“We’ve seen how you can gain weight with eating fast food, but what about the other end of the spectrum? Can you lose weight with fast food? Yes: We think of choices in terms of the major ones: what job should I take? Who should I marry? Each choice we make moves us down one road or another.

It’s the little choices we make day in and day out that dictate the kind of life we live and ultimately, the kind of health we enjoy. Food is vital for life to make energy. If your body were a temple, you would not put poisons or anything toxic in it. You would think carefully and choose with tremendous diligence what you put into it. Your body is given to you so that you can make careful choices about what you put into it. You really are what you eat. Your mid section can be a lean cut of beef or a doughy roll. Your but can be shaped like an onion or a bunion. What you ingest has an impact that can add or subtract years to your life. Fortunately, you have the power to pick and choose what foods will fuel your body.

Every day without fail my inbox has at least half a dozen personal training queries in it all asking the same thing. Whether it’s from a man or a woman, young or old, one thing that everybody wants is a flat stomach. They want to know what to eat, how to exercise, and more often than not why all the work they are currently doing (for some reason I tend to frighten off most of the couch potatoes from even contacting me in the first place!) just doesn’t seem to be working.

So here is the “inside” scoop on what it takes to finally achieve that lean and streamlined waistline you have always dreamed of having. Take a deep breath, relax, let it out, think of watching the ocean lapping the sunny shoreline of a Caribbean beach as you sip your pina colada. There you go, that’s your first step to a slimmer, flatter stomach! You don’t believe me?!