Free Will

by Christian Bossert

What is free will? I believe free will is the power to make decisions for ourselves. This is an extraordinary gift. The reason being is that we are free to choose our own thoughts. We are given the God given right to conceive in our mind whatever we want to.

I admire to the highest extent people who have amazing imaginations. Authors of sci-fi and fantasy books are able to conceive a world in great detail. They create a world that does not exist except for in their mind. J.K. Rowling created the most illustrious series of books from within her own mind. She chose to share her greatness with us by deciding to write down her thoughts. Millions all around the globe have been able to find joy and happiness in reading her Harry Potter novels. I believe she is one the greatest human beings of our time.

Every day when we wake up we have the power to make decisions. We are in control of these decisions. This beautiful gift cannot be undermined. Can you imagine living in a world in which your decisions were dictated by someone else? Each step you make calculated through another source. Your dreams, ambitions, and definite purpose in life would be completely controlled by another being. This would be a living hell. Fortunately, we do not live in a world like this. We live in a world in which we are in complete control of our actions and thoughts.

Why do we take our free will for granted? I will be the first one to admit that in my 27 years on this planet, many of those years have been spent without knowledge of my definite purpose in life. This is now a scary thought for me because I know that without a definite purpose it is impossible to live life to its fullest extent. Without a definite purpose in life I drifted. I followed directions and did what I was told to do. I envisioned life following the pattern of school>job>family>retirement>death. Is this what I had to look forward to? This lead me down the path of self-discovery (which has had MANY road and torrential downpours).

I can honestly say that I have found my definite purpose in life. I wake up every day absolutely THRILLED for what each bright sunny day brings (yes, I BELIEVE every day is a bright sunny day, there are just some days the clouds and rain hide that bright sun). I cannot emphasize how important it is to exercise your free will to identify your definite purpose in life. I am thrilled for those reading who have found their definite purpose in life. I ask you to share with the world the power you have. YOU decided to find your purpose and now your life EACH day with purpose. You cannot be stopped in your mission because you know what your purpose is.   

Bone Broth Makes You Beautiful. Find Out Why

Bone & Co. 100% pasture raised chicken and grass-fed beef both.

There is a recent movement to consume more bone broth. I did some digging to figure out why. I think you'll be encouraged to add bone broth into your diet if you haven't already.

Key Nutrients that Enhance Healing

Bone broth helps with the development of healthy joints, bones, ligaments and tendons as well as hair and skin. These nutrients are considered beauty foods because they help the body with proper structural alignment and beautiful skin and hair.

Bone broth provides the nutritional synergy to calm an overactive immune system while supplying the body with raw materials to rebuild stronger and healthier cells. This is why it is such a great healing food to have when the body is encountering stress from bacterial or viral infections as well as digestive disorders and leaky gut syndrome.

Finding the Right Stock Bones

It is especially important to find stock bones from humanely raised healthy animals. This would include 100 percent grass-fed cows, bison, lamb, and organic poultry bones. Wild game like deer and antelope are fantastic as well.

Conventionally raised animals that are fed a diet of genetically modified grains loaded with pesticides and herbicides and other chemicals and heavy metals should never be used. The body naturally stores many toxins in the fatty portions of the bone and that is what you are consuming in the bone broth. 

It is best to know the farm and farmer in which you can get your bone broth. A great example of quality bone broth can be found at Bone & Co. 

Why Splenda and Other Artificial Sweeteners Are Making Us Fat

Today’s we are going to talk about artificial sugar and why “zero” calories does NOT mean you are making a “healthy” food choice. These are lies from the food industry. The food industry is incredibly smart. The food industry is in complete understanding of how our mind, body, AND emotions are significantly impacted by what we put inside our bodies. You see, food scientist are well aware that when we consume artificial sugar, our digestive system is thrown of tract. They are fully aware that consuming artificial sugar makes our bodies STOP burning fat. Yes, our bodies will stop using fat as a fuel source when we consume artificial sugar consistently. This means that even those who eat healthy 95% of the time, count calories, and exercise frequently will continue to gain weight and accumulate fat. The food industry isn’t worried about this because they know we as a society are addicted to sugar and artificial sweetener. This industry will continue to stack their enormous profits off our vulnerability until we do something about it.   

