I get extreme nutrition questions all the time. In fact, just yesterday I was asked about whether it was bad to eat carbohydrates and protein at the same time. I can’t stand that type of obsessive-compulsive thinking. There’s no reason to be worried about that kind of tiny detail.
So here are two nutrition myths I crushed while down in California hanging out with friends and celebrating my buddy Bedros Keuilian’s birthday down over the weekend. (By the way, by ignoring these myths, I ate amazing meals and still didn’t gain any fat!)
Myth #1) You can’t eat late at night
I blew that one out of the water on the first night I arrived. My flight from Toronto to Orange County was at 6pm Thursday. I ate before I went to the airport, and then aside from a few almonds on the plane, I didn’t eat until I arrived at 8pm California time.
So that’s 5 hours past my normal dinner time.
But “nutrition experts” are going to tell me I can’t eat now?
They are going to send me to bed without any supper?
Who do they think they are, some kind of evil villain from a Mother Goose nursery rhyme?
Some type of wicked step-mother nutrition witch, or something?
Well, I’ll have my dinner whenever I want, thank you very much. And if that means eating at 9pm, then that’s when I’ll eat.
The bottom line: It’s not WHEN you eat, it’s HOW MUCH you eat.
By the way, just to horrify these so-called nutrition experts even more, I even ordered a pizza when I ate at 9pm last Thursday. Then again, I ate dinner with Mr. Cheat Diet, Joel Marion…
Myth #2) You must use protein shakes if you want to lose fat/gain muscle
Survey says, “Wrong!”
There has never been a scientific study showing that you’ll build muscle or burn fat better if you eat more than 1.8 grams of protein per kilogram of bodyweight.
That translates to LESS than one gram of protein per pound of body weight.
So yes, it’s fine to round up to one gram per pound, BUT that ONLY works if you are relatively lean.
If you are more than 20% fat, you do NOT need anywhere near one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight.
Let’s say you’re a 175 pound guy or a 145 pound woman with 20% fat.
At most, you’ll need one gram per pound of LEAN body mass (that’s your total weight minus your fat weight).
So our man would need 140 grams of protein and our female would need 115 grams of protein per day.
That is SO EASY to get through REAL FOOD that you don’t need to suck down the “swill” that nutrition stores sell you (aka – protein powder).
Just check out how much protein you get from REAL food:
* One cup of any dairy product = 8-10 grams of protein
* One ounce of meat = 7-10 grams of protein
* One ounce of fish = 6 grams of protein
* One egg = 7 grams of protein
* One cup of kidney beans or black beans = 15 grams of protein
* One tbspn peanut butter = 4 grams of protein
* One slice of bread = 5 grams of protein (!)
So you see, you don’t need bad-tasting powders when you can eat real, delicious foods for all your protein needs.
Instead, keep your nutrition SIMPLE. Focus on whole, natural foods and limit high-calorie, high-sugar foods to just a couple of treats per week. Combine that with your favorite Turbulence Training workouts and you’ll lose fat fast.
The other day I was in the grocery store doing a little shopping for my daughter. I started down the drink aisle, and there was this lady, in the middle of the aisle, and she was doing this little dance and singing along to the song on the musak. I smiled at her. She stopped, but I encouraged her to continue.
I told her what Joel Osteen said about seven out of 10 people in America being angry, and that it was wrong. We should be happy. I know I’m happy, and I want everyone else to find the same kind of joy, happiness, peace and contentment I have found in Christ so that we can all live in peace.
One of the ways to do this is to read your Bible. When you understand what God’s word really says, it can change your life. I’ve read the Bible about 10 different times, in 10 different translations, and it helped me get rid of the angry god I thought was stalking me to punish me. I now know that God is kind, loving, and good, and He only wants to do good things for us.
The site above offers some free Bible studies to help you get started. They’re offered through Christianity Today (the magazine), so they should be pretty good.
Stories like this really scare me. After all, no one wants to believe this kind of thing is happening.
Although this is something that I normally don’t share on my business blog, I think it’s important to share it on both of my blogs.
On its face, it may seem political, but it’s really not this is about protecting my readers and keeping them safe. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard negative things about the security of Facebook, so if you use this site, please be careful. Although it may be a great place to market your business, it’s also a great place to get into trouble.
Please be careful. Take the appropriate measures to protect yourself online.
Notice, if you will, Wallace D. Wattles did *not* write:
“‘Having’ what you want is success…”
Wallace D. Wattles wrote:
“*Getting* what you want is success…”
The second key word in Wallace D. Wattles’ definition of success (see What is Success… *Real* Success? – Part 1 of 2 for the first) is *getting*…
*GETTING* what you want is success.
“Getting” implies being in the process of, rather than that of having already arrived. In other words, success is a process *not* a result.
In his writings, Wallace D. Wattles repeatedly makes the point that the purpose of life for men and women is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.
However…
Unlike trees and plants, which grow automatically and along fixed lines, we can grow as we choose.
Trees and plants are limited to developing only certain possibilities and characteristics whereas, at an absolute minimum, we can develop any possibility and any characteristic which is or has ever been demonstrated by any other person anywhere.
We’re formed for growth and under the constant necessity of growing.
As a matter of fact, as Wallace D. Wattles also points out in his writings, so strong is this constant necessity for growth that it’s absolutely essential to our happiness that we continuously advance.
I was recently reminded of this fact after completing a major project upon which I’d been working for months.
