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Stay Focused On Your Work With a Zero Based Schedule
You have two computer monitors, 75 chrome tabs open, your cell phone in your hand and your children are beating down the door to your home office... no? Ok maybe that's just me...
Regardless, I bet your day is filled with distractions.
Between meetings and phone calls, Project management software, emails, text messages.... the persistent "ding" of new social media notifications, not to mention people dropping by to talk to you and the unending fires that need to be put out.... it's a miracle you get anything done honestly.
Ok.. what about this...
Do you find that your work life unfairly encroaches on your personal life? It's the end of the day and you didn't get everything done and you think "I'll just work for a little longer..." or maybe you sneak in an hour or two of work on a Saturday just to catch up...
I've just (re)discovered the most effective (and enjoyable!) method of eliminating most of these problems and I want to share exactly what it is and how I do it...
Have No Free Time (on purpose)
It's called zero based scheduling (ZBS). I used it very successfully for a few years and then when I transitioned from working for someone else to working for myself I forgot about it...
Then recently.. as I was having an anxiety attack because I had so much shit to do that I decided to just mindlessly browse Facebook for 30 minutes... I remembered how awesome it is.
The premise of ZBS is that you schedule every single moment of your day so that there is no "free" time left over - sounds tedious I know. It's not!
Here's how using ZBS will transform your life...
- Instead of impulsively checking emails, texts and notifications you can ignore them because the time to check them is on your schedule
- Instead of panicking because you didn't get everything done today, you can relax knowing that you've got it worked into your plan for tomorrow
- Instead of listlessly moving from one task to another without rhyme or reason, you take 10 minutes of your day to prioritize your tasks
- Instead of feeling guilty for working late because you let work take over your day, you'll be home and spending your time the way you want to spend it - because that's how you planned it...
Sound exciting? It is!
This process only takes about 10 minutes every morning using a free (and beautiful) app. It DOES require consistency, so you'll have to get yourself in the habit of doing it, but it gets easier the more you do it...
How To Create a Zero Based Schedule
Important things - "Stuff" collects in various places in our life... here's where my stuff collects...
- Facebook Messages
- Internal company chat (we use workplace.. maybe you use Slack)
- Project Management Software (We use Asana)
- HelpDesk software (where we manage our design requests)
- Text messages (Honey-do lists)
- Physical mail (bills!)
- Google Calendar
- My children or other people popping in to make requests
- My kids school folders
etc... you get the point. Stuff collects in these locations and then we as humans basically just spend all day trying to keep those locations from overflowing and prevent important things from getting missed while also trying to not go insane from the process.
It's very important to understand from the beginning that ZBS does not replace any of these collection places and if you try to make it do that it will stop working.
This is not your new calendar, or project management process or email replacement tool or grocery list...
The Basics
Every morning at a time that is convenient for you (ideally before you start working, but if you're super ambitious it can be right when you wake up... don't make too many rules for yourself) you'll spend 10-15 minutes creating your schedule for the day.
To do this, you review all of the locations where stuff collects. In the beginning keep it simple - emails, projects, messages from customers etc.
Then you'll start plugging these things into your day, scheduling not only what you'll do, but at what time you'll do it and how long it will take.
Make sure to include things like: Meals, Play Time, Gym Time
So a potential schedule may look like this
8 AM - Drop Kids off at School
8:30 AM - Gym
9:30 AM - Breakfast
10 AM - Phone call with John
10:30 AM - Write blog post about ZBS
11 AM - Follow up on that lead
11:20 AM - Generate reports for Mary
12 PM - Lunch
(Fast forward)
5:30 PM Dinner
7 PM Play with the kids
8:30 PM Movie Night with Spouse
10:30 PM Bed Time
The whole point of ZBS is to schedule every moment so that you don't have idle "In-between" time where you mindlessly browse Facebook or have nothing to do or you spend time doing something you didn't intend to and wreck your productivity.
Your schedule is not set in stone - it's going to get derailed, things are going to take longer than you expected. That's all fine, just adjust it, add to it, remove things etc. The goal is just to know what is happening today.
Take it to the next level with software
When I originally implemented ZBS it was in conjunction with Bullet Journaling. And while that was really cool and a lot of fun, I am a tech guy at the end of the day and I am most effective when I can use an app to get it done.
For ZBS I highly suggest you use one of my favorite apps in the world: To-doist. You can use any checklist or task management app that supports adding time to the tasks (Google Tasks does this) but To-doist is my favorite for a few reasons...
Todoist has a gamification system called "Karma" essentially the more productive you are, the more the app rewards you with "karma". For me it's a lot of fun to level up my karma (currently I'm a Grand Master - I know you were wondering)
HELLO - We're a design company and I am a design nerd and the fact that Todoist is one of the most aesthetically pleasing software companies I've ever seen plays a HUGE role in my enjoyment.. I meant just LOOK at their BLOG!
Clunky software is the worst! Todist solves a lot of the problems of clunky software with hotkeys and shortcuts. For instance if you type " at 2pm today" into a task name it will just schedule the task for 2 PM today!
It's everywhere that you work
Todist supports basically every platform you work on including desktop, chrome extensions, Android and Apple
It's beautiful
Oh.. sorry did I already say this? 😀
Here's how my ZBS from above looks in Todoist (in sexy dark theme)
The times in red have passed, green is upcoming..
Typing this in took me about a minute using the shortcut from above (adding the time in-line)
To use Todoist for ZBS here's what I suggest...
Add everything to the "inbox" not "today": Todoist defaults to adding tasks to "today" but I recommend that you add them to your "inbox" UNLESS you are doing your plan for today.
Avoid scheduling things beyond today: Eventually you are going to make this system work for you and customize it your way - but in the beginning avoid scheduling things for anything other than today. Things get messy and "stuff" gets lost if you spread it out
The only exception I make is at the end of the day if "stuff" is left over I will sometimes reschedule it for tomorrow (an easy click or two in Todoist)
Use the inbox for certain kinds of stuff: Non-digital stuff can be hard to track. Did your spouse ask you to take care of something? Does your kid need money? Does the car need to get to be inspected? Drop it into the "inbox" with no due date - then tomorrow when you do your planning you can choose to add it to your day or not
Be More Productive!
Now that you have a ZBS you will feel a new kind of freedom - the freedom to FOCUS because the things that DISTRACT you can be neatly planned for and filed away.
Work on the things you have scheduled, one after the other, ticking them off (and getting that sweet, sweet karma) as you go...
Here are some additional little tips and pointers to make your life with ZBS even easier...
