Thursday 7th August 2008 - Week Three Day Four - Global Health Challenge - Why do you need to do this ?

I wanted to give an overview of why the fifty six (56) days or eight (8) weeks of life changing habits with the Global Health Challenge is undertaken. This forms part of your knowledge by developing greater awareness.

Instead of just implementing a life stopping plan as most DIETS are, that will most likely only have short term potential for your health goal, I wanted to explore how we could actually make life changing habits that last and teach why they work.

My issue with any plan that just has short term gains is that when you ‘re-enter” YOUR LIFE, you know what I mean such as come out of "hibernation" and then go back to being social, it’s possible you could adopt your old unhealthy habits and you will have wasted your time (probably your money as most quick fix schemes are designed to make someone else rich).

They also aren't designed to teach you any skills or their future money making potential is lost. This is how they get "repeat business" or as the marketers put it "customers for life". Pharmaceutical industries thrive on this.

It’s time for a change and a more successful strategic path.
Unless you start to understand and, just as important, start to relate to your body and how it functions, you will continue to make the same errors, mistakes and failures that have plagued your fat loss goals from the past but I want that to change – and change that for good.

So what did I do ?
I met and worked with some of the leading behaviour change experts from around the world and they all have the same issue. Any “elimination diet plan” that doesn’t create behaviour change isn’t going to last which means it’s a short term solution (like most diets).

Taking that understanding of their points onboard, I wanted to create a plan that used sensible and sustainable ways to increase knowledge that will change your life and give you greater understanding like using the ecological issues of our planet to learn how your body works that hopefully increases your ability to have options to make better choices.

So what is our plan ?
It is a 56 day program. Much like an 8 Step Life Changing Plan.
By taking the first four (4) weeks to reduce and replace the elements of your life that impact your health or are detrimental to your goal and slowly replacing them with better options YOU begin to not only notice the changes but YOU are responsible for them.

Is this plan easy ?
If you are asking this question you are not ready to do this. The reason that some plans fail to work for you is that you don’t stay committed. You don’t finish them and then wonder why they didn’t work. It’s like only completing half the race and wondering why you don’t get a “finishing medal”.

This plan is not meant to be easy, it is meant to work and last.
The duration is 56 days (8 weeks) which isn’t a long time to see fantastic results and save YOUR own life by making changes you can understand and always implement.

Are you worth it ?

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

Goal of this week - consolidate the first two (2) weeks of life changing habits – Well done so far.
- Reduce caffeine intake to green tea or better yet none
- Reduce your intake of starch and grains to wholemeal versions
- Maintain H20 (water) intake to 8 glasses per day
- Maintain the three (3) days of activity

TONY 's DIARY - (Week Three - 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 Workout:
Pump Class 45 mins (Hard)

Mid Morning Snack:
Green Tea + Protein Bar (after workout)

Lunch:
Turkey Mince and Vegetables + Mixed Leaf Salad + 4 x Corn Thins

Mid Afternoon snack:
Energy Smoothie - 400ml water + 30g Protein Powder

Dinner:
Grilled Salmon + Huge Mixed Leaf Salad + Capsicum (Red Pepper) + Tomato + 100g Almonds + Sliced Pear + Dressing.

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

Overall - Water consumption = done and will start to up it a little now on days that I am pushing myself. Am trying to mix up the times that I do my workouts to see if that affects my performance at all - stay tuned for updates

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