Is your goal to lose fat in 2009?
If you answered yes…….I have on big step that you must do if you are serious about fat loss….
DO NOT SKIP BREAKFAST!
If you skip breakfast you are setting yourself up for failure.
Why?
1) Eating Breakfast kick starts your metabolism first thing in the morning.
2) Eating breakfast can stablize your blood sugar and energy for the day
3) Eating breakfast will control your appetite for the next meal so you do not overeat.
4) Eating breakfast will help prevent losing lean muscle.
Breakfast is still the most important meal of the day no matter what your goal is!
What should you eat for breakfast for the best results?
Come back tomorrow to find out! 
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
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Weight loss is always a New Year’s resolution in January……….
Come New Year most go on a low calorie diet and do cardio/aerobic exercise like crazy in hopes to see that number on the scale go down…..
Unfortunately, this is the wrong approach…….
Weight Loss on the almighty scale can consist of 3 things:
1) Water
2) Muscle
3) Fat
If you are not exercising and eating correctly most of your weight loss will consist of water and muscle…..
Water is temporary and meaningless yet shows up on the scale! But losing muscle will prevent your body from burning fat efficiently! If you are doing anything that’s causing you to lose muscle you are setting yourself up for long term failure…..and you will gain the weight back.
Diets and cardio are NOT the answer…….
The Right exercise and the Right Nutrition are!!
It’s about fat loss people not about weight loss….
Anyone can lose weight…but can YOU lose fat?
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
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When you’re shopping for foods on a fat loss program there is 3 food ingredients you should be trying to avoid at all costs:
1) High Fructose Corn Syrup- an unnatural sweetener made from fructose and corn. It’s injected into food to increase shelf life and to make it taste sweeter so you will buy more of it.
2) Bleached/Enriched Flour- flour that’s been bleached and stripped of fiber and vitamins and then some of the nutrients are added back in so it can legally be sold as food.
3) Hydrogenated Oils- trans fat the #1 cause of heart disease in a America.
-Foods containing these ingredients are unnatural and your body will easily store them as fat. Foods that are more natural will be used more efficiently as fuel and not stored.
Some foods contain all 3 of these ingredients…so be careful and read your food labels!
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
Filed under Nutrition, weight loss by on Dec 12th, 2008. Comment.
After a long day at work……..
Or a long day of taking care of the kids……
We have all said this before: “I’m too tired to work out”
Can you be too tired to workout?
Yes and no…….if your sleep deprived yes..if your just tired from a long day no….
Exercise will actually increase your metabolism and your body temperature..this will lead to a increase in energy and alertness.
I have never heard anyone after a great workout say…”Why did I do that?”
But I have heard plenty of people say: “I’m too tired to workout”
“If you’re too tired to workout then you’re too tired to sleep on the couch and watch television!”
Working out will give you energy……laying on the couch will make you more tired!
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach
~David Modderman
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Are you looking to change your body in 2009?
Is this the year you are finally going to make that change?
If your in the Grand Rapids area I have the answer for you…..
Coming in January!
The 10 week Metabolism Makeover!
- Lose pounds and pounds of body fat
- Tone lean muscle
- Change your poor eating habits
- Win great prizes
Do all this by eating more food than you ever have and exercising only 3 hours per week!
RESULTS GUARANTEED!
For More Information Contact David at:
616-824-8311
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It’s December………………
Are you waiting like everyone else?
Waiting till January to starting eating better and exercising?
One of the top News Years resolutions every year is to lose weight, get in shape, and get healthy. Yet most fail to follow through with this in January maybe they do for a few weeks and then eventually they get busy and quit all together.
Do you want to fail like everyone else?
Then maybe it’s time to STOP waiting and START doing!
Today is just as a good day as any to start that workout and that eating better.
Just think if you start now you will already have made it a habit by January and you will already have 1 month of results before anyone else.
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
Filed under Lifestyle, weight loss by on Dec 2nd, 2008. Comment.
Halloween is over! But do you still have some extra candy laying around?
Do you find it hard to go a day without some chocolate, soda pop, or ice cream?
If so you just might have a sugar addiction.
Oh no! Does this mean you need to check yourself into rehab or go to Sugar Addicts Anonymous?
No, not necessarily but if you finding yourself not making it through the day without your late afternoon pop or candy pick me up then you might need some help jumping off the sugar high roller coaster.
When you eat simple sugar all that sugar is absorbed through your blood stream at once. So for that moment you now have high blood sugar. The problem with this is your body has a hormone called “Insulin”. Insulin is a storage hormone and it’s job is remove all that sugar from your blood and store it into your muscles and liver. The major problem with this is insulin does such a great job of removing this sugar it actually removes to much…so from this you will end up with low blood sugar!
When you have low blood sugar guess what? Your body will crave MORE SUGAR. You will choose more sugar and start the up and down roller coaster all over again.
The nice thing is you can break this cycle and kill your sugar addiction with the right plan. Once you are off the sugar addiction you can have twice as much energy and burn twice as much fat than you ever did before.
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
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I have worked with a lot of clients over the years and have discussed nutrition with almost all of them. I have never ate perfect all my life infact I don’t eat perfect now and never claimed to. But I still feel its my responsibility as a Fitness and Nutrition Coach to educate people on what is a healthy food choice for them and their family and what is not.
