I’m willing to bet you’d love to know exactly how to minimize your body fat.

Unfortunately there is so much information out there (much of which is very contradictory) that you just don’t know where to start. As a result, you do just that – don’t start!

The truth is that dropping unwanted body fat is in fact very simple but a new perspective is required away from all this rubbish about calorie counting, no-carb diets and periods of dangerously low calories to force fat burning.

Whilst pretty much any diet which restricts your calories to a level below what you burn up each day will lead to reduced body fat in the short-term, you are likely to be doing untold damage to your health and also setting up a rebound effect.

When you finally decide you can’t take starving yourself anymore and increase your calorie intake again, you’ll more than likely end up even fatter than you were before.

What I am about to tell you may seem strange and in direct opposition to what you think you know, but remember this.

I have used these methods to maintain a body fat percentage of 5% on myself, help a lady lose 120lbs in 7 months having tried all the ‘famous’ diets with no success and restore the health of everyone from regular sports fanatics to stressed out business men who were heart attacks waiting to happen!

Also, if you are reading this with excitement at the thought of finally being able to drop body fat, it is clear that what you think you know doesn’t work so listen up!

Here is a list of actions you must start climbing to quickly develop a lean, athletic body and restore your health, dramatically reducing your risk of common ‘affluence diseases’ such as diabetes, heart disease and various cancers which are often non-existent in areas which no access to the Western diet.

The truth is that whilst anyone can drop a few pounds quite quickly, long-term astounding, life-changing results can only be achieved when optimal health is achieved FIRST.

There is too much focus today on missing out this step in search of the quick-fix fat loss method.

You must become aware of the following:

1) The media will glamourize whatever will sell newspapers and magazines regardless of the effect on your health. These journalists have not thoroughly researched studies that often contradict the random advice thrown around about nutrition, and using them as your main reference source for fat loss advice is like getting a dentist to fix your car.

2) The medical profession is controlled by drugs companies and is under so much pressure that those who do want to know and dish ou the truth about nutrition simply do not have the time to offer advice and planning which will truly make a difference to you. It is easier, and unfortunately more profitable in many cases, to simply prescribe another pill or shot of insulin.

3) Often the truth has been covered up in order to protect what are very lucrative industries. The government heavily relies on donations from food and drugs companies and often could not afford to lose the backing of entire industries. The truth mysteriously disappears in a lot of these cases.

This is an express guide to give you something to work from. The three points above should illustrate that there is a huge amount of science and critical issues to consider but as you don’t have time for all that, make sure you do all you can to implement the steps below.

Results will be achieved much quicker if you can work with a health and fitness professional who understands the mechanisms behind these steps so please seek one out as soon as possible.

Build your blood back up

You cannot see the proof of this on screen unless you have your bloods taken as I have by an expert.

However, trust me when I tell you the blood of an average person is an absolute mess and without healthy blood you can never hope to restore sky-high energy levels and minimal body fat!

To begin to feel and operate much better and build a very strong foundation for getting a great looking body back do the following:

- Drink 1 litre of pure, BOTTLED water for every 20-25kg of bodyweight, every day without fail.

- Take 2-3 fish oil tablets 2-3 times per day in order to reduce inflammation and help cleanse your blood.

- Get out of your three caves. Many of us live either in the house, in the car or in the office. Some of us go to cave number four – the gym. Schedule in 2-3 blocks of 45-60 minutes each week where you get outside and oxygenate your blood. This is best done near running water like a canal, or in a woodland or forest, away from the hustle and bustle of daily life.

This is a video of blood ananlysis and what is probably going on inside you right now if you’re diet doesn’t match what I am detailing in this article.

Heavy Metal Detox

Detox is probably up there with ‘skint’ in the most commonly used words list every January yet few people have any clue what is really required to get rid of toxins in the body.

Simply eating a bit more veg and staying off the booze for 2 weeks will do very little if anything for detoxing your body.

