New YOUs Challenge

"Happy New Year"

And with all of the joy, comes our new found resolve to achieve great things. Lose weight, get fit, make money, find the perfect mate...and on and on it goes. We hear a lot about "New Year's Resolutions". I wonder why we never hear about "New Month's Resolutions" or "New Week's Resolutions" or even "New Day's Resolutions". I suppose it is because we only make one attempt a year at trying to achieve our goals.

Yet, if you are vaguely human, then you probably have abandoned your New Year's Resolution before the end of Jan. That gives you 11 months to ponder what went wrong before the next year.

What is it about us that we cant keep up with our plans? Why can't we keep up with our great ambitions? There are 3 Ps that are vital to achieving our New Year's Resolutions - Passion, Purpose, and Path.

On Jan 1 we have a Passion. Maybe as a result of the hangover from the New Year's Eve party...or the extra flab still clinging tenaciously to us from the previous year...but whatever it is we have a passion to achieve our goal.

Next there is the Purpose...the goal, the result we want. We can see it. We can see our new toned form, our fit bod. We know exactly what it is.

But alas, it is the last P...Path that is most times missing. You can have all the Passion (push), all the Purpose (pull) but without the Path - the pipe between push and pull, we never get there.

So, forget the New Year's Resolution - I'm challenging you to a "New YOUs Resolution". This is much more fun, and something you WILL achieve.

Pop in here - http://ping.fm/pKuZg - and sign up. This is something YOU will achieve and the rewards include - great bod, improved health, more wealth...OK, all sounds too good to be true. Well, try the challenge...it's FREE so you have nothing to lose...

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Science shows how to shed festive fat

It's the festive season, and while wallets wane, waists weight! It's just all that fatty, rich...and really tasty food, that we can't do without. But is there any hope, or should we simply resign ourselves to entering the new year with more of us than last year?

The good news is that a study reported on in the Journal of Physiology, found interesting results. They tested 3 groups of eager eaters, by feeding them Fine Fatty Festive Fare (even prior to the season) for 6 weeks.

Group 1 - Feast and NO Exercise. Well, as you can imagine this group of indulgers found themselves rotundly swelled gaining 3kg (6lbs) after just 6 weeks. That's like strapping 6 bricks of butter to your waste...or butt!

Group 2 - Feast and then Exercise. After chomping down their fine fare they went out for a run or cycle. This group alas, also swelled up, but only by 1.5kg (3lbs)...that's only 3 bricks of butter...not too bad...butt....

Group 3 - Exercise then Feast. This group ran (or cycled) before sinking their teeth into their fatty fare. And after 6 weeks of feasting...they had not gained any weight!

Quite simply, exercise increases metabolic rate (that important furnace needed to burn the excess food). So even though the exercise is over and we're feasting, the metabolic furnace is operating in hyperdrive and burning as quick as you put it in.

So, get out and do an early morning run, and you'll not only enjoy your meal more, you'll be able to enjoy more of your meal...no if's or butts!

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