One simple way to beat the Holiday Carb blues!

Prepare for those holiday feeding frenzies now! Minimize the effects of that increased carbohydrate intake during the holiday season with three little Carb Ease capsules!

Are you worried about the common holiday weight gain? Worried about indulging in all those yummy carb loaded side dishes and desserts? Do you normally have trouble resisting sugary, starchy foods like sweets, pastas and breads? Or, maybe you would simply like to control the effects of your higher than normal carb intake and weight management during this delightful time of year?
If any of these sound remotely like you, I would strongly suggest you read the below and check out Carb Ease before the Holidays are upon you! Just so you Carb Ease…

• Reduces the absorption of starches, sugars and other carbohydrates*
• Inhibits the breakdown of carbohydrates by inhibiting the digestive enzymes used to break them down*
• Helps reduce the negative effects of excessive carbohydrate consumption*
• Helps maintain blood glucose levels already in the normal range*
• Use with a Metabolic Nutrition System (MNS®) for enhanced results*

THE ISSUE:
During the last few years, there have been many opinions on the role of carbohydrates in overall nutrition. While many trends promoting low-carbohydrate consumption have come and gone, the simple fact is that carbohydrates are the body’s primary resource for energy. The problem with carbohydrates only occurs when we consume more carbohydrates than our body requires. At this point, carbohydrates are either stored as glycogen or converted into fat for storage. Moreover, your body is also less likely to burn any existing body fat because it has found all the energy it needs to burn in the excess carbohydrates you’ve consumed. Therefore, maintaining a healthy balance of carbohydrates is key for your health: Too few rob your body of energy, and too many lead to weight-management challenges.
Excess carbohydrates pose another risky possibility. Refined carbohydrates generally have a high glycemic index (GI) value, which stimulates insulin release. In time, a chronically high insulin output in combination with lifestyle factors such as overeating and physical inactivity may lead to insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and eventually adult-onset type II diabetes in some people. According to the American Heart Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 47 million Americans have metabolic syndrome. These numbers represent an approximate 61 percent increase during the last decade.
Because today’s typical meal is loaded with carbohydrates (pasta, bread, sweets, etc.), even the healthiest eater has difficulty dodging consumption of excess refined carbohydrates. Is there a way to limit the damaging effects of too many carbohydrates?

THE SOLUTION: Carb-Ease™
Carb-Ease supplement is a remarkable weight-management product that helps prevent the breakdown of carbohydrates by inhibiting the digestive enzymes used to break them down.* The body must break down starches and other complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides) into smaller, more usable forms (monosaccharides). Once broken down, the simple glucose molecules can then be transported across the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. Carb-Ease contains herbal extracts and other ingredients such as L-arabinose that help inhibit the breakdown of selected complex carbohydrate molecules so that the body is less likely to absorb them.* Furthermore, Carb-Ease contains additional ingredients, including gymnema extract, that help reduce your cravings for sweets while helping inhibit the absorption of some carbohydrates before they can be stored.* Carb-Ease helps maintain your weight and blood glucose levels already in the normal range by reducing the negative effects of excessive carbohydrate consumption.*
Learn more about Carb Ease and its fat fighting friend Fibo-Trim here!

Thanks Jason for sharing!

Winning Insights

 

An absolutely winning article!

 

Enjoy and learn~

Winning Insights

Stop Whining and Start Winning

Redefining the Competitive Advantage

Winning Tips:

1.    Focus on your long-term potential instead of your short-term results.  Short-term results will vary but if you keep your eye on the prize, you will win.

2.    Find the person who is tops in your field and learn from them.  Most often, jealousy blocks us from leveraging the proven tactics of industry leaders.  Instead, redefine competition as an edge that can catapult you into the lead.
Once I made it into the trees and out of sight, I took the ski pole that was in my right hand and broke it over the snowy trunk of the aspen pine that was four feet in front of me. With snow falling from the branches and most of the pole still intact, I took another step closer to that tree.

Winding up for another healthy baseball swing, I split what remained of my pole in two. In my hand was less than a third of my once intact pole; this third was just long enough to break over my knee. I proceeded to do just that.
I was still breathing the hard, short breaths of intense anger. Somehow, breaking one pole just wasn’t enough to dispense with my frustration. I grabbed the other that lay innocently beside me in the snow and repeated the entire procedure with it. With ski pole shrapnel scattered around me, I looked next toward my skis.