- If your task takes to long, don't sweat it. I will sometimes cut myself off and immediately put the "remainder" of my task into my inbox (or tomorrow) or i'll quickly evaluate if I want to remove something from my ZBS in order to work on my current project a little longer...
- Plan on your tasks taking longer than you expect. It's just a fact of life, you can't lock your door and unplug your phone and you can't skip bathroom breaks (or coffee breaks for that matter... just me?). You'll still get interrupted, just plan on it and whenever possible try and stop the interruption from sabotaging you... (see the next point)
- Unless something comes up that is really an emergency, try and deflect it. For instance if an urgent email comes in, or you've missed an important phone call you might go back to your ZBS and carve out some time later in the day to work on it. Just make it part of the plan!
- If you MUST check distractions like social media, email, text messages etc... that's ok! But instead of doing it impulsively, schedule it. You can plan on checking these things during scheduled breaks OR you can build ten minutes into the top of every hour for checking notifications and managing them.

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A source with direct knowledge about the pending move of an Eastern League team to Ottawa confirmed an Ottawa Citizen report that the city should be landing a team from the Double-A league for the 2013 season.
Furthermore, the source would not eliminate the Binghamton Mets as a candidate for purchase and relocation by Needham, Mass.-based Beacon Sports Capital Partners. The person only instead emphasized there is no formal agreement yet when asked if Binghamton was the franchise slated for relocation.
Calls to Eastern League president Joe McEacharn and Binghamton Mets GM Jim Weed went unreturned. Rick Billings, chief operating officer of Beacon Sports Capital Parnters, said he was not permitted to comment, citing baseball confidentiality rules.
In early November, B-Mets president Michael Urda downplayed reports of a potential move of the B-Mets, telling the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin: "People may want to talk to us, but they haven't. Nobody has talked to us."
Even though an Eastern League city is apparently losing a team to Ottawa, that doesn't mean its current major league affiliate will be playing in Canada, too. Assuming the affiliation agreement is up, a major league team can simply switch affiliates, as the Mets did when they changed from New Orleans to Buffalo at the Triple-A level.


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Ballygarrett, Co Wexford
Just down the road is the village of Ballygarrett. Although only a small village they really go to town with the community planting and it is a pretty place with a typically Irish-looking pub, still sporting some old signs.
It seems odd that the village is twinned with Refugio in Texas but there is a reason. James Power, maybe Ballygarrett's most famous son, was born here in 1788 (or 89). He moved to New Orleans in 1809 and later became a Mexican citizen in 1821, obtaining land and setting up a Mexican/Irish community on the Gulf Coast. In 1833 he returned to Ireland to convince more settlers to follow him to Texas and 350 went with him. Unfortunately many died of cholera. Three years later he signed the Texas Declaration of Independence as the representative of Refugio. James Power married Delores de la Portilla and, when she died, married her sister and had seven children in all. His house was made an historical landmark in 1936 and is, appropriately, named Ballygarrett House.
Ballygarrett has a population of 726, Refugio has a population of almost 3000.
Even the recycling area is heavily planted.
Macamore is the name used to describe the soil round here, famous for being better for making bricks than gardens. There is a brickworks down the road. The soil type is what I would mormally call marl or clay or heavy!
The Schooner is slightly famous for being featured in the recent film 'The Sea', which was filmed locally – inevitably it was a fight scene. It is based on the book by John Banville and most was shot in the local area and starred Sinead Cusack, Charlotte Rampling and Rufus Sewell. The Irish premiere was held at the nearby Gorey cinema and I was lucky enough to attend. I won't review the film here but I will just say not to watch it if you are depressed.
This would be funny if sheep hadn't recently eaten 12 of my newly planted apple trees.
I am not sure if this is purely decorative or a safety feature or somewhere to park your bicycle!
In case you are wondering, it's 10euro for the rods.
Near the cemetery is one of the smartest bug hotels I have ever seen: in fact it is 5 star! I have to say that it seems slightly superfluous in such a rural area but as a community project it is a great idea.


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But, it wasn't. It was a wasted weekend of nothing. Because of a $*@%ing cold. I cannot remember the last time I had a cold longer than two days. Usually I get the one day of feeling like dog poop followed by MAYBE three days of a cough or the sniffles, that's it. This stupid cold has had me laid up since last Wednesday. I'm talking bed by 8pm, waking up every few hours at night to catch my runny nose, a morning full of sneezes, sniffles and pressure, followed by a full day of feeling like poop. I went to the doctor on Friday and she told me "Sorry, it's a virus, you're just gonna have to wait this sucker out."
Okay, I thought. It's been three days, I should be fine tomorrow.
NOPE! Nayno! SIKE!
The weekend of fun Christmas plans turned into the weekend of passing out at 8pm on Friday night.
The weekend of Le Husband sleeping on the couch because I'm trying to keep him from getting sick. Of washing my hands a gobzillion and one times after I sneeze and blow my nose a gobzillion times.
The weekend where I laid around all Saturday feeling awful physically and then mentally because I kept thinking about everything I was missing. Where cheesy hallmark movies didn't even help and neither did an epsom salt bath.
The weekend of dragging myself to church and then avoiding everyone so I don't get them sick. Of feeling pretty grinchish.
The weekend where the sissys saved the day with an impromptu baking session, that I very lightly participated in but still enjoyed. Because I actually ate a cookie. And decorated a few while they did the rest.
|Can you guess which sister made which cookie?
And then it became the weekend I realized I need to get over it. Because I will get better. I'm fortunate that I'm not sick in a hospital or taking care of a sick child. I'm not serving on the front lines protecting people from the bad guys. I'm not in prison or trapped in a bad situation. I'm not stuck in another country unable to visit my family or call home. I have a home and I have food and warmth and medicine and even though my body is being a POS I still will have Christmas with my family come Friday.
So, while the weekend was pretty much a waste of Christmas things, the cheer is still here. I hope your weekend was better than mine and I hope if it wasn't the light at the end of the tunnel shows it's face soon. Sorry this was such a downer, but I just had to be real and share my thoughts. Hugs and love to all! < 3
Don't forget to join in the fun tomorrow for our LAST COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS linkup!


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Laser Metal Fusion / Selective Laser Melting
With the advent of 3D printing, the Laser Metal Fusion (LMF) or Selective Laser Melting (SLM) has lately earned a great deal of interest in the industry. The process, called Laser Sintering at the early beginning, ensures unique possibilities with geometry that could not be achieved by traditional techniques.
Using its knowledge in powder technology, Hilderbrand has been one of the first companies able to provide free flowing precious metal powder for LMF/SLM application.
