I just got my hands on a review copy of Dr.Suzanne Gudakunst’s Top Secret Fat Loss Secrets.

If you want to check out her website and skip reading all the following go here

>> http://snipurl.com/topfatlossatoz <<

Now if you decide to read the rest of my review let me ask you something ?

Have any of you see an ad these last few days about a lady doctor that all other doctors would like to shut up for good?

Yes, as in kill, lol, but hopefully not literally!

The reason is that she wants to tell everyone why they have such a hard time losing weight.

Why that lower pooch never seems to want to go away.

Why even with low bodyfat, some still feel and look bloated.

Of course, diet doctors and those selling expensive pills and supplements don’t want the general public to know how to fix that problem themselves, because …

What would they get their income from then!?

Bankruptcy lurks!

Well, probably not. There are still a lot of people who prefer trying that "quick fix" remedy or running to a doctor because it makes it look like they are really making an effort with this overweight issue they have; when they’re really not doing anything at all.

So these people, supplement sellers and doctors, don’t really have anything to fear in my humble opinion.

Also, what this lady doctor is saying … would you believe I heard - or read - the same things in 1987?

Back then, it was wrapped in a hard-copy book and it was what you got for the price.

Period.

However, it did help me get the excess weight off, and in fact … 8 pounds more than I had bargained for!

This time, the book is an e-book.

And yes, by a different person.

The message is pretty much still the same, but there are some scary revelations and some pretty neat links to video clips and pictures really dotting the i’s of what she’s telling us.

Also a few links to a few self-tests that are not only fast and simple to do, but pretty darned accurate too!

>> http://snipurl.com/topfatlossatoz <<

I’ve been eating clean and exercising for years now, I’m pretty much in tune with what my body tells me, so when I took these tests, I could see that they were accurate as per what my body was already telling me.

This is why I can tell you that these tests are good enough for you to act upon once you’ve taken them, ok? No "hype" here, just some fun little tests that actually open your eyes.

Warning:  some of the pictures and videos are really graphic and pretty gross; however, it sometimes takes a real shock to make us react and actually act upon good information.

I know. We’ve been giving you a lot of new things lately. Jeff Anderson’s Combat the Fat, TheMuscleHead’s complete program  among others, and now this.

I honestly don’t want you to feel overwhelmed or confused, or thinking "what the h.. should I get out of all these?" because they are such totally different programs and systems … yet I know you are getting confused, overwhelmed, a little fed up even maybe?

I hope not, because all we really want to do is help YOU find the way out of the overweight, over fat rut and back to a healthy, lean body that nature intended you to have!

This is pretty hefty stuff.

I mean … pictures of people picking their poop out of the toilet to show how efficient this system is in ridding them of the excesses that are blocking their insides.

Videos of parasitic organisms living inside a human body … not what you want to see when you’re wolfing down a sandwich over your computer!

But hey, it wakes you up, makes you pay attention, take action.

You clean up your nutrition and get your back side off the couch, and start taking responsibility for your own life, your own body!

Honestly?

No one has ever put this information out in this manner (as far as I know) and in a language accessible to people like you and me.

Maybe this is the kick in the butt that you need?

I know it surprised me!, and I’ve already read something very similar (but less graphic).

At least, check out her information page here –> http://snipurl.com/topfatlossatoz

If that doesn’t peak your curiosity and interest, I’d be surprised.

I know one thing: this has made me determined to be even healthier and cleaner than before, because frankly … yuck!

And … it’s perfectly compatible with the Every Other Day Diet  that I am not abandoning, and the weight training program of my choice.

It’s really a terrific addition to the extensive knowledge we gain on the human body by reading the books from these natural bodybuilders who do us all the great service of sharing in what they know works for those who need and want to burn excess bodyfat and build lean muscles!

So don’t delay and check out Dr. Suzanne’s website and get your body cleaned out this weekend.

Sarah, CPT,

www.trainwithsarah.com
www.atozfitness.com
www.healthylivesforyou.com

Lewis
www.atozfitness.com
www.atoztoptrainers.com

The Musclehead
Reviewed by AtoZfitness PT Sarah Hougen

We were approached last week, by "The Musclehead", a fitness-guy who wants to be anonymous! Wow, now that’s a first. So far, everyone has had their name in bold letters, pictures, bios, but here is a man from Australia who wants to be able to go to the local shops and not be recognized. Fair enough, after all, it’s the program, the package deals, that everyone really wants, right?