By now though, my sadness had started to surpass my frustration. Falling to my knees, I began sobbing into my gloves.
You see, I had already spent more than half my life and a great deal of my parents’ cash on the dream of being a world-class downhill skier. Up to that point, I had felt that my energy and parents’ investment were well spent; but the results on the scoreboard that day told a different story.

I had just finished a Canadian Alpine Series ski race on Silver Star Mountain in Vernon, British Columbia. My race was average, at best. I was disappointed with my result, but I was able to console myself with knowing that there were many experienced racers competing that day, some even as old as twenty-five. Fifteen was the youngest age of any racer allowed in the race and I was only sixteen.

After my run, I hung around the finish line watching the balance of the skiers post their results. Most of the racers that remained were younger than me and posed little threat to my positioning. The scoreboard showed me in seventeenth place; although seventeenth was a bad result I figured the race would finish this way.

You might be asking yourself “Cary, was seventeenth place what sent you into a pole breaking rage ending in tears?”
No, what caused me to question my dream of being a world-class skier was watching fifteen year old Edi Podivinsky come down the slope and finish third. At sixteen, the gap in our age felt huge – he seemed like a child. That day, however, third place put him on the podium with the big boys.
What was worse was that Edi had finished a full three and a half seconds ahead of me. In ski racing, a one-second difference in finish times is like a full lap in a foot race around an Olympic sized track. Young Edi had virtually lapped me three and a half times.

First, came the shock of it all and then came the pole busting rage. Having my clock cleaned so definitively by someone junior to me caused me to question my dreams at such a core level, my guts started to tighten to the point that I thought I was going to puke.

For the first time in my ski career, I was seriously considering calling it quits. I thought to myself “Who was I kidding (other than my parents and myself) that I could be the best in the world when I was being lapped by this boy wonder. Edi’s results confirmed the message of the one skeptical voice within me that told me that all my efforts were pointless.

If you’ve ever experienced giving something everything you’ve got and losing – horrifically – you’ll understand my devastation. As I looked at Edi, I now knew what a future world champion looked like.

There was no question that he was a world champion in the making, and if I continued to ski, I would have front row tickets to watch how the whole thing would unfold. What could be worse?

Then a thought hit me, “Hmm, do I watch Edi win the world cup on television or do I learn from him and perhaps someday stand on the podium with him? What if Edi is a gift, a gift that no coach, cash or training camp could replicate?” 
As amazing as this may sound, in less than five minutes, I went from wallowing in the snow over Edi’s exceptional ability to beat me, to recognizing that having his talent so close to me could be the single greatest tool for my development.
Even though Edi and I continued to compete against each other, over the years, we were able to help each other get better and better by sharing best practices. Edi did end up becoming the best training tool I could have asked for as a ski racer.

Several years later, it happened: both Edi and I stood side by each on the podium at a World Cup Race. We achieved the monumental milestone of placing first and second for our nation: it had only been accomplished once before.

I credit Edi with much of my success: without his fantastic abilities I am confident that I wouldn’t have made it to the top of the world. So, you can imagine my shock when at the press conference announcing my retirement from professional sport, Edi shared with the reporters that “Everything that I have ever learned in this sport and everything that I have ever achieved in this sport is because I was chasing Cary Mullen”. I always thought that I had been chasing him, not the other way around!

Looking back, I realize what a profound lesson fifteen-year-old Edi had taught me. You see, in that very first race with Edi I had made a fatal but very human mistake: I was using that one race to define my ability and potential.
My lack of belief in my ability to reach my dream was quickly projected onto Edi. His superior results made me feel as if he was the one that would crush my dreams. What I didn’t immediately realize was that he could actually help me win. I was a big fish in a small puddle, and competing with Edi would give me the momentum to become the biggest fish in the ocean.

