Leigh Peele, The Fat Loss Trouble-shooter, has a “shocking” message she wants to share – one that might reveal why your fat loss was not what you wanted in 2008. In this exclusive Burn The Fat interview and 3-minute video, you’ll learn what most people are doing wrong with their nutrition and one simple trick to fix it so you can enjoy consistent fat loss each and every week in 2009 without ever hitting a long and frustrating plateau… Warning: Sometimes the truth is hard to handle!
Tom Venuto: Leigh! Do you remember when I uploaded your “shocking fat loss” video to my Burn The Fat blog a few months ago? Well, you nearly blew up my server! 8,766 people visited my blog and watched the video in 24 hours! I’m not kidding — I have the screenshot to prove it. I had to pay for more bandwidth! I’m sending you the bill! Seriously, what’s the story with that video? Why do you think it hits home so much? Strikes a few nerves, eh?
Leigh Peele: Holy _______, that is crazy! You know Tom, I think that everyone has been so bombarded with low carb, low fat, points, deck of card portions, and packaged meals that they don’t realize that when all is said and done, it’s calories in versus calories out.
Tom Venuto: You mean fat loss has something to do with calories???? No kidding? You don’t say?
Leigh Peele: I watched this report on obesity last night where they profiled a man who was 380 pounds and couldn’t lose weight. They followed him around and showed him getting whole grain pasta, olive oils, leaner meats, bananas…all healthy foods. He sat there crying saying “I eat healthy, I just can’t lose the weight” and all I could do was just put out my hands and think you can get fat off of a banana if you eat enough of them. Why don’t the doctors just have him weigh his food?
Problem is, they don’t get it either.


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Tom Venuto: Was the message in your video strictly that you should weigh your food instead of measuring it with cups and spoons, or did you intend a message that goes deeper and broader than that?
Leigh Peele: It is much deeper. This isn’t just about oats and peanut butter. This isn’t just about measuring cups. The point is if your calories can be off by that much with an attempt at measuring your food, what do you think is happening with the food you eyeball?
Tom Venuto: What digital scale were you using in that video? Did I see nutrition facts programmed right into the scale? Where can I get one?
chefmate food scale photoLeigh Peele: It’s a Chefmate ™ Nutritional Data Food Scale. You can program and it has stuff stored as well to pull up the calories for what you are weighing. 50 bucks, uses batteries that lasts forever, and travels easy if need. One of the best purchases I have ever made. Really isn’t as bad as people think.
Tom Venuto: Damn. I should have asked Santa for one of those. Of course, there’s always my birthday Leigh, hint hint. Are there any other tools you recommend for keeping people honest and accountable, like nutrition tracking software or calorie counting gadgets?
Leigh Peele: I personally use a nutrition and training software called Crosstrainer. Most veggies, fruits, cheeses, meats, and things like that were already programmed in there and by grams or ounces. It is really easy to add new items in as well to help keep you tracked. You can put it on your palm or your computer. It also does training, goals, charts.
Beyond that there are free programs like Fitday, Daily Plate, and Calorie King I think as well.
Tom Venuto: In your video you show how people can underestimate their portion sizes with simple measurement errors and so they get more calories than they bargained for. What are some other sources of hidden calories that people totally forget about?
Leigh Peele: Number one without a doubt is restaurants/eating out. First we just take into account just how ridiculous caloric content is when you eat out in the first place.
However, let’s say you give me the argument of “Well I know the nutritional data for what I am eating” then I ask you…
Do you really and why chance it?
There was an ABC report done on the difference of calories of what was reported and what it actually was when tested and some were off by as much as 500 calories for a meal. Those were also the “guiltless” style meals.
I don’t know about you but fat loss is hard enough without some greasy chef throwing me off of my game when I’m in a cut.
Tom Venuto: You’re known as The Fat Loss Troubleshooter because you help people break through stalled fat loss. Aside from measurement mistakes, what are a few of the other common ways that people sabotage their own success and stall their progress?
Leigh Peele: Well counting calories is just a small part of the equation. You can be counting great but still be not eating the right amount for what you need. Understanding your personal energy expenditure is really important. Not to mention just the psychological aspects and how we can better help them with nutrients and mental applications.
If I may steal a line from your Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle book Tom that this is simple stuff, but it isn’t easy.
My books; what I do, is I teach you “how to fish” for fat loss, I don’t leave you dependent on me or anyone for that matter.
Tom Venuto: How would you respond to people who say that weighing and measuring food is obsessive and is no way to live?
Leigh Peele: Obviously I get attacked on this right? People say, “I am sorry, I just have to live, I just won’t be a slave to a food scale and never eat out again.” These are usually the same people that have been trying to lose 30 pounds for ten years or more. What kind of life is it to always be living in a diet?
See my clients, MY readers get it done. My clients are the people you hate who are skinny and eating the desert when you are still counting carbs. THAT to me is no way to live. You just have to look at this process as a short term treatment for an aggressive problem.
Tom Venuto: Why do you think more diet programs say “DON’T count your calories” than ones that do? And how is it that some people seem to get away with eyeballing portions and others don’t?
Leigh Peele: Well you will notice a lot of diet programs that mention not to count calories have either a system of products in place that they need to continue selling or they go by a low carb method only.
Without a doubt eyeballing can work, especially when you cut out an entire food group. You know why trainers push very low carb programs so much? They are harder to mess up, and they get great fast water loss. Off by an ounce or two with a plain chicken breast? Yeah, no big deal. Off by an ounce with pasta and that is 200 more calories. That doesn’t mean I haven’t seen people feed their way out of a deficit with olive oil and broccoli because I have.
Tom Venuto: Does there come a time when this stuff becomes internalized and turned into habit, or even becomes intuitive so you don’t have to count and measure anymore, or do you think that people who have struggled with weight problems will have to weigh and measure food forever?
Leigh Peele: I say personally when in a cut leave little to chance. Meaning just get in, do the grind work, and get out. By the time you are done you really understand your needs and how much you were eating before.
The thing is, once you really start to understand fat loss and understand completely how it works, the technique is a cake walk.
The fear of the fat loss unknown is far more crushing to the soul than being self aware.
Tom Venuto: Ok Leigh, that’s it for today, thanks for the great info! But I’m warning you now that I’m going to bug you again soon for another interview, especially about the metabolic damage repair stuff. Oh and by the way. You got me. I lick the spoon too!
Leigh Peele: So do I Tom, So do I.
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About Leigh
leigh.jpgLeigh Peele received her certification from the National Academy of Sports Medicine in training. She also has a Nutritional Consultation Certification and in training Special Populations and Weight Management. A nationally published author in both magazine and online, Leigh Peele is continually raising the bar on her ability to achieve fat loss under any conditions. A leader in research and study in metabolic behavior and recovery she has been deemed the Fat Loss Troubleshooter. Her clients range from college athletes and professional fighters to housewives and obese seniors. She has led those to figure wins and been the champion to those with personal battles especially with eating disorders. Check out her NEW updated (for 2009) edition of the Fat Loss Troubleshoot and new release of The Metabolic Repair Manual by Clicking Here.


About Tom

Tom Venuto is a fat loss expert, lifetime natural (steroid-free) bodybuilder, certified personal trainer, freelance writer, and author of the #1 best selling diet e-book, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle: Fat-Burning Secrets of The World’s Best Bodybuilders & Fitness Models( e-book) and The Body Fat Solution (Hardcover, Avery/Penguin Books). Tom is also the founder and CEO of the Internet’s premier fat loss support community, the: Burn The Fat Inner Circle.

 


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