Your career is probably one of your greatest stressors. You want to earn more income. You want to receive more recognition for your hard work. You want more of a challenge. You want to be more dedicated. You want to thrive and succeed.

Many clients come to me burned out from working day in and day out. They have low energy and trouble sleeping. They lack passion for life. They are searching for that drive and focus that they used to have.

All of my successful clients shared certain traits. Perhaps the most important trait was trust. They trusted themselves and they trusted me. Their body was screaming for

activity and nutrients. Their body craved healthy and vibrant foods. My successful clients trusted their body s enough to become a willing participant in their own fitness and health program.

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In order to get the six pack abs you desire you need to reduce your body fat. This cannot be done by exercise alone, you also need to watch what you eat. In fact, I would say that it’s far more important to adhere to a good diet than to exercise your abs, because you will only see those six pack abs when you lose that stubborn layer of flab which sticks to your belly.

Here are 4 nutritional tips which can get you on the fast track to those six pack abs:

1. Alcohol - They don’t call Beer Bellies the way they call them for no reason. Alcohol is full of useless calories. I’m not saying you

can’t have a drink now and then. I enjoy the occasional beer or wine and it hasn’t dulled my six pack, but if you drink too much you will have a hard time getting to that muscular definition you’re longing for.

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Wild blueberries offer more than just great taste. These tiny fruits are packed with highly concentrated and powerful antioxidants that can help combat disease and promote healthy aging.

Deep-blue Wild Blueberries may be one of the best age-proofing foods in your diet, according to James A. Joseph, Ph.D., co-author of The Color Code and lead researcher at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.

Recent research from the USDA study results indicate that Wild Blueberries have the highest antioxidant capacity per serving when compared to 20 other fruits. Using a lab testing procedure called Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC), Dr. Ronald Prior, lead researcher at the USDA Arkansas Children s Nutrition Center and Agricultural

Research Service, found that a one-cup serving of Wild Blueberries had more total antioxidant capacity (TAC) than a serving of cranberries, strawberries, plums, raspberries and even cultivated blueberries. According to Dr. Prior, Wild Blueberries are stars in terms of their antioxidant capacity.

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Last year I had a number of clients who started stubbornly on the Atkins diet despite my warnings. Immediately I saw almost profound results in their weight loss. I reminded them it was the loss of water weight, and warned of the strain on the kidneys and the high cholesterol risk.

During this time I was mastering my yoga practice as a complete vegan but found that my immune system had been profoundly compromised and I was currently on my third cold for the fall season.

Atkins was in the media again because of new study results indicating lowered cholesterol. I went to the Atkins book yet again with a more open mind, and

decided to try the diet. I liked the contrarian view point to the current AMA position of the low fat diet, which seemed to be producing a society of increasing obesity. Atkins view of sugar as the culprit making you fat, not fat, made sense and the extra work from all the protein for the kidneys it s benign. I wanted to use his diet as a tool to get myself entirely off of any sugar.

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I get a lot of comments and questions regarding
nutrition. Most of them have to do with time. In
other words, people feel they are too busy to eat
5 or 6 nutritious meals a day, whether their goal
is to burn fat or build muscle.

Another time factor is the preparation of these meals,
especially when you factor in trying to get the proper macro
and micro nutrients in each meal - protein, “good” fats,
the “right” carbohydrates, enough vegetables, enough
fruits, etc.

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