Boost Your Metabolism by Holiday Feasting?

With Thanksgiving feasts and other holiday gatherings coming up soon, you might think that you have to surrender your body to automatically gaining LOADS of body fat this holiday season.

But alas... you'd be mistaken!

In fact, there is a scientifically proven way to manipulate your hormonal response to these holiday feasts to actually get LEANER this holiday season and INCREASE your metabolic rate (if you follow some specific techniques...otherwise, you'll just gain fat like usual)

This concept is the entire basis of my colleague Joel Marion's Cheat Your Way Thin System - Holiday Edition

For Thanksgiving and the rest of this holiday season, the truth is that you DON'T have to give up your desserts, your glorious stuffing and mashed potatoes, your delicious pumpkin pie and ice cream, your holiday egg nog, and all of the other party treats you'll be tempted with...

(I know I certainly don't give any of that up...and I'm one of the strictest nutrition professionals around!)

However, it's vitally important that you know EXACTLY how to manage this aspect of overeating on the specific days that you have gatherings (along with the proper way to combine this with strategic exercise) during this holiday season to actually give you an advantage in firing up your metabolism and maximizing the correct hormones to get you LEANER instead of fatter during this holiday season.

Make sure to read the page below ASAP, because Joel has some killer bonuses and coaching sessions available for you if you take action on the first day of this launch (that's today!)

Boost your metabolism and get LEANER by strategic feasting


And enjoy that turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and pumpkin pie!

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer

Recent controversial article:

The Controversy over the "Twinkie Diet"

Burns more calories than jogging?

Based on all of the buzz going around lately about the brand-new 1000-Calorie Challenge (which yes, burns WAY more calories than jogging ever will), we put together a little interview below to help answer some of the questions about this program...


Mike: There's been a lot of buzz going around lately regarding your 1,000 Calorie Challenge program, but can you give my readers a little more insight as to what the program entails?

Joel: Sure thing. The 1,000 Calorie Challenge is an 8-week rapid fat loss program that I truly to believe to be the most strategic, rapid fat loss progression system ever developed.

It's made up of two phases - Phase 1 which rapidly builds you up to doing 1,000 calorie workouts, and Phase 2 which are the actual 1,000 calorie sessions.

To further up the ante, we combine these workouts with three strategically placed 1,000 calorie diet days each week. The result, as you can probably guess, is extremely rapid fat loss.

Mike: During one of our previous conversations you mentioned that you combine the 1,000 calorie workouts with the 1,000 calorie diet days to achieve what you refer to as "The #1 Rule of Fat Loss". Can you talk about that for a minute?

Joel: Of course, and you're right. The #1 rule of fat loss is that in order to lose fat fast, you absolutely MUST create a massive calorie deficit. That is, you need to burn more calories than you consume...a LOT more.

Essentially, fat loss is a math game. The more calories you have going out, the more fat you have coming off.

Mike: What do you feel is the best way to achieve a calorie deficit?

Joel: Well, there are a few ways, and it's BEST when you use all three, and that's exactly what the 1,000 calorie challenge does.

1. Burn more calories
2. Consume fewer calories
3. Increase metabolism

We burn more calories through metabolically taxing resistance training, we consume fewer calories on strategically placed low-calorie diet days, and we increase metabolism through something call the "afterburn" effect.

Mike: Can you talk more about that?

Joel: Yes, and this is one of the coolest parts about the 1,000 Calorie Challenge. Not only have our workouts been tested to burn 1,000 calories during the actual workout, but they've also been shown to dramatically increase metabolic rate for up to 48 hours after the workout due to the strategic style of resistance training we've implanted in the program.

That means if you're sitting there on the couch watching football on Sunday, you'll still be burning calories from your Friday workout. Pretty cool, huh?

Bottom line, our 1,000 calorie workouts in all actuality burn at least DOUBLE that number when you account for the massive afterburn created from the intense resistance training nature of each workout.

Mike: Very cool, now you mentioned that most people won't start with the 1,000 calorie workouts, but you do have a system in place to progress them to that level really quickly. This is one of the most intriguing parts of the program. Can you touch on that briefly?

Joel: Absolutely. And I agree, the strategic progression system we use in Phase 1 to graduate people to 1,000 calorie workouts is what sets this program apart from literally any other program on the market. That fact is, most people can't do a 1,000 calorie workout and most people never will be able to reach that level with their current training.

