In this podcast Blythe and I join forces once again to bring you three fast and easy weight loss tips. As you go through the three simple tips, just look to implement one of them into your life!

Enjoy, and be sure to check us out on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/CutTheFatPodcast!

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To eat or not to eat before exercise...that is the question. Should we exercise on an empty stomach? Should we eat before exercise to provide the energy needed to get a good workout?

Those on the "exercise while fasted" side of the argument suggest that exercising while fasted allows you to burn fat as soon as you start exercising. They suggest that if you exercise after eating then the body will have to burn the calories from the food you recently consumed before it will be able to burn away the gut and butt.

The other group thinks that fasting before exercise is nonsense. They believe that having a snack shortly before exercise will provide the energy needed to have a meaningful and effective workout. They argue that a calorie is a calorie and it doesn't matter if it's eaten before exercise or three hours later.

Both arguments seem logical. So who's right?

Admittedly we are some time away from being able to answer this question definitively, and when all is said and done I imagine that the final answer will be, "It depends". With that said, a recent study does add support in favor of the "exercise while fasted" argument.

In this study researchers fed subjects a high calorie/high fat diet to induce insulin resistance and weight gain. The subjects were assigned to one of three groups:

* Group 1: Control Group - Did Not Exercise

At the end of the study, the researchers unveiled some interesting insights. The fasted exercise group did not gain significant weight during the course of the study despite consuming 30% more calories than they needed and a diet composed of 50% fat.

The control group gained 3 kgs (6.6 lbs) and the carbohydrate group gained 1.4 kgs (3.08 lbs). They all ate similar diets and burned similar numbers of calories.

What Does It All Mean?

As I have suggested in past posts, exercise should be judged by how

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In today’s episode you will learn the very first weight loss formula that Dr. Ray developed at the ripe old age of 12 years old. In this mini-seminar you will learn: The formula for weight loss and achievement Why the calories in minus calories out model is seriously flawed The first thing to implement in […]

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On December 25th, 2010, New Jersey woman Donna Simpson sat down on a steel reinforced chair to a 30,000-calorie meal on her way to her goal weight of 1,000 pounds. To be clear, she was not working to decrease her weight to 1,000 pounds, she is attempting to gain enough weight to grace the pages of The Guinness Book of World Records as "The fattest Woman in the world".

The meal started off with two 25 pound turkeys and two maple-glazed hams, followed by 15 lbs. of potatoes, five loaves of bread, five gut filling pounds of stuffing, four pints of creamy gravy, four pints of cranberry dressing and 20 pounds of vegetables! Well, at least she got her veggies in! To top off the meal before the diabetic coma set in, she scarfed down a desert made of marshmallow, cream cheese, whipped cream and cookies.

The most amazing part of this story isn't the fact that Donna wants to be the fattest woman in the world, nor is it the fact that she was able to fit 30,000 calories worth of food into her stomach, the most amazing part of this story is the fact that she insists that she is healthy!

That begs the question, "How exactly does she define health?" This is really a good question to ask yourself as well. "How do you define health." Pretty much the only way that she could rationalize her current state of health as "healthy" is if she defined health as "as long as you are still breathing." I assure you, even though she continues to breathe, underneath it all, physically and figuratively there isn't an ounce of "healthy" in there. The truth is, the grim reaper is speeding in her direction on a bullet-train from heaven; he's in transit, but he just hasn't arrived yet.

Anyway, I don't tell this story to pick on Donna. I tell the story for your good, so that we can pick out the nuggets of learning from Donna's situation. So you may be asking, what in the world could we learn from a woman who is trying to gain fat rather than lose fat? That's a good question, but I assure you there i

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Many of our listeners wonder if they are just genetically programmed to be fat. Their father, mother and siblings may all be overweight and thus it is logical to believe that their weight is predetermined. In today's podcast, we will answer a number of questions...

Do fat genes exist? If so, is it possible to fight these evil little genes? Is obesity caused by genetics?

Genetics are not the stone slate of physical certainty that we once thought. It turns out that genes offer us many different potential outcomes through a process called epigenetics.

Epigenetics is the study of how your environment turns genes on or off. That's right, each gene has an on or off switch, even the fat genes. This means that your day-to-day choices determine whether your fat genes are activated or sitting idly by doing nothing...

There is plenty of published scientific proof that genetic expression can be molded by lifestyle, however, let me tell you about a recent British study. Researchers tested the genetics of over 20,000 people and gave them each an "obesity susceptibility score" based on their results. They then analyzed work and exercise activity for each of the participants. Based on the results of their analysis, they determined that the people who incorporated at least 1 hour of physical activity had a 40% lower risk of becoming obese compared to people with the same genetic potential but less physical activity.

This finding is pretty amazing given the fact that the researchers only analyzed one component of health and fitness. What if we took those same participants and taught them how to exercise for fat loss and how to eat for improved health and improved blood sugar control? I imagine that we would be blown away by the results of such a study.

So, what are the takeaways from today's episode?

* I don't care if you are genetically programmed for fat storage; you can make a major improvement in your health and body through your actions

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In today’s podcast, we answer your questions from Facebook. How should you eat if you are vegetarian? Will eating low carbohydrate cause hypoglycemia? Which is better Weight Watchers or Low-Carb? And more… In today’s podcast, we answer your questions from Facebook. How should you eat if you are vegetarian? Will eating low carbohydrate cause hypoglycemia? […]

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In this episode we continue our discussion on the 12 Principles of Fat Loss. As we continue to discuss these weight loss principles you should be thinking, "how can I implement these principles into my life."

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In this episode of Cut the Fat Podcast we will go through the 12 Principles of Fat Loss from our group weight loss program. This episode will introduce you to the first six of twelve principles of weight loss and then we will give you the last six principles in Episode 29. Enjoy! Don’t forget […]

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We believe that we learn more from our failures than we do from our victories. Tony Robbin always says, when we succeed, we party; when we fail, we ponder. In this podcast, we will be discussing an email post by Tom Venuto, titled "The 8 Reasons We Fail Our Weight L0ss Programs". Remember, weight loss is never constant; there are days when you will lose, days when you will gain and days when you will remain the same weight. Stay the course, assess your results and tweak when necessary!

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Most people believe that there is no different between exercise and activity; after all, both terms describe movement and caloric expenditure. In this episode, we describe the difference between exercise and activity for weight loss. Just like food is information to the body, so too is movement. What information is your activity and exercise sending […]

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