big Breakfast Generally Doesn't Help Weight Loss

ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2011) — Does eating a big breakfast help weight loss or is it better to skip breakfast altogether? Available information is confusing but new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition Journal clears a path through these apparently contradictory reports.

..."So it seems that there is no magic and that, unfortunately, in the fight for weight-loss, eating a large breakfast must be counteracted by eating substantially less during the rest of the day."

January 13th Food Tasting

2011-01-11T07:27:00.000-08:00

It's no secret that we utilize Ideal Protein's food to help patients lose body fat while they RESET their metabolisms. This stuff is like ROCKET FUEL...and with 42 different products (and more coming out every month!), monotony of eating the same thing, day in day out, is not necessary.

However, in the past it was difficult to figure out which foods you liked without purchasing a "variety" bag on your first day. To help solve this dilemma, Aimee is holding an "Open House" this Thursday, January 13th, from 6 to 8PM. She will be providing samples for everyone to try while I will be available to discuss the Metabolic Reset Plan's unique protocols for fat-loss and metabolic correction.

Drugs For Weight Loss?

2010-12-22T10:35:00.000-08:00

You see the "quick" weight loss adds and centers popping up everywhere. Drugs must do something...however, are drugs a Patch or a Fix for your metabolism? You be the judge. This article gives a little insight into the dilemma clinicians inevitably must face.

From Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology

Weight Loss Drugs: What Works?

Laura A. Stokowski, RN, MS

Authors and Disclosures

Posted: 12/13/2010

Wanted: A Pill That Melts Fat

As Americans become more obese and the associated health problems reach epidemic proportions, the need for a safe and effective weight loss drug has become urgent. Over the years, this quest has been marked with short-lived triumphs and many defeats, leaving patients and clinicians with less than ideal weapons in the fight against obesity.

The few drugs that have actually reached the market in recent years promote weight loss either by boosting the body's basal metabolic rate, blocking the absorption of dietary fat, or suppressing appetite.People who take these drugs typically lose weight for the first 6 months until they reach a plateau that can't be surpassed without increasing exercise or caloric restriction.The problems with many of these agents have been a lack of proven long-term safety, and the fact that when such drugs are stopped, the weight is usually regained.

Most clinicians are aware that pharmacotherapy is not indicated as a first-line therapy for obesity, and should not be initiated until all nonpharmacologic attempts at weight loss (diet, exercise) have failed.^[1] It is also important to evaluate other medications that the patient may already be taking, as some may promote weight gain (eg, sulfonylureas, thiazolidinediones, and insulin), thereby negating the effects of anti-obesity drugs.^[2]

The decision to prescribe a weight-loss drug involves a careful assessment of the risks and benefits.^[3] As a general rule, an effective regimen should help patients lose at least 4 pounds in the first 4 weeks, or 5% of baseline weight in the first 3 months on therapy.

As researchers continue searching for an ideal weight-loss agent, clinicians must work with available therapies while awaiting newer drugs in the pipeline.

Wheat Is Murder!

2010-12-22T09:29:00.000-08:00

Nutritionists are slowly catching up!

A Reversal On Carbs

Fat was once the devil. Now more nutritionists are pointing accusingly at sugar and refined grains.

By Marni Jameson, Special to the Los Angeles Times

December 20, 2010

Most people can count calories. Many have a clue about where fat lurks in their diets. However, fewer give carbohydrates much thought, or know why they should.

But a growing number of top nutritional scientists blame excessive carbohydrates — not fat — for America's ills. They say cutting carbohydrates is the key to reversing obesity, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and hypertension.

"Fat is not the problem," says Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. "If Americans could eliminate sugary beverages, potatoes, white bread, pasta, white rice and sugary snacks, we would wipe out almost all the problems we have with weight and diabetes and other metabolic diseases."

It's a confusing message. For years we've been fed the line that eating fat would make us fat and lead to chronic illnesses. "Dietary fat used to be public enemy No. 1," says Dr. Edward Saltzman, associate professor of nutrition and medicine at Tufts University. "Now a growing and convincing body of science is pointing the finger at carbs, especially those containing refined flour and sugar."

Americans, on average, eat 250 to 300 grams of carbs a day, accounting for about 55% of their caloric intake. The most conservative recommendations say they should eat half that amount. Consumption of carbohydrates has increased over the years with the help of a 30-year-old, government-mandated message to cut fat.

And the nation's levels of obesity, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease have risen. "The country's big low-fat message backfired," says Dr. Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. "The overemphasis on reducing fat caused the consumption of carbohydrates and sugar in our diets to soar. That shift may be linked to the biggest health problems in America today."

Six Meals Per Day: The Facts

2010-12-15T12:51:00.000-08:00

The Claim: Eat Six Small Meals a Day Instead of Three Big Ones

By ANAHAD O'CONNOR

Published: March 22, 2010

"The notion behind eating smaller, more frequent meals is simple: spreading out one’s daily calories over six meals stimulates the metabolism, keeping it going at a faster pace and thereby burning more calories." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/health/23really.html?_r=1&src=sch&pagewanted=all

My personal (n=1) experience with eating every 2 hours was always lousy. Especially for fat-loss. The premise is that your metabolism is like the coal-fire on a steam train. Just stoke the fire every couple hours, with a small 200-300calorie meal, and your engine (metabolism) will run hot.