The truth is we are literally swimming in toxins as we get bombarded by everything from tap water (with upwards of 300 chemicals) in and carcinogenic (potentially cancer-causing) chemicals in soaps, shower gel and deodorants to air pollution and the use of plastic food tubs.

One of the first steps you must take if it applies to you is to have all mercury fillings removed.

If you have any of these, every time you swallow you are ingesting more heavy metals which are poisoning your body and can lead to a variety of serious health issues.

In fact, if you have enough fillings (maybe 3-4) and you spit in the toilet, you could be charged with breaking rules on the concentration of heavy metals allowed in municipal dumping – that’s how concentrated your saliva is with mercury!

Another to take with detoxification are to bath in Himalyan crystal salts and add it to a drink or two each day as this will help flush out heavy metals and supply the exact mineral content of a healthy human body.

Finally using iodine supplementation helps counteract the negative effects of too much exposure to flourides, bromides, and chlorides in drinking water, toothpaste, swimming pool water etc.

Unfortunately, your cells ‘receive’ all these chemicals in the same way but iodine (which is important for a high metabolic rate) gets pushed to the back of the queue by its bigger cousins!

Alkalise Your Body

Right now, if you eat lots of ‘carbs’ and meat everyday amongst other food sources, you may well be a walking acid bomb.

This means you’ve created an environment in your body that is very conducive to lethargy, illness, disease and generally feeling awful!

Developing a plant-based diet centred on vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds,will see your energy levels surge, your body fat plummet and your long-term health improve dramatically.

Whilst some would advocate a completely vegetarian diet, my experience is that if you are involved in heavy weight training and intense sport, a degree of meat is required to maintain testosterone levels (yes important for ladies as well) and growth hormone.

If you can stick to a diet which is 90% alkaline and 10% acidic, reducing your consumption of animal proteins to 4-5 times per week, you will see amazing changes to your physical appearance and performance and mental wellbeing.

Rather than regurgitate lots of science, I urge you to read ‘The China Study’ which gathered indisputable evidence from around the world over many years, that diets high in animal proteins (meat, dairy and cheese) dramatically increase the risk of diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

By learning to prepare your food you will, as a matter of course, eliminate many of the problematic chemicals that have invaded out food supply in the interests of profit and little else.

In response to these problems, science now focuses on how we can add back individual nutrients as with cereals ‘fortified with iron, calcium etc’. This takes away from the fact that healthy nutrition is not a simple case of isolated nutrients but a complex interaction of natural foods.

Nature knows how things work together and has placed them together in different foods. This is why a varied diet which largely consists of raw food that hasn’t been tampered with, will bring rapid improvements in health and body composition.

As part of this new diet of yours, ensure you adhere to the age-old advice of eating a good breakfast. However, this breakfast must be a highly alkalizing one consisting of ‘greens’ and healthy fats.

This plan involves common sense though and not an obsessive approach so a weekly bowl of nice, warm porridge in the winter (made from rice milk not cow’s milk) is fine and can do wonders for your mood!

Take time to relax, and chew your food to aid digestion, reducing fat storage and helping assimilate important nutrients!

Mental Health

Without your mind in the right place trying to improve your body can often prove rather futile!

Taking time to distress, calm down and enjoy life is critical to giving your body the right environment in which to restore itself back to its healthy, natural, lean state.

Many of us are constantly ‘wired’ as be buzz around getting all our tasks done even if they are relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of a healthy, enjoyable life!

Finding 20 minutes to relax and create intense images which help you envisage a calm, relaxed future in which all your dreams come true is a HUGE step in becoming that person.

This sort of approach used to seem very ‘out there’ to me until I realized that without a programming your subconscious mind to accept that you are capable of whatever you want to achieve, past experiences and failures will always dominate your thoughts and hold you back.

Our brains are funny like that! By creating positive, intense images and repeating them every single day you will increase the feelings that you and noone else are in control of your life.

This will rapidly get rid of feelings of anxiety and a lack of control that is essentially where all stress originates.

