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The TACFIT Commando system is the perfect system for me because it fits into the Spartan life I have embarked upon. I am 47 years old and recovering from a robbery, a divorce, and subsequently all things I held precious in my life being taken from me. I owned my own ISP which was robbed of all its cash and significant hardware assets while I was on a trip trying to expand the business into other markets. My wife of 13 years who I dearly loved at the time simply said when she discovered the situation, “You should have been watching closer; I want a divorce.” This was on my birthday a couple of days after Thanksgiving 1998.

This is not a complaint as such. Had the previous events not occurred, I would not have been able to see my life and the falsities in it with clear vision. Nothing clears up the senses and creates a clarity of vision like having life ram a red hot poker up your ass and ask, “What is really important now?!?!”

I was left with tremendous bills, no assets, no will. All my furniture gone, my house looked abandoned. Hell, it WAS abandoned; there was no spirit there. I slept there at night but many nights I did not even bother to turn on the lights. It may sound strange but there was a feeling that darkness was safe.

It took me a while, but I finally figured out how to stand and carry my own weight again. I discovered that Ramen noodles were not only cheap, hellfire they were GOOD and kept your belly quite full making it easier to keep gas in the car. A few times I made the mistake of taking help from people, then found out that nearly always help comes with significant chains and obligations; there is a feeling in the help of some who aid that can range from simply being glad to help someone get past a bad spot to the darker versions where feelings of enraged ownership and entitlement to and on your time are not overstated in any way.

Once I learned to live without credit and to be completely self-sufficient on whatever income I was making, I began to realize that it did not matter about the losses of the past. I had indeed bulit a business for a short while that earned me an income that put me in the top .01% of the world’s population. What I did not know at the time was that it was not my talent and business decisions that caused it; it was being born into the greatest capitalistic country in the world where they had artificially driven interest rates into the ground in such a fashion that every middle double digit IQ fool in the universe was becoming a real estate millionaire. My point is, I did not lose a stone castle; I lost a gingerbread house that fell down from the first strong storm.

I am currently building my asset base up in a hard fashion, with much late night research and midnight oil. I work a 40 hour job and I work a 40 hour home based business because I will not be dictated to by the government when I retire. I have discovered that being engaged in rewarding work that you love and that pays you is the same as being retired. Along those lines, I quit bemoaning what I had lost and then turned around and said, “What else can I throw away that will free up MORE resources for investment and debt retirement?” Turns out there was quite a lot that could go. I could easily afford a 52″ top of the line flat panel TV (LCD now?) but since I no longer watch TV at night, my 27″ CRT Emerson with a dead built in DVD player gets turned on maybe once in several months. My labor, my money, my CAPITAL…is precious to me as it represents ammunition in my own personal war of independence from this bastard government. Geez, it is a damn shame Ramen is not so good for you, LOL. I have moved into a basement apartment which is tiny, but includes all the utilities. It does not have central air, but because it is insulated on three sides, it is bearably cool in the summer and bearably warm in the winter. My vehicle is paid for and I now laugh at the pre-approved credit cards and car loans that come in the mail. They get ground up and mixed with wax and stored as future fuel should the world go the way Obama wants it to go.

I say all this to explain WHY I want the TACFIT Commando system. Simply put, I do not know how to train without a gym. This system will teach me that and fits more in line with my wanting to follow a Spartan lifestyle and dig trench after trench of financial insulation against the larcenous tendancies of life against a person’s assets. It will allow me to drop my gym membership once it plays out and put me in better shape to boot. I have no need to be big, as I am never going to play in the NFL. I need to be HARD and I need a system that will layer that hardness in like a swordsmith lays in layers of steel into a blade and then tempers it to keep its strength and so it will hold an edge. I need to voluntarily do to my body what God has done to my mind and heart through events in life.

You choosing me to give the system to helps me access what is clearly an awesome system that has result of much thought and labor. That is what is does for me. What it will do for YOU, is that you will have pictures of a fellow at 5′11″ who weighs 274lbs right now and you will then have that fellow looking like a hard, faceted diamond at around 200lbs after some time on your system to use in your promotions. I say 200lbs because I am 31% bodyfat which means at 199.06lbs, I would be at 5% bodyfat.

The storms over the last ten years as I worked out my character flaws and learned the lessons that a man determined to live on his own feet learn have made me realize that I am not a bad guy in any way and that God sees me and is at times glad of that seeing. It sometimes makes me laugh out loud to realize that I am grateful for those storms because had they never come, I should never have known myself.

