You have already been sent an email detailing how I”m going to personally help coach you to a massive body transformation success.

Here are the additional winners:

1. Lusy Sprott
2. Paul Breitkreuz
3. Jody Fluhr
4. Catherine Conway
5. Mike Patten
6. Larry Parker
7. John Rossi
8. Bob Hahn
9. Corey Storbinsky
10. Victor Mitchell
11. Joan Bowers
12. Lesley Warren

Congratulations Again to all!

I was actually hoping for a positive result from you. Ever since I started telling family and friends about this new way of eating, most of them have started on a plan of their own. My cousin-in-law (whom we just visited in upstate NY and Vermont) just called me today. He started his plan last Wednesday and called me this afternoon to tell me that he’s lost 3.5 lbs in 7 days. He told me today was his second “high-calorie” day and had eaten 2 slices of pizza, chocolate, cake, cookies, a whole lot more (he kept rambling on about all the food he had been eating – was getting a huge kick out of the fact he lost weight and still was able to eat his favorite junk foods). But he had questions about a lot of things I answered for him. He might have floundered… maybe even failed eventually, if I didn’t set him on the correct path. No fault of his, he just hadn’t spent any time studying how the body works most effectively to lose fat and what types of foods will trigger the quickest fat loss.

So, by you saying yes to my video streams (please watch for an email notification – I have to get it set up – anyone know anything about Ustream?) I can now help to answer some of the questions you’re bound to have about a lot of things. Things I haven’t even considered — but most likely have the answer to (if I don’t I’ll tell you and get you an answer if I can).

So, please look for an email notification today (12/10/08) about when I’m putting this on. My plan is to have one on Thursday, then another one next Monday. Then, I’ll put on a couple of teleseminars next week where I’ll put on a couple of the people I’ll be starting to personally help starting tomorrow (those of you that have an entry please be checking your email – I need to get in touch with you after I choose so we can hit the ground running right away). They’ll be sharing with  you their success after 1 week.

So please start putting together the questions you want answered and I’ll do my best to get to most of them. Please start by posting your questions here. Once the Ustream Live streaming starts you’ll be able to ask me live questions, but they’ll typically zip by too quickly for me to capture them. So I’ll typically be answering all of the questions from the ones I get here on my blog.

Thanks all!

My final numbers:

Body fat loss = 24 lbs

Lean muscle gain = 19 lbs

Body fat dropped from 16.9% at the start, to as low as 5.0% (has fluctuated from 5 to 6% over the last week).

Funny how when you reach a goal you want “just a little more”. Although very happy with my results, I’m going to try for a little more tightness around my waist, in particular my lower back.

Anyway, here are the photos.

And, due to a technical hitch (my web programmer didn’t come through for me), I’m going to have to delay the launch of my Body Maps until next week. Planned date is now Dec 18th.

However…

How many of you would like me to host a free series of Live Video streaming events where I answer your questions. And, some teleseminars thrown in as well.

Let me know here on my blog. There’s so much I want to teach you that is not obvious. If I get enough “Yes’s” here then I’ll put on these events for you. BUT YOU HAVE TO TELL ME OTHERWISE I’LL THINK YOU’RE NOT INTERESTED.

Before Photo: 10-17-08. Check blog post on same day for video confirmation.

After Photo: 12/5/08 (49 Days Later)

After Photos (side shot): 12/5/08

After Photo: 12/5/08

Vermont1 - Week of 12/5/08

Vermont2 - week of 12/5/08

Vermont3 - week of 12/5/08

I got to thinking…

As you know, I am planning on giving away my Body Maps to Fitness Success. Current giveaway date is Dec 11, 2008. That’s about 3 weeks away.

My Body Maps are not a fitness program, but are MANDATORY principles anyone must follow if they are to achieve maximum fat loss or fitness success. If you don’t follow them, or don’t know about them, your chances of success are slim to none. I’ve shown my Body Maps to a couple of experts in the industry and they thought I was crazy giving away such valuable information. Said I could easily sell it for over a hundred dollars.

Anyway, please mark your calendars for Dec 11th as that will be when I’ll be giving away a limited number of my Body Maps to Fitness Success.

I also plan to offer my fitness program as well for a special price, and for the first 75 people that sign up I will personally coach for free. I’ve never done this before, and I thought it was high time I gave back in some way…

I also have a way for you to get RIPWIRE before anyone else, so look for that on launch day too. Finally, I’ve put together a couple of supplements you MUST have in order to form the “base” of your supplement pyramid. Without these “essential” nutrients in your plan you might as well stay in bed. I take them EVERY day, and usually, with every meal. I’ll be offering these proprietary custom formulations (that are not offered anywhere yet) only on launch day (Dec 11th) and only to you.