Joint development
HILDERBRAND and SISMA Laser are working together to develop the Laser Metal Fusion (LMF) process for serial production of Jewellery, Watch and industrial parts in precious metal. The three central process components - the MySint 100 system from SISMA, the associated noble metal alloy powders from HILDERBRAND as well as specific parameters - are perfectly matched together.
The MySint 100, which is designed as a compact and robust machine for the generative production of small series, is particularly suitable for this purpose. The powder range includes a platinum-gold alloy, two palladium-based white gold alloys, a yellow gold alloy (3N), a rose gold alloy (4N) and a red gold alloy (5N), and noble metal alloys, e.g. PtIr20 are available on demand. For these precious metal alloys, parameter sets are developed specifically for Jewellery and Watch applications in order to fit the machine and the powders mentioned.
The focus is on achieving a high density and a uniform structure with at least the same physical properties as cast or machined products, like it is the case with semi-finished products.


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2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback Review-- Toyota calls the new 2.0-liter inline-four in the Corolla hatchback Dynamic Force. Oh dear, at 168 drive it isn't so much that dynamic nor that mighty. For the present, Toyota is one of only a handful couple of organizations that haven't bet everything on turbocharged motors. All things considered, this twin-cam 16-valve motor is in the know regarding variable valve timing and Toyota's D4-S framework that consolidates both immediate and port fuel-infusion frameworks. What's more, in spite of the fact that it has a hefty 13.0:1 pressure proportion, it will keep running on normal review, 87-octane fuel.
The 168-hp rating is completely 31 steeds superior to anything the 1.8-liter motor utilized as a part of the previous Corolla iM and just two behind the 170-hp turbocharged 1.8-liter in the Golf. That is tricky, however, in light of the fact that the VW's motor has a thick favorable position in torque creation. The Corolla's tops at 151 lb-ft at 4800 rpm, while the Golf's powerplant is evaluated at 199 lb-ft, with that aggregate arriving path down at 1600 rpm. As it were, Toyota's sense of duty regarding characteristic goal is excellent, yet current turbocharged motors basically give more push.
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Sho (書, to write) + dou (道, a path) in Japanese means "calligraphy". Calligraphy then is understood as a "path of life through writing", one's life time devoted to...Continue Reading
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Large sized brush. Oofude is scaled between brush sizes...Continue Reading
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The seventh of eight fundamental strokes of kaisho (楷書, かいしょ, standard script), which are...Continue Reading
Pictographic or logographic characters, symbols or images, carved into rocks by means of a...Continue Reading
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One of two main types of hardened ink (固形墨,こけいぼく, kokei boku). The other one is...Continue Reading
Upon the request of the Emperor 秦始皇 (Qín Shǐhuáng, 259 – 210 B.C., lit. "the first Qin (dynasty) emperor"), who introduced...Continue Reading
The Qing dynasty could be considered the dawn of modern Chinese calligraphy. The famous words of the...Continue Reading
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Streaks of the white surface of the paper piercing through black strokes. Kasure adds a lot of...Continue Reading
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A new brush, (with the exception of sabaki fude (さばき筆)), has its hairs glued together in the form of a...Continue Reading
One of four qualities according to which a brush should be chosen. The remaining three are:...Continue Reading
Together with kinbun (金文, きんぶん, i.e. "text on metal") oracle bone and tortoise shell script (亀甲獣骨文字, きっこうじゅうこつもじ) is the...Continue Reading
Golden ink. It is used mainly during Chinese New Year, for writing on...Continue Reading
Brushes come in different sizes. The main categorization is numerical from 1 to 10. A number 1 brush has a...Continue Reading
Modern cursive (or draft) script. Its initiator was the most renowned master of sōsho (草書, そうしょ, cursive script) of the...Continue Reading
One of the most important parts of the brush, located at the base of the tuft. The "loins" play a...Continue Reading
During the Golden Age of Chinese culture (Tang dynasty; 唐朝, 618 - 907), the calligrapher named...Continue Reading
The basic component of Chinese a character, usually bearing a semantic meaning. Today, there are...Continue Reading
One of the three calligraphy paper types. The other two are: semi-raw and matured. Raw paper is mostly made of...Continue Reading
Shuin is a seal carved in relief. It produces朱文 (しゅぶん, shubun, lit. "red text"; i.e. red characters on white background after seal pressing). Shubun is the opposite...Continue Reading
In Japanese, renmentai means an "unbroken line". It is a reference to merging characters during writing either by physically connecting them with continuous brush strokes or...Continue Reading
Also known as 掠 (りゃく, ryaku, i.e. "to skim" or "to sweep"). One of the eight basic strokes of the...Continue Reading
Erroneous name given by the Western world to 宣紙 (Chinese: Xuān zhǐ, i.e. Xuan paper) calligraphy paper, which was invented around...Continue Reading
The first school of Zen Buddhism on Japanese soil. It was founded in the 12th century during the...Continue Reading
Rinsho literally means to "face a calligraphy (and copy it)", or in other words to free-hand copy masterpieces and classics (古典, こてん, koten). It is the...Continue Reading
A new brush whose hairs are not glued in the form of...Continue Reading
Sadō literally means the way (道) of tea (茶), i.e. tea ceremony. Tea ceremony is very closely related...Continue Reading
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Literally "three traces". A name used for three famous calligraphers (please also see 三筆, さんぴつ, sanpitsu, i.e. "three brushes") of the later Heian period (平安時代, へいあんじだい, 794 - 1185). They were:...Continue Reading
The first seals were already being crafted during the Shang dynasty (商朝, 1600 - 1046 B.C.), and were carved in...Continue Reading
One of five core scripts of calligraphy (the others are: clerical script (隷書, れいしょ, reisho), cursive script (草書, そうしょ, sōsho), standard script (楷書, かいしょ, kaisho), and...Continue Reading
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石鼓文 (Chinese: Shí gǔ wén) means "text on stone drums" (the name comes from the drum shaped-like stones they were carved...Continue Reading
Traditional shrines for burning unwanted calligraphy paper with Chinese characters...Continue Reading
One of the three calligraphy paper types. The other two are: raw and mature. Semi-mature (or semi-raw) paper is...Continue Reading
One of five core scripts of calligraphy (the others are:...Continue Reading
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Shakyō in Japanese means "to copy Buddhist sutras". The culture of shakyō marks the dawn of calligraphy in...Continue Reading
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One of the most significant periods not only in the history of Chinese calligraphy, but also...Continue Reading
