Fat 2 Fit #140 – Combatting Burnout
Written on February 16, 2012 – 10:00 pm | by Russ Turley
You are doing everything right in changing your lifestyle, but despite seeing progress you’re still feeling burned out. That’s William’s problem. He’s in the gym 6 days a week and is making all his own food. He’s meeting all his daily goals, but he’s getting “tired of doing everything everyday.” Jeff has a doozy of an answer in our email and comments section. Kasia also wrote in about the “insanity” workouts that some are doing. They claim to burn 1500 to 2000 calories per workout. Are they a good idea? Greg also wrote in and helps put your own health in prospective.
On the web report, Jeff has a few articles to discuss having to do with the Strong 4 Life campaign. Be sure to check out the link to show #23 on childhood obesity linked to below for our take on the problem. Russ’ article has to do with overweight doctors. A new study says that portly docs may be doing their patients a disservice by not engaging them in discussion about their weight.
Links Mentioned in the Show:
Show #78 - Lose Belly Fat Now!
Show #23 – Childhood Obesity
Overweight doctor study
WebMD take on overweight doctors
Strong 4 Life
Canada calls Strong 4 Life “Shocking!”
Recipe of the Week:
Healthy Turkey Meatloaf
Motivational Quote of the Week:
“We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.” – Stephen Covey
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Tags: Childhood Obesity, doctor, lose weight fast, lose weight quickly
If we’re not talking about the weather, it just wouldn’t feel like the same podcast. Learned this week, -40 C and -40 F are the same temperature. In either system, it’s cold in Calgary!
We’re back with all new shows for the new year. Look for shows to drop on Wednesdays and Saturday, three times a month. AND you can now listen to those shows on the new Fat 2 Fit iPhone app. Fred Giufridda over at 
The new year is an obvious time to turn over a new leaf. Whether it’s quitting smoking, drinking or the ever popular lose weight, there’s no denying that the resolutions are flying. If you took a look out the window this morning you might have seen more people than normal walking or even jogging. The gyms are also more crowded than ever this time of year, but if you stick it out until March most of those people will quit and you ‘ll get the gym to yourself again. Why? Most of them won’t have set goals for themselves and therefore will fail at following through with their resolutions. They most certainly didn’t listen to this podcast in particular to learn how to set goals. Jeff goes it alone on the 5th installment of the most important show of the year, the 5th Annual Goals Show.
We are back with another new show. That wouldn’t be news, but considering the last few months, it definitely is. We are getting back to regular shows…slowly.
We’re back after an extended hiatus. Thanks for sticking around and staying subscribed.
In case you missed Jeff’s 
We have three great emails this week that don’t have to do with calories. Lyrissa wrote in asking about her sore tailbone. She’s getting down on the ground and doing crunches and it’s killing her tailbone. She wants to know how to do crunches without the pain. Check out the links below for our alternate core exercises to replace the crunch. Elsie wrote in asking about her problem. Her problem, extremely low body fat. She’s hit the 13% body fat level and some bad things are happening, in particular her menstrual cycle has stopped. We are put in the position of helping her gain fat! Weird. Okay, so there is one question on calories in a round about way. Jennifer wants to know how many calories she should be eating because she found out she’s newly pregnant. We did a show completely about pregnancy, but we take this opportunity to go over how you’ll gain weight during your pregnancy.
Toning your muscles seems like a reasonable thing to want to do. Except, there’s no such thing. What most people are looking for when they want to “tone” is they want to see their muscles. They want to know that the hard work their putting in at the gym is not going to waste. That’s the question Marilyn asked. She concerned about her arms, butt and abs. Who isn’t?
