Thursday 14th August 2008 - Week Four Day Four - Global Health Challenge

Taking control of YOUR life isn't always easy. If it was we would all be in amazing shape.

Designing the Global Health Challenge I had so much information to pass on and wasn't sure what would best serve the majority of the people who would try this. So I have done the best I can from all the experience that I have gained over the 20+ years of being a fitness and health professional.

What do you hope to get out of this plan - to learn how your body eco-system works?
Is a change required for your busy stress filled lifestyle to improve your health?
Whatever it was is not important but these 56 Days will be.

Now that you have made the decision to begin, read on as YOU are about to learn more about your body and the way the eco-systems need to work together to achieve a healthier YOU!

This is NOT a “detox or liver cleanse” where you follow an “elimination of everything except lemon water” plan to a NEW YOU; there is ample evidence that they have little to no effect on our lives once we return to “our old habits” so it becomes another failure.

It’s not a cookbook masquerading as a Lifestyle Plan that is filled with recipes and a few exercises; and it’s definitely not a workout book masquerading as a life changing book that has you eliminate certain nutrients from your diet - the bookstores are full of those which is why publishers keep searching for the next big hit.

So now we know what it’s not, then what is it?
It’s a catalyst for getting your body healthy and understanding how that happens.
Translating this habit breaking method using steps that I’ve developed so that knowledge about your body and how it works to get you healthy is FINALLY understood.

It’s not a DIET REVOLUTION either but rather an EATING AND ACTIVITY EVOLUTION.

Learning how to eat smarter and move more will lead to a healthier life with a better understanding for YOUR body.

The first book that I wrote “DIETS SUCK” was designed to be simple and was borne out of frustration at what I called the Monday morning clients. They were the ones who had read the latest gossip magazine over the weekend and wanted to change their eating (each week) to match that of the latest movie star's "crash course diet" .

Now of course they forgot the person probably had a salary of millions of dollars on the line which provides plenty of incentive and had taken months to get into shape, with a trainer preparing sessions, chef preparing meals, plenty of downtime and THAT was their job for the months leading up to the "latest pics" shown.

Well after I gave them a short sharp reality check (yeah I was a tough trainer BUT honesty is my calling card), we then got back onto the plan but by Monday nights, my head was filled with hating diets (hence the title).

So now with more education I am able to update and improve my original plan from those days. I’ve added that earlier valuable content to elements of this plan with some exciting new “updates” of knowledge about both eating and activity that I have learned, and personally trialled in the last four years.

The purpose of the plan is to feel more in control of your life through understanding why you haven’t succeeded in past efforts to attain better health. With more effective quality nutritional habits and an activity based training regime that you modify as you need to when LIFE gets in the way – you are in control.

I focus on giving you “tools” that you can use because YOU and I are different people but that doesn’t mean we aren’t similar in our intention to be healthy and live a better life or desire that lean healthy look to our bodies.

So, it doesn’t matter what you think is the reason for not being healthy currently, it’s enough that you desire to make a change. With this insight provided into ways you can do that, I’m sure you’ll be feeling like you have more energy, more control in your life and be healthier on the inside which will definitely make you look different (leaner through fat loss) on the outside.

Bottom line - it is ONLY 56 days to a NEW YOU.
I put this program online so that you can do it whenever you need to.
YOU become the pilot of your own plane to where the destination is one you want - a much healthier, leaner and knowledgable YOU.

Tomorrow - Patterns, Habits and Trigger Points for failure.

Global Health Challenge - Week Four (8 week Overview reposted in earlier blog)

Goal of this week is to consolidate the first three (3) weeks of life changing habits – Half way !
- Reduce your dairy intake
- Reduce intake of red meat and replace to white fish
- Maintain the three (3) days of activity – add an additional “family fun day” on the weekend
- Maintain H20 (water) intake to 8 glasses per day

TONY 's DIARY - (Week Four - Day Four)

Breakfast:
Energy Shake - 400ml Water + 45g Protein Powder + Combination Greens Powder + 1/2 cup Frozen Banana. Take a Daily Multi vitamin + Joint Power

Mid Morning Snack:
Green Tea + 6 x Corn Thins + avocado + Lean Ham

Lunch:
Turkey Mince and CousCous Rissoles + Mixed Leaf Salad + Low Fat Cottage Cheese + Tomato + Cucumber + Strawberries + Dressing

Mid Afternoon snack:
Cappuccino + Protein Bar

Dinner:
Grilled Salmon + Mixed Leaf Salad + Capsicum (Red Pepper) + Tomato + Cucumber + Strawberries + Dressing.

2 Hours before Bed:
400ml water + Fibre Shake + 20g Protein Powder + Combination Greens

Overall - Water consumption = done. No Workout today - was writing again.

Daily mantra:
I am totally committed to supporting my Human ECO System with my actions.