Stay away from these guys. They LOADED with artificial sweeteners.

I do not want you to deprive yourself from things you truly enjoy. It is my goal for you to make educated decisions. Decisions not influenced by advertisers or marketing genius's. If you enjoy ice cream reward yourself with ice cream. Just not everyday!

Now the good news. This is not your fault, as our bodies are designed to view sweet taste as a safe source of energy. Our prehistoric ancestors were conditioned to view sweet foods (fruit) as ‘not poisonous’ thus a safe dietary choice. While our ancient relatives had access to healthy fruits, we have access to sweeteners that go well beyond anything you can find in nature. 

·         Aspartame (Equal) and stevia are 200 to 300 times sweeter than table sugar.

·         Sucralose (Splenda) is 600 times sweeter than table sugar.

·         Saccharin (Sweet’N Low) is up to 700 times sweeter than table sugar.

*Stevia isn’t any better. Find a stevia leaf and chew on it for a while. It is not that sweet. At least, not until it’s refined into white crystals in a laboratory somewhere).   

Be Who You Are

 

 

by Christian Bossert

Lifestyle

 

Success can be a lonely road. Often times we encounter trials that target the weakest areas of our mind, body, and soul. Whether your goal is weight loss, traveling the world, or launching your dream job I promise you the path will not be easy. Your path to success is absolutely without any doubt possible. I believe in you and I believe you have faith in yourself. HANG TOUGH!! Losing heart and fainting refer to giving up on the mind. I tell you not to give up on your mind, because if you hold on, YOU will reap the almighty powerful rewards of your efforts. Self generate your success and throw out the handbook someone else wrote. YOU know what works best for you. YOU know the answers. Give yourself a chance and walk through the mud of life. If you feel that you need help relocating your inner strength contact me! Don't cheat yourself. Don't cheat yourself from experiencing the worlds greatest drug that is the success of living YOUR life!

Have a wonderful Wednesday :)

Why Diets Don't Work and Exercise Does

by Christian BossertNutrition
From Yuri Elkaim's "The All-Day Fat Burning Diet"

I bet you dieted before. If you haven't, someone close to you has. Either way, you're equipped to answer two questions for me: first, was it a pleasurable experience? Second, did it work?

Answer more often than not is "no" on both accounts. I can't think of anyone I know was honestly enjoy dieting. It's always an ordeal people mode about, and all I can do is shake my head what's more, even if they are successful in losing a few pounds, a few months later they find themselves right back where they started: chubby or overweight, complaining about how stressed and miserable they are, and trying to give Vince everyone – especially themselves – that they are going to start a new diet soon. I must say, it's tiring just thinking about it.

According to a January 2015 story in US news and world report, nearly 2/3 of dieters regain the way they've lost on a diet within the first year. That's a lot of people, especially when you consider that roughly 45,000,000 Americans will try a new diet every year, according to figures from Boston medical center. That's a lot of time and energy being wasted, but the diet industry just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Those stats from BMC also reveal another surprising figure: those 45 million people will collectively spend $33 billion each year I'm dieting methods.

I am a part of that industry, but I'm positive my clients on the small majority of dieters to drop their excess weight and keep it off. I'm telling you these statistics, though, because I don't want to mislead you, and I want you to know that I won't push any miracle pills or programs your way. I want to tell you the truth. That begins with telling you why dieting is pointless. Aside from the misery of it all your body simply isn't programmed to respond to a diet and the way you've been told it will. Let me explain.

Your body is always using energy to perform all manner of external and internal functions, even when you're sleeping. This rate of energy use is called your basal metabolic rate. You gain energy from the food you eat in the form of calories, and this keeps her metabolic rate chugging along. If you eat more than you burn, you're fat storage increases. Thus, the only way to make sure your expending more energy then you're ingesting and storing is to increase your basal metabolic rate.

The only way to increase your basal metabolic rate is to increase your lean muscle, and the only way to increase your lean muscle is to exercise. It's really that simple.

This is precisely why diets don't work. When you diet, you deprive yourself of food and energy, and in the short term, this means that you lose weight. However, this also means that you gradually lower your basal metabolic rate. When you've achieved the weight-loss results you were aiming for and you start eating normally again, your food and energy intake will far exceed your lower lowered basal metabolic rate, and all the wait will start piling on again. It's ugly and pointless cycle.