BUT, we've been able to take even relative beginners and get them there in 4 weeks or less. We use two different progression systems - one called R-Quattro where we manipulate 4 different training variables strategically from workout to workout: reps, rest, rounds, and resistance. The other we call SSP or Strategic Set Progression which progresses the style of the workout from week to week. I talk about that more at the page here:  Learn More About Strategic Set Progression

Mike: Those two systems are definitely two of my favorite aspects of the program. Another question we've received from readers this week is just how much weight can people expect to lose on this program?

Joel: That's an interesting question, and instead of just throwing a number out there, I'll prove it with simple math:

Let's say you burn X amount of calories currently. Add three 1,000+ calorie workouts to your bottom line each week, and you'll be burning at least TWICE as much.

Now add another 1,000 calorie AFTERBURN x 3 as you hang out at home as a result of those workouts.

Now add another 1,000 - 2,000 calorie deficit x 3 from the strategic 1,000 calorie diet days.

Here's the math:

1,000 x 3 thousand calorie workouts.
1,000 x 3 for the afterburn
1,500 x 3 for the 1,000 calorie diet days
500 x 3 for the moderate diet days

That right there is 12,000 calories or AT LEAST 4 pounds of pure fat every week.

And that's about the average fat loss we've seen on this program - 3 to 5 pounds of pure fat in a single week.

Mike: Interesting breakdown for sure!  Thanks Joel, appreciate you taking the time to lay out the details of the program to my readers.

Joel: Anytime Mike.

Go here to get started with the 1000-Calorie Challenge

Enjoy the program!  It's a good challenge!

Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer

Amazing hiking and pictures of Loreto Mexico

I've been in Loreto, Mexico this week on a combination business/pleasure trip, and along with some business discussions with the one and only Dr. Kareem (the inventor of the Double Edge Fat Loss System), we've done a bunch of fun activities like climbing a small but vertical peak with a cliff that overlooked the ocean, did 2 great scuba dives yesterday seeing some amazing marine wildlife and underwater cliffs, and also did what I would say is the best hike I've ever been on in my life!

I wanted to show you some pics from this one particular hike because it was so incredible, and it was also an extremely fun and challenging hike that involved almost as much climbing as actual hiking, involved some bouldering, and even some climbing through several caves to get where we needed to go!

Remember that I live in the beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountains and do a lot of hiking and mountain biking, so finding a hike that can impress me more than colorado takes a lot.

But this hike/climb in Loreto, MX was unlike any hike I've done in the states... it was also an awesome workout, had very unique and beautiful desert/canyon/arroyo scenery, and like I said, also involved almost as much climbing up cliffs, boulders, and caves, as it did normal hiking.

Here are some pics from our hike/climb:

Going through the canyon with Dr Kareem, his wife Karen, and me and Nayri

This was a different hike that we did to the top of a small peak that overlooked the Sea of Cortez.  beautiful!

still going up!

here's a crazy tarantula that we saw while hiking the canyon... yes, this thing was about the size of my hand!  a little freaky.

here's Karen coming out of one of the caves we had to climb up and through to continue on our canyon trail.

a look back down part of the canyon we had hiked up. Notice the Sea of Cortez in the background.

more scenery from inside the Baja desert canyon

these are some of the massive boulders that we had to climb over.

And our reward for the hard hiking... some margaritas later that evening overlooking the ocean!!

Hope you enjoyed the pics.

Some recent articles:

13 Healthy Fat-Burning Snacks

Interesting results of "energy drink" study

High-protein Chocolate Pudding recipe

A trick to prevent a hangover

How to Prevent a Hangover

I was at a Halloween party last night with some friends having a few drinks, and the topic of hangovers came up (along with a few laughs about the movie, The Hangover). Now personally, I never really get hangovers, even if I have a few too many, so I haven't tried this myself...

but 2 of my friends specifically said that they used to get hangovers after a night of drinking, but now they take something called VGF25+ (a whole foods based vitamin, which the name stands for 25 veggies, greens, and fruits) and this somehow prevents the hangover, they believe.

They told me that what they do is take one of the VGF25+ caps before they go to bed with some water after a night of drinking, and they haven't had a hangover since they've been doing this. Again, I haven't tried this myself, but you can grab some VGF25+ here and try it as a hangover preventative for yourself.

Also, if you missed it a couple weeks ago, I published an article about the whole topic of drinking and some specific tips to balance this aspect of your life and stay lean if you choose to partake in some social drinking. A lot of people struggle with packing on lbs from alcohol, but I also know that most people don't want to fully give up social drinking altogether.

So I give 7 specific tips in this article below about how to prevent packing on the blubber and still enjoy a little bit of social drinking in moderation.

7 Tips to Stay Lean and Still Enjoy Social Drinking


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Mike Geary
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Certified Personal Trainer