One of the four most famous inkstones in China. The other three are:...Continue Reading
Shèng cǎo means "sage of cursive script", and it's the title given to the legendary Zhang Zhi (張芝, Zhāng Zhī, 2nd Century C.E.), the most renowned master of...Continue Reading
Ink type, either hardened (固形墨, こけいぼく, kokei boku) or liquid (墨汁, ぼくじゅう, bokujū), enhanced with a...Continue Reading
Shikishi literally means "coloured paper". There are two main types of shikishi:...Continue Reading
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One of the parts of the brush anatomy. Shiribone is located on the...Continue Reading
A special pad made of felt, used under the calligraphy paper during writing. There are plain colour shitajiki, as well as...Continue Reading
"Sho" in Japanese is a reference to "writing", and it also can be understood as...Continue Reading
Sho (書, "to write") + dō (道, "a path") in Japanese means "calligraphy". Calligraphy then is understood as a...Continue Reading
One's personal style, which could be understood as handwriting. In Far Eastern calligraphy however...Continue Reading
The embryo of sōsho (草書, そうしょ, cursive script) is known in the calligraphy world as shōsō (章草), which literally means...Continue Reading
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Red ink used mainly by teachers for preparing tehon (手本, てほん, i.e. "examples for students to copy") or for...Continue Reading
Imprint of the red (朱) text (文) left after pressing a seal in relief (朱印, しゅいん, shuin). Shubun is much "lighter" than...Continue Reading
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A calligraphy written with brush on a silk cloth instead of paper. Calligraphy on silk, similarly to that on...Continue Reading
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One of five core scripts of calligraphy (the others are: seal script (篆書, てんしょ, tensho, further divided into...Continue Reading
Cursive form of manyōgana (万葉仮名, まんようがな, lit. "kana of ten thousand leaves"). Sōgana was a...Continue Reading
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A symbolic part of the inkstone, a border (lit. "inkstone" 硯, "section" 区) separating two worlds of...Continue Reading
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The second half of Eastern Zhou (東周, 770 – 221 B.C.) dynasty. The Warring States period was a time of political unrest in ancient China (involving seven warring kingdoms), that ended with...Continue Reading
Japanese paper, used for calligraphy, but also for other purposes, such as in construction (障子, しょうじ, shōji, i.e. "paper sliding door"), origami (折り紙, おりがみ, i.e. "art of folding paper"), etc. ...Continue Reading
One of two major trends in Japanese calligraphy. The other one is called karayō shodō (唐様書道, からようしょどう, lit. "Tang (dynasty) style calligraphy"). Wayō shodō was a response to...Continue Reading
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*note* first of all..being a mahayogi
Listen..now the mahayogi speaks.
If you're fat like a cow... then the main idea to reduce weight is not to reduce your daily 20 kilos of carrots(since you're a vegetarian)
The main idea is to induce a stable regime of the skinny diet of kripto...
It is called the Kripto Sayonara Fat Regiment..grasshoppers punks from heaven!!!
The steady diet of pain wisdom carrots from Kripto the Mighty will help you loose weight.
Here is the mighty regime..
1..eat nothing for the first day...drink lots of water..as always!!!..with small gulps..don't be greedy!
2 eat nothing for the second day,but munch on the kripto's 12 inch carrot wisdom brain muscle from heaven,...just kidding..just eat the carrots!!
3.eat nothing for the 3th day,but do the mighty Kripto Sayonara Fat regiment.
The Kripto Sayonara Fat system is simple..you do pushups till your fat on your belly says,,sayonara,,as in japanese ,,good bye,,..and you'll not eat,but drink lots of water.
In other words..you apply this simple principle..
You intend to do push-ups 1 at the time..while you see yourself doing them.
you start with 1 push-up..easyy grasshopper egghhh?
then you stand up..now you do 2 push-ups (as you see yourself doing them in advance)
IN A RELAXED to the maximum mode..
May I repeat this?
You imagine you do them,then you DO them in a maximal relaxed mode of the muscles,even IF you can't complete them!
BREATH out on pushing...pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee!!
Now try 3 push-ups
now stand up..and massage your overgrown eyeballs a bit....are they popping out?
now think..can you do 4 in a row?
now try it..IN A RELAXED MODE..WHILE BREATHING OUT ON PUSHING.
YOU did it?
you're tired already?
good..the point was to get you tired.
now..imagine you go down the cycle..and do the 3 push-ups ,while trying to relax the muscles..don't forget to breath on pushing..
Now stand up..dizzy?
You have to complete the cycle..2 more push-ups.
that's it,grasshopper!
Now stand up
the last push-up builds the 12 inch muscle!
Can you do it..THINK!..imagine you can...then do it now..
Done it!
Now imagine I've done cycles up to 25 th.and back...not 4 like you now..PONDER!
this builds tremendous force and power..I one time even defeated George,the house fly..I punched it in the nose,and he flew out of the window..such is the power of the Kripto Sayonara Fat regiment...
Now..whatever you do..remember..
1..drink lots of water
2.remember to breath out the palms on pushing,and breath in relaxing,or lowering to the floor as in a push-up
3.do NOT worry about the form,but think about the end result
4.when you can't do a cycle forward let's say..up to 5..that is the time to go back,and do the reverse..//4//3//2//1..
5 The last one grows the wisdom 12 inch muscle,not the rest..the rest is just training.
You must understand that the intention is paramount on this Kripto Sayonara Fat system.
Relaxing is paramount.
Abandoning the ideas that you must do ,,perfect push-ups is paramount.
That is because the recovery is about 24 hours.
So only AFTER 24 hours you try again(the same system) and you'll feel you can do it better.
Try to remember breathing out on pushing..and focus on relaxing the muscles.
I want you to be totally wasted,and manage a 1 inch push-up relaxed,then quit.
The final is your goal.
You did it.
Keep that in your heart.
Now eat your carrots.....
Thus spokenth the hungry mahayogi!
-added by danny-............
By Ori Hofmekler
exercise that ages youWhat I am going to share with you in this article most likely will fly in the face of nearly everything you have been taught about exercise and nutrition. It is a radically new concept that is first being introduced to you on Dr. Mercola's site. It's a slap in the face of everything you know or have been taught in this area.
Nearly every expert will tell you that your fitness goal is to build muscle and lose fat. But I'm here to tell you that there is an even BETTER goal.
If you follow conventional wisdom regarding fitness guidelines- train hard and eat many protein meals throughout the day- there's a good chance you'll gain muscle size and strength. There is only one problem: As you get older, most likely you'll lose all these hard gains.
The reason: Conventional fitness is not set to keep your muscle biologically young. Physical rejuvenation requires a different strategy than that of the common fitness/bodybuilding approach. And that strategy might seem a extreme contradiction to all current fitness concepts.
