The 45-day Slim-down is an important partner to a fitness training regimen and is designed to help you lose unwanted pounds while still enjoying many of the foods you are already consuming.

While there is no ‘Magic Bullet’ for successful and healthy excess weight loss, you can begin to convince your body that it doesn’t need the excess weight to survive. We make this change through the combination of the vigorous training, proper rest, and by consuming fat-burning, muscle toning foods loaded with the stuff your body craves for true tissue and metabolic health.

The only proven way to take off excess weight the healthy way is to take in fewer calories than you burn. This is called ‘Caloric Deficit’ [CD]. Many of you have established strong, toned muscles, and have lost inches and pounds of fat. However, it is typical to ‘hit a wall’... to get to the point where your body is not reacting to status quo anymore, meaning that the fat and inches will come off slower than the preceding weeks or months.

So, even though you’re eating right and training hard, the question you may ask is

HOW DO I LOSE MORE FAT?!!

When we hit the wall, we need to shock the system....again. This will be accomplished by adding a twist to your nutritional habits, by further conditioning the metabolism to burn more fat as fuel. We will convince your body that it’s okay to let go of those love handles and the other pockets of stored fat the body has been saving for a rainy day, and that it won’t starve in the process.

The nutritional program in this series of articles is designed to help you burn more fat as fuel, while maintaining your lean muscle tone, strength, and endurance. Though it is rather simple and easy to follow, it is important to adhere to all the rules without exception. Failure to do so will undermine your results.

Please remember!

• The triumvirate of total body fitness: Vigorous, load-bearing exercise; Proper nutrition, and; Rest. Any two without the third will yield a small fraction of the results you’re working for and you deserve.
• Don’t sabotage yourself! Sleep 7-8 hours each night, eat right, train hard. Stress will slow the process, as will erratic sleep patterns, alcohol, and smoking.

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  Lifestage Fitness was created by combining the best attributes of most contemporary fitness centers with unparallelled personal fitness services.

  Joe Ranieri is a 30-year veteran of the health and fitness industry, and is owner of Joe Ranieri’s LifeStage Fitness, an individualized fitness and nutrition training facility in suburban Chicago. Joe has helped hundreds of exercise enthusiasts of all ages and ability achieve their fitness goals using his simple, realistic approach to proper nutrition and exercise. Joe can be reached for questions regarding your desire for a healthy lifestyle through his email at joe@lifestagefitness.com.

  Understanding that life-changes do not occur overnight, Joe Ranieri provides a real-world approach to making regular exercise and proper nutrition second nature – an easy, sustainable way to gradually, and permanantly, help you help yourself.

• 45 Day Slimdown - Part 1
• 45 Day Slimdown - Part 2
• 45 Day Slimdown - Counting Calories
• Surviving Fad Diets - The "Lose Weight Fast" Scheme
• Get Rid of Excess Fat - Part 1
• Get Rid of Excess Fat - Part 2

• Childhood Obesity - Leading by Example
• Childhood Obesity Step 1- Portion Control
• Eliminating Childhood Obesity - Do's and Don'ts
• Eliminating Childhood Obesity - More Do's and Don'ts

• Manage Holiday Eating - Part 1
• Manage Holiday Eating - Part 2
• Manage Holiday Eating - Part 3