Thus, the only way to truly lose weight and keep it off is to take a multilayered approach: first, you have to incorporate healthier foods into your diet that promote our mono balance and reduce inflammation inside your body. Second, you have to change your daily lifestyle to reduce stress and support positive growth. Finally, you have to exercise. That's right, you have to exercise.

Through exercise, you will gain lean muscle, which will increase your basal metabolic rate. With this increase you will gradually become a fat burning machine, even when you're not working out. Mind you, I'm not suggesting that you become a bodybuilder. That degree of pump up muscle isn't required to unlock fat burning properties. I know this is especially a concern for women, most of whom want to avoid the muscled look. I assure you that this is not what we're going for. I simply want you to be fit and firm.

You have to hit the gym seven days a week. The key here is to make sure you're getting the right types of and amount of exercise.

Chris will answer your questions at cbossert14@gmail.com.

5 Ways to Fall Asleep Faster

by Christian Bossert
Lifestyle




Lately many of my clients have had a hard time getting sleep. Even those who are going to sleep at a proper time seems to struggle with tossing and turning in the middle of the night. They say they are distracted by all the things that they have to do the next day or the mistakes or stressful moments of the previous day. This is alarming for me personally because more than anything I want my clients to be happy and healthy. I want them to be energized to tackle the jaws of life. Without sleep this is difficult. Quality sleep is one of the most important components to being successful and healthy. When we are without quality sleep it can make even the simplest obstacles in life seem daunting. Let's take a look at proven methods that promote falling asleep QUICKLY.

1.) Resist the Urge to Snooze

Sleep caught between soundings of that alarm is just not high-quality sleep. The snooze button often disturbs REM sleep, which can make us feel groggier than when we wake up during other stages of sleep. You don't have to launch out of bed in the morning, but setting the alarm for a slightly later time and skipping a snooze cycle or two could bring big benefits.

2.) Prep Your Body

Going to bed and waking up at the same time each day sets the body’s "internal clock" to expect sleep at a certain time night after night. Try to stick as closely as possible to your routine on weekends to avoid a Monday morning sleep hangover. Waking up at the same time each day is the very best way to set your clock, and even if you did not sleep well the night before, the extra sleep drive will help you consolidate sleep the following night.

3.) Exercise Daily 

Get out and be active. Exercise can help reduce stress hormones and control mood. A Rutgers University study proved that 50-minute sessions of yoga or strength training improved scores on anxiety and calmness.  

4.) Keep It Cool

Temperature in the bedroom is a little bit of a Goldilocks situation: A room that's too hot and a room that's too cold can both mess with your sleep. Aim for somewhere between 60 and 67 degrees Fahrenheit, Dr. Christiopher Winter, M.D., wrote in a blog. 

5.) Don't Look at the Clock 

 

Staring at a clock in your bedroom, either when you are trying to fall asleep or when you wake in the middle of the night, can actually increase stress, making it harder to fall asleep. Turn your clock’s face away from you.

And if you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep in about 20 minutes, get up and engage in a quiet, restful activity such as reading or listening to music. And keep the lights dim; bright light can stimulate your internal clock. When your eyelids are drooping and you are ready to sleep, return to bed.

4 Simple Steps to Burn More Fat

Today I wanted to outline 4 of the guiding principles we use day in and day out to ignite immediate burning and removal of fat.

Fat Loss Tip #1: Skip carbohydrates in the morning.
When you eat carbs in the morning you activate glucose metabolism which basically turns on insulin and tells your body to store what you eat.

Fat Loss Tip #2: Consume protein and vegetables at every meal. 
The foundation of every meal should be at least a palm size piece of lean protein and 1-2 fists of non-starchy vegetables. Eat this first then add in other foods.

Fat Loss Tip #3: Skip processed foods and empty calories. 
As much as you can it is better to eat unprocessed, whole foods. And instead of consuming sugary juices or soda opt for water or even sparkling water.

Fat Loss Tip #4: Do Intense Exercise and Strength Training.
You can spend as little as 20 minutes a day exercising if you make it intense.

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