So how do you rejuvenate your muscle? And can you really keep your body biologically young?
Innovative Revolutionary Program to Keep Your Body Biologically Young
Why not force your body to break down and recycle your old damaged muscle and brain tissues and actually keep them biologically young?
Why not do that and lose fat at the same time?
You see, unless you are a seriously competitive athlete or body builder, increasing your muscle mass (which you'll likely lose) will not provide you with any major long-term benefits. In fact, as you'll soon read, a big muscle can be a liability as it's prone to premature aging.
This is a radically new, revolutionary concept that most experts are not even aware of. But I have scoured the science and uncovered the latest research and evidence to show you in great detail how to turn back the biological clock in your muscle and brain by simple targeting nutrition and exercise principles.
How Can You Keep Your Body Biologically Young?
Physical aging begins in your genes. Scientists identified multiple genes that regulate your physical strength and biological age. Most notable among them are those involved in the sustainability of your muscle. Apparently it's the decrease in these genes' expression that causes your muscle to deteriorate and age.
So when does the aging process start?
Chronological aging starts from the minute you're born. You can't possibly stop the clock from ticking. It's certainly an inevitable process. But there's also biological aging and growing evidence indicates that that kind of aging can be slowed and even reversed, particularly in the muscle tissue.
The reason: muscle aging isn't necessarily chronological.
A 60-year old can have a muscular gene profile similar to a person 30 years old. And a 30-year old person can already be expressing genes of a 60-year old. The purpose of this article is to present the primary reasons leading to physical aging and reveal biological mechanisms and methods that block these causes and help reverse age related physical decline.
But first let's address some questions that need clarification.
Can Muscle Aging Start at a Young Age?
Muscle aging may start at a young age; as early as the third decade of life. Many young adults unknowingly suffer from symptoms of muscle aging due to physical inactivity, poor diet, or chronic substance abuse, and these become more and more notable as time goes by. Typically as a muscle ages, it loses its aerobic capacity and strength, and it also loses size. This is how the vast majority of people today experience physical aging.
But is it possible to stop this process?
In many respects, yes. But you need to know what to do. You need to learn what mechanisms enable your muscle to resist aging and you need to know how to trigger them.
And note that your daily activities are essential in this process. How you eat, how you exercise and even how you rest, translate into gene activities that turn on mechanisms that dictate whether you age or stay young.
But first you need to understand what muscle degradation means.
How Your Muscles Actually Prematurely Degrade
Muscle degradation is a major blow to your body. It's associated with more than just loss of muscle size and strength...it can actually lead to a total metabolic decline.
Skeletal muscles' biological role goes far beyond locomotion. Your muscle is your largest energy facility responsible for keeping your metabolic system intact. It essentially protects you against metabolic and hormonal decline, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. It also enhances your cognitive function and keeps your body young.
Given this, muscle degradation can lead to a major health crisis on a scale far beyond what's commonly believed. The loss of muscle means loss of energy, a tendency to gain excess weight, vulnerability to disease and accelerated aging. Muscle degradation seems to be a major contributing factor behind the current epidemic of obesity, diabetes and related diseases. It's becoming evidently clear that the benefits you get from your muscular system are essential to your health. Keeping your body in shape not only makes you feel younger and stronger, it might just save your life.
So What Causes Your Muscles to Degrade?
There are many causes of muscle degradation. These include muscle misuse, insulin resistance, hormonal disorders, inflammatory disease, dietary abuse, nutritional deficiencies and chemical toxicity. Physical aging is typically associated with some of the above. But while each of these causes play a role in physical degradation, there is growing evidence that they all relate to one underlying cause: oxidative damage by free radicals.
Oxidative Damage by Free Radicals
Free radicals, known as reactive oxygen species (ROS), are toxic by-products of metabolism. They also invade your body in the form of chemical toxins or rancid food substances. Free radicals lack subatomic particles and are consequently highly reactive as they seek to bind and destroy your cells and tissues.
To defend against these destructive particles, your body uses its endogenous antioxidants such as glutathione and SOD along with dietary antioxidants. But when the cumulative concentrations of free radicals overwhelm your body's defenses, oxidative damage to cells and tissues starts taking its toll destroying cellular proteins, lipids and DNA.
It is the accumulated oxidative damage in your muscle that leads to three detrimental changes:
Loss of mitochondrial function
Loss of fast neuro motors
Loss of fast muscle fibers
Loss of Mitochondrial Function
The mitochondria is the energy chamber of your cell. It's a cellular organelle with its own enzymes proteins and DNA responsible for the utilization of energy for all metabolic functions. Oxidative damage in your mitochondria can be caused by a number of factors including chronic infection, chronic inflammatory disease, chemical toxicity, rancid fat and excessive sugar or fructose intake. Other contributing factors to mitochondrial impairment are muscle disuse and chronic overtraining.
One of the most common causes of mitochondrial damage is aerobic overtraining.
When done chronically, it causes accumulated oxidative stress in the mitochondria with increased risk of oxidative damage. And when chronic aerobic overtraining comes along with inadequate nutrition (such as with those dieters who obsessively run on a treadmill to burn excess calories they get from a bad diet) the results could be even worse…
The combined effect of bad nutrition with bad training can be extremely destructive, and may lead over time to irreversible damage in the mitochondria along with a total metabolic decline.
The consequences include:
Impaired ability to utilize carbohydrates and fat for energy
Insulin resistance
Lower threshold for physical exercise
Excessive weight gain
Accelerated aging
How You Lose Your Fast Muscle Nerves
Your muscle is wired with a magnificent network of neurons called the neuromuscular system which controls all of your physical activities. But when exposed to chronic accumulated oxidative stress it tends to deteriorate. Consequently your muscle is rendered dysfunctional like an engine without an ignition.
Neuro-muscular deterioration seems to be the most notable symptom of physical aging. It involves gradual disintegration of the junctions between the nerve and muscle which leads primarily to the loss of nerve motor units particularly the fast ones.
The loss of fast neuro-motors is highly devastating. It means loss of capacity for you to perform intense physical activities.
A nerve motor unit (neuro-motor) is the most basic element of your neuro-muscular system - it's a single neural fix responsible for activating one of many muscle fibers. The more intense your physical exercise is the more motor units you need to recruit. And the more motor units you lose the weaker and slower you become.
But it's the fast motor units that you need most. The fast motor units allow you to perform intense physical tasks…and unfortunately these are the first casualties of physical aging.
