Oh, the scale. How we all have a love/hate relationship with you.

Looking and feeling good in your body is a goal we should all strive to achieve, especially since it boosts your self-esteem, and helps give you confidence for taking on the day.

The purpose of this podcast is to discuss 5 reasons, that we typically see, as to why you're not reaching the ideal weight/body type that YOU want.

What we covered:

• Why it's challenging to do things consistently that you hate doing. Muhammad Ali famously said, "I hated every minute of training, but I said: don't quit, suffer now and live the rest of your life like a champion." We all know that exercise and eating is part of getting the body you want, but hating it will make it hard to do.
• You haven't been doing it long enough. It would be fantastic if the timeline you had in your head for achieving a goal were the correct timeline; unfortunately, it always takes longer than you think.
• Aristotle, the philosopher not Dr. Kreso's son, famously said, "success is a habit, not an act." Consistency is critical - the shiny penny is fun to chase, but hardly ever leads you to where you want to be.
• There is a lot of 'conventional wisdom' about weight loss and exercise that's not based on physiology, so creating a plan based around how your physiology works is critical to your success.

Thursday, February 21st marks the start of the 2019 CrossFit Open.

Every year CrossFit crowns the fittest man and woman on the earth.

The way you earn this prestigious title is by winning the CrossFit games, and the way you get to the CrossFit games is by entering the CrossFit Open, placing well enough to go to regionals and then winning regionals.

We think you should register for the CrossFit open this year.

Why would we recommend this to you?

For many reasons one of which is not because we get anything from it. It's true we own a CrossFit and training facility with a similar approach, and in general, love the training model, but our recommendation has everything to do with you and your personal growth, development, and health.

We've all heard the saying that growth happens outside of your comfort zone, well, what better way to get uncomfortable about your fitness than registering for the CrossFit open.

Every year the same thing happens during the open. There are people there, who are scared and think they shouldn't be there and they absolutely blow themselves away with how great they perform.

We're willing to bet the same is right for you - deep inside you're much better than you think you are - and this is one way to challenge yourself to reach up and bit a bit better.

But it's not the only way...

On today's episode of Life By Design we talk about getting out of your comfort zone in general and discuss some of the other things you could do!

What we Covered:

• The power behind reaching outside your comfort zone.
• Safety first, please ensure that you're performing these workouts under the supervision of trained coaches and staff. CrossFit is fun but can be hard, do it correctly.
• Why you need a standard to measure against.
• Other ways to "get out of your comfort zone".

Growing up we were always taught that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast was supposed to serve as a way to get proper nutrients into our bodies and give us the energy to meet the many challenges and needs of the day.

It was also thought that eating a healthy (the jury is still out on what 'healthy' means) breakfast helped give us nutrients that would keep us full throughout the day, and would help us lose weight. However, a new study published in BMJ may disagree.

According to the study people who ate breakfast ended up about around 260 calories more per day than those that skipped breakfast and ended up weighing slightly more (less than a pound) than breakfast eaters.

The purpose of the podcast is to discuss the study, explain how we think this information is relevant to you and discuss the physiology of losing weight.

What we cover:

• Discussion of the study, what we liked about it, what we didn't like about it and our interpretation of the results.
• Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day, what about intermittent fasting and people who don't eat until much later?
• Is weight loss just a simple calories in vs. calories out equation or is there more to it than that?
• Do we eat breakfast, and if we do, what do we eat?

Skills are cheap passion is priceless

-Gary Vaynerchuk

As we search the internet looking for topics that we believe would be helpful for you, we can't help but feel overwhelmed.

Overwhelmed at the biases, overwhelmed at the atrocious and dishonest headlines, overwhelmed at context drops, overwhelmed at the rude poorly thought out comments towards others, overwhelmed at the lack of empathy and overwhelmed at the ignorance of one of the major factors that will actually make people's lives better... self-responsibility.

The overwhelm hit its peak while examining the Canadian Government's phase two of its new Food Guide release: the extra labeling of food that is 'high in sugar, high in saturated fat and high in salt.'

You might be wondering why it sounds like we don't like that idea?

We don't like that idea because it fails to bring into consideration the most important aspect of whether someone will buy the product and eat it - their desire. The old saying, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, comes to mind.

Look at the tobacco industry. Is there anyone on the planet that doesn't know that cigarettes are unhealthy? Look at the labeling - it flat out says this product causes cancer (and other diseases) and has a horrifying and shocking graphic of a poor cancer surfer who is visibly disfigured by their condition. Yet, does this stop people from buying cigarettes?

It's overwhelming that the world has become a place where social pressure is replacing freedom of choice. Where if you have a different opinion than the mob, you need to be singled out and beat into submission.

The purpose of this podcast is to help preserve your mind as an individual and to help you understand that your choices and actions (both good and bad) should be yours, not your family's, not the government's, not your neighbour's, but yours.

What we covered:

• Keeping the mind of the beginner - how to understand your biases and set them aside as you're learning and gathering information before you make a decision.
• Since it's ultimately your life, we believe that your self-esteem depends on your ability to make decisions for yourself.