4 Minute Keto - Phil Lancaster - Bog

It's no secret that the "secret" to losing weight, getting fit, resisting illness and living a long and healthy life is diet and exercise. Yet only a small proportion of the population actually put those two things into practice. As a result, we have overwhelming rates of obesity and a generation of children who, for the first time in history have a lower life expectancy than their parents. How bad is that? I want you to be the exception. And it's relatively easy. I really dislike the term "diet". Mainly because it's strayed so far from its original meaning of "what you eat." Now, it's all about specifics - the Atkins Diet, the Paleo Diet, the Onion Soup Diet (really?) the Grapefruit Diet and so on. Originally, I reacted in exactly the same way to the Keto diet. But then I examined it in a little more detail. And discovered that, with a couple of exceptions, it was pretty much what I was eating anyway. I'll cover the exceptions later on in this book. Why should what I eat personally be significant anyway? Well, it's what qualifies me to write about health and fitness. You see, I'm 76 years old. I bench press more than my own body weight, I can do 110 push-ups without stopping and hold a 5-minute plank. I do 100km bike rides for fun. I weigh the same as I did when I was 18 and still have the same 30" waist. More importantly, I never get sick. Ever. No colds, no flu, no headaches, no gastric issues. And I take no drugs, prescribed or over the counter. It's all down to those two things, diet and exercise. We're going to cover the Keto diet first. This needs to be your way of eating. The process is simple. All your meals will be delicious high protein, high fat, low carb. They'll keep your body in a state of ketosis, where instead of metabolizing (burning) the glucose in your bloodstream for fuel, it will instead access your stored fat. Your body will become a fat-burning machine. While the Keto diet will help you lose weight by using your body's stored fat as fuel, you'll accelerate this process significantly by exercise. And, of course, exercise will also make you look fitter and leaner, as well as feel (and be) stronger. But most exercise programs are difficult to maintain. You get started but stop again before it's had a chance to become a habit. Or you just can't find the time to fit your exercise program into your daily routine. That's why I developed the 4 Minute Exercise Program. It consists of a series of exercises, targeting both strength and aerobics, that take just 4 minutes to complete and require no special equipment. The time commitment is low, but the payoff is huge. Easy, right? But the difference between doing something and doing nothing is the biggest difference of all. Read the book, implement the program and change your life!