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Protein Water…A Hangover Cure?
It hasn’t been scientifically proven or anything even close but Protein water is a life saver from that dry nutrient deprived hangover feeling that you get from drinking too much beer or wine the night before. And while it certainly doesn’t revive me enough to want to go work out afterwards, it does however allow my body to withstand the realities of a day after drinking in a more than coherent and functional demeanor. I’ve drank protein water after every night of debauchery for about the past four months and I’ve been able to hang with the rest of society and not be forced to curl up in a ball on my couch and wish the sun had burnt out, because of it.  Designer Whey’s 60 calorie protein water has a sufficient amount of nutrients in it to lay down a solid foundation for recovery and it also helps control your hunger which allows you to ease into your first meal of the day instead of just ravishing through the first piece of fried greasy food you can get your hands on – and we all know how that pans out in the midst of a hangover. For me it’s refreshing because it is the first step in getting my life back on the right balanced track after completely destroying it 5-12 hours prior.  And because it is Whey Protein and not just regular protein it enters your system quicker and it’s nutrients are digested by your amino acids at a faster rate than water or other refueling drinks. Also, the sharp sweet bite it has to its taste that is pleasing to the senses, makes it harder to chug, and therefore easier to healthily intake – it also kind of wakes you up a little bit. Like I said, this hasn’t been clinically tested and proven by any nutritionist, just an avid gym “goer” who parties and is always looking for new methods of recovery. But those who I have had try this method, really found it beneficial and quite helpful in their road to joining the rest of society in the middle of a hangover.

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I’m training for a figure competition on March 21, 2009. Three to four weeks prior to a competition I will alter my diet so I can slim down and sculpt my muscles.

Competing in this category is purely based on the contour and definition of your muscles.

I also increase my daily exercise regimen to incorporate twice as much cardio to burn calories.

I started my new diet Monday:
1 scoop DESIGNER WHEY Orange Mango protein in water
1cup oatmeal plain 3 egg whites
1tbsp peanut butter salt free and brown rice cake salt free
1cup chicken plain 1 cup orange and yellow peppers
DESIGNER WHEY Protein Water 20g Pomegranate
1cup chicken 1 cup red and green peppers with onion fajita seasoning no salt
10 cashews
1cup of cottage cheese no fat

Workout:
1hr run
1hr eliptical
Biceps and Abs, 5 sets, 10 reps each:
5lbs dumbbell hammer curls
5lbs dumbbell decline
Roman chair leg lifts 20lbs between feet
Reverse crunch on the ball
Oblique twist on cable machine with 60lbs
Regular crunch on the ball with 125lbs
5 sets, 6 reps 12lbs dumbbell isolated curl
5 sets, 12 reps 8lbs reverse grip

This is me….

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Happy March, Friends…it’s suppose to warm up this weekend here in Michigan…Bring it on! I hope this finds you healthier then the day before. I have been thinking about patterns and realized that everything is based on a pattern. I, like a lot of Americans have lived an unhealthy pattern. If you pay attention to Bob, one of the “Biggest Loser” trainers he said to be healthy the pattern is “Fuel -> Move -> Rest. For me it was always Move -> Rest -> Fuel -> Rest some more. So I had it wrong.

Our church is having a diet and nutrition course for the next few weeks. I am learning a lot and thought I would share with you all what I have learned in just one session.

To stop cravings – eat every 3 hours small meals that include protein.

Exercise: How much and how long – You only need 30 minutes a day of cardio. Cardio is simply raising your heart rate higher then your sitting heart rate. Here is something interesting… you do not need to do 30 minutes in a row. I never seem to fit in 30 minutes a day then felt bad but if you do 3 – 10 minute work outs or even if you start out doing 5 minutes – 6 times a day that works! You can jog in place, jump rope, dance, rebound or anything that will get your heart rate above your sitting rate even… sex… LOL. OK, now run home and tell your husband its exercise time!

