Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Stop Emotional Eating with The Orgasmic Lifestyle
Monday, August 2, 2010
Strength Training ESSENTIAL for Long-Term Weight Loss
People often try and lose weight by just dieting and doing cardio. They don’t care about strength training.
The problem: When you put your body in fat-burn mode (by decreasing your calorie intake and/or doing cardio), your body is also in muscle-eating mode. For every pound of fat you lose, you’ll also lose a pound of muscle…unless you do strength training.
Muscles are “use ‘em, or lose ‘em.” If you don’t use them, they’ll deteriorate, especially if you’re dieting.
At first, dieters don’t care they’re losing muscle. They keep their eye on the scale and are elated as their weight decreases.
But if you let your muscle atrophy, you also let your METABOLISM shrink. Which means you’ll have to eat like a bird to maintain your weight loss.
This common dilemma explains America’s depressing diet statistics: About 95% of dieters end up re-gaining their weight…PLUS some. That “plus some” is because they allowed their muscle to deteriorate, which lowered their metabolism. After all that hard work, a dieter ends up even fatter in the end.
Note: 50lb dumbbells are not required for strength training. If you can lift a lot—that’s great. But strength training could be simple bodyweight exercises, like squats, lunges, and push-ups.
Rest assured that strength training will burn just as much fat as a good cardio session. This was tough for me to believe at first. Cardio made me huff and puff and sweat like a beast the entire workout, whereas strength training involved little bouts of rest after each tough “push,” and it didn’t make me sweat as much. So it felt like strength training was a waste of time.
But it wasn’t until I added strength training to my workouts that I FINALLY lost weight. Then I added the orgasmic lifestyle…and my weight dilemmas were pretty much obsolete! :)
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Fat Loss Made Simple
Losing weight can happen through a lot of different strategies (eat less sugar, eat lots of steamed vegetables, take the stairs, etc, etc), but all of these strategies work because they create a calorie deficit. In other words, they cause you to eat less calories than you burn.
All body fat loss comes down a simple math equation. There are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat, so if you want to lose 10 lbs, you have to create a 35,000 calorie deficit over time. It will take some effort, but it might be much easier than you think.
Write a list of all the foods you normally eat, then calculate how many calories each item contains. Read labels and check the free database at http://www.CalorieKing.com. This research will take some work but it will be EXTREMELY helpful in controlling your weight for the rest of your life! Knowledge is power.
Once you have your list, decide what foods are worth minimizing or cutting out of your diet. Research similar foods, as they may have fewer calories. Note the calories in different brands of cheese, in butter vs. butter sprays, white vs. red sauces, thick vs. thin crust pizzas, mayo vs. ketchup vs. mustard. Little substitutions can have a big impact over time.
Calculate how many calories you normally eat each day, then figure out the easiest way to cut 500 off that total.
As long as you keep your metabolism the same (do a little strength training to maintain your current muscle mass), you’ll lose a pound of body fat each week.
Make the process even easier: Drink water to help you eat less. Make the rest of your life happy and enjoy frequent orgasms to avoid emotional eating. Get enough sleep.
Pretty simple, right? Of course, you can lose even more body fat each week if you add more exercise and/or cut more calories off your daily intake. But avoid losing weight through habits you cannot maintain. For example, if you lose weight by suddenly eating like a bird and exercising 24/7, there’s no way you’ll be able to maintain that strategy. Therefore, the weight will come back.
Slow and steady wins the weight loss race.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Another (more tame) video...
Monday, April 26, 2010
ForTra party: HUGE SUCCESS!!!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
ForTra dvd RELEASE party!
- It's going to be a helluva party! Check out my entertainment lineup at www.ForTradvd.com.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Par-TAAAYYY Saturday, April 24th!
Save the date, and book your flights to NYC!! To celebrate the RELEASE (pun intended) of my first ForTra: Foreplay Training video, I'm throwing a huge, bad-ass party on Saturday, April 24th! It will be in the Pink Room at BLVD (199 Bowery at Spring St. in NYC).Fitness is Money
Fitness is feeling great in just a "husband-beater" and old jeans. Million-dollar, high fashion clothes can hardly make an unkempt, ignored body feel good, but if you spend some time and money keeping your body fit, you'll feel like a million bucks wearing even the cheapest clothes.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Get Happy to Lose Weight
Eating while watching a movie is a bad idea. You won’t be paying attention and could easily scarf an entire bucket of buttery popcorn, creating a new layer of fat around your waist before the final credits roll.