Your fast motor units are wired to your fast muscle fibers. Apparently, the highly geared neuro-wiring infrastructure of the fast neuro-motors is particularly prone to age-related damage…which explains why aging typically involves loss of strength and speed. And as people lose their fast neuro-motors they lose their fast muscle fibers along with the capacity to do intense daily functions (such as climbing stairs, carrying heavy grocery bags or fast crossing the street.)
How You Lose Your Fast Muscle Fibers
The loss of your fast muscle fibers leads to debilitating weakening of the body. Fast muscle fibers are on the top of the muscle fibers' hierarchy. They're critically needed in times of danger or survival necessity which require swift and strong reactions. Without fast muscle fibers you simply can't survive physical adversity.
The deterioration of fast muscle fibers is the reason why older people typically suffer from muscle waste and metabolic decline.
Pound for pound your fast muscle fibers have the greatest capacity to gain mass and they generate three times more energy than your slow muscle fibers. They're the key to keeping your physique strong and metabolic rate intact. Yes, as you get older your fast muscle fibers become increasingly essential to your vitality.
So what can you do to prevent these losses?
Can you stop the aging process before it takes its toll?
Can You Actually Stop or Reverse Physical Aging?
Since oxidative stress has been found to be the main cause of aging, it gives that preventing oxidative stress will stop the aging process. But apparently that's not the case in real life.
In reality your body is designed to actually thrive under oxidative stress. Yes, this seems a bit tricky…but that's what's fascinating about biology; it's full of contradictions.
Apparently, there are two kinds of oxidative stress, chronic and acute…and they have opposite effects on your aging
Chronic Oxidative Stress vs. Acute Oxidative Stress
The impact of oxidative stress on your body depends on whether it's chronic (continuous) or acute (short), whether it applies in large or small amounts.
Chronic oxidative stress such as due to chronic infection, chronic overtraining or chronic dietary abuse has shown to overwhelm the muscles' defenses and increase the risk of damage to the mitochondria, neuro-motors and muscle fibers. This type of oxidative stress obviously contributes to muscle degradation and aging. But this is not the case with acute oxidative stress.
Acute oxidative stress such as due to short intense exercise or periodic fasting, actually benefits your muscle. In fact, it's essential for keeping your muscle machinery tuned. Technically, acute oxidative stress makes your muscle increasingly resilient to oxidative stress; it stimulates glutathione and SOD production in your mitochondria along with increased muscular capacity to utilize energy, generate force and resist fatigue.
Simply put, exercise and fasting yield acute oxidative stress, which keeps your muscles' mitochondria, neuro-motors and fibers intact.
Hence, exercise and fasting help counteract all the main determinants of muscle aging. But there is something else about exercise and fasting. When combined, they trigger a mechanism that recycles and rejuvenates your brain and muscle tissues.
The Mechanism that Rejuvenates Your Brain- and Muscle Tissue
Growing evidence indicates that fasting and exercise trigger genes and growth factors which recycles and rejuvenates your brain and muscle tissues. These growth factors include brain derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) and muscle regulatory factors (MRFs); they signal brain stem cells and muscle satellite cells to convert into new neurons and new muscle cells respectively. Incredibly, BDNF also expresses itself in the neuro-muscular system where it protects neuro-motors from degradation.
This means that exercise while fasting signal your body to keep your brain, neuro-motors and muscle fibers biologically young.
You have to Make a Choice – Do You Want Big Muscles, or a Younger Brain and Muscles?
There are actually two distinct approaches you can take that have different protocols and you will not be able to achieve both goals. You will need to decide if you want large muscles or a younger brain and healthier muscles.
Obviously is it your choice but it is my strong recommendation that unless you are a competitive athlete or bodybuilder that you choose the latter. I believe ultimately we all need to choose the latter but many will want to pursue athletic goals that prioritize muscle mass over young rejuvenated and repaired muscles
But what's behind this tissue recycling mechanism? What actually triggers this?
The main trigger of this recycling mechanism is tissue breakdown. Fasting, muscle injury and short intense exercise are all catabolic events which force your body to break down its tissues' protein and move it towards recycling.
When your body is forced to break its tissues, it always prefers to sacrifice first its damaged proteins and old or sick cells. Technically all damaged proteins and old, sick and cancerous cells are tagged by immune cells to be digested by the body's ubiquitine enzymes and the nitrogen byproducts are then recycled back into new cells and tissues. Ubiquitine enzymes are your body's demolition force …when called to act they search and destroy broken, damaged or sick cells to keep your tissues' integrity and protect against abnormal growth and tumor formation.
That's how this tissue rejuvenating mechanism works. But to trigger it you need to use a different strategy than that of muscle buildup. Let's review the differences between these strategies.
How to Build Your Muscles Up
Most people believe that, to gain muscle you need to feed it frequently throughout the day. It has been speculated that the minimum protein intake required to promote muscle gain is about 1g/per pound body weight. Bodybuilders often consume 2g/per pound body weight per day. This means that a 150lb bodybuilder may consume 300g protein (equivalent to three pounds of meat or 50 eggs) per day. That's a lot of protein to shove in…
The combination of intense strength training with frequent meals and a high protein and calorie intake seems to grant muscle gain. Nonetheless, this regimen may come with a price… Inferior muscle fiber quality.
Yes, a big muscle isn't necessarily a better muscle.
A big muscle can be a liability—that's if it's made with inferior fibers. One of the most determinants of your muscle quality is your muscles' biological age. When your muscle gives up to the aging process, it gradually loses its fiber quality. And as time goes by it gets increasingly dysfunctional.
So here is the point:
Conventional fitness and bodybuilding are set to build your muscles but they fail to keep them biologically young. The consequences: you gain muscles with inferior quality and a physique which is highly susceptible to premature aging.
How to Rejuvenate Your Muscle
To trigger muscle rejuvenation, you need to initiate muscle breakdown and turn on the mechanism that signals satellite cells in your muscle to commit and convert into new muscle cells. This can be done by combining intermittent fasting with short intense exercise. But to fully take advantage of this strategy you need to know what your options are.
Intermittent Fasting/Options
Intermittent fasting [from morning to evening followed by a large evening meal (not including post exercise recovery meal)] can be done in three ways: fasting, undereating or pulse feeding.
If you choose to fast you can do water fating or vegetable juice fasting (have one up to a few vegetable juices daily). Exercise while fasting, have your recovery meal right after and your main meal at night.
If you choose to undereat rather than fast, minimize your food intake during the day to small servings of light, low glycemic mostly raw foods such as fruits, vegetables, whey protein or lightly poached eggs every 4-6 hours. Do your workout while fasting (30 minutes after your latest snack) followed by recovery meal and have your main meal at night. Undereating is less extreme than fasting; this is your most viable strategy for rejuvenating your muscles and brain.
