Today brings the good news section of how to eat properly for your
new lifestyle. The benefits are astounding. You will never be
hungry and you’ll have energy to spare, or to use in the gym.

You will lose weight. You will lose fat. You will gain lean muscle.
You will have energy. You will enjoy this.

You have to eat if you want to lose weight. Plain and simple. When
you eat the right foods throughout the course of your day, you will
find that you are satisfied and energized all the time.

Yes you will lose weight if you starve yourself, but you lose lean
muscle, not fat. Remember just because you are losing weight
doesn’t mean that you are losing fat.

Muscle helps dictate metabolism. Muscles burn calories because they
are metabolically active. Energy is passing in and out of muscle
tissues every second, every movement, with every smile and every
sneeze. Your muscles are continuously using energy supplies.

When you starve yourself by not consuming enough calories, your
body doesn’t react they way you might think. We are not grizzly
bears that feed off of fat reserves during the winter hibernation.
Your body reacts much differently.

If you consume insufficient calories, your body does two things
that are detrimental to healthy weight loss. Your body goes into
survival mode. It begins to shed muscle, because muscle requires
food to create energy for maintenance.

By burning muscle, your brain gets the nutrition that it needs to
function and your body gets rid of what uses the most calories for
daily maintenance. You need calories for survival and your body
will use the best source, muscle, first.

Your body also stores away the fats. Fat is used for survival also,
in times of famine. This is encoded in your DNA. Your body worked
hard to supply the fat cells with reserves and these reserves are
the last thing that your body wants to give up.

When you starve yourself, your body is depleting it’s muscle and
still trying to store all of the calories you consume in it’s fat
cells to survive through this time of malnutrition.

Yes you lose weight. Muscle weight. However, you are now retaining
more fat than ever before.

This results in a soft, flabby appearance. Your skin will start to
hang off of your body and you will look loose. Not tight, firm nor
toned.

You don’t want this and by eating often and properly you can change
this.

The only way to lose fat is to maintain lean muscle. You can
maintain lean muscle by feeding it the proper foods at the proper
times.

You need to eat. You need to eat often. You need to eat protein,
carbohydrates and fat. And thankfully, you need to eat junk food.

Welcome to eating for life 101. This is perhaps the most easy to
maintain diet ever. Because you are not dieting. You are eating
properly. However, you can have your cake and eat it too. I’ll show
you why.

Keep things simple and you will get results. Don’t add complexity
where it isn’t necessary. You will need to follow a few basic
guidelines.

First Rule of Eating For Life
Drink. As we talked about before, water is key. Caffeine is great
too. Unsweetened tea, hot or cold, coffee without milk, and any
other no calorie beverages that you like. Diet soda is OK in
moderation. Shoot for a gallon of no calorie beverages daily, and
use water for most of it.

Stay away from milk, sodas, fruit juice and other calorie/sugar
rich beverages. Sucrose glucose,  fructose and lactose are your
enemy.

Second Rule of Eating For Life
Eat 4-5 meals per day, every 4-5 hours. Eat an equal portion of
protein, low GI carbohydrates, and vegetables. Keep things simple
by eating the same few meals over and over again.

This prevents to much planning and decision making. Simplicity
yields great results. Let your plan revolve around a few basic
ingredients from your protein, carbohydrate, and vegetable source.
This eliminates confusion and provides clarity.

Third Rule of Eating For Life
Understand the Glycemic Index. Carbohydrates are not bad. Simple
carbohydrates are bad. Any food or drink that contains sugar,
fructose, glucose, lactose, or any other “-ose” is not on your plan.

Simple carbohydrates are also found in starches like white bread,
potatoes, pasta, cereal, breading on fried foods, and rice. These
items all rank high on the glycemic index.

These carbs are immediately digested and turned into sugar so your
body can use them. When they turn into sugar, your body releases
insulin, and stores these sugars as fat to keep your blood sugar
levels even.

Conversely, low GI carbs digest slowly. Slow digestion prevents the
release of insulin, keeps you satisfied, and helps maintain
consistent energy levels.

Fourth Rule of Eating For Life
Take a day off. Not just take a day off, but eat as much of the
sweets and junk food that you have been avoiding all week. This has
an amazing affect on fat loss and metabolism.

Your body will get accustomed to your new style of eating. It will
adapt to the changes that you make if you don’t add weekly
variation. So eat cake and candy and ice cream and pizza to excess.

This dramatic increase in calories keeps you satisfied mentally and
gets you through a disciplined week. At the end of the week you
have a day to indulge or fit it into your week for social outings
and merriment (drinking).

It also increases your metabolism by insuring that your body
doesn’t adjust to the same things day after day. Taking a free day
keeps your body guessing and revs up your metabolism for the coming
week.

It is a necessary mental and metabolic break that makes this eating
lifestyle sustainable for extended periods of time.

That’s it for rules. You can use this plan for your everyday life.
You can use it permanently to lose mass amounts of fat. You can use
it for a few weeks to lose 10 extra holiday pounds. You can use it
to build muscle. You can introduce it to kids. The possibilities
are endless.

Just keep it simple. Stay away from sugars and white carbs except
for your day off. Eat the same meals over and over. Too many
options gives you the opportunity to make an exception “just this
once” and that can turn into unknowing deviation.

And if you get off track just get back on. Once you experience how
easy this is you will see how you can get right back into your new
healthy habits.

And one more awesome thing to note. If you incorporate a
resistance/weight training routine into this plan, not only will
you see great gains in lean muscle, but you have given yourself a 1
hour time frame after a minimum 20 minute lifting session to eat
whatever you want.

Preferably lots of protein with any carbs of your choice. Eat a
steak sandwich or a burrito or a pizza with extra chicken. Go for
it. Your muscles will be hungry after your workout and they will
receive priority for energy replacement.

Don’t forget, you are what you eat 6 days a week so don’t go
overboard. Feed your muscles good foods and fats and they will
thank you for it.

Thanks and have another awesome day
Erick with Childish Energy

P.S. If eating often enough throughout the course of your day is
difficult at times, try this meal replacement shake to keep you on
track. Just substitute one of these when your tight on time and
only have a few minutes to knock out a meal.