Anafit Ezine Vol 1 The Anafit Diet

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This is the first edition. Chuck Z discusses diet and training as well as nutrition and the Anafit Diet.
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Welcome to the first edition of Anafit E-Zine.
We are going to be covering several topics in the upcoming months, but this month I
want to concentrate on fat loss. Everybody wants to know why we
gain fat, why is it so hard to loose fat and what is the most
effective way to accelerate fat loss? Let's just delve right into it.
Why do we gain body fat?
1. Over consumption of Calories. If we take in more calories than
our body can burn off, we tend to store the calories as fat. It is our
body's way of trying to save food for energy in case of famine. We
are still programmed the way we were thousands of years ago and
our body doesn't care how we look, only that we can survive when
food becomes scarce.
2. Calories in have to equal calories out to stay the same weight.
When we put ourselves in a caloric deficit (less calories in than
out) through either working out or caloric restriction than we start
to burn body fat (but not only) as fuel.
3. Eating too little. This might sound just the opposite of the last
paragraph, but eating TOO LITTLE can also make us gain weight.
If a person eats one or two meals a day, the metabolism starts to
slow down. This reduces the metabolic rate (the speed that our
body converts food into energy) of the body. When this happens
your body will more easily gain weight and store foods that you
eat as fat. In order to avoid this problem, we must eat more small
meals throughout the day. This will raise the metabolic rate and
allow more food to be consumed daily without putting fat weight
on.
4. Carbohydrates, proteins and fats. We have 3 main
macronutrients: protein, carbohydrates (sugars) and fats (lipids).
We need all three of them for our body to function properly.
Protein is needed for repair of the muscles, as fuel in cases where
carbohydrate consumption is scarce (gluconeogenesis) and enzyme
activity. Carbohydrates are needed to fuel the liver, muscles and
brain and fats are needed to regulate hormones (estrogen,
testosterone) and also provide fuel for the body and brain. For the
sake of this discussion this is an oversimplification of what the
three basic nutrients do, but I think you get the idea. All three are
extremely important.
5. Thyroid (T3) hormone. T3 is responsible for speeding up or
slowing down the metabolism. We have two main types of thyroid
hormone, T3 and T4. T4 acts as a reservoir for T3. When T3 levels
need to be increased, the body uses T4 to make T3, which is
responsible for speeding up your metabolism. The higher the level
of T3, the faster the metabolism becomes. You can check your
thyroid levels out with a simple test: Take your body temperature
in the morning with a thermometer when you wake up. Find out
what your average body temperature is. If you eat only once a day,
you should find that it is slightly below what an average body temp
(98.6 F) should be. Please be advised that most people are
normally within 1 degree either way of this, so find out your
average and when it drops below your baseline, chances are T3
production is not where is should be and your metabolism has
slowed a bit. Gauge your T3 levels on your body temperature. If
body temperature is above your baseline, you either have a fever or
you are burning fat at a higher rate than normal.
6. Not controlling your insulin levels. You have undoubtedly heard
about the hormone insulin. Insulin is a storage hormone that tries
to clear the blood of sugar, lipids or protein. When sugar is eaten
and enters the blood stream by the absorption of the small
intestine, the pancreas begins to secrete insulin in order to make
use of the sugar. The two main areas that insulin will shuttle the
sugar are the muscle cells or fat cells. When the body is not very
efficient at clearing the blood (insulin resistance) it tends to keep
producing insulin to get rid of the sugar. With this happens, the
sugar takes a likely route to become stored as fat. This insulin
resistance leads to fat gain because most of the sugar gets stored
this way. This is also the start of Type II diabetes, which has
become an epidemic in the United States.
7. Eating more carbohydrates than the body requires. Our body
only needs a limited amount of carbohydrates a day for the body to
function. Most people can get this amount in two bottles of soda.
When eating more carbohydrates than the body requires, the only
place for the extra carbohydrates to go if not used immediately as
energy is as stored fat. Most foods today are very high in simple
sugars (fructose, glucose, galactose) and over consumption of them
on a daily basis can lead to obesity and diabetes mellitus.
This is just a brief overview of the factors that lead to fat gain.
There are other reasons that are beyond the scope of this article to
explain, but what do we do to stop fat gain and lose it? I am going
to break it down into three parts: Nutrition, Exercises and
Supplementation.
Nutrition
1. The Anafit diet. People always ask simple ways to lose weight
so Anafit came up with a great way. No carbohydrates before
Noon and no carbohydrates past six pm. Does that sound simple
enough? This ensures that a caloric deficit is reached due to most
people consuming the bulk of their carbohydrates in the early
morning or late night. If carbohydrates are eaten at night, they
interfere with Growth Hormone release. GH is the hormone that
keeps us young, lean and muscular. In the presence of
carbohydrates at night it doesn't get released like it should. If we
only eat sugar during the six-hour window, we have a better
chance of burning the sugar off during our day. The Anafit diet is
simple, quick and it just plain works.
2. Eat small meals throughout the day. Make sure every meal has
some protein in it. What is protein? Anything with a Mother and a
Father. Turkey, chicken, fish, steak, eggs. Make sure to have a
small portion that will get you through without being too hungry
until your next meal. This will help to stabilize your sugar levels
and also help with your sweet cravings.
3. Eat good carbohydrates. Green vegetables are the best.
Greens are a good source of minerals and antioxidants which
are needed to keep us young and healthy. They do not store as
fat. Just don't put butter or ranch dressing on them and you can
eat all you want. Stay away from carrots or corn, as the sugar
