It’s award season! Celebs aren’t the only ones obsessed with how they look. Fans and everyday people alike can be swept away with the aesthetic part of fitness. While we all want to look attractive, it’s easy to forget the real reason why we would want to train regularly and eat healthy.   Believe it or not, many  celebrities are adopting healthier ways of eating and training for their lives on and off the red carpet. What do film and music industry people do to look great on stage? What type of workout is necessary to land those roles requiring feats of incredible strength and/or beauty?   In this episode, Todd and Marie reveal how Hollywood stars today get that beautiful body we all notice and admire. You will be surprised to hear what these people do to stay at the top of their game, and to continually keep us entertained either on stage, or on the silver screen.

Our previous guest Andrew stops by the Revenge Gym cabin for a second time to update the listeners on his 30 day food progress. In last month’s Bigfoot episode, Andrew revealed that he spent most of his grocery dollars on packaged pre-made foods and fatty, sugary, salty take out meals. As a result of his choices, Andrew believes that the loss of his gall bladder was due to his ongoing poor choices. Todd and Marie wanted to support Andrew in his desire to turn his health around by suggesting he choose one day a week to eat cleaner, and to start meditating.   Any time someone wants to make a life change, a plan has to be put in place. Have you ever decided to do something big in life and not have any kind of plan? How did that go? How you set up your plan affects what you get out of your efforts. Eating healthier is the desire of many Antidote listeners, and many others out there. Can you eat healthy on a budget? Revenge Gym says you can eat healthy on ANY budget.   30 days later what happened to Andrew? Did he embrace one day a week of eating clean with open hungry arms? This episode reveals the compelling story of Andrew’s journey.

Have you ever had a job that you absolutely hated? You wake up Monday morning dreading going to work. You’ve even fantasize about being at the dentist just so you wouldn’t have to go to work. By god a root canal would be more enjoyable than your job at this point!   What if you loved your job, but your new co-worker or manager has just come on the scene and wrecked it for you? Things used to be fun, but now that they’re breathing down your neck to the point that you want to quit?   If there was ever a time in your life that you hated your job, this episode can help you through it. Why don’t you just leave? It’s not always as easy as that...

This topic at first glance might sound judgy. Marie and Todd don’t believe that a certain body shape or weight is best for aesthetics, but certainly for optimal health, some wights and shapes are better than others. How does your behaviour change when you are around your friends? Do you drink more, eat more, and stay out later than you normally would because of peer pressure? Do you have a friend that constantly self medicates with food or alcohol and needs a buddy to do it with? If you ever wondered why you never hit your goals, your answer might be in the company that you keep.   Do you have any friends that eat differently than you? Do your friends eat better, or less healthy than yourself?  When you go to their place for dinner, do you eat things that you normally wouldn’t out of politeness? In this episode Marie and Todd look at some of the ways that your friends might be making you fat, (and no, it’s not spelled Phat which would actually be way cooler).

What does it mean to leave a big environmental footprint on the earth?    We all know driving a car still leaves a rather large footprint on our planet. We all know that foods sold to us with a lot of packaging ends up in landfills and is taxing on the ecosystem. Have you ever wondered if the foods that you buy, leave a bigger footprint on the environment may also leave a big footprint on your health?     Today our guest Andrew McDiarmid speaks candidly about how his “bigfoot" diet has made an negative impact on his life. We know fast food packaging uses more water, trees and fossil fuels to produce. Meat eaters use up more natural resources on the planet than anyone else. How does this type of lifestyle affect your insides? We start to see throughout this episode that the same foods that tax the earth also tax your body. Listen to Andrew’s unapologetic story of how he lost one of his internal organs due to his lazy attitude and how he finally wants to make things right.

Why so stressed? Or should I say more importantly, why the hell are you dumping your misery on me?   With another conclusion of the Christmas season, Todd reflects on the month long consumption of other peoples tension, agitation and short temperedness that made him proclaim that today’s podcast is called, Calm The F*ck Down. If you feel that you've been carrying the weight of other people’s stressful baggage or you’ve been creating your own as part of a byproduct from the holiday season, this show is for you.   Would you believe that the last shopping day before Christmas is the best day to buy ALL of your gifts? Well, Todd has been following the Christmas Eve shopping spree strategy for many years and explains why this is the best time to avoid the crowds and all their unwanted “bah humbuggery”.    If you are still feeling the pangs of last year’s over spending that produced this years credit card debt or you need to release some unresolved seasonal tension, this weeks Low Fidelity podcast has some insightful tips on how to Calm The F*ck Down this 2015.

You’ve seen this before: Your’e at a mall, a grocery store or on public transit. You notice a parent trying to calm their whiny misbehaving child. The child gets louder and louder. In a frantic attempt to stop the screeching, the parent interrupts the behaviour by offering the child a treat to be quiet.   Here’s another scenario: You get a promotion at work. Right on! You grab a drink to celebrate. Suddenly later that year you get fired. You grab a drink to escape for a bit.   Is there a problem with temporarily reinforcing good behaviour with food, or self medicating with sugar or alcohol?  In this episode, Marie and Todd explore the potential pitfalls of rewarding good behaviour with sweets, and negotiating or punishing kids with healthy foods. This type of strategy may have farther reaching consequences than simply getting your child to behave for the rest of the hour.   What are we to do then? When kids throw tantrums, and when we as adults don’t know how to cope, are there healthier alternatives and is there a better way to deal with what life throws at us?

 

 

Todd isn't gluten-free, he doesn't believe in astrology and he is sceptical about UFOs   So who can he trust? The news? A friend's 911 conspiracy post on Facebook? His family doctor? With so much information in a flurry of debate amongst the "experts" how do you decide what to believe?    In this weeks Low Fidelity Podcast, Todd and Marie take a look at our popular belief systems, both in the spiritual and scientific realm and how much of an impact it makes on the way we navigate our choices and our behaviours.    When television personality and MD, Dr OZ speaks, there are millions of viewers ready to believe and purchase the products he advocates on his highly popular show. However, in the latest dispute of the good doctor’s healthy advice, the University of Alberta found that only 46% of what he discusses is backed up by scientific evidence, 39% showing no support, while the remaining 15% of what he advocates is contradictory to research.   Can we say that we are being duped by his advice or are we throwing out Dr Oz with the bath water just because there are not enough deep pockets to pay for the research for a medication that actually works? Listen to this weeks podcast and you will be surprised on Todd and Marie’s take on the topic. 

Almost everyone has done it.  You go to a party, you eat too much, indulge in the sweets, you drink a wee bit more than you should, and you say the wrong thing to your co-worker or even your boss. Oops.   Holidays are full-on loaded with expectations and peer pressure. It’s a big ramp-up of spending, eating and socializing, then it’s all over. How can you get through it without all the stress, weight gain and remorse of doing things you didn’t plan, or felt socially obligated to do?   How can you go to work parties without being the person everyone talks about the next morning? How do you avoid that dreaded hangover? How do you navigate holiday dinners and parties without stuffing your face and eating things you told yourself you would stay away from?   In this episode, Marie openly discusses the risks we all face during the holidays when it comes to social blunders and expanding waistlines. This episode can literally save your ass in more ways than one. Listen and use these tips and tricks at your own discretion.