Here’s another way I also want to give back…

Sometimes I lose sight of the things that are important for people trying to get in shape. I just concentrate on the “nuts and bolts” of how to get in shape without asking for some of the reasons why you want to get in shape in the first place. And I really want to know because it motivates and drives me to help more people.

So here’s a real opportunity for you to get the whole shebang, my fitness program (printed version even), my professionally made Exercise Companion DVD, the Accu-Measure bodyfat calipers, and a specially made pair of grips that makes my exercise routines possible. Without them you just won’t get the same kind of results. I’ll also provide a once per week FREE consultation session so I can tweak your results so you get the fastest results in the least time and effort.

Here’s what I ask from you in exchange…

I want you to tell me why it’s important for you to get in shape… in 250 words or less.

I’ll draw 3 winners (I will use my own personal criteria from which to choose the winners) from the comments here on my blog, give them my program above, my DVD, Grips, and Bodyfat Calipers, and a personal, one-on-one weekly consultation with me for 8 weeks.

I can guarantee if you’re struggling to get a new body, I can get you there quickly and simply.

So…

What’s important to you about changing your body and getting in shape?

Provide me your answers by commenting here. And I’ll hopefully see YOU in the winners circle!

Results after 24 Days on my “Program”. Video is about 3 minutes long. How I lost 16 lbs of fat and gained 12 lbs of muscle in 24 days.

This video was shot 8 days ago, on 11-10-08. Since then my bodyfat level has dropped down close to 7%. Videos are coming…

Today is Sunday, November 2nd…

However, two days ago, October 31st, I was in the middle of a raging, full-on Halloween party here on South Beach. It was almost midnight, and I wanted to get “one more meal” in under the wire for my high-calorie day. I wasn’t super hungry, but I was at one of my favorite restaurants, NEXXT, on Lincoln Rd.

I was waiting for my brother, who I hadn’t seen yet (check out this photo and video to see his outrageous Halloween costume as well as the other revelers that night… CRAZY!).

My Brother is on the right

What to eat… oh, the decisions…

I settled on spaghetti carbonara, a favorite of mine.

When I finished my “huge” meal, I clocked in at 6,710 calories for the day. 52% of it carbs, with a full 36% of it being fat.

To say I felt “stuffed” was the understatement of the year.

I really felt like I “blew it!”

I mean, I confess to you that I honestly felt in my heart “there is no way eating this way AND this much food is in any way good for me… and surely there’s no way this is going to help me lose fat…”

I honestly started to doubt my methodology. I mean, imagine eating this for the day:

Breakfast: 4 Dunkin’ Donuts with 16 ounces of Chocolate Milk
Mid-morning: 3 more Donuts (ah shoot… the hell with the details… I had an entire dozen donuts that day. 2-Jelly filled, 2-glazed, 2-Bavarian Cream, 2-Krullers, 2-Pumpkin donuts (in honor of Halloween), and 2 “outrageously delicious who knows what they’re called and who cares because they taste so damn good” donuts).

Here’s the 20-second video of breakfast. Dunkin’ Donuts Breakfast.
And just to show you that I didn’t just take a bit of a donut, here’s another quick video showing major “damage” to the box of dozen donuts. After 4 Dunkin’ Donuts.

After going to my son’s Halloween recital Here I went to Denny’s and had Pancakes with butter and syrup and a 32-ounce Ice-Cream shake (a mere 1 1/2 hours after my donut-eating binge).

The rest of the day was filled with eating the rest of the donuts, Haagen-Daazs “dulce de leche” caramel ice cream, rice, and snickers bars.

Even though I felt like it couldn’t be right eating this way, I “knew” I was doing the right thing by eating this way… because I had done this so many times in the past before with excellent fat loss results. Not to mention the many other people I coached to do this.

Here’s some other reasons why eating this way helps you lose fat faster:

1. Eating this way AFTER a prolonged period of low calories and low carbs takes all the sugar you eat and fills up the depleted glycogen (sugar) stores in your muscle cells and liver. You have to eat this way for over 48 hours in order for your muscle and liver glycogen-holding capacity to get full and then start filling up your fat cells.