I looked at what he had to offer, figuring it would be as usual, an e-book, maybe an audio track, a bonus or two … surprise! The Musclehead is offering his clients a vast array of products to help them on their journey to a lean and fit body. I started by browsing through the list of downloadable files and I was equally impressed with each one.

The day I did this, Friday in fact, I had quite a few things on my agenda, and was just going to have a quick look at the actual e-book. Quick look? I read the 121 pages in one sitting, I just couldn’t click away from it. Now this is not to say that there is anything revolutionarily new in this book, but the way it is written, the angles of attack to each subject, is really well done and very complete. You aren’t lost in a jungle of mumbo-jumbo taken from a university course (not that this isn’t understandable, but you need more time to digest that kind of language), it’s simple, straightforward, everyday language that you grasp from the word go.

Goal setting, nutrition, weight training, it’s all there. Cardio? It’s mentioned too, but not emphasized. Yayy !!

Well sure, if you are one of those who love doing cardio, no one will stop you; it’s just not the main part of this program.

So what do you get from The Musclehead? For $77.00  out, you will get in:

8 smaller e-books, on 6-pack abs, a check-list document, how to make it through college without adding fat, exercises, recipes, and even a report on steroids, a workout book, and a supplement black book.

1 main e-book on how to obtain a Godlike Body - and who doesn’t want to have that?

There is also an audio book (you can listen to it in the car or on your MP3 on your way to work or class) and a video series. To top it off, he includes a software program with nutrition, exercise, a place for before-during-after pics and a few other features (it still has a little crash-issue, but is in the process of getting fixed, and I can’t wait to see what else it can do!) as well as a separate program to specifically design your own, personal workout!   

Check it out >>> http://snipurl.com/muscleheadatoz

How many other programs have you come across that offers such a wide and complete variety of products, and actually gives you everything in one? No need to go looking for a nutrition tracker software by browsing the Net, nor searching high and wide for how to perform the exercises; there aren’t a lot of fancy moves, it’s back to basics with the exercises the "old timers" used and got success with! Everything can be done from a home-based gym (not talking fancy equipment all-in-one home-gyms here, but barbells and dumbbells and a bench) as well as from a commercial gym.

With the software, I was able to design my workout program easily (and everyone knows by now that I am not happy with computers, and even less with new programs I have to figure out before being able to use them), no learning curve on this one!

If you are a total beginner to the fitness scene, if you are an intermediate-level trainee, or even if you have trained and been serious about your nutrition for years, this package deal is great. You will learn - or get a refresher course - pretty much everything you need to know, somewhat past the basics, all in a simple and easy-to-understand program and package of documents, e-books, audio, video and software. There is no "upgrade" making it more expensive like you will find with certain other programs, this one is a clear and cut case of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) and pretty much also of KISS (keep it simple stupid).

Of course, some of the documents are just one page, others are much longer, but the full package gives you all the information you need to get started, progress, and remind yourself of the basics.

The AtoZ Fitness conclusion is that this is really a good deal. 

>> http://snipurl.com/muscleheadatoz

 You owe it to yourself to at least check it out!

Sarah, CPT
www.trainwithsarah.com

Sorry about the previous post looks like I can not include it in the article blog. Here is a great article Sarah the resident AtoZfitness trainer wrote for us.

More leisure time, for what?

Looks like 2007 isn’t quite my year, as far as fatloss and workouts and now it seems Saturn is in the astrological picture as well, slowing things down for the next 7 years … if you believe in that of course. Let’s say that, knowing about it will make it easier to work that much harder to counter the effect if effect there is, and if there’s nothing to it, well your work won’t be wasted anyway.

I mean, the ancients didn’t invent astrology out of the blue - oh, ok they did, the sky is blue, but you know what I mean - they must have observed and put things in relation and deducted and calculated. After all, they had no TV, PC, I-Pod, etc. and had all the time in the world to observe nature and the universe, when they weren’t working physically that is. Lucky them. Overall, they were in much better shape than we are. Work provided a workout, they ate healthy foods, indulged in a litle wine on days off and special occasions only, no sweets to speak of, no chemicals, no pressure to do this or that by the clock … even though the ancient Greeks did “invent time” and I think they were the ones who found the solar clock but I won’t swear that I’m right on that one.