That brings us to peanut butter. Most people love peanut butter and you grew up with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as a kid and still love them today as an adult. But the questions I always ask my clients and others during my supermarket tours is what kind of peanut butter do you buy?
An the answer that comes back 90% of the time is JIF!
JIF peanut butter, looking back that’s what I had as a kid. I don’t think my mom new better. But I do now.
Here is the JIF peanut butter ingredients:
MADE FROM ROASTED PEANUTS AND SUGAR. CONTAINS 2 PERCENT OR LESS OF: MOLASSES, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN), FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS (RAPESEED AND SOYBEAN), MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES AND SALT.
What it is partially and fully hydrogenated vegetable oils? It’s a long ingredient name for trans fat! The #1 cause for heart disease in America. It is in JIF and thousands of foods in America.
But David……”JIF it tastes so good” yeah with sugar and transfat mixed in together something tastes so good…is making your health so bad!
Do you know reduced fat JIF is worse than regular JIF? How? JIF peanut butter and most peanut butters have some healthy fats (peanut oil) mixed in with the bad fats (trans fat). Reduced fat JIF Peanut butter actually removes the good fats from the peanut butter to reduce the fat but then leaves the trans fat in. Shocking? I say so.
So what would be a better choice “Natural Peanut butter.” Here is the ingrediants of most natural peanut butters.
INGREDIANTS: Peanuts
Wow! Do you see the difference?
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
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Last night my date and I went out to dinner. We had a nice meal at the Winter Inn in Greenville, MI. This was our first time there. It was an interesting atmosphere keeping in mind the place was built in 1902.
Not to mention in my opinion it could be haunted.
After our dinner was done we are talking and I was expecting our waitress to bring us the check. But instead our waitress comes out to greet us with not a check but a dessert plate with 4 types of desserts. She doesn’t come out and ask “are you guys interested in dessert?” Or after asking us if we wanted dessert and we said yes then she could have brought out the plate. She just comes out and shoves it in our face like “here do guys like temptation?” Was I tempted? Never… dessert has never been my thing and I had a nice sweet potato and chicken breast for dinner and was perfectly satisifed.
Did I buy my date want dessert? Thats really not important is it? What is important is that unhealthy food is being pushed on us everyday and the person doing it doesn’t think twice.
It could be a waitress who has no concern maybe someone at the table is trying to eat healthy and make better choices. She just wants a bigger tip….(she didn’t get one).
It doesnt matter if its a owner of a fast food chain who doesn’t care that he/she is tempting people through advertisment and serving unheathly food to billions of people worldwide.
Watching the Texas and Oklahoma football game and seeing that 98% of the food available to buy at the stadium is deep fried and has no nutritional value.
Yes, I agree no one is making us eat this food, junk food doesn’t tempt me. But I know for billions of others it does..and ITS EVERYWHERE! Sometimes its the only choice!
I predict soon obesity will be the #1 death in the United States.
Does this bother you?
It should……..
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach
~David Modderman
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I cheered him on for every one of his 8 gold medals. He will go down as the greatest Olympian of our time. Yet after the article I read about him today he honestly has let me down.
After winning 8 gold medals the millions of dollars of endorsements are rolling in. Being in such great demand Michael Phelps could choose to team up with any endorsement he wanted and get paid handsomely for it.
I read the Michael Phelps foundation and Kellogg’s are teaming up and working together to promote children being active.
This is great news right?
With the rise of obesity in our children, and our kids becoming more inactive every day I honestly believe helping and promoting kids being active is great. Children are now suffering from Type II diabetes, which used to be an adult only disease. Kids are leaving the doctors office being diagnosed with heart problems, and high cholesterol and they have not even reached puberty yet.
Why are kids suffering from all these issues?
The problem is they do not exercise, and they are not active. Their life revolves around the computer, television, and video games. They eat junk food, and fast food. All these foods contain too much sugar, and they are consuming all this sugar while they are sitting on their behinds.
I am glad that Phelps and Kellogg’s are apparently trying to get kids more active .
However, the article shows Michael Phelps on the boxes of Corn Flakes, Frosted Flakes and Rice Krispie treats.
Maybe Michael Phelps doesn’t have much say in what products his face goes on, but I hate to say it I don’t think Kelloggs is really trying to make our kids healthier. They seem just to be in it to sell more of their foods with a superstar athlete on the box. These foods he will be featured on are unhealthy and full of sugar and high fructose syrup and will do nothing to help our kids get healthier.
Michael Phelps also sold out to MacDonalds. So I now guestion if he so concerned about kids health why would he be promoting MacDonalds?
Phelps diet of 12,000 calories per day that was published in the media a few months ago was nothing but junk food! I didn’t come down on him then because being a Nutritionist I know with him being so active if was eating really nutritious food for training he have to eat 3 times the volume of food he was already eating. Since more nutritious food is lower in calories. This would be the only way to get the calories he needed to perform.
We should all know by now that Mickie D’s food and all fast food is poison to us and our kids.
Michael Phelps and Kelloggs you let me down today.
MacDonalds you let me down everyday!
I would love to get some feedback from everyone out there. Let me know what you think about this story?
Your Fitness and Nutrition Coach,
~David Modderman
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