Tip #1: Eat to satiety. Sadly, the vast majority will break this rule severely. It’s quite simple actually: Eat until you are comfortably full, not stuffed, and when you think the next bite is the “Bite of No Return,” push the plate away.

Tip #2: Move around! Don’t sit around like everyone and their dog - get some exercise. Take a brisk walk, do some bodyweight exercises, hit up the gym (if holiday hours permit), or just pace around and entertain your house guests!

Tip #3: Use healthy substitutes when preparing meals. This would include sugar substitutes like Splenda, Sweet’N Low, and Equal. Throw in olive oil in place of canola oil. Use fat-free spray butter in place of margarine or butter sticks (or even better, imitation butter flavoring). Replace the fat-laden sour cream with  its low-fat or fat-free counterpart. You get the picture!

Tip #4:  Less (or smaller) meals before Christmas dinner. This means more food you can consume at Christmas dinner! All you have to do is offset calories by eating less in the meals leading to Christmas lunch or dinner (whatever your fancy). As soon as that big meal rolls around, you’ll have much more flexibility in what you can eat.

Tip #5: Eat a little of everything. If you are like me, your favorite dishes are probably the worst for your health. That’s okay though, because if you eat a variety of foods, you’ll have less room to splurge on the worst foods.

Tip #6: Limit alcohol consumption. If you want to ensure you get fat, then by all means drink away and proceed to eat to your heart’s content.

Tip #7: Don’t eat later than 8 p.m. Giving yourself a couple of hours to digest your food before sleeping will allow for that food to be allocated to places other than your belly.

So here’s the deal: You lay down a wad of cash, you say how many pounds you want to lose and the date by which you will lose them. Then if you don’t drop the pounds, the money goes to your worst enemy. Of course, if you do lose the weight, you get your money back. And the most delicious part? Whichever of your friends catch you on your deadline day will get a portion of your $$$ if you don’t reach your goal.

Now, isn’t that something? Wager your cash that your lazy butt will shed the sag, or else your out some fat cash… Why didn’t someone think of this sooner? I’m willing to bet that Flaab will stir up some successful testimonials. Or hate mail from the poor souls who lose their week’s paycheck…

Go try Flaab out yourself!

Think back for a second, to a time when you had a monotonous workout session. You know, one of those days where you just “go through the motions.” Your mind is everywhere but the gym, whether it be due to stress, anxiety, or your plans for the rest of the day. Now, imagine if you channeled all of your thoughts and emotions into what lies before you - your workout. Utilizing the connection could be one of the best tools in your arsenal to acquiring a spectacular physique. You’ll be paving the way to more productive workouts!

How do you bring about this mind-muscle connection, you ask? Start by clearing the thoughts you’ve been dwelling on earlier that day. Next, you’ll want to envision yourself successfully accompishing the workout you’re about to attack from the time you leave for the gym until your first exercise (Loads of professional athletes do this before their sporting events in order to accomplish some incredible feats). As you lift the weight, focus on the targeted muscle groups, contracting them as forcefully as possible, all the while keeping cadence and form as perfect as you possibly can (picture the pistons of an engine pumping over and over without error). For example, if you’re doing bench press, visualize your pectorals contracting and expanding as you raise and lower the weights. This will allow you to isolate the exercise to work only the target muscles of the exercise and nothing more.

There are other means to achieving intensive focus and drive to get into the mind-muscle connection. An ergogenic aid like a stimulant (ephedrine/caffeine, yohimbe, etc) will allow you to dial in on your workout, in addition to giving you plenty of energy.

1. Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto
   

   

   Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto

   Tom Venuto is an industry expert when it comes to fitness and nutrition. As a previous competitive bodybuilder and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), Tom has quite the credibility. Tom has also been a model and contributing writer for dozens of books and top magazines, like Muscular Development and IRONMAN Magazine. He’s hit a grand slam with Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle, as it’s still the #1 selling diet e-book on the internet!
   
   Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle is an entire nutritional crash course written so that an extreme beginner may follow it with ease and an advanced trainee may incorporate it. From macronutrient percentages to it’s all covered. But Tom doesn’t stop there - he also explains how exercise fits into the equation too! And while the mere 300 pages may seem a bit steep, the book is chock-full of must-read tips and guidelines.

   This is one of my top e-book picks and I highly recommend it. Click here to check it out!
   

2. Turbulence Training by Craig Ballantyne
   

   

   Turbulence Training by Craig Ballantyne

   Author Craig Ballantyne carries some impressive credentials too. He is an accomplished writer for Men’s Health Magazine and wields the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) title. Plus, he’s got a killer physique!

   This title caught my eye when it was mentioned in a big forum discussion to dispel some myths on the effectiveness of body weight training and circuit-style interval training for fat loss. Much to my surprise, both techniques combined can lead to some crazy fat loss results! Craig paves the way for awesome results with Turbulence Training’s convenient routines. The entire system is the result of years of university studies, hands-on experience, and live personal training sessions.

   If you’re looking for a highly-effective system that’s more accommodating to your busy schedule, then look no further! Turbulence Training is what you need!

3. Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon
   

   

   Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon

   Eat Stop Eat is the brainchild of Brad Pilon, a nutritional guru who popularized a way of eating which has conflicted with nearly ever mainstream belief regarding nutrition. He has nearly seven years of experience under his belt in the supplement and nutritional industry.

   Pilon presents intermittent fasting for weight loss, weight gain, and maintenance in Eat Stop Eat. Eat Stop Eat allows for much more freedom, enabling you to worry less about food and more about enjoying life, all the while eating food you enjoy. You won’t experience metabolic slowdowns, you won’t feel cranky from dieting, and you won’t have to be a social outcast when you’re out with friends at a restaurant or bar. You don’t have to avoid carbs or fats and you won’t need insane amounts of protein for muscle gains. Hell, you don’t even need 5-6 meals a day!

   I’ve been dabbling with intermittent fasting for quite some time now and I haven’t turned cheek since. In fact, I’ve reached levels of leanness that I thought were unobtainable, not to mention impossible to maintain. I can personally vouch for intermittent fasting. It’s easy, it’s manageable, and it has so much to offer.

   If you’re tired of all the yo-yo dieting and quick-fix, temporary solutions which never last, then Eat Stop Eat is ideally written for you. With Eat Stop Eat, you’ll obtain results that you can maintain year-round! Check it out now!

Gym Technik is an innovative online service allowing you to use your smart phone as your workout journal. While you workout, Gym Technik tracks the weights, the reps, and your body stats all through your mobile smart phone.

Use your computer to access the Internet and organize your workout routines using our extensive exercises library. Define all your workouts online with each being the exercise routine you perform at the gym.

When at the gym, login to Gym Technik using your mobile phone and pick from the list of your already defined workouts. Simply start a workout and enter in the stats for each exercises performed.

All your stats sync to your web account automatically allowing you to analyze your data with our informative progress charts and then allowing you to enhance your workout routines as necessary. Any changes you make to your workout routines on the web are all automatically synced with your mobile smart phone login.

What’s holding you? Go check it out now and join the rest of us!

So where am I getting at? Bodyweight exercises can build the physique of champions if there is progression and variance in the exercises chosen, much like that of a gymnast. While I’m not saying you should abandon the iron, you should certainly consider exercises like pullups, dips, planches, and things of the sort in order to build the best body possible!

1. Lactic Acid Training for Fat Loss by Charles Poliquin
2. Meltdown Training I by Don Alessi
3. Meltdown Training II by Don Alessi
4. Meltdown Training III by Don Alessi
5. Real Fast Fat Loss by Alwyn Cosgrove and Chad Waterbury
6. Destroying Fat by Christian Thibaudeau
7. Waterbury Summer Project by Chad Waterbury
8. Get Lean Without Dieting by Chad Waterbury
9. 10×3 For Fat Loss by Chad Waterbury
10. Lose Fat Like You’re On Crack! by Mark McDougal

Here’s to the rebirth of all that used to be almighty and glorious - MuscleBits!