What happened? We were mostly healthy, not overweight to any extent, going about our daily business and being if not ripped or overly lean at leaast in slim, good-looking shape We were supposed to get these machines and things to give us more leisure time. Sure, but then how come we’re all running after the clock like the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, always late for something, never time to look after ourselves, and getting increasingly ill (we as a "nation" - nation in this case being the civilized, rich part of the world), fat and out of touch with our inner selves and nature? Where did our common sense and instincts go? Down the drain of “civilization”?

Looks that way.

Down memory lane a bit

What do we do with our extra spare time? Frankly, I don’t know. I remember when I was young,  my dad worked 5½ days a week. Saturday was the half day, ending at 1 PM rather than the normal 4:30 PM (this was in Norway, the workday is not cut with more than 30 minutes to eat some sandwiches brought from home at around 11:30 AM, and work ends at 4 to 4:30 PM on average, having started around 8 or 8:30 AM – in general).  

On Saturday afternoons, we’d do things in the garden, cleaning, cutting grass; or we’d wash the car, do some painting if that was needed, general up-keep in other words. If there wasn’t anything special to do, we’d take the car and go to a nearby forest (all are public domain in Norway) to look for berries, mushrooms, or just walk if it wasn’t the right season for anything, identifying tracks and flowers, birds and whatever else. Often on Sundays, we’d go hiking up some mountain (which I hated incidentally), have a sandwich and hot chocolate once up there, and walk back down. The only hike I truly enjoyed was one up to the top of Månefossen (Moon cascade, literally) because the trail, although steep, was easy to follow and the view along the cascade was breathtaking. Once it was warm enough, we’d hit the beach of course.

Not your average lie-down-and-tan beach trip. No, we’d climb the soft dunes (hard work), roll back down or even slide, and back up again – for hours! Sure, we went in the water too, but there was the “scavenging” for driftwood, cork-like fish-net floaters that had come off the nets and washed ashore, learning the names of different sea-weeds from dad, as well as the beach flowers; catching crabs and dried washed-up “sea-stars” in pink or white, and the occasional shell if there was a larger, nice one there. We were moving.

We walked to and from school, every day, regardless of weather. And yes, we had school on Saturday morning as well, since the adults worked, there was also school.

Then suddenly, no more school on Saturdays! And no more work for dad either, but they made the Thursdays longer, he’d work till 5:30 I think it was. That was no good, we were still hungry at the normal suppertime! So we added a snack on Thursdays. Did we do more on weekends than before, now that we had an extra half a day? No, because mom had always done her house cleaning on Saturday morning so that it was clean for the weekend, and it took her about a year to decide to change that to Friday instead. But even so, we didn’t do any extra anything on Saturday mornings once she changed her routine either.

Extra leisure time. To do … ? Nothing. Mom got a semi-automatic washing machine. Before, she had the old copper boiler for the whites and cottons, and a washing machine with the manual wringer (two rolls to put the wash through, and a manual swivel to make it pass through, letting the water fall back into the machine) I hated it when she put my favorite teddy bear through that wringer, I was sure Rosina was hurting, then she’d hang her by the ears with clothes-pins, torturist! The new machine, had two compartments. One to wash and one to spin, so she had to transfer the clothes from one side to the other. It was in a room off the kitchen, rather than in the basement. It made the laundry easier to do, took a little less time … to do what? Knit a little more while reading a book. No extra activity, rather less. Then came the dryer and the automatic washer which spun in the same compartment as it washed. Still less work and more knitting and reading.

One day, when I was about 8 years old, the TV entered our house. There were some shows we just had to watch, because the choice back then was so lousy anyway, that the few good ones you just couldn’t “afford” to miss if the TV was to have any use at all, and there was only one channel too, no choice of programs – unless you lived close enough to the Swedish border to get their channels as well, they had two! Of course, these were often at times we used to do something more active. Did we do that at other times instead? Only if they had to be done. And once we changed to color TV … I was 14 then … we watched even more. So now, with the satellites and HD, how can you tear yourself away from that box?

