Seafood Watch, Do You Have This iPhone App?

I just installed the nifty Seafood Watch App from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

From the Monterey Bay Aquarium website..." Our new iPhone application brings the latest Seafood Watch recommendations directly to your iPhone or iPod touch. Now you can make sustainable seafood choices quickly and easily—whether you're eating at your favorite restaurant or shopping for dinner. And at a time when the world's oceans are severely overfished, your seafood choices make a big difference."

Here's the link to download the free app:  Seafood Guide - Monterey Bay Aquarium 

Two of My Favorites, Acai and Yerba Mate

As you know by now I'm a big fan of both Acai and Yerba Mate.  I've posted videos way back here on how I create my morning Acai shake.  I drink it for the taste, plus all of the health benefits.

Those of you in my boot camp classes often see me sipping my yerba mate.  It provides me a gentle "pick up" for those early morning classes without the "crash" that coffee sometimes causes.

20 Minutes of Exercise Per Day is All It Takes to Be Lean and Healthy

I believe so strongly that you can be fit, healthy, and lean in only 20 minutes or less per day, that I've created a separate website dedicated to just that.  www.140Fit.com

The "140" comes from the short number of characters that can be posted on a Twitter message.  If you don't know what Twitter is or could care less about Twitter, no need to worry.

The main focus of my new site is to help as many people as possible realize that fitness and fat loss does not have to be complicated, and you don't need more than 20 minutes per day of exercise.

Anyone can do 20 minutes of exercise per day.

If you cannot devote 20 minutes to better health, you need to have a serous look at your priorities.

Please visit the new www.140Fit.com site.  You'll see that it's a "zen" look at fitness.  I'm going to zero in on what it really takes to lose fat and stay fit without all of the hype.

Take care of yourself, and do this.

If you are on Twitter and would like to receive special "140Fit" tweets, then you can follow me here.

140Fit.com on Twitter

 

Three Essential Tips for Sustained Fat Loss

Photo credit: Jason Theaker

"Make it simple.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All day long, all across the web, folks are posting questions about why they’re not losing weight, why they’re not gaining weight, why their body comp isn’t changing. They’re frustrated, confused, and feeling helpless.

But if most of them just made things simple, progress would follow.

 

 

We know that weight loss happens only when the body is in a negative energy balance (in other words, when there are fewer calories coming in than going out)

From this knowledge, we can infer one thing:

  • If you aren’t losing… you’re not in a negative energy balance.

You’re not losing because, for whatever reason, you’re not in a negative energy balance.

So you must create one. How can you do that? Well, there are three viable ways:

  1. Eat less
  2. Exercise more
  3. Eat less and exercise more"

John Berardi PhD,CSCS, Precision Nutrition

 

Stephen here...don't complicate things.  Have a look at your current eating habits, your training habits, and your sleep habits.

Where do you need to improve?  One area? Two or more?

If you have specific questions be sure to post them here in the comment section...you'll get help from me, plus many others may have the same questions but are afraid to ask.  

 

What does a Personal Trainer Eat for Breakfast?

Quite often I'm asked what do I as a personal trainer eat for breakfast.  You'll see in the video below that many times I make a shake for breakfast.  The funny thing is that when I first taped this at 4:30am, when I normally get up...it was too dark.  Hummm maybe I wake up to early, ya think?

The breakfast shake contains:

1 cup ice water 

1 frozen packet of Sambazon Acai

2 scoops vanilla protein powder

2T ground flax seeds

2T plain low-fat yogurt

1T sliced almonds

1 cup green tea

2T oatmeal