Archive for January, 2009

Yesterday’s post was filled with a little venom and a lot of truth.  That is what I’m about…truth.

I’m not only built for telling you the truth about fat, the reasons for fat, and the stupidity that brings us to become fat but I am about helping you find that truth in you.  Very seldom do we take a gaze inside to see what’s really wrong.  We make excuses for how we became fat like… “I’m too busy to workout”, “My husband loves me just the way I am”, “I had 3 kids, I’ll never be the  same size I was when I was twenty”…this is not reality.  It may be a reality with in your own head but it isn’t reality.  If you take the time to look within yourself you will eventually see that you have made your life so busy…so complicated…so crazy… to avoid telling yourself the truth and that truth is based in fear.

Fear rules our world.  Bosses use fear tactics to increase productivity, children use fear tactics for your love, husbands use fear tactics to keep you home and then in your own environment fear runs rampant.  The economy sucks…will I lose my job?  Obama got elected… will he do a good job? Will I make the mortgage this month?  You ask yourself all these questions with panic in your heart but never do you ask how am I today? What have I done for myself today?

The truth is once you look deep inside your brain…not your heart…you will find that you are doing everything for everyone else because you are looking for their approval in some way and you are afraid to not have their approval.  It’s hard to look within and face your truth, believe me I had to many times…even a tough guy like myself had plenty of fears.  I won’t bore you with all of them right now but feel confident in knowing that you are definitely not alone.

Do yourself a favor and step back from your life for a weekend and take a vacation for one.  No spouses…no children…no parents…no friends…no pets…no alcohol…no people that you actually know at all.  Complete solitude.  This itself might scare the shit out of you because your greatest fear may be that you don’t like being in your own skin, but that’s the point. Face your fears, know your fears and create a plan to conquer your fears.  The problem is you can’t do the third one without having done the first two.

I have found that to lose weight fast you only have to face the fears that don’t involve the symptom of fat.  Taking fat out of the equation will give you the freedom to pursue what is really causing you to become fat.  Once you have created a “fear free” environment the fat falls away like the fears that imprisoned you.  Upon completion of your little weekend of solitude you may find yourself facing your greatest fears of… leaving your spouse…quitting your job…taking up volunteer work…being a better parent…caring more for a loved one….

Either way once those fears have been exposed you will now have the power to acheive whatever you set out to do.  If it is losing weight then I promise it will come much easier and with out as much pain as you feared it would.

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I was going to make a video of this but it created such an anger inside of me I just had to write it down.  I am not going to cuddle your fat ass as some of my contemporaries do.  I will not be nice to you just because I want you to buy my products.  In this case as in most cases when it comes to fitness or fatness the customer is not always right.  In fact you are usually wrong or you wouldn’t be fat.  That’s the reality.

I have been e-mailed anonymously on more than one occasion about my crude language or the temperament at which I dispense information.  There are many other fitness experts out in the wilderness of the fitness industry that will be more than willing to tell you “that it’s not your fault”, “that you’ll be alright”.  That is not the case here I want you to lose weight fast.  If you don’t like the way I give away my FREE information…than don’t read it!  If you are to complain about how I distribute my fitness information than you are the idiot for reading it.

You don’t have to opt-in and sign up for my… again… FREE information.

Losing weight fast is a hard job no matter what the idiotic TV commercials tell you and it is your fault.  You didn’t just wake up one day and arrive FAT.  Are you willing to consider losing all that fat on your body as a part time job that might at times suck? I live under the assumption that no one has time for the bullshit and the sugar coating of how life is so wonderful and full of cherries and ice cream.  If you live under that rainbow than I’m not the guy you want Captaining your ship…go find Richard Simmons or Denise Austin.  That ain’t me!

My expertise is in extreme, safe weight loss and preparing women for swimsuit competition…and it is competition.  Both of these areas involve complete dedication and determination on the part of the client, customer or participant.  My programs work…bottom line!

I want you to get in the best shape of your life and lose weight fast without all the pettiness of worrying about hurting your feelings.

I get on Fat people because I love my fellow man and want the suffering to stop at the hands of fat but nothing has been done to help change the “FAT ATTITUDE”.  An attitude of complacency, denial and rhetoric.  Fat is not acceptable and endangering a child’s life via childhood obesity is not acceptable. I liken my method’s to that of slapping a 1 year old’s hand when he reaches for the electrical outlet.  Yes, it stings for a moment but it has saved them from death by electrocution.  My approach might sting a bit but it will save you from a life of illness and premature death.

So if you want me to be nicer…I won’t.  If you want me to stop the profanity…I won’t.   If you want to lose weight fast… I will help.  If you believe that I am the devil incarnate then please stop reading my blog and opt out of my e-mail list because I don’t want to talk to you.

Other than that…have a nice day!

Fitness Personality Rocco Castellano lets you into his kitchen to show you how to prepare the easiest “Diet” food in the world. Rocco’s favorite winter “Diet” food is “Soup”.

