IN GENERAL:
1) LOW HEAT (preserves more of the nutririon available in the yolk…yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know “poaching is better”…”Eat em raw is best”. Uhm, whatever.)

2) BE READY TO COOK AND WAIT FOR 10 MINUTES FOR THE BEST TASTING EGGS

3) LOAD UP ON THE COCUNUT OIL (don’t be scared of the “fat-content”, test, test, test and watch how great you feel and how much belly fat dissapears from including gobs of “smart fats” into your meals.

Step One:

And although the yolk is the “fatty part” of the egg…there’s lots to know about the type of fats that are available to you, fats that actually cause your body to burn fat for many chemical and scientific reasons… In this post, I want to thoroughly (but quickly too) educate you that this “yolk” difference is not a myth.

THE VISUAL DIFFERENCE:

Notice how the organic egg (circled in red) pops with golden features… while the regular egg is just yellow and blah-looking?

And look at the second pic (here, I cooked 3 lovely organic eggs along with two regular eggs and you can SEE the difference even in how they cook, cant you?

Ok, next post, tip #4… I’ma show and teach you HOW to cook them with the best kind of oil…. a saturated fat that actually turbo charges the beneffits of the yolk by accelerating a fat burning chemical called Loric Acid, so that these babies make you burn more belly fat… AND control appetite, yay, right?

Last post, I quickly discussed the significance of seasoning your “healthy food” so that you actually EAT IT, over the tastier and more familiar choice.

And, for me, no better place to start than WHOLE EGGS.

Yes, for years, I’ve sung the siren of “Eggwhites, eggwhites, eggwhites”… and the general thinking there was to be mindful of excesss dietary fat intake.

I may have been wrong.

Now, yes, I could bust into a litany of “scientific accumen” to support what I’m about to tell you…. and yes…. I very well could simply give you a bullet pointed laundry list of “why’s”.

However, to do that, sure, I’d save you some research time…. but there’s a saying we have here at palangi kickboxing called “I.E.”, and it stands for Intellectual Effort.

So instead of a list of proof that I could just copy and paste here…. YOU go and get your learn on by googling the following:

1) Organic Eggwhites Burn Body Fat (no quotes)

2) Organic Eggs and Fat Burning Hormone

3) Organic Eggs and Satiety (feeling fuller, suppressing cravings, etc.)

For now…. here’s the overview of your Egg Options.

The two pictures below shows the 2 Brands of Organic Egg. (I even included pics of the actual boxes of the ones I’ve been using.) the second pic, is a brand now carried at regular  grocery stores, too! I buy all my Organic Eggs at Orgnaica in Northvale, NJ btw.

Go buy them… NOW… and I will teach you my four step process for preparing your Organic Eggs so that you actually absorb the almost-maximum nutritional ans fat-burning elements of these lil goodies! (By the way…. as a kid, I HATED the yolk, ask my Mother, I was THE pickiest eater, pain-in-the-ass dinner guest ever! But now…. only with the Organic version, I LOVE THE EGG YOLKS!) And on tip 4 coming soon I’ll get into this yolk topic because the Yolk is actually the powerhouse part of the egg!)

AND HERE’S AN “ADOBO” SEASONING THAT I’M PUTTING ON MY ORGANIC EGGS THESE DAYS:

I bought it at organica in Northvale, NJ

The members of one of my 4-Week Challenges gave me permission to share this with you (they pay handsomely for separate “secret coaching” lol). And I hope this story not only TEACHES you my secret “how-to’s”, but also, that you become INSPIRED! Check out how handsome and happy this young man is… just two months after a random, yet sorta lengthy heart-to-heart talk we had during his lunch break.

I wanna tell you what I learned from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on “Criticism”.

KNOW THIS FIRST: When I set out to be the #1 Body Transformation guru (I still hate that guru word cuz it sounds so airy-fairy, but what am I gunna do ya know?) in the United States, you can bet that it DID NOT come without suffering the criticism of many of my peers. Not just the karate lunkheads, but the “already-established” so-called fitness experts, too. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do not “know more” than anybody else in the game…. but I SURE AS HELL OUTPERFORM MOST! Hence, I enjoy celebrity status in my field, and there are more than 100 who I look up to and consider myself a pipsqueak when we occupy the same room.

It’s just a fact of life that, “When you decide to stick your head above the frey…. there will be somebody ready & willing to take a pot-shot at you”.

But I want to point at my “I SURE AS HELL OUTPERFORM MOST!” comment, and put it into perspective for you.

I learned from MLK, that “performance” can be hindered by “criticism”… but not like you may think… and NOT because of the dis-empowerment… but rather, just the time-factor alone.