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The above was my entry into the blog entry contest. I am hoping  Iwill win because I like the system and don’t want to pay for it. I am Scottish in one blood line and it gives me a happy to be cheap.  I also plan to try to wrangle an affiliate relationship out of them, too, because Earthtiger is always looking for products and services that rise to the level of Rearden Steel quality and I believe TACFIT Commando system rises to that level of quality.

If you want to write your own entry and take a swing at it, go here: http://www.tacfitcommando.com/blog/windeluxe

 If you want a healthy body, you need to do more than just exercise. You need to eat right. You have to eat an adequate diet that includes healthy dietary fats. Fats are necessary as they are part of the cell membranes that go throughout the body.

If you eat healthy foods, your cellular processes will work normally. But if you eat bad foods: those that are man-made processed, and chemically treated, you will find your cellular structure will break down from lack proper nutrition. Your cell structure will become impaired and your cells will have to work harder to compensate. When this happens, unfortunately, diseases do occur.

Healthy eating also helps keep the body balanced. Hormone production is normal. Muscle building occurs at a normal rate and fat burning occurs. The vitamins and minerals our body consumes are absorbed and used for enzyme regulation.

We don’t eat good foods for various reasons. The first reason is because eating right is hard to do. The store sells foods that are processed and full of junk. But they taste so good that we are tempted to buy them. The second reason is we were misled for many years to believe that good fats (those that are natural and unprocessed) have been removed from foods or were mixed in with bad foods.  And the third reason is because we are lazy so we eat out. The restaurants we go to do not use the proper oils to cook with. They always go for the cheapest stuff.

If you want to develop a healthy body, you must learn to eat the right foods. This includes knowing what oils to use in cooking.

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If you want to find a better way to eat better that will give you tremendous results, you need to pick up a copy of my e-book How to Create a Lean and Healthy Body Quickly. Once you do this, you will learn the right way to eat and will soon develop a lean and healthy body. Just go to http://blueplanetweightloss.com to learn more.

Best Training Strategies

If you ever been to a doctor, the first thing they do is convince you to do low to moderate intensity aerobic training. This is also referred to as cardio. They suggest you do about 30-60 minutes of steady pace cardio for about 3-5 times in a week. They claim this helps maintain your heart rate at a moderate level.

Before you get involved in such a routine, consider some recent scientific research that gives concrete facts to prove such cardio workouts may not work that well after all.

Our bodies were designed to perform physical activity in bursts of exertion followed by recovery. According to the research study, physical variety is a key variable in your training. If you examine most sports, you will find that most of them go with this burst of exertion, or stop-and-go movement, as it is also called.

Another factor to keep in mind when it comes to varying your physical workouts is the effects to your body internally. Scientists have known for years that any excessive steady state endurance exercise that is anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour, only trains the heart rate at a specific level. You don’t get the heart fully involved.

This kind of workout causes muscle wasting, and can even create a condition in your body that can lead to chronic diseases. But if you do stop-and-go type movements, you will find that your body reacts to it in a better manner. Your body will be able to increase anti-oxidant production. Your body will also provide a more anti-inflammatory affect and your metabolic rate will increase. Also, stop-and-go training trains the heart to respond to and recover from a variety of demands and stress levels.

This is what you need. The kind of exercise that trains your heart to rapidly increase and rapidly decrease is the condition that will benefit you more fully. And it has another benefit. It is much more interesting to do and has a better success rate. This means those who used this method, did not drop out.

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If you want to find a better way to exercise that will give you tremendous results, you need to pick up a copy of my e-book How to Create a Lean and Healthy Body Quickly. Once you do this, you will learn the right way to exercise and will get your body into peak physical condition in no time. Just go to http://www.blueplanetweightloss.com to learn more.

Finally, I have found a regime that works for me. It is called the Cyclic Ketogenic diet.

Being in my mid 40s, my metabolism is not what it used to be. That sucks. I have done my complaining about the unfairness of it all. Whatever. It just means I will be more entitled to be proud of my six pack than most. You are 20, born from skinny parents and have a six pack? So what? I earned mine. Yeah…when I get it. Still, I have dropped four notches in my new belt and that is significant. I have lost 30lbs solid pounds so far and have reduced the fat percentages by a full four points. What is the percentage now? Nonya bidness, LOL.

Here is the deal. You keep carbs below 40 grams a day for all but 36 hours a week. I choose to pick from 6AM Saturday morning to 6PM Saturday night. I workout four days a week. Mondays I do legs, Tuesdays I do back and biceps, Wednesdays I do chest, shoulders and triceps plus floor sweepers. On Fridays, I do the whole body, trying to burn the glycogen stores to zero, then turn on the carbs. Like I say, I am very please with the results so far. Before wheels up for the Philippines, I am going to have to buy all new pants if I keep going. Cool!