If I only knew that eating every two hours trains you to kick in ghrelin (read about entrainment of hormones)...which of course makes you feel hungry, every 2 hours!

AND I WAS STARVING ALL THE TIME!!! Then of course this would lead to the inevitable binge....mmmmm...cheescake!!!

I have to admit, the 6-meal strategy made sense, but facts are facts...plus, I'm not a train. Of course this is considered blasphemy in the health/fitness world...so watch your backs.

Turns out, 2 or 3 meals per day is pretty much all you need to keep your metabolism running smoothly...IF IT IS NOT DAMAGED...which is what the MRP addresses.

Oops! Is it time to eat?

Wrong is Right...Wrong!

2010-12-08T14:12:00.000-08:00

What's wrong with this picture?

"People are simply getting bigger, shapelier and often healthier at the same time. The average size [for women] is now 14, and that's considered to be a healthy, active weight."

Guys will like that article because it talks about the ever-expanding size of womens' breasts over the past few decades. It's genetic. What can we do? For once, I also read the words that went along with the pictures, and that quote just rubbed me the wrong way.

Once again, here we are, accepting abnormal as normal...as usual. Size 14 is healthy? Then I stumble across this picture and it depicts what a kid 20 or 30 years ago looks like compared to the kids of today...and I hate to say it, but the only term that comes to mind is "pathetic".

What are we doing to ourselves? It's bad enough that we lower the bar on ourselves...but our kids???

Obviously its going to take a lot more than removing soda from the kids cafeteria. The government will fix it? ROFLMAO!!! You're kidding. Right?

Its going to take more than a diet and another government regulation to correct this issue (change this picture)...and that's just what the Metabolic Reset Plan is. The MRP protocol goes beyond weight-loss, designed specifically to burn fat and RESET your metabolism, putting you back on the right track...and, most importantly, teaches you how to keep it that way!

Find out more on this website, come in for a one on one consultation or call to find out about the next MRP Intro Class. As usual, a consultation is just a conversation...no gimmics, no chicken dinners, no steak knives.

D3Hundred (The Inspiration) NOT A RAP Video!

2010-12-06T15:15:00.000-08:00

Still Think You Need A Gym Membership?

In an effort to crush the all-too-common "I don't have a gym membership" excuse, just watch this amazing video of what is possible with Body-Weight training. BTW, ALL HIT training can be done with body weight.

Here's A Reason To "Bulk-Up"

2010-12-01T10:12:00.000-08:00

Women accused of hiding merchandise in body fat

TWINKIE DIET BS

2010-11-22T07:22:00.000-08:00

Miracle Weight Loss Food?

I'm going to keep this short and sweet. If you don't, DON'T, DO NOT...have Metabolic Syndrome/Insulin Resistance...aka "screwed-up-metabolism"...you WILL lose weight if you eat fewer calories, even if it's all Twinkies. The quality and composition of the food doesn't matter.

If you need to know more than that, read on...

I'll confess. I did a similar experiment (2001), to myself, with McDonalds food...yes it worked, at first, then it backfired after just a couple weeks. I have Metabolic Syndrome.

Professor Mark Haub's experiment,the TWINKIE DIET, was just as "scientific" as my McD experiement...a total load of BS. I agree with this guy at Harder.Better.Faster.Stronger. Haub is after the attention. And he probably doesn't have Metabolic Syndrome...lucky guy.

I'd like to see him do it for a whole year. Watching his inflammatory markers, VLDL's and Insulin Resistance. Now that would be interesting.

Unfortunately, many people have swallowed this, hook, line and sinker...and are preaching it like the gospel. Do they have any idea how this BS will be received by kids? I'd look just like a Twinkie if I heard this when I was 8...actually more like a cupcake. mmmmm...Tastykakes.

Anyway, I wish that dang McDonalds experiment worked for me. Damn Metabolic Syndrome. I'd be famous by now, and RICH, RICH, RICH!!!!!! And even skinnier, evidentally. Insert evil scientist laugh here.

So. What's the moral of this story. Don't be a dumb-ass. It's that simple. Use your heads and don't believe everything the media tells you.Professors are idiots too. Unless, of course, you are racing against me next season...then enjoy all the delicious Twinkies you want.

Sugar: The Bitter Truth

2010-11-18T08:28:00.000-08:00

HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP AND SUGAR...

Sometimes it takes a Professor of Pediatrics in the division of Endocrinology at UCSF...Dr. Robert Lustig MD, to explain what happens when you drink colas and crap... Sugar: The Bitter Truth...its lengthy but worth it!!!! Or you could just stick your head back in the sand and stay fat.

