Making Fast Food Your Friend – My New Favorite Fast Food Meal

So, my last post on this topic was about Five Guys, and while I still love The Five, there is a new love in my life – Chipotle.  The love of my life – Tillie, my fiancé was the one who turned me on to the no rice, no beans bowl and Chipotle.  Its super yummy, super easy (no work involved – I only have to pay for it!), and doesn’t have any fattening (or fatigue inducing) starchy carbs.  And its soon to be even more convenient as they’re opening one right up the street from my condo!

Did you know you can place your order online before you go so that you don’t have to wait online?

The Josef Bowl:

*Double barbacoa beef
*Guacamole
*Sour cream
*Cheese
*Medium salsa
*Lettuce

Interesting side note:  I told one client about the no beans or rice bowl and she said, “but then you’ll need more food [as the rice and beans make up a lot of the bulk in the bowl].”  That’s not actually true.

For folks that have a tendency to pack on extra body-fat the act of eating carbs makes you hungry (insulin makes you both tired and hungry as its busy making new body-fat).  So, eliminating the starchy/refined carbs from a meal makes it energizing and satiating.  You’ll be more satisfied without the beans and rice than with!  (Satisfied with how your pants fit and satisfied with the amount of food you ate.)

Happy 4th of July!

Oh, and if you live in the States, spare a moment to reflect on how fortunate you are to live here vs. all of the other places on Earth that could never offer you the same opportunities to prosper and do with your life as you see fit.  I have one client that just spent 6 months in Afghanistan, and, well, you get the point… count your blessings.

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.

5 Celebrity Fitness Secrets For A Great Beach Body

Summer is officially here.  The clothes are coming off as we go to the beach or pool, and people want to look their best.  So we had award winning Washington, DC personal trainer Josef Brandenburg compile 5 secrets that celebrities use to create and keep amazing beach bodies:

#1.  Marissa Miller – Don’t drink your calories: Marissa told Cosmo “I hadn’t had soda in about five years, and I came home to find this thing in the fridge that rolls soda cans out like a dispenser.  I’m like, ‘What are you doing to me?’” referring to her husband’s new soda dispenser.

“There are almost no beverages with calories that aren’t just pure sugar – juice included.  Sugar spikes insulin and insulin makes you tired, fat and hungry,” says Brandenburg.

#2. Jason Statham… click here to read the rest of the 5 celebrity fitness tips (free as a press release).

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.

Are Dieticians Trying To Turn You Into A Sumo Wrestler?

A funny thing about Sumo Wrestlers is that they do NOT accept fat boys into training because they don’t think that they have the discipline to stick with the rigorous training that it takes to become a Sumo.  In other words they have a specific system to take normal weight and/or thin boys and turn them into morbidly obese adults.

The best Sumo (the upper group) eat a diet that looks like this:
*57% carbs
*16% fat (1)

The purpose of this diet is to become a Sumo wrestler (very, very fat).

The ACSM, and The ADA (American Dietetic Association) recommend the following for athletes:
*no less than 60% carbs
*15-25% fat (2)

If the purpose of this diet is to improve athletic performance, then why does it look just like the diet that the Sumo eat to get crazy fat?

The only criticism a dietician could make was that the upper group Sumo was only at 57% carbs.  Maybe if we just had them eat more carbs then they wouldn’t be so fat.

Well, lets see.

The lower group of Sumo wrestlers eat a diet that looks like this:
*80% carbs
*9% fat (1)

They are the “lower group” because they weigh the same, but have even more fat, and less muscle.  So, it would seem that even more carbs means even more body-fat.

The Japanese figured out that the best way to make fat people was with a high carb, low-fat diet.  This was long before anyone had figured out what insulin was, or had done a controlled diet study to confirm their results.  Today we have 100 years of research saying that high carb, low fat diets make fat people fatter and make normal weight people fat too, but the ADA and ACSM still promote them.

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.

References
1.  Nishiwaza, T. I., et al. Some factors related to obesity in the Japanese sumo wrestler. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Oct: 29(10):1167-74
2. http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/ViewMiscArticle.aspx?TabId=436&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&mid=603&ItemId=520
(I normally think web sites make poor references, but USA Swimming references everything they put on their site, and the notion that the ACSM and ADA recommend low-fat, high carb diets to athletes is not really controversial in the slightest.)