I hope to be back here in a month, and then seriously start scaring 32″ waist jeans soon.

“In Defense of Food” seems like it will be a good read and I intend to make it one of my next five books. I just watched Michael Pollan on C-Span book Tv or some such as he went through some of the high points of his book. His points are quite simple.

• Carrots may fight cancer, beta carotene cannot. It may be a matter of context or co-factors or it may be that CARROTS, not something in carrots, fights cancer.
• Don’t eat anything with more than 5 ingredients on the lable. If your grandmother would not recognize it as food, do not eat it.
• Shop on the edges of the grocery store. Things there tend to be less processed.
• Eat the traditional diet your people lived on for the last 10,000 years and you will be better off.

Now…the sad fact that I am watching Book TV on a Saturday evening aside…this was worth watching. He has confirmed many of the things I had somewhat tested out myself. The one time I tried to eat all low fat foods I quickly ballooned to 297lbs! I didn’t eat for two days, maybe three. Went back to eating red meat and eggs and good food and quickly dropped down to 275lbs.

This fellow seems to be looking at food in a reasonable, logical way. I know I intend to read what he has to say in depth.

Beef, it’s what’s for dinner. I think Winn Dixie used to use that slogan, or maybe it is the national beef ranchers folks, whatever they are called. Point is, it makes sense for a number of reasons related to proteins, fats, carbohydrates and how the body treats each.

Personally, I am trying like all get out to just skip on dinner and  a significant amount of the time I am successful. I am happy to say that I believe I have finally developed the habit of just eating one serving for dinner when I simply must eat at night.

What are the benefits? Well, when I get up the next morning, I feel like a million bucks for one. My pants slide around pleasantly and I don’t have to hyperventilate before I put on my shoes, and I can again see the muscles in my upper abs starting to shine through as well as the obliques and intercostals from the side…if the light is just right, of course. I will take it. Progress is clearly visible and I like that.

I sleep better, too. Cannot say why this would be, but it is a definite benefit. Some say if you don’t eat at night it affects the bodies growth hormone levels and can actually be counterproductive due to cortisol levels going up, cortisol being the culprit for weight gain. Perhaps. All I know is I have dropped a good 3.5″ in my waist in two weeks and sleep better. What is a hoot is I have gained two pounds, going from 277.9lbs to 280lbs. Oh, well. Then again, that part may just being me. I lift and I have never had any problem packing on muscle. The problem has always been that there is a bonus gain at absolutely no charge of about 15% fat with the 85% muscle.

Back to why beef seems to be a good idea for dinner. One, carbs at night is a bad idea because it kicks your insulin up and goes straight to fat. If you eat fat and carbs together, the body says, hey,fat goes straight to storage, burn the carbs because the cost is more efficient. In other words, when you eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut…your body burns all the sugar cause it easy to utilize and sticks 100% of the fat back for a rainy day.

Did you see what I said? 100% of the fat in a Krispy Kreme doughnut, or any pastry I am sure, goes straight to the fatpacks whereever yours may be.

Each of the three macronutrient types comes with their own calorie cost. That is, in order to claim the calories from the food you eat, you have to expend calories as well. For fat, the cost is less than 5%, I think, carbs less than 10%. If you eat fats and carbs together, the fat cost is 0%. Protein is around 30%, so if you are eating 2,000 calories in protein, it really winds up around 1400 calories. Perhaps this is why people lose weight on a high protein diet?

I am moving towards just eating things along the lines of grilled chicken or beef with vegetables at night. A couple of black angus kabobs fits the bill quite well. Lots of protein, and a moderate amount of fat. Still, I sleep like a baby on this. Breads and starches? Up and down and back and forth all night. No, thanks.

You ever just howl in frustration when no one is looking and you are at home and cannot fasten your favorite pair of jeans? I have. When confronted with this situation you have at least two choices. One, you can say oh well, recognize that your body is changing and go buy bigger pants. The second choice is to understand what is happening and why and deal with it. Making that choice is why I can again wear my favorite jeans. Yay for me.

Everyone says eat fewer calories and it is as simple as that. “Everyone” generally being some pencil-neck aerobics instructor that was never in any danger of weighing more than 140lbs in the first place. He lies, he knows he lies, and he probably knows you know he lies and doesn’t care because he also realizes that there are enough victims of the American food supply chain willing to pay him to lie to them, too, in the completely vain hope that 20 minutes a day, three days a week, or that lifting 10lbs. weight for three sets of ten has any effect on that parasite growing around your waistline.