You need 1 hour each week strength training – it does not take very many pounds for strength. 2 – 5 pound weights is great! Carry a weight in your car and do bicep curls driving…ummm… one arm at a time! You can use soup cans or water bottles. I say use water bottles that you refill then after you are done doing reps, drink the water!

You need flexibility every day – stretching, bend touch your toes when you get out of bed, stand up from your computer. Practice flexibility anytime. Just get some stretching in wherever you can. That’s it to stay fit.

It’s best to exercise …ANYTIME! Morning does revs up your metabolism and helps keep it going all day.

The figure below is how to figure out how many calories you need to lose 1 pound a week just by your food intake. **Add exercise and you lose more!

1. Add 655 to this calculation 4.35 X Weight in Pounds
2. Add your answer to this calculation 4.7 X Height in inches
3. Subtract your answer to this calculation 4.7 X age
4. Subtract 500 calories

This equals the number of calories you need to take in each day to lose 1 pound a week. Not doing anything but this formula you could lose 52 pounds a year!

My weight is 278, Height 69 inches and I am 41
655 + 1209.3 (4.35 X 278) + 324.3 (4.7 X 69) – 192.7 (4.7 X 41) – 500 = 1495.9 calories a day. (1500 is close enough!)

To figure out how much water you need to drink a day it’s your weight divided by 2. My weigh is 278, I should be drinking 139 oz of water a day… whoa sure will be pee’n a lot! That’s over a gallon a day! That is hard to see doing but I think I will make it a goal to drink a gallon of water a day… Or lose weight so I don’t have to drink that much!

I hope this helps you with your weight loss journey. Start with figuring out your resting heart rate add a little more movement every day and before you know it you will have worked yourself up to 30 minutes of cardio a day. I will close for now…

Until next time… Camille from Michigan

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You see the infomercials on them, and immediately you think “where’s Chuck Norris and Suzanne Summer’s endorsement on this one?” But perfect push ups actually work and they can be used as a great tool to change up your chest routines. I am always trying to find new ways to reconfigure my workouts to get the same or even better results. At the same time, I am afraid to try new exercises in fear that they may be inferior to the ones that I already have in the sense that they might not yield the same quality of results. But when my roommate ordered these things from the TV, I thought to myself “I gotta at least give em a shot.” So one day when I was being rather lazy and unmotivated, I decided that I was going to do a weightless chest workout at home – consisting only of the many variations of push-ups and dips that you can do. I started off with the perfect push-ups because I heard that they could be quite intense. After doing four sets of 35 my entire body was decimated. I was able to do the rest of my work out but only at ¾ capacity, it was as if I was maxing that day.

Because of how drained I felt and how pumped my body was after that work out, I began to incorporate push-ups into my chest routine. I have been lifting seriously for quite some time now, so I am used to seeing the plateau that many of us hit after our routines become…well, routines. After initiating the perfect push-up, the diamond push up and the weighted dip into my workout I could almost immediately see the results and I could feel them as well. It is really hard to figure out my workouts because one professional will say maxing out constantly will increase muscle max, another will say increased reps with minimal maxing will do the trick and others say that resistance training and natural workouts are the best. I am no expert by any means so please, if I am off basis here, throw my words right out the window – but I thoroughly believe that it all depends on your body and your body type. I am a taller guy with really long arms, so it is tough to truly see immediate results sometimes and when you do begin to see them, they are usually followed by that plateau period. But I have found that this period can be easily broken up by interweaving naturalistic workouts with moderate maxing and heavy weigh protein intake. Throwing in the perfect push-ups to a chest routine has done wonders for my upper pectorals and weighted dips (real ones not the machine) have done wonders for my triceps. Take it or leave it, like I said I am by no means an expert, but if you are looking for a change try throwing in some natural exercises into your routine…who knows it might work for you too.

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Did you watch “Biggest Loser” this week? I did and I tell ya I get so excited to see my whey being used on the show. This week Designer Whey’s Powder was featured right before the last chance work out with a contestant mixing the “Biggest Loser Protein” into his water bottle and a promo too!