Gone were the hikes and climbs, gone the mushroom and berry picking trips, gone the play-times on the beach … the latter mainly because my brother and I were too old to play like we used to. Instead, he and I would do about 1-2 hours of biking after school (once the homework was done, never before) in the spring and summer, for 2 years only. When we moved to the northernmost city in the world, the biking also stopped. Our walk to school was a little longer though, and there was a steep hill which was a royal pain in the winter when it was icy! We also went for more hikes again, which was good, no high mountains there, it’s pretty level terrain so I didn’t mind hiking like I used to.

I remember the first ice cream cone of the year, on May 17^th which is the national day. That was also a hot-dog (one) and a bottle of orange soda (again, one). We would be allowed one small candy bar, a bottle of soda and a small bag of chips or pop corn on Saturday night (when I say small, that was the normal size back then, now everything has to be larger and bigger, when the smaller was big enough anyway). But we had to have something healthy first, most often some open sandwiches with good things piled on top. This was once the TV entered into things, before that we ate normal, healthy, home cooked meals every day reagrdless of week day, having a desert on Sunday linch only… also home made of course, no chemicals or over-use of sugar.

Otherwise, ice cream and soda was occasionally at grandma’s or at Christmas. Period.

And now, well …

now you can see kids and adults chowing down hamburgers, hot dogs, deep fried chicken and greasy fries all day and every day, often washed down with a large soda of some sort. Then they have a candy bar or an ice cream for desert, or just because they suddenly feel hungry or tired at some point during the day. The activity consists of walking from the house to the car (10 feet) from the car to the store (maybe 30 feet) moving the car over to the next store in the same shopping complex to avoid walking 50 or 60 more feet (both ways, remember, that’s 100-120 feet! Wow), and then the same 10 feet from the car to their house. This is not for everyone, but generally this seems to be the main activity most people I see outside their homes get. There are of course, a few who will use the stairs rather than the elevator, attend a gym and walk further than they strictly need to. Good for them!

And the experts analyse and wonder and study to figure out how come people are getting more and more overweight, why they have debilitating and lifethreatening diseases, they study to find cures, there’s huge amounts of money going to research, huge amounts for treatments of symptoms rather than working on the reason behind the symptoms, the actual causes of the trouble. Reading the above makes it plain what the trouble is, where the problem lies, what needs to be done. Most people do not need all the chemical drugs their doctors prescribe in order to mask what ails them. In fact, half the time they develop another ill from the side-effects of the drug treating the first symptoms! So they take a third pill, and a fourth, and

STOP for a minute, would you … why are you willing to spend big bucks on a “miracle pill” to get thin (which doesn’t work anyway and may have serious side effects) but run backwards from a store with healthy, from-scratch ingredients that have not been pre-treated by machines and added chemical to?  Why swallow any pill your doctor says will “save” you without checking into it a little more yourself? Eating the right foods, the ones nature meant us to eat in the first place, will help get your bodyfat down, your blood sugar normalized, your health back on track. Yes, you can even reverse some of the “Syndrome X” illnesses by eating clean and moving more. Make it a point to park at the far corner of the parking lot at the mall/ shopping center, and walk to every store you need to go to; going back to the car with the bags from each store. The human body was made to move, it was made to eat simple, natural foods; get back to the basics.

Clean foods, now what in the world do I mean by that? I mean … whole grain everything (pasta, rice, bread, flour, anything!), lean meats, fatty fish (because that fat is healthy fat), more egg whites than yolks (the fat is in the yolk, the protein is left in the white), low to 0% fat dairy; drink water and leave all the sodas, coffees etc. Cut the sugars, the refined carbohydrates; the processed foods, reduce microwave useage to a minimum, the chemical additives in foods even if the FDA and other government agencies say they’re ok to consume (this is often dictated by money anyway, and many of the allowed chemicals are later withdrawn because people have had problems) and do please stay clear of the “weightloss miracle pills” that only have a slimming effect on your wallet! Latest thing out, a green-tea supplement meant to burn fat … it was mixed with some other ingredient of course, and this “other” caused severe liver problems for three of the users at least, less extensive for those who stopped taking the pills as soon as they felt something was wrong. Mind you: Green Tea is healthy and will help burn fat, but do yourself the favor of drinking a cup or three per day only, not popping pills!

Conclusion?

I don’t know if there is one. When shows like “the biggest loser” with horrendously massive amounts of cardio and weight training per day make prime time as entertainment for the masses, we have a problem that lies deeper than just the individual overweight per