Day 44, Monday May 31st

Day 43, Sunday May 30th

"People never accidentally put food in their mouths... yet they rarely hold themselves accountable for the quality, quantity or origin of the food they are choosing to eat. To accomplish this, each individual must wake up from their dream, raise his/her awareness and make conscious decisions in the PRESENT moment. Ironically this present moment is ALWAYS here, lacks nothing and never changes.... it's always waiting for you... get there and be present with your choices."
Thomas Phillips

Day 42,Saturday May 29th

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Charles R. Swindoll

Days 40 and 41, May 27 and 28th

Please post both days here...
"The difference between a ditch and a grave is only about 6 feet."
Porter Freeman

Day 39, Wednesday May 26th

"The road called someday leads to a town called nowhere"
Anthony Robbins

Jody and I will be away until tomorrow night... stay focused, stay motivated and stay in the present moment as you continue to make better decisions for yourselves!

Day 38, Tuesday May 25th

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
Aristotle

Day 37, Monday May 24th

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
Frank Loyd Wright

This is one of the most powerful quotes you'll ever read and the truth of its legitimacy will be explored in detail in our LAST seminar on July 10th.

Day 36, Sunday May 23rd

"The UTC has not only helped me lose 35 lbs in 12 weeks, but has also helped me find the courage to seek out more ways to challenge myself."

Chet Skalski

Day 35, Saturday May 22nd

"Since doing on the UTC I have been more active than I ever have.... many people think that the activity is a big part of my success on the program, but I see it the other way around; the program has made me healthy enough to be as active as I am."

David Green - (lost over 30 lbs) and in the past week benched a new PR and deallifted a new PR at his lightest bodyweight ever. Impressive!

Day 34, Friday May 21st

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
Nora Roberts

Day 33, Thursday May 20th

"Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. "
Jonatan Martensson

Day 32, Wednesday May 19th

"Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve."
Tehyi Hsieh

Day 31, Tuesday May 18th

"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead."
Og Mandino

Day 30, Monday May 17th

"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
Henry Ford

Day 29, Sunday May 16th

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
Henry David Thoreau

Day 28, Saturday May 15th

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, but to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world..."

Day 27, Friday May 14th

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom"
General George Patton

Day 26, Thursday May 13th

"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
Napoleon Hill

Day 25, Wednesday May 12th

"Bravery and fear are the same thing... it is just a matter of how the person reacts given the situation..."
Michael Strahan from America: The story of Us

You can now pre-order The story of Us on the History Channel website... I referenced it in the meeting, I suggest you do yourself a favor and order it.

Day 24, Tuesday May 11th

"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford

Day 23, Monday May 10th

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
A. A. Milne

Remember (and this goes for all the phases) if you are still hungry at end of day you can still have an extra 1/2 container of protein... However, it is more likely that you did not consume enough veggies, so be sure to load up on spinach, romaine and mixed green salads and dump plenty of colorful veggies on there each and every day... it will make your lives much easier and healthier in more ways that you can imagine.

Day 22, Sunday May 9th

"We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us be much more than what we are."
Adelle Davis

"Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your hands as when you sit down to eat."
John Robbins

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde



Those were the 3 quotes we started the seminar with this morning... hopefully after today you discovered the power of those 3 statements at a much deeper level after our time together. Those of you doing this for a second time I hope I was able to deliver and add to the message you have already heard in a new and meaningful way. I love to teach, but more than teaching I love to learn; however, I'm lucky to be able to do both. I always try to give you the very best of what I know in the short time we have together... I only wish we had MORE time.

People doing the UTC for the FIRST TIME:
3 days of the week you will do exactly as you have been doing in phase 1... those 3 days should be your toughest strength training days.
The other 4 days will be your low carb days. On low carb days (both men and women) you will have only 1 container of carbs and 1 piece of fruit.... your fats and proteins stay the same as phase 1.

Sample menu for people doing the UTC for the SECOND TIME:
Do exactly as you have been doing on phase 2, but on your HIGH CARB DAYS ONLY you will have ZERO additional fats.

Stay focused everyone and Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers!!!

Day 21, Saturday May 8th

"A person cannot directly choose his circumstances, be he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."
James Allen

Day 20, Friday May 7th

"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts."

Day 19, Thursday May 6th

"Whatever you focus on you tend to get more of..."

Next phase meeting and first seminar 7:30 a.m. on Sunday until about 9:50 a.m. - get ready to take it to the next level....

Day 18, Wednesday May 5th

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller

This Sunday is our next phase meeting and first seminar at Fit for Life... be there by 7:30 a.m. and DON'T BE LATE!!!

To everyone -
1) please STOP eating ANY type of yogurt... want to know why? Show up Sunday.
2) DO NOT EVER cook with extra virgin olive oil... again, will go over on Sunday. If you want an oil to cook with use Avocado oil or Safflower oil.... these oils are very resistant to heat.
3) Stop eating dried fruits, for the most part they all suck... eat real fruit.
4) Measure food ALWAYS after cooking it
5) Hi-protein canned puddings are not cool right now... don't get away from what we are trying to do. Staying away form packaged, canned, highly processed foods for these 12 weeks. 12 weeks is not a long time. Stick with the action plan. If you do you won't be sorry!!!

Day 17, Tuesday May 4th

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."
Lewis Cass

Sunday's meeting will be at Fit for Life from 7:30 a.m. until 9:50 a.m. please don't be late!!!

Day 16, Monday May 3rd

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. "
Mark Twain

Some general food for thought... success is all about momentum because through momentum we build better habits and therefore new neuro-networks in the brain. As we develop new habits old connections break away and eventually you PREFER the new choices that we created... this is the new mind, the new you and through THAT PROCESS comes your new body. The art of self-sabotage is an old one, many have been there and done that way too many times... so if insanity is doing the same thing over and over again yet expecting a different result then guess what? It won't happen.
"I never said it would be easy... I said it would be WORTH IT."
Many of you have broken through, some are still struggling, for those still struggling hopefully Sunday will get you over the hump. Until then, don't find another OLD reason to fail, find a NEW reason to succeed.

Day 15, Sunday May 2nd

Nolan Ryan almost quit baseball after his rookie year... when asked why he didn't he said:
"I couldn't help believing that if I found the right situation, the right atmosphere and surrounded myself around the right people, then I could turn this around and really do what I wanted to do out there . . ."

One week from today is our phase 2 meeting and our first seminar. It will go from 7:30 a.m. SHARP until about 9:50 a.m. Please be on time. This is a great seminar and will help put each of you into the next gear. Remember that this is a process.... like Nolan Ryan had wished: right now all of you are in the right situation, learning from the right people in the right atmosphere and there never be a more opportune time in YOUR LIFE to "do what you really want to do out there . . ." As Nick and so many others have expressed, it isn't just about the diet, this is about changing your body, changing your mind and eventually changing your life. Do what we ask and dare to prove us wrong....

Day 14, Saturday May 1st

"There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it..."
Bill Phillips

IMPORTANT High and low carb days.... those of you doing phase 1 and NOT doing high and low carb days... that is for people who are doing the UTC for a second time ONLY. Everyone doing it for the first time stick with exactly what is RXed in the paper-work.