  I found interesting that Bob the trainer talked to Mikey about having to eat to lose weight. That still boggles my mind as it still did with Mikey. We are sooooo conditioned to think if we don’t eat, that it is the best way to lose weight. I’ve fallen into the thinking all my life and it has not got me anywhere. I am changing my thinking and see that I need to eat properly and exercise every day. I start my day by filling my 24 oz water bottle and a packet of orange mango 2go packet, take my vitamins, and have a cup of coffee. Then I take my kids to school. When I get back home I have breakfast; usually cottage cheese, toast and a fruit. Then I do sometime of movement. I can feel the difference and Thursday is my weigh in. I weigh in with a group once a month. I know I will see it move down again. So until Thursday and beyond I hope you all see the need to feed your self properly and get moving.

 Take Care,

 Camille

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Well Friends, yesterday was my 41^st birthday. My husband and girls gave me a wonderful and fun birthday. Purple is my favorite color so of course my girls get purple balloons and steamers. My husband is quite the character, he buys me purple duct tape, pretty funny! He also bought me a very nice simple silver necklace which is perfect for me as I am a pretty simple person. I love popcorn so my daughters bought me a popcorn recipe book, very cool. Popcorn is a perfect snack, high fiber, low calories. On the humorous side, I watch Oprah so my girls bought me Oprah Magazine. We have a tradition of all kids get a small gift on each others birthday. If you have young kids it works like a charm when the girls see their sister getting a bunch a gifts they are not so hurt because they receive a gift too.

 Did you watch The Biggest Loser this week? I think Joelle deserved to go home but I felt bad for Carla. When you want something so bad and another gets in the way it is frustrating.

 I have been trying to speed up my walk and I guess you would call it a light jog. I can go 3 houses then have to slow back to a walk but for me even jogging two feet is a challenge. I see the contestants on The Biggest Loser and they are even heavier than I am and they can jog so I have been doing a little at a time. I started by doing a light jog on my rebounder then progressed to when I walked. It’s easier for me on the rebounder then on cement. Now I know I can do it and that feels pretty good.

 Have a great week end. Stick to your healthy plans, and look for The Biggest Loser Protein in your local grocery store. It tastes great and will help you lose weight and feel great with a proper diet and exercise!

Camille from Michigan 

http://www.thebiggestloserprotein.com

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Around about 7 months ago I finally started taking working out seriously, in the sense that I created a solid 5-6 day regime that I very closely adhered to. I mean, technically I’ve been working out since about sophomore year in high school but after about three months of strict work out regimes something would come up and I would break the cycle. This was probably due to the fact that I was not seeing any immediate results with the way my body was looking.

I’ve always been a tall and thin kid with a high metabolism, and the fact that I eat relatively healthy, has never really helped the cause. But when I started working out again about seven months ago, I started taking protein when I worked out and after about a month and a half I started bulking up, which I thought was really good – and it was. But then I started gaining weight where I didn’t want to, i.e. my stomach region. I started rifling through my protein options and came to find out that my over intake of carbohydrates and calories was good at first but once I reached the point where my body was big enough to be a solid base for muscle growth, the majority of those shakes went to my stomach and not my arms, chest and back, like I wanted it to. So I went to a friend who is a personal trainer, for several private clients, and he recommended that I start taking Designer Whey Protein. He gave me the rest of a 4 pound jar that he had and I took it routinely for a month, and kept my work out regimens the same. At the end of the month my muscle mass had grown and my body became more defined, all the while, due to it’s high concentration of dietary fiber, and its low caloric value, my metabolism began to speed up and I noticed that my abs were coming back, without me working on them.

I get the French Vanilla because of it’s nutritional values and its good taste, not to mention, that you can buy it in mass quantities at a fair consumer rate. I’m not going to say it tastes absolutely delicious but as far as protein shakes go, it ranks very high up their. I’m glad that I started using this product and I will continue to write about my body’s progression with this product’s help.

