**WEIRD** Body Transformation Tip

Eat low carb.  Eat low fat.

Drink milk. Don’t drink milk.

Grains are good.  Grains are bad.

Eat whey protein.  Nope, only choose soy.  High fructose corn syrup is the devil.  Or is it artificial sweeteners?

Nutrition can be confusing.  When you let it get to you…

But *THIS* single factor may be the most important thing you ever hear when it comes to transforming your body.

Yes, THE most important thing you ever hear.

Ready?

STOP THINKING.

Weird, right?

I once had a football coach who would remind us, when you messed up, to "don’t f****** think."  Maybe a bit harsh.  So we’re sugar coating it a bit and simply saying STOP THINKING.

What do we mean?

Stop OVERthinking.

Every time you log on to the internet, pick up a magazine, turn on the tv or radio, you’re bombarded with some nutrition message.  Maybe it’s a recent study.  Maybe an advertisement or infomercial.  Much of what you see conflicts with something you may have read the day or week before.  In fact we recently wrote about a new study in what we called the "Great Calorie Con"  — one of the conclusions was that potatoes were one of the foods responsible for people gaining weight.

Potatoes?  The media was all over it — but is it really potatoes we should be worrying about (assuming whole potatoes) when kids are eating 100 lbs of sugar each year and adults even more than that?  Or when we eat several hundred calories more each day than just a few short decades ago, get close to 8% of all of our calories each day from soft drinks, and about 26% of the population is 100% physically inactive?

Let’s not split hairs and instead focus on the BIG picture.  The other day we were at the store and they were giving out samples of a smoothie — advertising the Vitamix blender — they had the ingredients they were using, which included "organic turbinado sugar."  A woman, who was clearly trying to lose weight judging from the books she had in her cart, next to us looked at her husband and said "wow, this is really good — and, look, I told you we should have bought the organic sugar like they’re using."

Really?  Is that what people think is the problem?

And that’s why we say stop over thinking.

Transforming your body isn’t as complicated as people make it out to be.

• You’ll get results when you fill half your plate at each meal with more colorful veggies.
• You’ll get results when you replace liquid candy (errr, soft drinks) with water.
• You’ll get results when you start to move more.
• You’ll get results when you replace typical snacks (pretzels, chips, etc) with a piece of fruit.
• You’ll get results when you eat foods with less ingredients on the label (aim for less than 5 per food).
• You’ll get results when you start planning ahead and stop flying by the seat of your pants.
• You’ll get results when you start to sleep more consistently and regularly
• You’ll get results when you stop thinking and start following the tips and strategies above.

Don’t split hairs over minute details.  Go back to basics to get RESULTS!  The less you get your mind involved, the better your results…

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