In this podcast episode, is it true that exercise won't make you thin, how to get rid of the extra little bit of flap in your midsection, whether testing really improves performance, running during your period, more on magnesium,

and the formation of a local Spokane Coral Lane Area HCG Fat Loss Group?

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Hey podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield, and you may have noticed that in last week's podcast, episode number 54, some of you encountered a simple little two-minute video on magnesium, a great video, but it actually wasn't the featured podcast.

I don't know why iTunes actually did that, but what you should have gotten was a fantastic interview on the book, the magnesium miracle, with Dr. Carolyn Dean.

So for some reason you had a real short video appear in your iTunes subscription last week for this podcast, then go back and listen to that interview because that was a great feature topic.

And last week I know that we primarily featured a feature topic and not much else.

Well this week we are featuring a listener Q&A with our feature topic being my response to the article in Time Magazine why exercise won't make you thin.

So what we're going to do is start off with today's special announcements, we're going to move on to the listener Q&A, and we're going to finish with my response to that very interesting rather controversial article by John Cloud about why exercise won't make you thin.

Special announcements.

Okay, announcements are going to be pretty brief today. The main thing that I wanted to go over with you was A, we have a brief survey over on the show notes to this podcast where you can click and kind of give your input on what you think of the podcast and it will actually help us get a better idea of how to make a better podcast for you.

And then a couple of other announcements the first is that we do put a lot of time into this show and in the show notes if you go to Ben Greenfield Fitness.com you'll notice at the very bottom of the show notes there's a way for you to donate to the show and to get a Ben Greenfield Fitness.com t-shirt.

We sent out close to about 50 of these now and I have yet to actually be walking around in a foreign city outside of Spokane and seeing someone wearing these but I look forward to that day. Either way if you would like to get your hands on a t-shirt all you got to do is go to the show notes and donate to get a free shirt.

You'll also notice that when you go to the show notes for today's podcast you know I kind of wanted you guys to see how I look when I'm podcasting to you. I primarily record these podcasts not from my office not from some guru peak of a mountain top somewhere and not in a yoga studio seated cross like it on a mat.

Usually I'm hanging around my house taking a break every now and then as I'm recording to go grab a snack from the refrigerator or to help take care of little babies that are running around my home. However I did snap a picture of myself recording the podcast today.

While I feast on one of my favorite snacks if you want to call out that Pellegrino water I'm addicted to the stuff. San Pellegrino sparkling water highly recommend it so if you want to see what I look like recording the podcast from the comfort of my own home taking down my San Pellegrino sparkling water then just surf on over to the show notes for this episode.

Now before we get into the listener Q&A I did want to mention that the woman who I was helping lose weight via online consulting who I've mentioned a few times in this podcast.

She actually just finished her HCG diet for fat loss and I've explained it a couple times what that is but essentially it's it's a daily injection of something called human corjana conatotropin that she receives. I work with her physician to get her a prescription for it and I actually have five or six women right now although men can take it but five or six women across the country right now doing this program and she just finished.

And what ended up happening was she started the program at a weight of 216.6 I remember when she when she first started out with me she was at 225 had been having a very difficult time losing weight so we got it out of 216.6 and then started into the HCG fat loss protocol and over 40 days she lost an average of 0.7 pounds a day.

And for those of you who have ever tried to lose weight that's pretty significant she dropped from 216.6 down to 191.2 following the special diet and the daily injection and you can actually get it also as a nasal spray if you don't like injections and all of her circumference measurements that I was having her take on a daily basis were down significantly she lost several inches all across her body.

So I wanted to say congratulations to Farah for that 0.7 pound of fat loss over 40 days which is significant but I wanted to mention that I'm going to actually start up a local group that I will support through this 40 day program in the Spokane or Cornelain area.

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