What if those that we believe are standing between us and everything we’ve ever wanted are not in our lives to prevent us from triumph, but instead to catapult us to our goals? I now believe that success in life is more about being involved in a grand game of leapfrog, where I leap over you towards my goals and you leap over me towards yours. At the end of the game, we both win. 
I wonder if you have ever (or currently) blamed your lack of belief on someone close to you. How could you start to see this person as a gift? Is this person someone that you could play leapfrog with? What could that game of leapfrog do for your results?

Until the next edition of Winning Insights, I wish you EVEN Greater Success.

Conquer Doubts, Lunge through Fears and Find Focus,
Olympian, World Cup Downhill Champion, Author & Oceanfront Resort Developer, Cary Mullen was recently recognized by Successful Meetings Magazine as one of the hottest speakers of the year.
Cary promotes healthy living, chasing your greatest dreams, and training your mind and your instincts to Lunge Forward & achieve your next level of success.

For more info. from Cary Mullen visit: www.CaryMullen.com.

Day 9-13 of Lean In 13

 

Well, life has it’s way of telling us to slow down every now and again.

My last few days of the Lean In 13 program had me in bed with a cold. I wasn’t able to get up for my workouts or even my fast walk. I spent time healing instead.

BUT, I want to tell you that because of my consistency on the program I believed I bounced back better and had the ability to heal quicker.

I regained my momentum at the beginning of this week as I started out slowly into the workout regimen.

Total pounds lost:  6

Total inches changed:  tba…gotta get the rooster to do some measuring….this could get sticky. :O

The definition in my arms, the absence of a bubble belly, the strength in my legs and the endurance I have achieved have astounded me!  Something to be said for consistency!

My husband is even noticing the difference in my shape.  Woo-hoo!

Now onto the next 13 days of tweaking the burn and carb days to fit a healthy maintenance of weight.

If you are sitting on the fence with your health, you’ve hit a plateau or a brick wall….then this is the program for you!

It’s very easy to follow and I will coach you all the way through! Flocks of a feather hafta stick together ya know!

If nothing changes, nothing changes.

Let’s get started,

Lean In 13 Testimonies

 

 

I just wanted to show you some others that have had great results using the Lean In 13  and 24 Day Challenge Programs.

 

Katie Eagleson, Grand Blanc, MI
Lost 42" in 16 weeks

 

Marie Perkins, Colorado
I'm down to a 28" waist and in a size 8. My weight loss has allowed me to go from watching my son play basketball to coaching his team.

 

Sherry Deal, Texas
Lost 17% body fat & 33#
I now wear a size 2 or 4 and weigh 127 lbs with a body fat of 24%. I feel like I am back in control of my life and it feels good! I actually feel and look better at 40 than I did at 20 and, as a mother of four I need all the energy I can get.

Carlos Matinez & Amado Gonzalez
Washington
To date, I've lost 138 pounds and Amado has lost 134 pounds. Both of us have a 32-inch waist.  Doing this together, we've been able to hold each other accountable. I try to live by my rule: If you cheat, you're only cheating yourself.

Carla Biehl, Texas
I went from a size 28 to a size 12 in one year. After MNS? Max Energy was introduced, I went down to a size 2.* Today, 150 pounds lighter, I feel like a million bucks!

 

Denise Novicki, Georgia
In three months, I dropped from a size 12 to a size 6.I decided in November 2004 to compete in a 1/2 Ironman Triathlon (1.2 mile swim, 56-mile bike, 13.1 run). With the help of a great coach and incredible AdvoCare products  I have had an incredible season.

 

So there you have it!!

Whaddya got to lose? 

Join the ranks of those that have paved a path before you!

Let’s start a whole new fitness revolution!

Go to Lean In 13 NOW and begin working on a whole new you!

 

To your health,

 

Day 4-7 of Lean In 13

Wellllllllll…..I had this post finished and almost published and then *poof* it disappeared never to be seen again….uuuggghhh!

So, now instead of day 4 and 5 posted I have to do days 4-8…

I was hoping to post yesterday, but the computer, phone and I were having a date doing follow-ups with those of you who have jumped on the Lean-In-13 program, the 24 Day Challenge, and those of you who have begun to see a sizable Plan B income from Advocare! Woo-Hoo! Keep me busy!!!

