How To Rev Up Your Sex Drive!

Do you know cycling enhances your arousal!

• Researchers found if you cycle for 20 minutes before watching a steamy sex scene on TV it increases your arousal by 21%!  And we all know that men are far more visual stimulated them females’!  So all you females get your booty to spin class and get ready for an erotic experience!!!

• If you don’t feel comfortable cycling in front of people or don’t have a gym membership biking outside is a great option but since it’s getting cold I recommend getting a recumbent bike!  It is an excellent workout that increases your metabolism, tones hips, thighs, and buttocks!  I don’t know anyone that doesn’t want to look sexy in booty shorts!! This will also increase your confidence when you’re getting intimate with your loved one!!

Stamina Folding Recumbent Bike: I own this bike and love it!! As most of us know Recumbent bikes are super expensive but they work really well!!  This bike is very affordable at a price of $139.  Best of all this bike folds making it portable so you will have no excuse to not use it when you travel!!

Source: Fitness Magazine

Lose Weight by Eating for your Metabolic Type

The best way to lose weight is to figure out your unique body type and metabolic makeup (are you a fast, slow, or balanced oxidizer?) and customize a diet plan that is perfect for you.

Take this online Metabolic Typing Test (click here) to figure out your perfect diet plan for weight loss success. After you have figured out your metabolic type and the food your body needs to lose weight, check out diet.com for recipes.  This site has really helped me lose weight by keeping my motivated.

Carbo type (Slow Oxidizers): require a higher percentage of carbohydrates than of fat and protein, both to lose weight and to feel both physically and mentally energized. (60% Carbs, 25% protein, 15% fat)

Mixed Type (Balanced Oxidizers): require an equal percentage of carbohydrates, fat, and protein and have the capacity to do well on the widest range of foods.(40% Carbs, 30% protein, 30% fat)

Protein Type (Fast Oxidizers): require a higher percentage of protein and fat than of carbohydrates.  Fast oxidizers should have protein in every meal, including snacks. (30% Carbs, 40% protein, 30% fat)

Food Choices for Carbo Type/Slow Oxidizers: Avoid high-purine and high-fat proteins it slows down your oxidation rate, which is the worst thing for slow oxidizers. Eat low-purine proteins, which are low in fat.

• Protein: Catfish, cod, egg whites, flounder, lean pork, low-fat cheese, low-fat cottage cheese, low-fat yogurt, perch, skim milk, sold, swordfish, tempeh, tofu, trout, turkey breasts, white meat chicken, white tuna.

• Carbs: Stay away from high glycemic load foods, limit starchy carbs, stay away from refined sugars and processed grains, especially when trying to lose weight.
• Low Starch Veggies: asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, collards, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, dark leafy greens, garlic, mushrooms, onion, spinach, tomato
• Moderate Starch: Beets, eggplant, yellow squash, zucchini
• Fruits: Apple, apricots, berries, cherry, peach, pear, plum, tropical fruits
• Grains: Barley, brown rice, buckwheat, corn, couscous, kasha, oat, quinoa, rice, rye
• Legumes: beans, peas, lentils (eat sparingly 2x a week at most b/c they are high in purines).

• Fats and oils: Be sparing with nuts raw and unsalted only. Stay away from animal fats, use vegetable or nut oils such as almond, coconut, flax, olive, peanut, sunflower seed, and walnut

Mixed Type (Balanced Oxidizers): Eat a good mix of high-fat, high-purine proteins and low-fat, low-purine proteins  Purines are natural substances found in our body that help cellular regeneration, but all metabolize purines differently.

• Protein: High Purine Protein: anchovies, herring, mussels, sardines, liver
• Moderate Purine: bacon, beef, dark meat chicken, dark tuna, dark meat turkey, duck, eggs, lamb, octopus, oysters, regular-fat cheeses, salmon, scallops, shellfish, spare ribs, wild game.
• Low Purine: Catfish, cod, egg whites, flounder, lean pork, low-fat cheese, low-fat cottage cheese, low-fat yogurt, perch, skim milk, sold, swordfish, tempeh, tofu, trout, turkey breasts, white meat chicken, white tuna.
• Avoid: overcooking meat, the heat destroys essential amino acids and valuable enzymes. Medium-rare to medium and no more done than that.

• Carbs: Limit high Gylcemic Load foods, starchy carbs, refined sugars, and processed grains.
• Low Starch Veggies: asparagus, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, collards, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, dark leafy greens, garlic, mushrooms, onion, spinach, tomato
• Moderate Starch: Beets, eggplant, yellow squash, zucchini
• Fruits: Apple, apricot, berries, cherries, citrus, peach, pear, plum, tropical fruits
• Grains: Barley, brown rice, buckwheat, corn, couscous, kasha, millet, oat, rice, rye
• Legumes: Beans (lentils, runner, lima, peas, and chickpeas) all should be fresh not dried.

• Fats and oils: Nuts and Seeds: Almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, chestnuts, coconut, macadamia nuts, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, walnuts, sunflower seeds
• Oils: Almond, butter, canola, coconut, cream, flax, olive, peanut, sesame, sunflower, walnut

Fast Oxidizers: People who have had success on Atkins-type diets are usually fast oxidizers. Best proteins are high-purine proteins, which are found in fattier meats.

• Protein: High Purine: anchovies, herring, mussels, sardines, liver
• Moderate Purine: beef, bacon, dark meat chicken, dark tuna, dark meat turkey, duck, lamb, octopus, squid, oysters, regular-fat cheeses, salmon, scallops, shellfish, spare ribs, veal, wild game.
• Low purine: cottage cheese, milk, yogurt, eggs, cheese

• Carbs: It’s best to limit your carb intake.  You should have nonstarchy vegetables as your main source of carbohydrates.
• Vegetables: Asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, dark leafy greens, eggplant, leeks, lettuce, mushrooms, peppers, spinach, zucchini
• Fruits: Apple (in limited amounts and not without protein), avocado, olives, pear (in limited amounts and not without protein)
• Breads: Sprouted-grains only (Ezekiel is a great brand)
• Legumes: Edamame, tempeh, tofu

• Fats and Oils: Nuts and seeds: Almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, chestnuts, coconut, filberts, macadamia nuts, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts
• Oils: Almond, butter, canola, coconut, cream, flax, olive, peanut, sesame, sunflower, walnut
• Avoid: Never eat a meal that is mainly carbohydrates and avoid all trans fats.

Source: Jillian Michaels, "Making the Cut"

3-Hour Diet Plan for Weight Loss Success!

Before you begin your weight loss journey, I suggest keeping a fitness journal or binder to track your progress, share your emotions and any difficulties you may experience.  I like to cut out healthy recipes or exercises I find in magazines and keep them in my fitness binder, it allows me to mix up my routine and meals.  I also keep tract of my success online at www.diet.com

I recommend eating small meals every three hours, this increases the basal metabolic rate, increases energy levels, suppresses appetite-naturally, lowers cholesterol, reduces the hormone cortisol, and will prevent binge eating.

A sample lay out would look like this: 1,450 calories a day, you can alter the calories your body needs by figuring out your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).

• Breakfast 7 am: (Eat from all food groups: protein, carbs, and fats) 400 calories
• Snack 10 am: one 100 calorie snack
• Lunch 1 pm: (Eat from all food groups: protein, carbs, and fats) 400 calories
• Snack 4 pm: one 100 calorie snack
• Dinner 7 pm: (Eat from all food groups: protein, carbs, and fats) 400 calories
• Treat after dinner or 3 hours before you go to bed: 50 calorie treat