For many long months I’d toiled day and night putting all the many pieces of the project together and working out hundreds of little related details with the objective of completing the project constantly in mind.
When the project was finally finished, instead of feeling happy about it, as one might expect, I actually felt sort of sad, even, for lack of a better term, mildly depressed.
Now…
Don’t get me wrong…
I was certainly glad the project was finished, especially knowing that many, many people’s lives would be positively impacted forever by its being finished.
However…
Instead of feeling off the walls excited about it, I felt more like I’d just lost my best friend.
I’ve experienced this same strange phenomenon every single time I’ve ever gotten anything I really wanted whether it was a house, a new car, more income or just completing a major project.
Why?
Because, as I’ve finally come to realize, the true fun and joy in life really come from the getting not the having.
A number of years ago, when asked why he was continuously opening new stores when he already had so many, Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s replied:
“When you’re green you’re growing. When you ripen you rot!”
Wallace D. Wattles once put it this way:
“Life without progress becomes unendurable, and the person who ceases from growth must either become imbecile or insane. The greater and more harmonious and well-rounded his growth, the happier man will be.”
So…
If you’re *getting* what *YOU* want…
Not getting what I want…
Not getting what someone else wants…
Not getting what you think you should want because someone else has it…
Then…
You’re a success.
For example…
If what you really want is to be a teacher and you’re in the process of becoming a teacher, you’re a success.
On the other hand…
If what you really want is to be a teacher, but you’re a lawyer because that’s what your father wanted you to be or because that’s what you thought you wanted to be because of the money you’d earn and you’re not in the process of becoming a teacher, you’re a failure, regardless of how much money you earn, how big your home is or what kind of car you drive!
Remember…
*GETTING* what *YOU* want is success!
If you’re absolutely clear about what it is you want, what it is *you* really want, and you’re in the process of *getting* it…
Then…
You’re a success, a *real* success, right now – *TODAY*!
Many people say they want success. Yet, when asked what “success” is, they haven’t a clue. In other words, they say they want something when, at the same time, they don’t even know what that “something” is.
What is success… *real* success?
The best definition of success I’ve ever read comes from the writings of Wallace D. Wattles, best known for his classic masterpiece, “The Science of Getting Rich”.
In Chapter 1 of “How to Get What You Want“, a book he wrote prior to “The Science of Getting Rich”, Wallace D. Wattles writes:
“Getting what you want is success…”
There are two key words in Wallace D. Wattles’ definition of success, the first one is *you*…
Getting what *YOU* want is success.
Not getting what I want…
Not getting what someone else wants…
Not getting what you think you should want because someone else has it…
Getting what *YOU* want is success!
Question for you…
What do *YOU* want…
What do you *really* want?
Before I began studying Wallace D. Wattles’ writings and applying their principles to my life, I had all sorts of “goals” on my “goals list” that, at the time, I thought were things I wanted.
However…
When I examined those goals carefully, I discovered I didn’t *really* want them at all.
Travel is one example that immediately comes to mind. I had a number of travel goals on my goals list.
The funny part is…
I don’t really like to travel all that much!
Here’s another one…
I had a goal to own a closet full of finely tailored, custom made suits.
The truth is, I’m perfectly comfortable and content running around in jeans and a t-shirt. As a matter of fact, at the same time I had this goal on my list, I was desperately trying to get to a point in my life where I *didn’t* have to wear a suit!
One more…
And this one, looking back on it, was downright ridiculous.
I had a goal to own a white Lincoln Town Car stretch limousine and have my own personal chauffeur.
What’s wrong with that, you ask?
Nothing, except there are very few things I like less than being a passenger in a car, especially being a passenger in the back seat of a car.
Hmmm…
No wonder I wasn’t making any progress towards my goals…
They weren’t *my* goals!
Whose goals were they?
I honestly don’t know.
All I know is they weren’t mine.
I guess I thought these were things “successful” people did or had so, since I wanted to be “successful”, they were what I should want.
I know that sounds silly but, judging from some of the questions I get, there are a whole lot of folks out there who think they “should” want all sorts of things they don’t really want at all.
Now…
Am I saying there’s anything wrong with wanting travel, custom made clothes or chauffeur driven limousines?
Absolutely not!
Unless…
*You* don’t *really* want those things!
So…
How do you determine if *you* really want something?
Simple…
For each of your wants, ask yourself and then answer these two very important questions:
1. Why *specifically* do I want this?
Be very, *very* specific in your answers and keep asking yourself “why” to each of your answers until you’re not able to answer the question any more.
If you can’t come up with one or more clear, “convincing”, meaningful reasons why *you* want something then you don’t *really* want it, you just “think” you do.
2. How does it *feel* now that I have this?
Close your eyes and imagine yourself as having already attained that which you want and pay particular attention to how you “feel” now that you have it.
If it doesn’t “feel” good or if all you experience is an empty, “so what” feeling, again, you don’t *really* want it, you just “think” you do.
In the first chapter of “How to Get What You Want“, Wallace D. Wattles also says this about success:
“Success is essentially the same, whether it results in the attainment of health, wealth, development or position; success is attainment, without regard to the things attained.”
In other words…
All success is the same.
The only difference is what *you* want.
Getting what *YOU* want is success!
Once you determine what *you* want, what you *really* want, what “success” is to you and only *you*, your life will change, it’ll change rather dramatically and it’ll change faster than you ever thought possible.
What’s the second key word in Wallace D. Wattles’ definition of success?
Stay tuned for the answer in Part 2 of this series!
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