So, we had to interrupt the previously scheduled post for some real world business….:)

I am so stoked about how I am feeling it isn’t even funny! My energy levels have skyrocketed.  I actually have to force myself to go to bed at 11pm. ( I used to turn into a pumpkin around 9pm)

I have had 3 more burn days and one refuel day. I can tell that I am burning at a higher rate now as I get hungry sooner.  Don’t let that scare you though…hunger is a good sign…it means that your metabolism is burning stored fat.

Ya know how when you put small logs on the fire every two hours you keep a nice hot fire all day?

Well, it’s like that with your metabolism.  We hafta keep the fires burning with small meals throughout the day.

I eat about 10…okay, 6 small meals (the size of my fist) a day.  Sometimes I would like 10! They consist mostly of nuts and veggies, but on refuel day I have smart carbs…oatmeal, brown rice.

I have lost 5 #’s and think I have gained about 1-2 pounds muscle.  I took my measurements and can’t wait to see how things have  changed on day 13!

My biggest physical goals were to lose my bubble belly, and tone up my arms and glutes.

The bubble belly is G.O.N.E!! I can’t believe it!!! 

AND….My arms are definitely toning!

 

Ya think?

Sorry for the poor quality of the pics. This was with my cell phone in my dimly lit basement, and I truly have no idea how to pose! And my workout hair….ick! I actually thought about cropping out my head, but didn’t want you to think it wasn’t me in the picture! LOL!

But you can get an idea of the toning I’m getting.

I am also much more aware of the foods I’m eating.  I wasn’t a big eater to begin with…but really found out that I did eat more carbs than I needed to.

Again, I love this program (I like the whole list thing and checking it off!) for it’s ease and it’s incredible results!

My regimen looks like this:

1st 10 days Herbal Cleanse (I actually started this about 7 days before the Lean In 13)

Before workout: Catalyst, MNS Max 3,Spark

Breakfast: Meal Replacement Shake, MNS Max 3

2 hours later: handful of nuts, lots of water

1/2 hour before lunch: MNS Max 3, lots of water

Lunch: protein and veggie on burn days, protein and carb on refuel day

Snack: veggies and hummus, lots of water, Catalyst

Dinner: Protein and veggie or carb

Snack: fruit or veggie

I am getting contacted by so many of you about this program! Go to the Lean In 13 program. and fill out the info.  I will call you with the details of the program.

Let’s all move into the holiday season with a little less of us to carry around!

To your health!

Day 2 and 3 of Lean In 13

 

I have just finished days 2 and 3 of the Lean In 13 program.

WOW!!

All I can say is I.LOVE.THIS!!!

I have NEVER felt so good in all my life!

These two days were BURN days.  That means no carbs, only protein and vegies and LOTS of water.

I put together a workout program for myself that includes:

Treadmill Fitness walking: 30 minutes

Free Weights on arms

Nautilus on legs and arms

Stabilizer Ball for glutes and push-ups

Crunches on the mat

I work out on my arms one day and then the legs the next.

I put some great worship music on and rock out on the treadmill. (This is where I get the most ideas for my blog)

I have been bursting out of bed to get to the exercise room (my basement)! I can’t believe how good I am sleeping and how energetic I feel upon rising! I am up by 6:30am, walking by 6:45 and done with my work-out by 7:45.

Tomorrow is Day 4….REFUEL day. I am feeling so good I almost don’t want to add carbs to the day….but I will follow the recommendations and just eat small portions.

OH!!! Almost forgot! I lost 3 pounds…..woo-hoo!!!

How’s your program going?

Stay Sparked uP!

Day 1 Lean In 13

I started a new work out program today.  It’s called Lean In 13. 



Lean In 13…not 13 months, or 13 weeks, but 13 days!

I don’t have much weight to lose but I definitely want to increase my stamina, strength and DECREASE some fat content.

This is the perfect program for achieving all those goals as it has all the components of eating habits and exercise habits spelled out for you for 13 days.

Today, I followed the program for the 1st BURN day.  No carbs, only vegies, protein, lots of water, and the supplements. Plus cardio and weights.

I am definitely feeling lighter. My abdomen isn’t as bloated and I feel more energized!

I have 2 more BURN days then day 4 is REFUEL day. 

I will keep you posted as to my progress!

What programs do you use to reach your goals?