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Eddie says dieters should never try fad diets, deprivation or cutting out a specific food group entirely. According to Eddie, education and not deprivation is the key to lasting weight loss success. “We have to educate those who want to lose weight on the proper food groups and about portion sizes as well. Boycotting bread to lose weight won’t work. What happens when you go back to eating bread again? You can’t do without it forever,” explains Eddie.

NJ Personal Trainer Says Don’t Ditch Carbs

“Carbs have a bad reputation on the diet block but that’s mostly because most people eat the wrong types of carbohydrates,” he says. According to Eddie, complex carbs like whole grain bread, wheat and oatmeal give you energy and contain fiber, two important components for losing weight. “You need energy to be active and workout and fiber helps your system regulate itself so your metabolism can be free of toxins and burn efficiently.

Eddie says that the carbs that should be ditched are ‘simple carbs’. These include candy, white rice, white flour, white bread, regular pastas, sugar, etc. Simple carbs are refined—not natural and can lead to weight gain, diabetes, obesity, cardio vascular disease and more.

Eddie says the first step in getting healthy is to switch all white breads and regular pastas out for wheat breads and wheat pastas and exchange soda for water. “Just that little change could actually help some people start to lose weight right off the bat,” says Eddie.

Eddie is a personal trainer, fitness expert and owner of Ultimate Fitness, a 24 hour gym in Ocean Township. He offers the ‘Ultimate 6’ weight loss program which is a 6 week diet that cleans out the toxins and kick starts your metabolism.

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Ingredients

Cooking spray

1/2 cup honey

1/2 cup natural creamy peanut butter

2 tablespoons maple syrup

1 tablespoon canola oil

1/4 cup light brown sugar

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups rolled oats

2 cups crisp brown rice cereal

1/4 cup toasted wheat germ

1/2 cup chopped roasted peanuts

1/2 cup chopped dried apricots

1/2 cup chopped dried figs

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

Directions

Spray a 9 by 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.

In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine honey, peanut butter, maple syrup, canola oil, brown sugar, cinnamon. Stir and cook until mixture just begins to bubble, about 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract.

In a large bowl, combine oats, rice cereal, wheat germ, peanuts, apricots, figs and salt.

Pour peanut butter mixture over oatmeal mixture and stir gently with a spatula until well combined. Transfer to baking dish, cover with parchment paper and press firmly into dish. Allow to cool completely (will cool faster in the refrigerator). Cut into squares or bars.

Nutrition analysis per serving:

• Calories: 240
• Total fat: 10g
• Saturated fat: 1.5g
• Carbohydrate: 30g
• Protein: 6g
• Sodium: 70mg

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I’m not talking drastic changes, I’m talking simple things you can do right now to help you shed the first few pounds.  See, once you shed the first few pounds by making these simple changes, you will be motivated. You’ll be asking me for the next set of tips to help you continue your weight loss.

So here they are, simple things you can change, swap out, or eliminate to help you shed some quick lbs.  And yes, these really do make a BIG difference!

1. Instead of cream and sugar in your coffee use milk and sweet n’ low
2. Instead of white bread and regular semolina pasta–choose whole wheat (every super market offers a wide selection of whole wheat pastas, breads, english muffins, hamburger buns, etc)
3. Change white rice out for brown rice
4. If you drink regular soda, switch to diet, or cut your total day portion by 50% if you don’t want to switch to diet
5. Before you eat each meal, drink a full cup of water
6. Try turkey meat or bison (buffalo) meat instead of regular beef (a lot of diners and chain restuarants now offer turkey burgers or buffalo burgers.  Bison (buffalo) meat is practially a dead ringer for red meat)
7. Instead of regular chips, get the baked..Doritos, Potato Chips, etc..they all now come in a ‘baked’ version that have less fat

These are just a few to start out with.  If I didn’t touch on anything that relates to you, send me an email and we can work up some more simple changes that you can use to help you shed pounds effortlessly.

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Now imagine another scenario…you start your fire with a few pieces of wood, it’s blazing.  In a couple of hours, before the fire has a chance to slow down too much, you through another 2-3 pieces of wood in it.  What happens? It blazes again, nice and strong, burns the wood up real fast.

Think of your metabolism like a fire.  The less you feed it, the slower it burns (calories).  The more often you toss in a few small, sensible meals, it continues to blaze and burn off calories real quickly.

Don’t you hate those people who can eat whatever they want and never gain a pound?  They have a fast metabolism. You may not, but you can train your metabolism to speed up, just by eating the right foods frequently.

This is why you always here people saying eat 5-6 small meals per day.  Ok so what constitutes a small meal?  Here are a few examples.  Keep in mind portions, a portion healty portion should be the size of your fist or palm.

Examples of small meals:

• Breakfast- egg whites and oatmeal
• Lunch: sliced turkey, apples, broccoli
• Dinner: Salmon, brown rice, veggies

If you eat meals like this, you can eat 5-6 times a day.  You will never feel hungry or deprived, your metabolism will be stimulated to burn calories efficiently, and you will lose weight.

Email me for more ‘small meal’ ideas.  njfitnessexpert@aol.com