The New Book Is Now On Amazon.com

I wanted to let you know that the new book “The Body You Want from A to Z” is now available on Amazon.com

It’s got chapters by me, Jimmy Moore, Gary Taubes and Dr. Bryan Walsh.

Josef Brandenburg is 2010, Washington, DC  Personal Trainer of the Year Nominee for both Personal Fitness Professional Magazine and The Washington, DC Fitness Association, The DC Fitness Advisor and the Fitness Expert for the PCOS Challenge TV Show. He shows normal people with hectic lives and average genetics how to create the bodies they want in the time they actually have. To find out more about the 7-Day Free Trial click here. You can also pick up a FREE copy of his brand new CD – “Why Eat Less and Exercise More is The Worst Advice Ever” here.

Why Butter, Beef & Egg Yolks Are NOT Bad For You

I’ve been noticing a problem with my clients recently:  While on the one hand they are thrilled with how much fat they lose, how much muscle they gain and how much better their energy levels are; on the other hand in the back of their mind they are thinking, “I’m eating all of these egg yolks, all this beef and cheese, am I going to give myself a heart attack?”

This lingering doubt is so deep that even one of my clients who got OFF of cholesterol and high blood pressure meds by eating a TON of saturated fat and high cholesterol food, still has trouble believing his own results! Read more

Super Sized BS

Do you remember the movie Super Size Me (SSM)?  Well, it turns out that Morgan Spurlock may not have been entirely forthright or accurate about a LOT of things in that movie.

For example, his nutritionist told him that he was eating in excess of 5,000 calories per day of McDonald’s food.  It turns out that if you do a little math that’s NOT ACTUALLY POSSIBLE based on Spurlock’s rules that he set for himself.

Check out this video to see what I mean:

What’s more is that SSM is wrong about a lot of other things such as:

*Fast food is why we have become obese  (in Fat Head the movie the “star” actually drops 12lbs in a month on a fast-food only diet)

*Saturated fat is bad for you (there really isn’t any evidence to support this idea)

*Weight loss or gain is calories in – calories out

A Fat Head Worth Getting

The single best documentary on health/nutrition/obesity that I have ever seen (and I’ve spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on them) is the movie Fat Head.  Its definitely worth putting on your Netflix list or picking up at amazon.com.

He summarizes a lot of very complicated 500 page science books into an easily digestible, entertaining 100min DVD.

Josef Brandenburg is Washington, DC’s top personal trainer for busy people. He shows normal people with hectic lives and average genetics how to create the bodies they want in the time they actually have. To find out more about the 7-Day Free Trial click here. You can also pick up a copy of his brand new CD – “Why Eat Less and Exercise More is The Worst Advice Ever” here.

Super Low-Carb Ice Cream – Josef’s Cooking Show

I’m back on camera!  (So is the certified pug.)  And this time I’ve my my Easter favorite (filmed at my Grandmother’s house) – low carb ice cream.  Commercially available “carb controlled” ice cream has 4 net carbs per 1/2 cup serving.  I don’t know if you’ve ever tried, but 1/2 cup of ice cream is NOT very much!

I find myself eating 2 cups at a time which is counterproductive (16 net!).  Out of necessity I figured out how to get that down to like to like 4 for a real serving.

So, I was wrong in the video with my math – its 16 for the batch, not 6.  At Easter there was enough for 5 people + a second helping for me (it was good), so it makes a pretty decent sized batch – way bigger than the 1/2 cup with the store bought stuff.

Ingredients

2 cups cream (16 net)

2 egg yolks (.6 net)

1/2-3/4 cup xylitol (erythritol is actually a better choice) (0 net)

1 tbsp vanilla extract

pinch of salt

Directions

1.  Pour cream into a microwave safe bowl and nuke for 2min (should be steaming hot).

2.  While the cream is heating, separate yolks and mix with sugar alcohol.

3.  Add egg yolk mixture to the hot cream and mix well.  Heat in microwave for 1-2 min more (just shy of boiling).

4.  Follow the directions on your ice cream maker to turn into ice cream.  (I got mine on Amazon.com, you could also go to Target or Walmart or Ebay, or any place else to get one.)

Nutrition

4 Servings with 4net carbs per serving (this serving should be about 1.5-2 cups, so this is a HUGE reduction from the commercially available stuff).

Josef Brandenburg is Washington, DC’s #1 personal trainer for busy people.  He shows normal people with hectic lives and average genetics how to create the bodies they want in the time they actually have.  To find out more about the 7-Day Free Trial click here.