Pulse feeding
Pulse feeding involves frequent use of small whey protein meals with no sugar added every 3-5 hours throughout the day. Do your workout while fasting (30 minutes after your latest whey meal) followed by recovery meal and have your main meal at night. This regimen is geared towards athletes; we'll cover it in more detail soon.
As a general rule, have 1-2 recovery meals (whey protein) after your workout. Intermittent fasting by itself has been recognized as a proven effective strategy to help negate physical and cognitive aging. Adding exercise to this routine will "seal the deal" and shoot the anti-aging impact of this regimen to another level.
Exercising while Fasting Can Produce Enormous Benefits IF Carefully Done
Fasting promotes muscle breakdown along with the removal of broken proteins and damaged cells towards recycling. Nonetheless, to fully rejuvenate your muscle, you need to grant regeneration of new muscle cells. And that's where the short intense exercise comes into play. It turns on the mechanism that converts muscle satellite cells into new muscle fibers. And it targets your fast neuro-motors and helps keep your fast muscle fibers intact.
But that's only the first step…
The second step is to stop the catabolic process in your muscle and promote recovery. For this you need to feed your muscle with fast assimilating protein right after exercise.
Quality whey protein is your best bet.
Right after exercise there is a two hours period called "window of opportunity" in which your muscle is most recipient to assimilate protein and nutrients towards recovery and growth. To take advantage of this opportunity you must feed your muscle right then with fast assimilating protein such as from quality whey. Slow assimilating proteins won't do the job. Meat, poultry and fish are too slow assimilating and therefore don't fit post exercise recovery.
If you miss this window and simply forget to eat or for whatever reasons chose not to you may actually waste and even damage your muscle tissue.
WARNING: Do NOT Do this Program Unless You Read VERY CAREFULLY
The principles I am discussing will produce VERY dramatic results if you apply them properly. They utilize very powerful physiologic principles but if you use them incorrectly, let me very confidently tell you that there is a high chance you WILL hurt yourself and cause more harm than good.
When you implement intermittent fasting you put your body into a strong catabolic state. Your body is literally eating up and destroying damaged and injured brain and muscle cells. You rapidly accelerate this process when you exercise in this state. It's this very powerful synergy that will allow you to effectively rejuvenate your muscle and brain. This is the radical new approach that very few know about and even few have implemented.
The MAJOR danger though is that you will need to rescue your muscle tissue out of this catabolic state and supply it with the proper nutrients to stimulate repair and rejuvenation. If you fail to supply these nutrients at the proper time you will hurt yourself.
Your post exercise recovery meal is critically important. It's needed to stop the catabolic process in your muscle and shift the recycling process towards repair and growth. If you fail to feed your muscle at the right time after exercise, you won't just miss this window of opportunity to restore and build your muscle, you'll actually let the catabolic process go too far and potentially waste and damage your muscle.
So you MUST EAT within 30 minutes after your workout. And you must feed your muscle with fast assimilating proteins. If, for whatever reason, your fail to supply your body with the protein it needs you may actually accelerate the damage you are seeking to repair. Let me STRONGLY warn you that you are playing with fire here. You need to be ultra-careful and use this program as described or you will pay the consequences.
Other Benefits Your Receive from this Strategy
The combined effect of intermittent fasting and short intense exercise yield additional benefits.
These include:
Boosting growth hormone: Both fasting and short intense exercise have been shown to boost growth hormone. Fasting increases expression of ghrelin, a hunger peptide which binds to growth hormone secretagogue receptors (GHSs) and increase growth hormone release by up to six fold. Short intense exercise increases muscle IGF-1 expression which then mediates growth hormones' repair and growth actions in your muscle.
Boosting testosterone: Both intermittent fasting and short intense exercise have shown to boost testosterone. Short intense exercise has a proven positive effect on increasing testosterone levels and preventing its decline. That's unlike aerobics or prolonged moderate exercise which have shown to have negative or no effect on testosterone levels.
Intermittent fasting boosts testosterone by increasing the expression of satiety hormones including insulin,leptin, adiponectin, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), colecystokinin (CKK) and melanocortins, all of which are known to potentiate healthy testosterone actions, increase libido and prevent age-related testosterone decline. Having whey protein meal after exercise can further enhance the satiety/testosterone boosting impact. Whey protein is a potent satiety food known to increase CCK and GLP-1 activities.
Note that hunger hormones cause the opposite effect on your testosterone and libido.
Improving body composition: The increase in satiety hormone activity has been shown to substantially improve body composition. There is growing evidence to the metabolic boosting effects of satiety peptides such as leptin, adiponectin and GLP. These have shown to increase the body's metabolic rate, reduce body fat, improve insulin sensitivity and increase the percentage of lean muscle mass.
Boosting cognitive function and preventing depression: Exercising while fasting maximizes the expression of brain derived neuro-factor (BDNF) which has shown to induce neuro-protective, cognitive boosting and anti-depressant effects.
Exercise while on intermittent fasting is your most effective physical rejuvenating strategy: It won't necessarily make you bigger but it will certainly keep you biologically younger. But as mentioned previously, there is yet another version to this tissue rejuvenating strategy. Called pulse feeding, it's designed to accommodate athletic purposes.
What is Pulse Feeding and How Can it Help You?
It you are a competitive athlete and want larger masses than this is your program. The pulse feeding regimen involves frequent use of small whey protein meals throughout the day followed by a large evening meal. This regimen is still classified intermittent fasting as long as you minimize your food intake during the day to small whey protein meals about 20g net protein (This would be two scoops of Miracle Whey) with no sugar added every 3-5 hours.
What's special about this feeding strategy is that it keeps your body in a negative energy balance similar to fasting.
This is how it technically works...
Whey protein, with its fastest assimilating rate, allows your body to quickly shift from a feeding to a fasting state – within only 15-30 minutes of small meal ingestion. This means that you can have a few small whey protein meals throughout the day and still keep your body in a fasting state for most of this time.
Hence, this regimen yields a double advantage: you can achieve both muscle rejuvenation and muscular development at the same time.
But note that pulse feeding is less catabolic than regular intermittent fasting. Given this, it probably has a lower tissue recycling effect but a stronger restoring effect; which seems like a toss.
Can Pulse Feeding Help You Build Big Muscles?
One of the most attractive properties of pulse feeding is its flexibility; so yes, pulse feeding can be adjusted to accommodate bodybuilding. All you need is to increase the frequency of your whey protein meals. 6 small whey protein meals (every 2 hours throughout the day) followed by a large healthy evening meal can grant maximum protein utilization in the muscle…but again, if you choose to incorporate such a high meal frequency, you WILL lose the rejuvenation effect.
