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A solid Plan Based on Real Food, a Systematic Approach, and Support
I have been studying nutrition for over 10 years. In these 10 years I have heard from "experts" touting their new plan bassed on the reductionist views of increasing one nutrient at the expense of another. Presumably, the nutrient in favor is "good" and the nutrient being supplanted or replaced is "bad". This way of thinking has ruled nutrition science since the 70's.
Has it made us any healthier? NO! In fact, quite the opposite. Has it made us shed pounds, lose weight and feel more energetic? NO! Again, in fact, quite the opposite.
I have participated in a few of these "fad" of "buzz" diets and have never really felt like they included everything I needed, especially the focus on health and eating REAL food.
Over the last 2 years I have been formally studying nutrition, obtaining my master's degree and helping patients reach all of their health and wellness goals without "dieting" or by simply not eating. I have been amazed at how many people have metabolisms that are just not up to snuff because of all the yo-yo dieting, reduced calorie diets or other "nutritional" fads.
The problem with the work I was doing was that it took me a lot of time to sort through various blood and other functional medicine tests and a lot of time supporting my patients through their weight loss and healthy eating/living endeavors. I needed a system......
Well, I found one! Precision Nutrition by Dr. John Berardi (JB) is precisely the system I was trying to design; so, instead of slogging through the creation of one of the best nutrition programs alone, I decided to team-up with the Precision Nutrition system, JB and all of the people involved with it.. In addition to the core program that can be purchased by anyone from JB, I have implemented biweekly support and re-education meetings that include:
These three components equate to SUPPORT from me, a doctor and nutritionist.
Now, all nutrition plans need to have some sort of support...period, there's no question about that. The problem is, we are all busy and going to weekly meetings only to have to weigh yourself in front of others and go home with a bunch of pre-packaged food products (by-the-way, these are not real food). These programs work for a lot of people; the problem is, many of them don't learn how to stay lean and healthy and how to eat without unhealthy, pre-packaged food-products. The Precision Nutrition plan focuses on real food, the whole Optimal Nutrition Program at Optimum Function focuses on you and helping to teach you how to eat healthy, nutritiously and fit it all into your busy lifestyle.
The Success Guide
Before beginning any nutrition plan, whether it’s a lifestyle-based plan like Precision Nutrition or a quick-fix, fad program like those you see/read in the media every day, it’s important to start off on the right foot - with the right mindset and the correct information.
In this introductory guide to Precision Nutrition you are provided with an overview of the program and presented with 10 success strategies guaranteed to help you stick with the plan. These strategies and more will be explained in depth during our biweekly meetings
These strategies, taken directly from those who have been successfully following the PN program, will be your “secret weapon” in your quest to change your body and change your life.
The Diet Guide
This is your comprehensive guide to diet and nutrition. Put aside all the tips, tricks and gimmicks you’ve heard over the years. Forget everything you’ve been told about nutrition and learn the right information from scratch – in one complete, beginning-to-end system that fills in the blanks and puts everything into proper perspective.
With the Precision Nutrition Diet Guide, everything is covered, from food selection to meal timing to nutrition program design. You will learn everything you need to know to lose fat or gain muscle. You’ll set your goal in the beginning, and you’ll learn exactly what to do to achieve it.
Everything is organized according to it’s importance in the grand scheme of things, and nothing is left to chance. You will walk away knowing exactly what you need to do to build the body you want.
The Quick Start Guide
Rapid body composition changes CAN happen – if you get all the right information, and put it to use immediately. That’s what the Quick Start Guide is for.
Combined with the information in this book, I’ll show you the exact steps that you need to take right away if you’re going to succeed. Every step is laid out in detail, and in less than 45 minutes you will have done precisely what most people never think to do – the critical steps that make all the difference.
The Super Shake Guide
You’re on the go all day long. Let’s face it, sometimes things just don’t go right, and you’re stuck without a decent meal. But what do you do then? Blow your plan? Those cheats and missed meals add up quickly, and conspire to destroy your hard-earned progress. Well, not any more. Enter the Super Shake.
Filled with ample amounts of high-quality protein, essential fatty acids and micronutrition, the Super Shake will ensure you never lack great nutrition, no matter where you are or how much time you have. It simply blows the off-the-shelf “meal replacements” out of the water – and you can make it yourself, cheaply and quickly. In the Super Shake Guide, you'll be shown exactly how to make them and how to customize them for your body type and your goals, and you'll be provided with several Super Shake recipes to get you started.
5-Minute Meals
You’ve got a life. You’ve got a job, a family, a girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse, hobbies or school or other time commitments. What you don’t have is endless time for meal preparation. But guess what? Without that meal preparation, you’re pretty much doomed to body composition hell and the dreaded yo-yo dieting.
With the 5-Minute Meals Guide, however, consider it taken care of. You’ll have a complete list of dozens of delicious, perfect Precision Nutrition meals that can be made in under five minutes. Great nutrition has never been this convenient.
The Individualization Guide
Clipping generic, cookie cutter plans from magazines will only lead to disappointment, for one simple reason: as your body changes, your needs change, and so your nutrition plan must change too. If you’re not constantly tweaking your plan to fit your ever-changing nutritional needs, you’re guaranteed to stagnate and possibly revert back to your old habits.