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I started walking with a friend at the mall and I am looking to get a treadmill, hopefully find a good used one for an affordable price. You know the Biggest Losers” walk 14 miles a day! That comes out to be about 3 hours a day…I think WOW 3 hours a day, I can’t even seem to squeeze in 20 minutes! 

I have been thinking about the second question that I am suppose to be answering from the “Best Life” Series sponsored by Oprah last week. The question is… Why are you worthy of getting healthy this year? My first reaction is to say…I am a child of God therefore worthy of being healthy so that I can glorify Him. That is a great answer; it is a politically, morally correct thing to say and sounds wonderful but is it reality? Partly YES, but I need to dig deeper and discover that truth for myself. I also think of longevity and quality of life as I get older. I used to work in nursing homes and have horrible thoughts of having to get 3 people to help me get out of bed because of my weight. I know crazy but those thoughts cross my mind all the time. I think my kids deserve a healthy mom. I think about my darling husband and how he deserves to be proud to have a healthy wife by his side. You may not know this about me and by me sharing this it could cause a credibility issue with people I help. I council crack cocaine addicts and have been for over 10 years now. I think about how I am able to help one stop their addiction to crack yet can not stop my own addiction to food.

 I need to figure out why food has this power over me and over come it. I need to find the desire to exercise. I want the results but do not have the desire to do the work. I love watching the “Biggest Loser” and some of the people are 100 pounds heavier then me and they are able to walk the 14 miles a day, work out, sweat, huff and puff, eat right, and drink their Biggest Loser Protein shakes, follow an eating plan. Though, I suppose if I had someone pushing me and cooking my meals and a chance to win 250,000 dollars it would not be so hard. So I am not sure…is it the fear of failure again, fear of sweating or being out of breath, having to “restrict” what I can not eat or what is it? Maybe all of these…If I figure it out maybe it would be the cure for obesity! Or maybe I am not supposed to “figure it out” and just do the right thing to be healthy. 

So am I worth it? Yes and so are you if you struggle with weight issues.

Bye for now, 

Camille from Michigan

To learn more about The Biggest Loser Protein by DESIGNER WHEY visit www.thebiggestloserprotein.com

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Hello Friends! 

Did you see the Biggest Loser Protein by Designer Whey promo on last night’s show? I did, and I was very excited. I can’t express how happy I am to see my favorite product helping so many people including me! I am finally back on track and am on my way.

I am very disappointed in my lack of keeping up with my healthy me plan. Unfortunately, I gained 10 pounds over the holiday…WHY???? did I do that. Do I not value myself enough to believe I am worth every pound lost?  

This year I need to make myself a priority. Hard to do when you’re a mom of 3 busy girls and a wife to a great hubby; not to mention, taking care of our home, pets and all that jazz. But I must and you must take care of our selves.

My motto for ‘09 is…  In 2009 I will take care of what is mine… meaning me. I don’t know if you have been watching Oprah this week with her ‘The Best Life Series’ or heard of Dr. Oz who heads up the Best Life Series. Dr. Oz asks everyone to answer these questions in his workbook that you can find on Oprah’s website. 

What’s holding you back from getting healthy?

Why are you worthy of getting healthy this year?

What are your specific health goals for 2009 and what hurdles are you concerned about for each goal?

I intend to think about these questions and answer them. Right now I do not know the answers to the questions and when I figure what or how I feel about the questions I will share what my thoughts with you all.  

I just want to say again how happy I am for Designer Whey and the Biggest Loser Protein, it is really cool. Did you catch that the contestants on the show exercise for 8 hours a day and walk 14 miles a day? HOLY MOLY…I need to get a treadmill and hook my computer on a stand on it then walk while I blog and chat. Even have my TV there. Treadmills are expensive and I like a lot of us am limited financially right now. So I have added a treadmill on my wish list for 2009.

I hope this finds you all well and know I am thinking about you heal too. Seriously, add a Designer Whey product to your healthy eating plan. Try The Biggest Loser Protein and keep moving forward.

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