in them will store as body fat. Other good sources of
carbohydrates are yams, lentils, oatmeal and bran.
4. Do not eat fats and carbohydrates together. Like I said
previously, insulin is a storage hormone and it will store
carbohydrates and fats. If you want to eat something higher in
fat, make sure it is lower in sugar. If you want to eat something
high in sugar, make sure it is low in fat. When eaten together,
Insulin will store them both as fat.
5. Consume good protein, but don't over consume it. Too much
can convert in your body (gluconeogenesis) to sugar and
eventually to fat. A good rule of thumb is to eat 1 gram of
protein for every lbs that you weigh. I weigh 180 so I will try
and consume about 180 grams a day. This works fairly good
for men, but it should be a little lower for women. A good rule
of thumb is .75 grams for every lbs of body weight.
6. Consume good fats daily. I am going to speak more about
supplementation, but you cannot beat good oils from fish and
flax seed oil. I recommend taking Udo's oil and some form of
fish oil at least twice daily. Udo's and fish oil are my main
source of dietary fat. EFA's (essential fatty acids) are good for
our hair, our skin, our nails, it raises the metabolism and helps
to regulate hormonal function (testosterone and estrogen), it
reduces body fat and also helps to fuel the brain. It is
something that is a must for a dieter and for overall health.
Training
1. Get active. You don't have to lift like a pro bodybuilder or
power lifter, just get active in life. Take you child for a walk,
start playing catch with you son or daughter, play pick-up
basketball, start swimming. If you haven't been active before it
is okay. A lot of people get caught up in life activities, but now
that the spring is coming, it is a perfect time to get outside and
enjoy the sunshine.
2. Lifting weights is important to weight loss for many
reasons. As we age, our bones become a little more brittle.
Lifting weights adds to bone density and helps to keep the
bones strong. Lifting weights also adds to fat loss in a positive
way. Remember that calories in should be less than calories
out to lose weight. Lifting weights burns a ton of calories and
allows you to eat a little more and still lose weight. When
dieting and restricting calories, we want to make sure that we
lose fat weight and not muscle weight and working out with
weights is one of the best ways to keep our muscle and burn
fat at the same time. Lastly, the more muscle that you have, the
more food that you have to eat to keep it, so in essence, the
more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism will be.
3. Cardio if done for maximum fat loss, should be done in the
morning on an empty stomach. During the night we are at a
state of fasting because our body uses the food in our stomach
as fuel and is now resorting to stored fat to carry on its normal
functions. Cardio done in the morning extends the body's use
of fat as fuel and raises the metabolism for the whole day. It's
not only good for your heart, but it is one of the quickest ways
to lose weight. Low intensity walking is fantastic as it is also
easy on the joints and tendons. I would recommend at least
doing it 4 times a week for at least 40 minutes on as high of an
incline as you can use. Hop on the treadmill, put on some
music on your ipod and walk yourself to losing weight. If also
using the Anafit diet, this works great to lose more weight than
you probably ever thought possible.
In future articles I will delve more into training and working
out with weights. I don't have time to get into more specifics in
this article, but I have a lot to say about training in general and
specifically form issues that I see people everyday doing
wrong. Please check out some of my future articles for more
information on training.
Supplementation
1. Make sure to take a good multi-vitamin. Most people do not
get sufficient nutrients during the day and a good Multi goes a
long way to eating the vitamins and minerals that your body
needs for daily metabolic and body functions.
2. Flax seed and fish oil. I already mentioned this in the food
section because I feel it is THAT important. Also, use
SesaPure for cholesterol and weight management. It wastes the
calories you don't use. More on this next week.
3. Use a good quality protein. 45 minutes before your workout
and immediately after your workout, consume a 98% isolate.
The post workout drink is particularly important because your
body becomes almost like a sponge. It wants the nutrients and
can utilize them best within about 20 minutes of your workout.
I recommend mixing grapefruit juice (it’s a fat
burner) with the ISO-AGB from Anafit when it's in stock.
Take in the highest amount of protein of the day after your
workout.
4.Sesapure is a natural PPAR-alpha agonist. It increases
lipolytic enzymes, the enzymes that break down fats for
energy while decreasing lipogenic enzymes, those enzymes
that are necessary for fat storage.
5. Use Glucorell R (r-ALA) to sensitize your body to insulin. I
cannot stress this more. If you only get one thing out of this
article, please read this part. r-ALA is the most powerful
antioxidant in the world. It is both water and fat-soluble and
extends the life of other antioxidants. Just this alone is worth
it, but it has another effect that is not only great for your
health, but also essential for fat loss. R-ALA SENSITIZES
YOUR BODY TO INSULIN AND KEEPS YOU FROM
GAINING FAT! That's right. r-ALA takes the sugar that is
circulating in the blood stream and shuttle it into the muscle
cells, NOT THE FAT CELLS. The sugar gets cleared so
quickly from the blood that it doesn't really have a chance to
store as fat. It also makes the mitochondria (the powerhouse of
the cell where cellular oxidation takes place) work overtime
and makes your body almost a fat furnace. To learn more
please take the time to check the research on www.pubmed.
com about r-ALA. You will be amazed at the amount of
positive feedback on this great product.
Next week we will have a special issue of the Anafit E-Zine,
an interview with World Champion Power lifter and all around
great person Kara Bohigian from the Arnold Classic. I will
have a wrap up my friends and adventures from the Grand
Daddy of all Fitness Events.
Until then take good care,
Chuck Zurawski

	Glucorell Glucorell R helps shuttle carbohydrates into your muscle cells instead of your fat cells by increasing insulin sensitivity and the uptake of glucose.

	SesaPure Sesapure will help you get or stay lean while providing significant health benefits.