Body Transformation Tip

Healthy eating and eating to transform your body are not necessarily the same thing. In order to make significant changes to your appearance (decrease body fat/increase muscle) you have to be really smart about nutrient timing and selection. Simply watching your calories or "eating healthy" is not good enough.

You can see for your own eyes perfect evidence of this in our documentary "I Want to Look Like That Guy". In the first half of the DVD you'll view what we call Phase 1 of the experiment where Stuart follows Max-OT training/cardio with no real attention to nutrient totals. I instructed him to be mindful of his food selections and to make healthy choices but again, with no specific detail.

Over the 18 weeks of Phase 1 Stuart did make progress by dropping fat and increasing muscle but nothing dramatic. The magic didn't happen until we started what I like to call "functional eating" or eating designed to get a specific result. This all plays out in front of your eyes in Phase 2 when Stuart goes from over 30% body fat to less than 6% body fat in a 6 month period.

If you are eating healthy and watching calories but not getting the results you seek you need to examine your nutrition plan. "I Want to Look Like That Guy" gives you a great real world example of how "functional eating" can take your results to the next level.

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Diet drinks and fat loss.

I was recently asked if consuming diet soda or other zero calorie drinks was OK or would it ruin fat loss results?

I firmly believe based on my own experience that diet drinks will not impede fat loss. I achieved the best shape of my career in 2003 and I consumed A LOT of diet drinks including diet soda and coffee with calorie free sweetener during the process.

Diet drinks helped control cravings and kept me feeling satisfied, particularly as my calories were skimmed lower and lower.

So I say lets drink a toast to fat loss with a glass of your favorite diet soda! Cheers!!

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New Training Journal Now Available!

I'm happy to announce that the new and improved "Jeff Willet Training Journal" is now available.

I improved upon the last version by adding 20% more pages for logging your workouts as well as a more durable gold foiled stamped cover for greater longevity.

The journals design is based on exactly how I logged my workouts over the years. I wish I had created this back when I was competing as it is way more convenient than the old notebook I had to use.

I am very happy with how this new journal turned out and think you will be too!

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New Interview

Thought you might like to check out a recent interview I did for simplyshredded.com.

http://www.simplyshredded.com/ifbb-pro-natural-bodybuilder-jeff-willet-talks-with-simplyshredded-com.html

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Fat Loss Tip - Vegetables are your best friend.

One of the nutrition principles that helped me achieve the greatest condition of my career was the inclusion of lots of vegetables during my pre-contest preparation. The lower my calories dropped, the more vegetables I consumed and the leaner I became!

Vegetables, especially the green crunchy ones, are like negative calories and you can not over eat them. They provide a lot of food volume with very few calories and this is critical for keeping your metabolism humming along while eating a low or controlled calorie diet.

My favorite was green beans. I bought them frozen and microwaved them. Then I added no fat/no calorie butter spray along with Frank's RedHot sauce.

In our documentary "I Want to Look Like That Guy" you can see Stu using the same nutrition principles I did to go from over 30% body fat to less than 6% body fat in 6 months. I advised him to eat lots of vegetables and he did with great success. Stu chose broccoli.

Someone I respect a lot in this field is Pauline Nordin. Just take a look at her FighterDiet blog and you'll see the importance she places on vegetables for becoming lean and maintaining it. Her vegetable of choice is cabbage. Pauline is a great example of what you can do drug free with the right approach and the right work ethic.

So the moral of this story is if you are trying to target body fat, vegetables are your best friend so eat up! Just remember not to add anything to them that adds calories. Any zero calorie condiments and spices are fine.

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Fat Loss Tip - Calorie Reductions

One of the main components in the fat loss equation is calories. You need to be mindful of how many calories you are taking in each day. If you are not showing the results you desire it is likely you need to eat fewer calories but be careful, calorie cuts should be made with a scalpel not a hatchet.

Don't do a dramatic cut all at once or you risk committing metabolic suicide. You need to make your reductions gradual over a period of time. I advise dropping approximately 100-200 calories every 7 to 14 days.

I get into this topic and discuss other nutrition principles in detail in the new DVD I am working on now, including how to structure a good beginning meal plan with smart nutrient ratios for building muscle and burning fat.

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Physique Transformation Tip

Muscle and fat are two different tissues. Contrary to what you may have heard you can't turn fat into muscle and conversely if you stop working out, muscle will not turn into fat.

If you are over weight and your main emphasis is fat loss you still need a strong muscle building component to your plan (This goes for women too!). Don't feel you need to lose fat before you focus on building muscle. It is quite the opposite.

Remember, every ounce of muscle you build you will increase your resting metabolic rate and encourage greater fat loss.

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