There is only one sure-fire way to continue to get results, and that is to tailor your diet specifically to your body, your goals and the results you’ve gotten in the past. So how do you know how your body differs from others? And once you know, what do you do about it? How do you know what changes to make? The answers are in the Individualization Guide, a step-by-step guide to a complex subject. Combined with the information in this book, I can help make it easy to customize your diet for your specific needs – and you’ll be amazed at the results.
The Measurement Guide
At Precision Nutrition, we have a battery of assessments, questionnaires and tests that our clients undergo regularly. In fact, we’ve come up with a mix of assessments that cover nearly every facet of health and human performance.
Coupled with the Precision Nutrition system, these assessments allow us to get rapid results with clients. In fact, I’ve done informal testing indicating that regular assessments like these can speed up progress by 50-75% — even using the same exercise and nutrition program.
And in the Measurement Guide I’ll teach you exactly what to assess and how often - from body measurements to performance testing to blood work. Remember, if you’re not assessing, you’re guessing.
Plant-Based Diet Guide
Here is Michael Pollen's statement when asked how to eat well, "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
Everyone can improve their health and fitness by eating more plants. Unfortunately, however, many vegetarians don’t eat much better than their carnivorous counterparts, because they tend to focus on non-meat pseudo foods rather than plants!
So we’ve created a new section focused on this category of plant-based diets to help those who choose not to eat meat adapt the Precision Nutrition principles to their dietary needs — and reach the health and fitness goals that elude them. In addition, those eating meat can stick to the tried and true health advice of cimmunities-past......eat food, mostly plants.
Maintenance Guide
Believe it or not, the most challenging aspect of dieting for most people is not changing their body (losing the weight, for example). It’s maintaining that change over the long-term (e.g., keeping it off!).
Fortunately, though, the maintenance phase can be easier and more enjoyable than the change phase — so long as it’s done right. In this new Maintenance Guide, it's illustrated exactly how you can keep the body you’ve worked so hard for.
Support Guide
From the very beginning, Precision Nutrition has incorporated what they've learned is the critical component of a successful nutrition program: support.
You can’t do this alone, nor should you have to. The most successful people in the world have the best support systems, and those who typically don’t make it are quite often those who weren’t supported by the people around them. A colleague of mine once shared a very insightful proverb with me, and I use it often. “You are,” he said, “the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
In the Support Guide, you receive detailed instruction on how to make use of the support around you, and if your “circle of five” isn’t as supportive as you’d like, we show you how to make use of our circle: Me (Dr. Irving) , the coaches, other experts and tens of thousands of fellow members just like you who make the PN Member Zone their online home.
Gourmet Nutrition Cookbook, Volume 1
This is no ordinary cookbook; it is THE book that opened my eyes to the wisdom of this nutrition plan. It’s an assault on nutrition-poor, bad-tasting food everywhere. JB challenged his good friend and healthy cooking master craftsman Dr. John K. Williams to come up with 100 gourmet-quality recipes that meet all of the nutritional requirements for good body composition, health and performance, and he came through big-time.Complete with everything from 5-star meals that will impress even the most jaded food critic, to quick fixes that will get the job done on the go, plus a section on general cooking instruction and tips, this book will forever change the way you think about nutrition. You’ll finally eat delicious meals that make you look and feel better, rather than worse.
BONUS: The Precision Nutrition Audio Collection
Different people learn different ways. Some by reading, some by demonstration, and some by listening. For those in the latter group, we’ve created the Precision Nutrition Audio Series, a collection of audio segments covering the 10 Habits of Good Nutrition, the Nutrition Cheat Sheet, the Gourmet Nutrition Cooking Tips and the Super Shake. Put them on your MP3 player or listen to them in your car.
BONUS: The Precision Nutrition Online Library
The audio and video content outlined above is hosted online as part of your Precision Nutrition Online Resource Library (pictured below), a new feature of the PN member’s-only site.
This library includes: exercise programs from at least 10 of the world’s top exercise coaches, additional e-books, audio interviews, supplemental video content, and a host of software and web-based tools including and Online Calorie Estimator, Exercise Database and more.
Executive Summary:
What does it cost?
You can pay for the program and initial visit together and then the follow-up visits separately
PACKAGE SPECIAL.......
If you pay for the whole 4 months of support at once, I'll give you the Precision Nutrition Program for FREE! That means you'll get everything mentioned above including biweekly support visits for the low price of $485. After June of 2009, the price goes back up to $585
I can't do this forever; but because this kind of change requires at least a 4 month commitment, I'm going to offer this as an incentive, a reward for taking one giant step toward a healthier you for the first half of 2009. This program works....period, better and healthier than most out there.
Do you still need more information? Want to know how to sign-up for this program? Feel free to fill out an online contact form by clicking here: Contact Dr. Irving, a Portland, Oregon Chiropractor and Nutritionist.
Are you a "pro eater" do you think you can do the Precision Nutrition Program on our own? The in-office support through me at Optimum Function just about guarantees success but Dr. Berardi originally designed this program to be a "self-study". He later decded to license the program to other experts because he success number were not 100% and participants gave feedback that they needed more support.
That being said; some people do great on the program without in-office support. For $97, you can get all of the above mentioned resources without the in-office support, body measurements or education. Click Here to purchase the program and get the body you want ASAP.
Yours in Health,
Tim Irving DC, MS, LMT, CKTP, Nutritionist, Hypnotherapist
Optimum Function
819 SE Morrison St.
Suite 215
Portland, OR
97214
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