And…. of all the things I love about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, THIS ONE PARAGRAPH (two sentences actually) STANDS OUT FOR ME THE MOST:

CLICK HERE, I HIGHLIGHTED THE 12 WORDS

Committed to your success, health, and happiness,

P.S.: This letter has been on my server for about 10 plus years, and although I have no formal education, I bet Mr. Mickey Luce, (my 7th grade history teacher, who also carried the Olympic torch in 1980; another inspiration for me as a youngster) would be proud to know it’s at palangi.com/mlk.pdf for my clients to see! By the way, along with MLK, some people often ask me what influences besides my father and my Taekwondo coaches had a lasting impact, and I would say it would be three teachers from Lake George High School from 1984 to 1986 who had the biggest impact:  Mr. Luce (History), Mr. Heller (Science), and Mr. Donald (P.E. Class; this guy could run forever) at Lake George High School were all bad-asses; I learned a lot about being an athlete from them; not “directly” but through their example, even though I was rarely in class, and when I was…. pshh, I was always raising hell

Seriously though, I am sending it for two important reasons:

One is, to simply acknowledge people in their 60′s (that’s right, SIXTIES!) who are out there making crap happen in the world! (just click the link below and you’ll see what I mean)

And two, is, because I WANT YOU TO GET IT INTO YOUR SKULL that YOU…… CAN DO ANYTHING…. (including Palangi Kickboxing) WHEN YOU HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE (eh-ehm, “Me”, lol) IN YOUR “CORNER”.

I’ve said “Here’s my favorite client/student/member” many times before; honestly, the “favorite” thing sorta has a rotation… and lately, man… I’m just so inspired by the perseverance, and vitality that Donna generates that for now, in this New Year, as I chit-chat with many people about resolutions, getting fit, etc, well, it’s just so damn “real” to be speaking to someone who is DOING SOMETHING, not CONSIDERING doing something, which, inevitably becomes no-thing. You rock Donna D!

Just watch Donna D, from Piermont NY, here, and get ready to forever-be-inspired to do something for yourself, TODAY, not tomorrow. (By the way, I took this clip without any “staging” or “prepping” Donna and her partner; it’s 100% on-the-court, live, and actual footage of one of my smaller morning classes (sometimes I like the smaller classes because moments  like this — watching Donna beat the snot out of the focus mitts — make me feel honored to call myself a trainer.) And if you only knew how much you are inspiring the rest of us, you’d amaze yourself! Thanks for choosing, and sticking to PALANGI KICKBOXING AT AGE 60-something, it’s a pleasure to watch your whole being become more fit, more ferocious, and more focused than ever in your life. Keep it up!

Best,

Master Scott Palangi

PS: Here’s the ACTION -TAKERS LINK for those of you who see something possible for yourself (something other than, “woes me, my life is so unique, I just can not do anything about my circumstances”) and, also for you, here is the always-updated class schedule CLASS SCHEDULE

And from there…. fuhgetabowtit… it’s all downhill, often times winding up with a fried food dinner, ice cream, and the guilt that often goes along with it.

The thing is, much of how you finish your day, is correlate with how you START your day.

And, when “life” creeps on your well-laid-plans, fat-burning meals get missed… hunger creeps in… and soon, the brain tells you “Screw it! Eat better tomorrow, get the PIZZA NOW!”

So goes the spiral.

Starbucks to the rescue!

So I’m eating crow now, because, for years, I’ve argued that Starbucks is responsible for making your body fat happen faster, and easier…. but that’s changed, and I am quite impressed, and have incorporated visits to Starbucks (breakfast only) sometimes as much as 4 days a week — ESPECIALLY WHEN I’M SWAMPED…. AND HUNGRY.

What, you may ask, would I get at Starbucks that supports your health… and allows you to keep your body akin to a Fat-Burning Furnace?

Watch the video…. and you’ll see and learn…. exactly, WHAT I ORDER… HOW I ASK FOR IT… AND WHY I GET, THIS SPECIFIC WAY!

Committed to your health, success, and happiness,

Master Scott Palangi

YOU ARE NOT AS LAZY AS YOU THINK!

Now… bad news (based on fact, as in science-based fact, too!)

Here’s what this is all about:

YOUR BRAIN DOES NOT WANT YOU TO GET IN SHAPE

But ya better read that one carefully… because I did not say your “mind”, but rather, your BRAIN (and trust me, you have no idea what’s actually going on inside your brain, but neither do I… which is why I’ve taken a back seat here to the findings of Neuroscientists)

But I’ll make this brain-stuff a lil’ fun for ya… so ya don’t bail out of the topic, missing out on what this article can potentially provide, in relation to you, the body and life you want… and where you are right now.

