Brother Gym to the rescue... 3 steps to ease your day!

Wake up early, dozy brain, get ready for work, still bleary eyed, run down to the kitchen and chuck a load of cereal and some milk in a bowl - chug. Rush through the day, take some sugar, tea, coffee now and again. Feel rubbish by lunch, buy the wrong thing. Slump in the afternoon...rush hour, exhaustion, few drinks out or a night on the sofa. Ready meal. Bed. Repeat.

His day started to blur all into one.

Step 1 - Making your Sleep Worthy

The key to a restful day is a restful nights sleep. In order to get a good nights sleep you need to go to sleep in a relaxed state. This means minimising your alcohol content, lowering your intake of sugar near bedtime and creating a dark, quiet environment. Getting to sleep before midnight is the key. Your body and mind need time to calm down and reset them selves over a 6 to 8 hour period. Do this and you will wake up fresh and ready for the next day.

Step 2 - Preparing the breakfast of Kings.

The importance of breakfast lies in starting the engines of your body. Your body relies on a constant source of energy in order to do its job, but it certainly doesn't do this properly when you don't give it something to work with. Calories actually put your body in a position to burn calories, as they get your muscles working and keep your cells buzzing.
Breakfast cereals are not exactly ideal for this. They are often processed to the point of losing much fiber and the natural part of the cereal product that your body would recognize as healthy. Instead they are sugar laden and much of what goes in your body is unusable. I recommend one of the following - eggs and wholemeal toast, yoghurt and muesli or at the least fruit and nuts. To ease your day, you can boil a couple of eggs the nights before, make your yoghurt-muesli mix the night before or chop some fruits and nuts and place them in the fridge ready to eat. Make sure you have 5 minutes to sit and eat in a relaxed state and you will have twice the energy to take into those pesky morning meetings.

Step 3 - Keep those calories coming

What's the best way to lose weight? Why, of course, it is to reduce those calories below the levels that you expend... and how do we do this? Well, we just stop eating and then eat what we want at random, sporadic times of the day. The cycle of guilt and famine... hmmm, NO! Would you ever start a fire and then only feed it at random, sparse intervals and expect it to keep going strong?

A few things happen when you decide to not eat for 8 hours in the hope of losing weight... your muscles start to eat themselves after around 3 hours with no new calories, your metabolism slows right down due to both a lack of calories and a perceived lack of calories to come - ie, survival mode. Your body will at this point horde the calories you have taken in and store them as fat, but also go into fight or flight mode. At this point, your body goes into stress, creating an adrenaline rush and releasing sugar from the liver and muscles. When it realises that you are not hunting food in the bush but sitting at a warm desk instead, it stores the sugar as fat.

Keep the flames of metabolism burning at all times!

So, don't starve your bodies by not eating from morning til night. Indeed, even the gap between breakfast and lunch and dinner is too long. Split your daily intake into 5 or 6 little segments and you will be laughing all the way to leanness. Snack on healthy, high protein, highly nutritious food and your body will keep burning calories all day long.

If you can start to implement these 3 simple and effective steps then you will quickly see a massive change in your energy levels, fat content and levels of fitness overall...

Tomorrow I will give you 3 more points to ease your day! Stay tuned...