Review - Mack Newton

Mack Newton is a personal trainer/motivational speaker from the USA. He is an exceptionally good presenter and is extremely knowledgable about health and fitness. I first saw a video of him speaking on the RichDad.com website. Mack has a fascinating story of how he overcame early problems in his life. He is into health and how to get others to become more healthy through changing their attitude to food, life and exercise. I found his 2 hour talk to be extremely inspirational.

Some of the topics he covered included " Don't try lose weight, just eat healthy" and "Why you shouldn't eat Bread!" After considering all his points both topics sound extremely logical! He says that healthy people cannot be fat. That if you are healthy you are automatically your target weight. So how do you get healthy? It comes down the diet and exercise - the obvious two.

He has designed something called the 3-2 eating plan which enables you easily become healthy. You can eat 3 things and Drink 2 things.

Drink
Water, lots of it. 120 oz a day. This is equivalent to 3 litres per day. Mack says that 90% of people walk around dehydrated. This affects your ability to think, it is not healthy and actually means that your body holds on to water and stores it.

Drink Fruit Juice. Real fruit Juice, not friut drink from a carton.

Food
1. Meat. As much as you want. Remove the fat. Fish is good. Ham is not meat. Ham is a by product with lots of additives.
2. Any vegetable as long as its green. Broccoli, Asparagus, etc
Green vegetables have the best nutrients out of all vegetables. Peppers have almost no nutrients. Lettuce and cabbage are mostly water. Salads are generally a no no because the contain more fattening ingredients that good ingredients by weight
3. Fruit. Eat moderately. If you have a Mack Shake (read more below) then this is equivalent to 80% of your fruit intake for the day.

Mack has a great idea for a fruit shake to have every morning. I started doing this about 3 months ago and it has been great. I have lost about 9kgs.

Mack Shake Recipe

One Banana
Half an apple (Skin on is fine)
Orange Juice.
Into a blender. Thats it

Foods to Avoid
- Salt
We don't need it in our diet. The low amount of salt we actually need is found naturally in the above foods/meat. We don't need to add extra salt to our cooking. Salt is like a drug. Once we have it, we need a little more, and then we get used to having it and feel bad wihout it - just like nicotine. We end up craving it with every meal. We don't need extra salt to season food. this just masks the real flavour of the food. Avoiding salt also means that we need to cut out things like salty snacks, potato chips corn chips etc.
- Bread.
- Excessive Sugar
- Coffee and Caffeine. We dont need it. Its just a drug
- Starch rich foods like potatoes, corn
- Food with chemical additives - which is pretty much anything that comes in a packet. Check the ingredients labels. If you can see an numbers in the ingredients list such as (621) or (202) then these are chemicals, and hey we don't need them in our food.

From personal experience. Once you stop eating things like potato chips you just don't crave them. Once you break free from the need for salt you just dont need it. You can get your power back and you feel a lot better being in control. After 1 week of avoiding salty foods, I was over the craving. Its about just putting your mind to it. I haven't eaten Potato Chips now (not even at parties) for almost 4 months - its quite amazing.

To read more on Mack Newton and his techniques visit his website macknewton.com or do a Google search.

Auckland, New Zealand