2. Eating this way boosts your metabolism in a big way. Make that a HUGE way. Imagine throwing massive amounts of gasoline on a simmering fire… that’s what happens to your metabolism when you eat big this way (only as I prescribe though, following 3-4 days of low-calorie, low-carbohydrate, moderate fat (40% of calories), high-protein (40-45%) meals with lots of exercise during those days to deplete your muscle cell’s glycogen stores)

3. You WILL gain weight eating this way for a couple of days. R-E-A-D this next sentence carefully and PLEASE, PLEASE believe it. You WANT TO GAIN AS MUCH WEIGHT AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN when you eat this way. And… drink a TON of water too. Water will help you gain more weight especially when you are eating a lot of carbohydrates because each part of carbohydrate (glycogen) you take in binds to three parts of water and gets stored in all the right places (your muscle cells primarily).

BEFORE YOU THINK I’M OFF MY ROCKER please believe there is science behind this seeming madness. Which leads to number…

4. Eating this way helps turn on your bodys muscle building machinery – it is VERY anabolic (build up of muscle tissue – YOU WOMEN ESPECIALLY BETTER BE READING CLOSELY HERE!!!). Why? Because your muscle cells become “hydrated” with the influx of glycogen and water along with the nutrients they bring along for the ride – the building blocks for your muscle tissue.

Everything you do in the gym should be to build muscle, or prevent any loss of muscle.

Why?

Muscle is very active, metabolically speaking. Muscle has veins, capillaries, and nutrient needs far surpassing that of an equal amount of fat, which kind of just sits there on your body. And this is VERY IMPORTANT if losing the most fat you can is important to you.

Let’s assume all things are equal between two people except the amount of muscle one has on their body compared to the other. One has 10 lbs more muscle than the other one. The person that has more muscle will have an easier time staying in shape. Since muscle burns fuel sitting there on your body, you have to supply that extra muscle with fuel. This means one of two things has to happen. One, you’ll have to eat more than the person with less muscle on their body (hmmm, starting to sound good, right?). Or second, if you don’t eat more, the increased demand for “fuel” from that extra muscle will be generated from, you guessed it, your fat stores.

Please re-read the above paragraph again…

It says by having more muscle, you can either eat more?!? Or… you will be able to lose fat easier?!?

That’s right, simply by having more muscle.

FOR YOU WOMEN THAT ARE STILL SCARED OF ADDING MUSCLE TO YOUR BODY…. DON’T BE!!!

Women simply CANNOT build appreciable amounts of muscle like men can. Even most men have a hard time building muscle easily. Women who concentrate on building muscle will do so at the expense of their stored bodyfat (for the reason I mentioned above), and will have lean, sexy muscle. Men who concentrate on building muscle will have a leaner, ripped look, with less fat on their body.

ISN’T THAT WHAT BOTH SEXES ARE AFTER?

The bulked up women (and men) bodybuilders you see are ALL on synthetic male hormones that allow them to build up their unnatural amount of muscle mass. It is almost impossible for any woman to build that kind of muscle naturally. Let’s say you’re one in a billion that can? Just stop working out so hard, your muscles will shrink, and just use intelligent dieting to stay in shape. Count yourself as one of the lucky “blessed genes” ones.

PROOF, PROOF, PROOF!!!

If you’ve been following along here, you’ll see I have made, what some might say, almost unbelievable fat loss progress. AND LOOK WHAT I’VE BEEN EATING!!!

I know, it doesn’t sound, nor does it probably feel right. BUT I DIDN’T MAKE THE RULES TO HOW OUR BODY WORKS. I just interpreted how it works to my (and your) advantage.

Stay tuned, December 5th is just around the corner (when I’ll be giving away my BODY MAPS TO FITNESS SUCCESS and a couple of extra surprises like maybe my exact diet diary I used to lose 16 lbs of fat and gain 12 lbs of muscle in only 24 days).

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Here’s my progress after 7 days:

10/17/08 (Day 1 of challenge):
Weight (lbs) Suprailiac (mm) Body Fat % Fat (lbs) Lean Mass (lbs)
194 ……………………..11………………. 16.9………… 32.8 ……..161.2

10/23/08 (Day 7 of challenge):
Weight (lbs) Suprailiac (mm) Body Fat % Fat (lbs) Lean Mass (lbs)
184 ………………………7………………… 12.6……….. 23.2…….. 160.8

Summary: 10 lb weight loss, 9.6 lbs of it being pure fat.

Look for the videos tomorrow.

So far, so good. Thank Goodness for the RIPWIRE… it’s been a lifesaver.

BODY TRANSFORMATION UPDATE:
2 days….
lost 4 pounds of fat…
Need I say any more?

This is my condition prior to starting my Body Transformation Documentary. Check out my “fat” self before starting on my 49-day Personal Body Transformation Contest. Think I can do it? Let me know!