The problem with this stress is that it causes hormonal disturbance such as increases in cortisol that is known to contribute to storage of body fat and numerous health issues. Consequently, you can go to the gym every day for two hours and still see no reduction in body fat!

So no matter how busy you are, find a little time to chill out and build those images and mini-movies in your head of what you want to see happen in ‘real life’ in the near and distant future.

You’ll be surprised how you start changing the way you act, moving you closer and closer to making a happy, relaxed, you with a low body fat and a successful lifestyle, reality!

Remember, you could combine this with your ‘oxygenation’ sessions to kill tow birds with one stone!

A final point on relaxation and improving your mood is to do with the sun.

If you’re lucky enough to live in a nice sunny climate, ensure you get regular short doses of ‘high noon’ sunshine to improve your mood and help keep your body in healthy state, primed for fat loss and fitness gains!

If not, have 2-3 sunbeds of around 3 minutes each week to get your dose of life-giving UVB rays. Many taboos surround sunbeds due to fears about skin cancer, but cancers rarely develop or survive unless the terrain (your body) is in a state to allow this.

Creating an alkaline environment before introducing sun beds will greatly reduce any chance of such fears being realized and in fact help PREVENT such diseases.

(Remember keep sun sessions, either outdoors or under sunbed to short doses.)

The same concept applies to illness. The germ becomes largely irrelevant if the environment is highly alkaline and does not permit it to survive or grow.

Food Timing

Once you have the basics of an alkaline diet and healthy lifestyle in place, consider when you eat certain foods.

Whilst a non-carb approach is not recommended, the timing of your carbohydrate intake can make massive differences to your body fat.

By eating carbohydrate-rich food such as oats and rice in the meal after a hard exercise session, you will avoid the well-documented problems of insulin spikes and the likely onset of diabetic conditions eventually.

After hard-exercise your insulin-sensitivity rises naturally meaning that any sugars from carbohydrates (unless the intake is excessive) will be shuttled into your muscles rather than your body fat stores!

The Technology Trap

Whether you believe it or not, your life is likely dominated by technology. Rather than go into whether or not emails and mobile phones have improved our lives or made them even busier, let’s focus on direct health issues!

Constantly being surrounded by electromagnetic waves, wi-fi internet and mobile phone waves is not good for the brain.

Use the speakerphone on your mobile phone whenever you can and even better, try to use email as much as possible. Not only does this reduce the amount of time you have your phone close to your brain but also gives you more control over when you speak to people!

By claiming back control, you can reduce your stress levels significantly.

Also, remove all electrical goods from your bedroom as the electromagnetic waves can severely hamper good sleep. Without lots of deep sleep, we are unable to recover and rest properly, reducing the ability to build muscle and drop body fat through distressing and relaxation.

This includes electrical alarm clocks, radios, mobile phones and televisions.

Conclusion

Wow! Lot’s of changes to make but don’t feel daunted by the whole process. Much of this can be implemented easily and immediately.

The rest should be implemented in small steps and repeated daily until it becomes habit.

If you think you can’t do any of it, you are basing this purely on past experience rather than thinking rationally about what makes sense in terms of healthy human beings from years gone by.

This is all common sense stuff that, whilst it makes a huge difference, has been largely forgotten by the mainstream as self-imposed time constraints and chasing more and more money have come to dominate our modern society.

I can promise you from personal experience and ‘experimentation’ with clients that this will change your life if you choose to live a healthy and happy life from now on.

To work with me personally please email me at jon@stormforcefitness.com.

It can appear a difficult process at first but I can help you implement these changes and other very effective methods for restoring health and low body fat levels and fast as possible but with lasting results.

I have been through the process of doubting how I could ever change my own eating patterns until I researched the health implications. I realized that not only do I want to maintain low body fat and the ability to run around and enjoy life, but also to avoid many of the diseases which have affected most of my own family.

There is plenty more to work with (such as exact food plans) and many ways to explain the processes in more detail but this will give you a great start!