Here are a few incontrovertible facts for those of you out there who want the truth. The truth is you can be a lardass on 1500 calories a day if you are not active. You have got to MOVE! Do something. It is not the doughnut that is making you fat, it is the dozen doughnuts and the three hours of TV at night that have done it. Walk, read, give your significant other a massage; they will enjoy it and you will be burning calories and building some super bonus points in the relationship. Have to watch TV? Get an exercise ball and do crunches during the commercial breaks, a set of ten pushups, or 20 squats. By the end of a show you have done 40 to 80 pushups or 100 to 150 squats or even 200 crunches. We are not aging; we are falling apart from dry rot.

I have to admit that this thing around the middle is my own fault; no one’s but mine. My sweetie said she did not like too much muscle and frankly, I carry more than my share of muscle…always have and didn’t have to work real hard to get it. When I had the metabolism of a nuclear reactor, that was fine. I weighed around 215-220lbs and had a waist of just under 31 inches and could eat everything in sight; the Pizza Hut buffet trembled in fear when I and my compadres hit the parking lot after a two hour stint in the gym, let me tell you. I told her I could be fit or fat, there was no middle ground. She said she didn’t like too much muscle. Well, I let it go after that and now I am regretting it. I say this like I am getting around to I told you so, but I am not. I knew when I started slacking off what the result would be. Did I not say to her that I could be fit or fat? She says now she wants me to live a long time so I am back to the fat fight again. If I am going to live to be 300 as I plan, I have got to be thinner. Besides, I screwed up and watched Super Obese on Charter cable one night and have glared at every bite of food I have eaten since. Those poor people are going in and having 30lbs. and 40lbs. chunks of flesh removed from their bodies! Bizarre! Horrible! You cannot look away when you see them, either. So, no thanks.

On to my personal fight. I have gone from thinking my waist is a parasite to wishing I had a parasite to get rid of it to thinking perhaps one of Ripley’s aliens had invaded me to finally knowing what the deal with my midsection was. It is my own personal Cousin IT and he doesn’t want to leave.

There is a new thought set that says it is the proportion of two kinds of instestinal flora/fauna that determines if you gain fat or not. One balance is what fat people have and another is what skinny people have, the one for fat people being extremely efficient at helping you suck every single calorie from your food. I have read and re-read the articles trying to figure out what my balance is supposed to be and I swear they refuse to say. The theory is that as you lose weight the balance shifts from the wrong kind that makes you fat to the kind that keeps you skinny.

Hang on a minute. If the wrong kind makes you fat, why does losing weight shift the balance? Is it possible fat cells have some biochemical influence on the proportion of skinny to fat symbiotes in your intestinal tract? As you force your body to lose fat cells through exercise and diet, the amount of influence they can wield goes down as they reduce? A scary thought, but one that makes me grit my teeth even more. Cousin It, you goin’ down!

Another thought set, and this I absolutely believe, says the fat cells in your body have priority on all nutrients coming into your body. In other words, unless you do some fine tune timing of when and what you eat, those bellyfat rolls around the middle get fed before your muscles and organs do. While there may be some very good biological reasons for this, contemplating it never ceases to truly piss me off. Cannot help it, it makes me mad. Which is probably a good thing because it motivates me to action. I don’t see my stomach as a minor inconvenience as some do. I see it as a complete insult to who I am and how I see myself. To those doctors who write about the Adonis Complex, I can only say, “whatever.” Again, most of the doctors writing on the Adonis Complex have never had a weight problem. They need to shut up about the Adonis Complex and contribute to a solution or write about something else that doesn’t come across as so patronizing.

So, what is my current plan? Well, I am back to pushing iron again and lots of it. The thing about iron is that you can see and count your work product. Getting out and running for hours just seems boring to me, kind of like watching golf or paint dry though i do it on occasion. Pushing iron gives your mind something to count. In my heyday I pushed as much as 40 plus tons of weight. I am off that a bit now mostly because I think I was overtraining. Thirty to 45 minutes of weight training is all you can really do before the hormone cortisol starts to ramp up and eat away at the muscle and try to slow your metabolism. I don’t know why this happens, but feel free to class it under Tim’s least favorite things about the human metabolism. So, 30 to 45 minutes of all I can move and then switch gears and do 30 to 45 minutes of cardio. Again, not going over that 45  minute limit.

I do not eat after 2:30 PM. Why? Because I want my body burning all that I have eaten since 3:30AM and then digging into Cousin It in the evening and while I sleep. I will keep you posted. Is it working? Well, I am in my favorite jeans again and I can see an end for this thing before April. Cousin It is not invited to my wedding.