Hey again, it’s Tim, with some info on the two primary Styles I discuss:

STYLE ONE EXPLAINED:

The main idea behind the Style One approach is an elimination of primarily grain products for a period of two to three months, approximately, depending on the person’s current state of extra fat and overall health.  This will include both refined grains that we all know of as the breads, crackers, pastas, cereals, etc, AS WELL AS the alleged “whole grains” as the food label may read.  Rarely are these whole grains actually whole, as there is a lot of room from a legal standpoint to be able to get away with labeling that can be misleading. 

After we complete a fasting cleanse, I have offered food choices in the e-book that are designed to simply give *options* to those accustomed to a western diet.  I am personally not a fan of many of the foods listed.  But I needed to give everyone a starting point, so that the basic concept of what we are trying to do is understood, so that results could begin to be obtained.

The cleansing effort we make previous to this kind of “diet,” will often times do an incredible job at getting clogs out of our system that could have been not only creating a toxic overload in our bodies, but also causing nutrition uptake issues due to inefficient GI tracts.  So for me, I like to keep the intestinal tract as clean as possible for as long as possible.  One of the ways I do this between cleanses is to eat/drink green smoothies almost daily, especially towards late day as my preference.  I use the the greens to help “clean out,” the intake of other foods that may not be as effective at keeping things clean down there, such as a meat or rice product for example, the latter of which I am eating as part of my Maintenance phase (rice is a grain that should be avoided per Style One efforts).

Point being, I like to keep things as clean as possible.  As I will explain later, I also cycle into my lifestyle temporary raw food dieting, where I will go for times doing either strictly raw foods, or a combination of mostly raw foods with some other additions to fill out nutritional needs at the time (such as added whey or other proteins during my summer workout efforts, where I will often experiment with heavier lifting or other more intense workouts).

So after slowly bringing solids back into the diet post-cleanse, the food choices given can be a transitional to help curb blood sugar levels and the effects of grain-based foods, most of which are processed/refined choices that we find on our grocery store shelves.

While we hopefully incorporate my forms of exercise into the effort, and see our goals being reached, we can then begin to make shifts in our diet…even some really radical ones I’ll discuss soon…to “level ourselves off” and re-incorporate some grains and other carbs like natural fruits and starches back into our diet in very satisfying ways.  We simply have to have an understanding of how to do it and why, which I will do my best to explain based on my own results and that of many others.

STYLE TWO EXPLAINED:

If there are people who became involved with the Over 40 and Ripped program looking for more of a “minimal change” way of accomplishing results, but that can also be adhered to over a long term, the Style Two information will cater to them. 

Keep in mind that even though the Style Two info can be used independently of the Style One approach, it absolutely can also be combined in a number of creative and effective ways.  As a life-long researcher in the area of weight and fat loss, I can say with certainty one thing: That there are several approaches to losing weight and fat that can and do work for literally almost everyone.  The point of what I do is to present the best few, based on my own results and that of others.  This alternative Style Two is my second favorite approach to teach, more than anything because it has worked so well for some folks in my community who stubbornly won’t approach fat loss from a health standpoint, but ARE willing to do *something* to try to achieve some kind of result for themselves…with minimal sacrifice.

Hence the Style Two, with a specific focus on the Intermittent Fasting technique.

There is a lot I like about the approach regardless of how people choose to view it.

Going without food for a large chunk of the day always worked for me, for many many years.  I was never able to chisel down with it, to get really ripped abs, but it kept an extra ten pounds off me with ease, key word being “ease.”  It is something that was poo-pooed forever in the health industry, as they screamed at us that “eating small meals throughout the day is the way to go.” 

And for athletes, it IS a great way to go.

But for the rest, the results are only sporadic at best.  I know several very-overweight folks for whom that technique did NOTHING for.

So what the hell is the point of DOING it?  Just because the “experts” say so?

Going without food for long portions of the day allows for the internal workings of our body to be RELIEVED of the digestive tax on the body.

I absolutely LOVE this concept.

I also LOVE it because it helped me for all those years, AND, has helped some of the most troubled overweight folks I’ve worked with.  Those that were eating all sorts of garbage, but were willing to take just a time to have their bodies adjust to this way of eating, and along with at least SOME dietary changes, such as substituting the worst of the garbage with healthier alternatives (which I will try to lead you along in upcoming chapters)…achieved spectacular results over several months time.  REALLY spectacular.  From 260+lbs down to about 200lbs in just one example, and he has little to no trouble MAINTAINING it, which is what this is all about!

COMING UP: Exercise!  A really huge subject that I will touch on, and then expand upon much more in the future.  Things have changed a lot since the “exercise craze” that began a few decades ago as to understanding what works best and why.  People are STILL stuck in the ideas that “more is better”…and when it comes to exercise, this absolutely is not the case.  People working out for two hours a day at the gym to have amazing bodies are rare, and it can in fact be very disadvantageous both on a health and fitness level to even be doing so.  “Yes,” some super models do two-hour-per-day workouts…BUT…we can obtain very similar results with a tiny fraction the work they do.

Also coming: UNDERSTANDING FOODS, a brief and easy learning curve, designed to set you up for a major curve-ball coming around the curve….(curb?)

😉

(Lotsa curves here)…

(When I was little, I always thought the “curve in the road” referred to the bending, curving road…and not that rising concrete bump at the side, the top of which are often sidewalks, etc.  A little Tim-Tidbit for ya) ;p

Love, Happiness, Health and Peace……………Tim   🙂