Jimi Varner » Weight Loss

Why are my eyes puffy on Monday?

JimiVarner — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:06:57 +0000

How to get a tighter stomach

JimiVarner — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:23:37 +0000

How to get a tighter stomach

JimiVarner — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:23:21 +0000

I will reach my goal unless I don’t feel like it….WHAT?!

JimiVarner — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:27:22 +0000

If you set a fitness goal and plan to acheive it, its going to require:

- Hard work
- Good planning
- Sacrifice
- Dedication

Nothing new, right?

But lets go beyond the surface level of those words and actually putting them into practice.

Like the first night you come home late from work, it’s cold, you ran out of healthy food, and a cold protein shake isn’t going to ‘cut it’, your feelings kick in and the negative self talk begins:

‘this is ridiculous, I can’t even have a pop tart?’

‘this is too hard, I gotta live a little’

‘everybody else is eating normal except me’

But to succeed, to see your goals become a reality, you must learn to override your FEELINGS, revisit your long term goals, and focus on the outcome that you desire.

If you give into temptation, you are going to enjoy several minutes of pleasure, yes, but its always followed by several hours, perhaps days of guilt.

It’s not worth it. You’ve done this before, remember?

Don’t give into your feelings and ruin all of your efforts. You can overcome this temporary emotional state of mind and experience success.

With each victory over your emotions and cravings, your self discipline grows, your self confidence soars, and you take yet another step towards achieving a level that most only dream about.

You aren’t a dreamer, you are a doer!

Make it happen, today.

Take control over your emotions, master them, before they master YOU

BEING SLIGHTLY OVERWEIGHT SHORTENS LIFE

JimiVarner — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:28:40 +0000

Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Fitness and Health E-Zine December 26,
2010 Happy Holidays! BEING SLIGHTLY OVERWEIGHT SHORTENS LIFE A
review of 19 studies covering 1.5 million people shows that being
even a little bit overweight shortens your life and the heavier you
are, the more likely you are to die of cancer and heart attacks
(New England Journal of Medicine, December 2, 2010). Two-thirds of
North American adults are overweight or obese. Doctors measure
overweight with a Body-Mass Index (BMI) number: your weight in
kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters. A normal
BMI is 22.5 to 25. Having a BMI of 27.5 increases your chances of
dying from a heart attack by 50 percent, and a BMI over 40
increases risk by more than 400 percent. Similar increases in BMI
apply to death from cancers. NO SUCH THING AS HEALTHY OVERWEIGHT
MEN “There appears to be no such thing as metabolically healthy
obesity,” said Dr. Johan Arnlov, author of a 30-year follow up
report of 1800 Swedish men showing that overweight middle-aged men
are at increased risk for death and heart attacks, even if they do
not have metabolic syndrome or diabetes (Circulation, January 19,
2010). Arnlov and his colleagues checked all the men for metabolic
syndrome: high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high blood
triglycerides (fats), low HDL (“good”) cholesterol and a broad
waist size (40 inches for men, 35 for women). Metabolic syndrome is
the presence of three or more of these risk factors. Follow-up for
30 years showed that the risk of a heart attack was 52 percent
higher in overweight men without metabolic syndrome, 74 percent
higher in overweight men with metabolic syndrome, 95 percent higher
in obese men without metabolic syndrome and 155 percent higher in
obese men with metabolic syndrome. REDUCING OVERWEIGHT A LITTLE
PROLONGS LIFE Being overweight shortens lives because full fat
cells produce immune cells that turn on your immunity to promote
inflammation that causes diabetes, heart attacks, cancers,
arthritis and other diseases. Losing as few as 10 pounds can reduce
an over-active immune system to that of a thin person (The Journal
of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, June 2010). EXERCISE
HELPS TO PREVENTS WEIGHT GAIN The average person spends a lifetime
gaining weight and exercise helps to prevent weight gain with
aging. Researchers measured BMI and waist circumference in more
than 3,400 men and women and followed them for 20 years. The
most-active men gained 5.7 pounds less than those least active, and
the most-active women gained 13.5 pounds less than the least-active
women (JAMA, December 15, 2010). Many other studies show that
exercising regularly helps to protect even those who continue to be
overweight. MESSAGE Being even a little bit overweight shortens
lives, and exercise helps to prevent weight gain with
aging.

Body weight or body wait?

JimiVarner — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:43:40 +0000

Weight loss always happens, it just might not happen when YOU want it to. It’s true that calories in vs. calories out still counts, but when that number actually balances out is ANYBODIES guess. The factors that will influence your actual, real time result include:
- water levels
- sodium levels
- intensity of last workouts
- inflammation
- muscle glycogen levels
…..and then some

Bottomline: don’t stress out over your day to day progress. Trust that if you simply submit to the process and have a solid plan, that most often, you WILL see results!

Specific results without specific actions?

JimiVarner — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:37:41 +0000

Are you trying to lose weight? Most of us are….and most of us have a specific scale number that we are trying to reach. Just read the following true story of a client who approached me about the program ‘not working’.

Client: well, what have you got to say?

Jimi: say about what?

Client: I have been doing the program for 6 weeks and I haven’t lost any weight, so what’s up?

Jimi: well, tell me about your compliance to the program. Are you working out 4-6 times per week?

Client: well, sort of, on the days I’m not tired I am.

Jimi: ok, that’s a NO. How about the diet plan?

Client: yep, I’ve been following it.

Jimi: ok, tell me your average day…

Client: I go to work, but stop off to get a donut or two. Then, I usually get hungry around 10am, so I’ll get something out of the snack machine. Then I’ll go out to lunch with my coworkers. Then I’ll just something up in the evening since it’s too late to cook.

Jimi: (silent, can’t believe his ears)

TO BE CONTINUED

Rome wasn’t built in a day!

JimiVarner — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:32:50 +0000

They say that Rome wasn’t built in a day. And while I agree with that, I do think that sometimes we take a lack of results and excuse it as simply results taking more time to come than we want and not as fast as we want. But the truth of the matter is that sometimes, Rome can be built in a day ( or at least the foundation)and its simply because we haven’t taken the right steps to ensure that Rome gets built at all. For instance, I have a client never seems to make progress, and habits that are less than desirable to support his goals. These habits need to be addressed in order for him to see results. Instead of masking the frustration with false humility and patience, attempt to change by looking at the daily habits and actions of the man facing you in the mirror.

What I’ve discovered

JimiVarner — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:15:54 +0000

I’ve come to discover that change is something you need to want to do, not something you think you need to do. – Jimi Varner 5/9/2010

Sumbit to the process of change

JimiVarner — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:02:27 +0000

No matter what you did this weekend, remember, tomorrow is a new day. You may have wanted to make better decisions this weekend regarding eating and your exercise habits, but you know what, today is a new day. Start right now with the knowledge you have you know enough to succeed. Apply it and make... Read More...