Even 1 Soda a Day Can Hike Your Diabetes Risk

It's not just soda, either. A study fingers energy drinks, sweetened tea, and other sugary beverages

Read the whole article here

Original Human 'Stone Age' Diet Is Good For People With Diabetes, Study Finds

ScienceDaily (June 28, 2007) — Foods of the kind that were consumed during human evolution may be the best choice to control diabetes type 2. A study from Lund University, Sweden, found markedly improved capacity to handle carbohydrate after eating such foods for three months.

Read the whole article here

Insulin Resistance: Risk Factor for Heart Disease and Diabetes

Aug 19, 2010 | 7:06 PM ET | By Amanda Chan, MyHealthNewsDaily Contributor

Read the whole article here

HIT Tips!!!

2010-11-17T12:27:00.000-08:00

11-07-2010
The racing season is over. Finally. It's time to focus on recovery, so no HIT for a couple weeks. Walking and riding the bike, SUPER EASY, is it. I need to establish my recovery "baseline" before I begin training for next season.

Here's what some of you have been doing: A few patients have converted their walks into sprint sessions. Nothing fancy, no specific rest intervals, no set number of sprints. They just did what they felt like, and sprinted as hard as they could. I've been seeing an extra 2 to 3 pounds of fat, stripped off, in ONE week! Another patient with a knee problem, who just couldn't do a whole squat decided to do the static contraction "squat" on either side of the painful range of motion...so they squated down until just-before it hurt and held it there for as long as they could. Then they stood up from a chair, until just-before it hurt and held it there for as long as they could. That sounded painful to me, but dang, one extra pound of fat, MORE than they were averaging, burned off.

10-25-2010
I forgot about mentioning the importance of "play-time". Structured training is difficult for some, just because they don't enjoy the activity. So why not just play? Yesterday I had the opportunity to do some body surfing. It was so much fun, I was out there in the water for over an hour...the time flew! I didn't even know I was training, but my body did...the metabolic effect was huge...after all, body surfing is a series of sprints with as much recovery as I needed in between to be able to catch the next wave.

So whatever it is you truly love to do, play tag with the kids, basketball, soccer, etc...do it and have fun...just don't lallygag!!!

10-22-2010 HIT of the Day
There wasn't any racing this weekend, thank God, however one of my new teammates for next season wanted to come down to train and socialize with the Zmotion crew. So while we were waiting up, again it was almost 10PM, I just felt like doing some HIT. I read somewhere that a NFL player could hold a plank for 6 minutes, so I gave it a shot, on my elbows and made 2'32"...yikes! Got a long way to go with that one. Aimee cranked out as many body weight squats as she could, but I didn't get the number. Good burn after that one.

10-20-2010 HIT of the Day
I don't know why this happens to me, but today I got a hankerin to do some HIT at around 10PM...maybe it was because I felt recovered from the weekend's races.

Plank Hang improved my time by 6 seconds to 43 seconds...I know, this is short, but I definitely feel the metabolic effect afterward...like doing a plank on your elbows, but you are holding on to the top of a door or hanging from a pull-up bar with your shins on an exercise ball.
Single Leg Static Contraction 1'17 seconds on the right and 1'18 seconds on the left...I squatted down low, like a downhill skier, but on one leg, perched up on the ball of my foot.

Earlier today I was walking the dog and she was looking well recovered from our last "Run for your Life" sprints, so I gave her a shove and took off as fast as I could, for as long as it took for her to take me down...well not down, basically she starts nipping me in the butt and then grabs my arm and slows me down. I ran a classic serpentine pattern to evade her for longer than normal. We took several minutes to recover between chases and managed to do 5 good sprints in our 2 mile walk.

10-18-2010
“But I don’t have time to go to the gym to do HIT”…blah, blah, blah. Everyone knows how I feel about excuses…so for those of you who don’t need a Tony Robins speech to get your butt off the couch AND really don’t have time to go to the gym on a regular basis, here’s a solution that will help you reset/protect your metabolism, no matter what phase of the MRP you are in.

Spontaneous HIT workouts DON’T require any special equipment and can be done anywhere and anytime you get a hankering to jack-up your metabolism. HIT is meant to be short and sweet…and you don’t have to break a sweat!
Here are some ideas:

Crank out as many push-ups, squats, burpees, etc. as possible before the shower heats up, water boils, microwave dings…got the idea?
Do the Wall-Isometrics anytime, anyplace there’s a wall.
How many push-ups, squats or burpees can you do during a commercial break…do it for a whole sit-com.
Use different techniques for different exercises…for example, do the push-ups Superslow® style, do lunges regular high speed Metabolic Circuit style, do Explosive push-ups and hang from the pull-up bar using Static Contraction.
Make sure your efforts are as intense as YOU can handle.
Except for Wall-Isometrics and the TV commercial workout, make sure the efforts last at least 60 seconds, and you reach failure.

Sprinkle a few of these on top of your day and see what happens!
We’ll be sharing more ideas with you on a regular basis…so check back frequently.