Pulse feeding of this type has a proven record of success. It has shown to be the most effective nutritional regimen for gaining muscle mass.
Here is how it technically works…
The incorporation of small whey protein meals throughout the day grants complete protein utilization from each meal. 20g net protein is the threshold needed to grant max utilization efficiency. So when combining 6 whey meals (20g net protein each) you get a minimum 100-120g net protein utilization before you even started your evening meal.
Let's set the record straight, the typical utilization efficiency from "normal" meals is less than 40 percent. Yes, we waste at least 60 percent of the protein we normally get from our food. That's a known fact. So as I previously mentioned, in order to get 120g net protein utilization you need to eat about three pounds of meat or fifty eggs per day.
To sum it up, as an athlete, pulse feeding can be your most effective regimen for either building your muscle or rejuvenating your muscle. Whatever your goal is, you need to adjust the frequency of your whey meals accordingly:
For muscle buildup – a higher meal frequency (every 2 hours)
For muscle rejuvenation – a lower meal frequency (every 3-5 hours)
Here's What to Do if You Want Younger Muscles and Brain
Your rejuvenating strategy should accommodate your personal priorities. For instance, if your main goal is therapeutic, such as anti-inflammatory or anti-cancerous, use extreme intermittent fasting, i.e. water or vegetable juice fasting during the day, exercise while fasting, have your recovery meal right after and your main meal at night.
However, if your goal is to sustain a healthy rejuvenation strategy for your muscle and brain, use undereating instead. Eat small servings of low glycemic fruits, vegetables, whey protein or poached eggs throughout the day, exercise while fasting followed by recovery meal, and have your main meal at night.
Then, for athletic purposes, use pulse feeding. Eat small whey protein meals every 3-5 hours throughout the day, have 1-2 recovery meals at night.
Note that your post exercise whey meal must be fast assimilating with no sugar, fructose casein or any slow assimilating ingredient added.
Final Note
Ori HofmeklerThe most notable difference between the muscle rejuvenation and muscle buildup strategies is in the initiation phase. For muscle rejuvenation you need to initiate muscle breakdown via intermittent fasting and exercise. Whereas, for muscle buildup, you need to inhibit muscle breakdown and aim at gaining maximum muscle mass via frequent feeding throughout the day including pre and post exercise meals.
You should seriously ask yourself what's your main fitness goal…getting big or getting young? Apparently, you can't have both…
The purpose of this article is to present you with the strategy to rejuvenate your physique. It's an option most people haven't been aware of…and it isn't an easy one.
The idea of giving up on breakfast and lunch and then training while fasting would probably seem too extreme to the average person. But in view of the fact that today's average person's health has been shattered by excess body fat, metabolic disorders and disease of premature aging…it's worth questioning the viability of the so called "normal" or "average" diet and lifestyle.
In real life there is always a trade-off…you can't have something for nothing. Your body is programmed to thrive under hardship and deteriorate by indulgence.
Which of these are you ready to trade?
About the Author
Ori Hofmekler is the author of The Warrior Diet, The Anti-Estrogenic Diet, Maximum Muscle Minimum Fat, and Unlock Your Muscle Gene.


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A Mere Tug had two engines for propulsion and a hyperdrive for intersellar travel. The tug moved material around using tractor beams.
The Mere Resistance cruiser Tritus launched four Mere Tugs in the later parts in a conflict over the planet Nod Kartha to recover four parts to an Orbital Defense Cannon. The tugs were able to bring the parts back to the cruiser despite the efforts of Sabaoth Squadron to collect the components for their own means. The Tritus suffered an engine failure on the way to delivering the cannon parts to Khons, the moon of Lok where the cannon would be installed, so the Mere Tugs had to take them the rest of the journey. The tugs set up the cannon on Khons, where it would be used in the liberation of Lok from the Trade Federation.
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Even on her best days she doesn't remember my name, but she knows my familiar face. Her eyes light up with understanding when I tell her I'm her oldest granddaughter. She says, I'm a sweetheart. I smile and think, if she only knew.
But today is not one of those days.
I know from the minute she awakes. She holds her head in both hands trying to figure out why her body is slowly beginning to work but her mind won't follow. With a shake of her head she tries to jostle the memories and thoughts back into place. Her pursed lips tell me more than her words ever will. Am I dreaming? Is this real? Where am I? How'd I get here? And the biggest question of all though she keeps the it at bay.
Who are you?
Our morning continues with breakfast and a little bird watching. She slowly eats her cereal and drinks sweet coffee. As she turns her back to me, I get what she's not saying. What she refuses to ask because even on her worst days she's hesitant to be rude or completely honest with a stranger. Only I'm not a stranger.
I'm the little girl who followed her around working in the yard and gathering eggs during summer break. I'm the middle schooler she came to watch sing on stage at the spring show. The college freshman who lived with her for the first semester. I'm the mother of three of her great grandchildren, and the one she taught to make kolaches.
Today, she doesn't remember.
Her questioning eyes drift my way. Who are you? Do you know I can't remember one thing? How did I wake up in this place? What happened? Did I hit my head or suffer a stroke? My mind's not working, do you know?
Frightening questions follow. Did you do this to me? Is it safe to ask? Why does she want me to take this medicine? I better just keep my mouth shut and go along with her.
Today, the silence is anxious.
In the silence I recognize my living not enough is a spiritual dementia of sorts. It wipes away my memory of who God is and who I am in Him. On my worst days I wonder just like my grandmother. Can I trust you? Do you truly want what's best for me? Will you leave me alone to figure this all out.
And even more frightening. Do you know who I really am? That something in me is not working? If you knew the real me, would you still love me, still think I'm enough?
She stood and walked away from me today. Retreating to a place where she might get her mind off things. She doesn't remember who I am or who we are to each other. There are days I do the same. I look for some distraction to get my mind off my not enough. I get caught up in the doing because I've forgotten who God is and more importantly who we are to each other.
Not long ago, on a good day, as I put socks on her feet she says, "One day when we get there. Well I'm gonna get there first, but later you'll come too. When you get there I'll be waiting for you." I hold back tears and smile big. Because the day she greets me on the other side and remembers exactly who I am will be like no other. Until then I'm content to be with her, to love her whether she knows me or not.
It's a beautiful picture of how God loves me in the midst of my own spiritual dementia. My forgetting doesn't make my not enough true. It only means there's more unfolding to do, and in the meantime God is content to be with me. My remembering or forgetting doesn't determine His love for me. He just does.
And today that's more than enough.