If it’s a sad movie, you’ll eat even more—30% more. Holey muffin tops!
The same principle certainly applies to daily life: If you’re sad, there’s a good chance you’re going to overeat. If you’re happy, you won’t look to fo,od for comfort or entertainment.
During the many years that my eating was out of control, I was not a happy person. I stressed about every little thing, I struggled with perfectionism, and I put up with a job I didn’t like. Plus, I had not yet discovered the joys of sex and orgasm. I was having sex about once every two weeks, but didn’t let myself enjoy it.
I ate to alleviate my sadness, but later, I felt worse about myself for binging yet again, which made me even sadder, which made me overeat again…it was a vicious cycle.
Things started to look up when I sought happiness outside of food. I gave my imperfect self a break and stopped taking myself so seriously. I changed jobs and pursued what I wanted in life—NOT what I thought OTHERS wanted me to pursue. Instead of seeking approval all the time, I looked outside myself and began to appreciate the simple things in life, such as good friends, random acts of kindness, and the smile on the deli guy’s face as he made me a turkey sandwich.
Instead of torturing myself at the gym, I found a workout I enjoyed (many of these moves are included in my ForTra workout) and also happened to be the most efficient workout ever. My body finally started to look toned, which meant more body confidence for me! I found a new sex partner (or partners…I’m not telling) and started having orgasms on a daily basis.
With these changes, I dropped 35 pounds pretty easily, after at least 12 years of completely struggling with my weight.
After all the diets I tried, the key was simply to make myself happy!
Get Stiff w/ Exercise
I was about to have the hottest sex in my life--or so I thought.
Bill was a clean-cut, educated, 6'5" businessman. I had seen him four times at the Thursday night parties at the oh-so-fancy Tavern on the Green in Central Park in New York City. I liked Bill from the first time we talked, but I was a good girl and made him wait. The fourth time we met, I accepted his invitation to take a nighttime walk through Central Park. New, hot guy + dark, mysterious public park = I was horny.
When he kissed me, I didn't resist. I pulled him closer, hands roaming. Before I knew it, our pants were down, and I was bent over a park bench. lol
Bill was only 28 years old, so I was shocked when he had erection problems. I'm standing there, my bare ass out waiting to be satisfied, but he's too limp to get it in. Maybe he was nervous, I thought. Maybe it was the condom making him flaccid. But when we tried again, later at his apartment: same deal. Soft, droopy dick.
Erectile dysfunction could be caused by many variables, but one thing that makes ED a whole lot LESS likely is exercise! These studies prove it:
--Men who exercise for 20-30 minutes a day ('nothing!) were about half as likely to have erection problems as sedentary men. Also, as a man's waistline increased, so did his odds of experiencing sexual dysfunction. This is all according to The Harvard School of Public Health.
--A study by the University of California, San Diego showed that when sedentary, middle-aged men started working out 3-4 times a week for 60 minutes at a time, they suddenly had more frequent sex, better orgasms, and better sexual function overall.
As for Bill, I stopped talking to him shortly thereafter. (He said something pretty disrespectful, so now I ignore him.) But I remember him telling me he hadn't worked out in a couple months, which probably meant he hadn't worked out in a year. Hmmm...
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Snooze, You Lose
When I start working with new client, I ask them a long list of expected questions: What do you eat? What’s your current exercise routine? Do you have any injuries?
They’re always surprised, though, when I ask them how much they sleep. Given that 99% of my clients are ambitious New Yorkers, they usually say 6 hours or less. Sleep deprivation is a HUGE (pun intended) reason why some people are overweight.
Numerous studies have shown that, usually, the less a person sleeps, the heavier they are.
Why?
1) When you’re tired, you eat more. Fatigue creates higher levels of ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone, and lower levels of leptin, the hormone that tells you to stop eating when you’re full.
That’s a double-hormone whammy making it nearly impossible to keep your eating under control.
