The Kirstie Alley Weight Loss Plan???

The bigger question is how celebrities try to cash in on other people's expertise just because of their celebrity. Many people spend years learning their craft only for a celebrity to plagiarize the idea and write a book or make a TV show, appear on Oprah, Ellen, Tyra or whichever and sell a million books. It's our fault really because we're all celebrity watchers and just let it happen.

Good point Barry! The only thing that's good with overweight people telling others about their success story is the psychological aspect of enthusing people to lose the weight. In that respect, it's a good thing.

The problem is, when you are 30+ pounds overweight, there are serious complications going on with the cardiovascular system, the lungs, the blood, the metabolism, the uptake in sugar, the digestions of foods, the endocrine system, ... the list goes on.

So let's say you take someone who has just 2 of those problems, we'll say, high blood pressure and high blood sugar levels, (which are severely common) and you throw them on a celeb "biggest loser" type plan... The stimulus would be too high, the body would start over stressing itself to the point where blood pressure is elevated to dangerous levels, same with heart rate etc., complications eg. heart attack, can easily be induced.

One of the things that my PhD college professors specialize and teach me in is training someone who has those issues. It is ESSENTIAL to the clients health you train them within certain cardiovascular parameters, or serious complications, including death, can occur.

There have been various lawsuits in multiple gyms and weight loss pills and drugs that have occurred for the very reason of having an uneducated person take a sick client and train them beyond what their body is ready, medically, to do.

This is why it's just idiotic for a celeb or uneducated "personal trainer" to help someone who has medical problems. It's a dangerous disaster waiting to happen.

True Tammy!

Addictions and addictive behavior can come in many ways...

Did you know that the body, after years, months, or even days of abuse with sugar and starches can become addicted to the influx of sugar?

Have you ever felt that if you have just 1 bad pastry, or a small piece of cake, or a couple of cookies you want more? Sugar is a drug! The properties it has on the body is astounding. The damage it can do over the course of time is scary.

A lot of companies put addictive properties in foods, such as milk, to have consumers want more.

It's no surprise to me when I see people like Kirstie constantly "fall off the wagon" because she isn't strong enough to beat her addictions on her own. Her body is in a toxic state, and she's constantly wrestling that. She shouldn't have to.

Our bodies were made perfect. We put substances into our bodies that abuse it, and the results show from the way we look and feel.

"wonderfully, slender, toned bodied personal trainer" - Such praise haha =) Thanks!

Terry you hit on a good point. I don't know what it feels like, and Lord help me, I never will.

The good thing is that I'm at least an educated trainer that knows not to pile on the weights when I do have a severely overweight or obese client... or push them to dangerous levels enough to where they collapse on a treadmill (Jillian Michaels), as this is severely dangerous and "idiotic". I understand what the body is going through, and I give my recommendations and train people in accordance with those precautions.

There are strict guidelines I have learned about training people in that situation, and it went further in detail about the training parameters, internally, externally and emotionally to provide the safest, most effective health intervention possible.

I did however, do a 2 hour long workout with a 50lb weight vest and did hill runs. It sucked. It was difficult!

I'm pretty much that type of trainer that admits, yes, I've not been severely overweight before, I understand that, but facts are facts. Parameters are parameters. Most physiological things don't and wouldn't change, even if I did have the experience of being 100 lbs overweight. I'd still do what I am doing now:

1. Pool workouts
2. No weight training
3. Body weight exercises only
4. Heart Rate monitoring
5. Weekly Blood pressure Readings
6. Focus on Cardio: walking, biking, elliptical
7. Focus on helping in the Lifestyle
8. Encouraging and Supporting Clients
9. Cleansing and detoxing the Body with Healthy Tart
10. Helping them find and achieve a realistic and achievable goal.

Yes siree! I did understand =)

Thank you for the wonderful compliment and congratulations on your weight loss success! Keep up the good work and I'm excited to meet you!

Christin

Tammy and Terra ~

In the issue of metabolism, metabolism in the breakdown of calories will be the same for everyone. When you exercise, you burn calories, and the rate at which you burn them wont change unless you have a bunch of muscle mass, for which we women don't need to worry about.

SO- with metabolism, you've got to exercise if you want to burn fat and lose weight. (I'm not addressing the metabolism of food right yet). 95% of the trainers out there train their females WRONG. That is why I highly encourage you both to come to my event. You MUST exercise to burn calories- lots of them. So this doesn't mean weight training, riding on some stationary bike or even walking (unless you weigh 100lbs too much), this means running, swimming, sprinting- stuff that will burn SERIOUS calories. The good thing is that this form of training is the kind of training that will benefit your cardiovascular health the best... You don't want to start off right away with that form of training if you're just starting out, or if you have medical problems, but if should be your goal to get there.

I will talk more in detail during my presentation at the Healthy Tart event.

As far as your food metabolism, I haven't yet heard a woman out there who has a high metabolism. Our hormones were made to store fat, that's what we were "blessed" with... due to this God given natural phenomenon, we have got to evaluate the foods we are eating. If you think you eat well, but you're not losing weight, there's no catch. YOU'RE NOT eating as well as you think. We're not freaks of nature. Our metabolisms are all pretty much the same. We can alter them through exercise and how much of it we do, and we can alter it through drugs and shots, (which I don't endorse!).

I can be in denial as much as I want to of why I can't lose weight, but really what it comes down to is, how much and the quality of food I am eating. You must eat CLEAN food. This probably doesn't mean what you are thinking.

I want you to take a look at this woman.

http://ola-life.org/videos.php Look at her making Living Cacao Cream Pie, Nori Rolls, and Spring Rolls.

She eats 100% pure and organic food and she is vegan. She is the leanest natural person I've ever seen, and she's pregnant. OBVIOUSLY she's got it down. She's serving her body and her body is serving her. She inspires me to want to change and be even better. She eats like a Healthy Tart would.

So, even though you are thinking you are eating the right stuff, you're not if you're not at your optimal weight. Something is wrong. Something you are DOING is wrong.

We can explore this further together in the Healthy Tart event.

Yes, your metabolism slightly slows down in your 40's and 50's.. WHY? Because you become LESS ACTIVE and you start losing muscle mass because you are LESS ACTIVE. Chris is a testament to that. She easily lost 60lbs and she's over 50. It's not rocket science people, it's really quite simple.

I implore you to come to our event to learn more about what you can do to change your body and the way you think and feel!

Looking forward to my weight loss event on Friday. Uploaded video to my profile page with full details. Free copy of Healthy Tart for anyone who attends.