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.

• Premise and objective: Trigger the fat-to-fuel conversion process.
• Time period of the Program: Approximately 45 days
• Basic program: You will eat approximately 1,200 calories per day, every-other day no matter what’s going on in your life. It’s hard, suck it up!

  General Guidelines and Procedures

  1. You will consume approximately 1,200 calories per day, every-other day, using the menu of meal and snack options provided. Select the 6 meal/snacks you would like to eat, and go shopping to make sure they are all readily available so you don’t sabotage yourself with non-sense excuses.
  2. DO NOT, under any circumstances, use the menu 2 or more days in a row;
  3. It is strongly advised that, on the off days, you stick with all the foods, meal times, and quantities as already suggested to you through the nutritional information that has been provided to you via seminars and other materials;
  4. Measurements: See your trainer or find someone who can do measurements and body composition test. Do not depend solely on weight loss totals to measure your success;
  5. Review your social calendar and make sure you are prepared to adhere to the program no matter what’s going on.

  Remember! This program requires a fair amount of self-discipline and self-control – it cannot be a burden or stand in the way of your personal enjoyment, or you will most likely fall off like you have a dozen times before. This may then lead to the same feeling of self-defeatism that may have already played a part in how you put the weight on in the first place.

  However, it took a lot of time, effort, and cash to put the entire extra weigh ON, and it takes effort to get it off. Believe in yourself and the rest will be easy!

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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.

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• 45 Day Slimdown - Part 2
• 45 Day Slimdown - Counting Calories
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• Get Rid of Excess Fat - Part 2

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