Watch how Rocco prepares his favorite recipe for Chicken Soup. Have some fun with bringing yourself back to the kitchen and watching Rocco’s hilarious explanation of cooking Chicken Soup.

Chicken Soup

1 32 oz Container “Kitchen Basics” Unsalted Chicken Stock

2 Chicken Breasts

1/2 bag of Kroger 3 Pepper and Onion frozen Vegetables

1/2 inch diameter of Barilla “Angel Hair” Pasta

2 teaspoons minced garlic

1 teaspoon minced roasted garlic

1 teaspoon celery salt

2 tablespoons fresh basil

3-4 turns of a peppercorn mill (1 teaspoon)

2 teaspoons of Franks Original Red Hot Sauce

Watch the video to see how I make it.

When are people going to get it through their thick skulls that fat people aren’t happy and fat kids are not healthy. How can we as a society allow our children to eat their way to certain death. Something needs to be done and quickly. I have been accused on more than one occasion of being a little too radical but I want people to start taking responsibility for what is going on around them.

Children need to be disciplined and develop discipline. Parents today only want to be friends with their children and allow them to create dangerous environments that have long lasting affects on the rest of their lives. Parents need to get in the game of raising their children and part of raising them is not allowing them to eat themselves to death. You are the parent they are the child…you make the rules.

For a longtime now schools have been the only parents for a majority of the children out there and are the first line of defense when it comes to abuse. Why is it then that when a child comes to school with bruises on his body, or has “ratty” clothes on or looks a little thin, social services is called in right away and the parents are investigated and if wrong doing is encountered the child is often taken out of the home. Childhood obesity is abuse in the form of neglect and should be taken seriously by parents, schools and social services.

I’m not saying we should take the child out of the home right away like “The Brits” are doing…or maybe we should. A health official from London said “Child abuse is not just about hitting your children or sexually abusing them, it is also about neglect,” and two doctors also stated: Dr. Colin Waine, the director of the National Obesity Forum in Nottingham, England, called Connor’s lifestyle “extremely dangerous,” adding he is at risk of developing diabetes in his early teens, and cardiovascular and nervous system problems in his twenties. “He’s really at risk of dying by the time he’s 30,” Waine said.

Pediatrician Dr. Michael Markiewicz agreed. “I’m not saying they can’t care for him, but what they are doing is through the way they are treating him and feeding him, they are slowly killing him,” he said.

What I would like to see is someone stepping in and informing these parents that they need to educate themselves on proper eating habits, proper exercise for their children and engage in extra curricular activities so that their children can keep the weight off and live a healthier life as they grow into adulthood. It sucks but no one likes to be proactive about obesity as is obvious by it’s skyrocketing rates.

The threat of punishment is the only clear way that parents will get the message. I wish it didn’t have to be this way but I don’t think we have a choice anymore.

Watch my video and give me your feedback. All your feedback is welcome.

…I bet you didn’t. Most people don’t even know what Krill are, let alone know that the naturally occurring oil contains large doses of Omega-3 Fatty Acids.

Krill oil also contains an anti-oxidant called astaxanthin (az-tuh-zan-thin), the algae the Krill eat produces the red pigment astaxanthin gives the Krill and other crustaceans like lobster and shrimp their pinkish color.

When we use Krill oil as a supplement we ingest this powerful anti-oxidant.  Obviously you’ve heard that anti-oxidants protect our body’s cells from the damages that free radicals can cause.

Unlike many other anti-oxidants astaxthin crosses the blood-brain barrier, where supposedly it could your eyes, brain and central nervous system from free radical damage…and that’s a good thing.

Krill oil is used very similar to the way you would use a fish oil supplement to help correct your Omega-3 Fatty Acid balance.  Unlike fish oil, Krill doesn’t cause fishy burps or that kinda gross aftertaste you experience as a common side effect from fish oil supplementation.

Krill oil is being studied as I write this as a natural remedy for High Cholesterol.  In one study 120 people were give either Krill oil, fish oil or a placebo.

The study found that Krill oil reduced the participants LDL (bad cholesterol) by 34% and raised the HDL (good cholesterol) by 43.5 % compared to the placebo.  Pretty amazing! The funny thing is the fish oil only reduced LDL by 4.6 % and raised the HDL by 4.2 %.  A nice little side benefit is that Krill also lowered triglycerides.

So why am I telling you all this about Krill Oil. Well because Prograde Nutrition has the best Omega-3 Fatty Acid Product with it’s EFA Icon and it’s chock full of Krill Oil and really does have 47 times the anti-oxidant power than fish oil and lutein…and here’s a couple of other benefits:

  • Promotes fat loss through stabilization of blood sugar levels
  • Improves hearth health by reducing inflammation
  • Reduces joint pain and symptoms related to arthritis
  • Regulates mood and provides relief from PMS symptoms

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