2) Sleep deprivation makes you crave sugar, since it’s quick energy. When your body is tired, it isn’t concerned about the inevitable crash sugar will cause later. It just wants energy NOW, and urges your hands to reach for the nearest chocolate bar.
3) Deep sleep is also the time when your brain secretes a hormone that encourages your body to burn fat. If you don’t sleep long enough to hit that final stage of REM, you miss out on some effective—and effortless!-- fat burning.
4) With less sleep, you have less energy. (Duh.) Therefore, you’ll be slumping in your office chair and spending your off-work hours on the couch. Sleep more, and you’ll move around more during the day. Plus, you will work harder at the gym, therefore, burning more calories.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Girl-on-Girl Playtime
I LOOOOVE that my ForTra fitness routine requires orgasms. Some people see sex as unnecessary and think they’re exercising will power by skipping sex. That’s a sad, sad thing. The benefits are proven! Sex is essential to health and will even keep you from overeating.
Anyway…I’ve said that a million times before. How about I tell you about my latest sexcapade? :)
I've been seeing just one guy for a while, but he doesn't mind if I play with other women. I'm on a couple different websites where it's pretty easy to find bisexual women, so I arranged to meet one last night.
Laura is married but her husband lets her play with women on her own. Lucky for me! Laura is a knockout. Tall, blonde, fit. Yummy. She also likes to take control at times.
Her husband rented us a hotel room at the swanky W hotel in Midtown Manhattan. His plan was to let us do our thing, then, after I left, he would come in, his wife would tell him all about our fun, then they play again. Whatever makes them happy... as long as I get her first!
Laura and I walked into the tiniest hotel room we'd ever seen. Very New York, lol. But it was nice.
We wasted no time, and started kissing while standing up. My hands felt underneath her tiny dress, and she pulled at my garter belt. We fell onto the bed, made out and groped for a few more minutes. She likes my long fingers, which got her off right shortly after I slide them inside her.
Once Laura gained control, she flipped me over on my back, took my panties off, spread my legs, and ordered, "Don't move." She went to open the windows so that all of New York could see what we were up to. Awesome. :)
With my legs still spread, she slowly unhooked my garters and rolled my stockings off. She played with my feet, stuck each toe in her mouth, then sucking on my big toes as if she was giving a cock a blow job. She had me unbelievably excited.
Laura then came up toward my pussy, using her tongue and fingers to get me off three times, licking her fingers clean each time before probing me again. Phenomenal.
While I caught my breath, she moved up next to me, played with my hair and hugged me. Somehow we had a conversation while we cuddled, but soon started our playtime again.
Laura is an amazing, amazing woman! I'm so happy to have her as part of my ForTra fitness program. :)
Sunday, January 31, 2010
ForTra DVD is READY!!!
FINALLY!!! ForTra is available for purchase! The DVD can be bought here.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Calorie Counters on Ellipticals: Trustworthy?
The ellipticals are always filled at my gym. It's mostly people trudging along slowly, wearing baggy clothes, because--
despite riding the elliptical every day--they're still pudgy.
WHY do these people ho-hum their time away on the lazy-man elliptical? Because the screen SAYS they're torching calories.
Does your elliptical say you burn 400 calories in 20 minutes? Bullsh*t.
All cardio machines just guess-timate your calories burned, but its calculations are based solely on your weight, speed,
resistance, and distance covered. There are SO MANY other factors involved, such as
1) How much of your weight is muscle, and how much is fat?
--The more muscle you have, the more calories you will burn.
2) Are you male or female?
--Males tend to have more muscle, so they burn more calories with the same effort. (Bastards!)
3) Are you bouncing on the pedals or bending your knees slightly to ensure
constant tension on your muscles?
--Keeping your knees slightly bent is more difficult and will burn more calories.
4) Are you pumping the arm bars or are you letting them fly in the wind?
--Incorporating your upper body can increase your calorie burn big time.
5) Are you new to the elliptical, or have you been riding it for months?
--When you're new, your body isn't used to it and will burn more calories.
6) Are you keeping a steady pace or adding interval training?
--Interval training burns more.
If you take the easy route in riding, the screen will say you burned the same amount of calories than if you made your ride
more challenging.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but at least now you won't waste your time prancing away when you could bend your knees,
pump your arms, and interval-train your way to a lean bod!
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