Yes, once again I said lifestyle, not DIET. I simply refuse to address the term.

We all know by now that the path to improved overall health and increasing your fitness level lies harshly on you and you’re DIET eating habits. Once again – "You can’t out-train a bad diet".

Let’s break it down into simple terms.

Now, for all of us most of us, we rarely ever follow the ‘perfect’ plan. We all have bad days. We all have moments of ‘weakness’. We all have to ‘indulge’ every once in a great while. We all are human (at least the last time I checked). Let’s make something perfectly clear, these ‘moments’ are neither good or bad. They just are. They become what you want them to become. These moments can either make you human or these moments can be the end-all-to-be-all.

You can have a ‘moment’ and simply chalk it up to being human with human tendencies, or you can have a moment that wrecks your psychological mind set and destroys your confidence and drive.

So depending on how many of these moments you have, your perceived goal will be extended from a short time frame of (let’s say) 3 months to more like 6 or 8 months (and maybe longer).

Your goal and your lifestyle follow a very simple checks and balances system that is rooted in mathematics (AGAIN). It’s all about the payback.

In order to move forward you must have more ‘acts’ in the positive column than the negative column. If you have more negatives than positives you will of course fall down the hill instead of climbing forward. And if you have an equal number of positives and negatives you will simply stay in the current ‘state’ of health and fitness you are in. SO in order to move forward on your journey, you must ‘payback’ yourself at least one more positive act then every negative act you perform. Once again weight loss is truly a simple math equation

Here’s the most difficult part of the payback.

You’re positives ‘acts’ will never be equivalent to your negative acts. (What the hell does that mean?)

It all comes back to – "You can’t out-train a bad diet". No matter how hard you train, no matter how many hours you sacrifice exercising, ‘busting your ass’, and sweating, your eating habits severely outweigh your movements.

It’s all about the calories folks. Calories you consume and calories burned. It really is that simple. It’s the calories consumed that ALWAYS trumps the calories burned.

Just because you ‘ran your ass off’ at the gym for 20 min 30 min 60 min 90 min does not mean you ‘burned off’ the calories you consumed the night before day before week before.

There is no better way to explain this than to watch one of the many videos that Craig created. After watching ANY of these videos it’s painfully obvious why what you eat grossly outweighs what you do.

It’s all about the payback.

So does this mean you won’t achieve your ultimate goal? Does this mean that if you slip up and eat the wrong foods, or re-visit a bad eating habit that you are bound for failure.

NO.

It only tells you that your goal is now farther to reach. It means your goal will take longer to achieve. And unfortunately there is no way of quantifying the difference. Basically the journey’s time frame has been extended.

It’s up to you how long you want the journey to be. Everything you eat has a destination (fuel or fat).

It’s up to you where it lands.

Carpe Diem