Simply put, OUR BRAINS are hard-wired… not for “success”… but rather SURVIVAL (“getting by”, “living”)

I know, I know, you knew that already, right?

So what?

Knowing about something….. doesn’t walk the dog, as they say.

Nor does knowing something get you into action, notably new actions.... actions designed to cause “change”, “improvement”, and….unfortunately for all of us what we’re really talking about here is getting into, or attaining: “PEAK PERFORMANCE/HEALTH”.

Yupp, that means that even though the Neuroscientists know what you’re about to know…. they still can’t get their butts to the gym, to the track, or in front of a heavy bag or kickboxing class any better than you can, again, because knowing how the brain works has nothing to do with ALTERING how it works, so that it works…. FOR YOUR SUCCESS, not your survival! (Heck, according to their findings, it’s even a miracle that they even bothered to study or take an interest as to why we do, what we do.

Here’s the short hand of it all (in regards to “lazyness”)

This is from Eric Haseltine, Ph.D.

As hard at it may be to accept, evolution has hard wired laziness into our brains, and therefore into our basic natures. The reason is simple: as living organisms our only real function is to convert energy– in the form of food, into information–in the form of genes ,that spread (as offspring) as far and wide as possible. The less energy we expend, the more favorable the food-in-to-gene-out ratio, and the more successfully we’ll compete with other humans and other species trying to propagate their genes.

Psychologist Denny Proffitt of the University of Virginia calls this drive for energy efficiency “economy of action.” His research has shown that our brains automatically distort our perceptions to lead us towards economical actions. In one experiment, Proffitt found that test subjects who were tired from physical exertion perceived the slope of a hill to be steeper than the same hill appeared to subjects who were well rested. Believing the hill to be steeper than it actually was, the tired test subjects were prone to walk around the hill than to spend extra energy climbing over it.

A similar perceptual shift caused me to see three hundred yards of water as a much longer distance, motivating me to look for less “expensive” ways to get to my beach towel and diet coke.

So how bout you?

Can you see how your brain unwittingly looks for (as Dr. Haseltine puts it) “less expensive” ways to go about life?

Does this natural path of least resistance creep into every area of your life?

You bet it does… but you can actually thank your brain for doing so, because….again, according to discoveries in Neuroscience:

OUR BRAINS HAD NO IDEA… NO PREMONITION WHATSOEVER….  OF EXACTLY HOW MUCH NON-ACTION THE HUMAN RACE WOULD GET OURSELVES INTO BY THE YEAR 2011! (Actually, that’s not a finding in Neuroscience, that’s Scott Palangi’s opinion, after having studied the matter.)

Now, put yourself in my shoes for a minute…

Knowing all this… imagine me, I mean, here I am “committed to your health, fitness, and success” as it reads next to my signature on every single email that goes out to you, right? Yet… unbeknownst to me… Not only do I have  you (that is if you’re smart enough to train with me or be around me) to deal with, and all your rationale for doing what you do (or, uhm, don’t or won’t do, lol) but I also have your brains commitment to keep everything SURVIVING!! Yeah, in it’s “as-is-ness”, good, bad, or otherwise, your brain, at the level of hard-wiring, ain’t havin it! I have to contend with all that, all at once!

Jeez, no wonder right? lol! is explains why I often feel like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest! Cuz with all a my “know-how & experience”… teamed up with all a your “desire and commitment to get fit”…. even with all a that firmly in place… we STILL MUST BATTLE your brains programming to keep everything in a state of “hunky-dory”, lol!

Conversely, not to get all mushy on you… but when I learned about this hard-wiring stuff…. my already-big level of COMPASSION… opened up like the Grand Canyon! Why? Simply because there’s just more to it all (you getting and sustaining your FITNESS) than the “circumstances” that you declare are just so “difficult” (family, work, school, etc.)… and now with this brain information, if you will, it sorta opens up a huge space of patience-for-the-process, as in: patience from me to you… and for you-to-yourself so that you can finally GET… and OWN… the new habits…. and the correlate results.

And… lucky for both of us, is this:

I have already re-programmed MY BRAIN to approach the task called “YOUR PERSONAL FITNESS“, not like a brain-function…. but rather:

LIKE A FRIGGIN’ PIT BULL ON A STEAK BONE!

Intuitively almost, this explains why I’m so relentless, about EVERYTHING when it comes to our step-by-step, do-it-like-this-damn-it systems for getting and maintaing optimal body-fat levels.

It’s not because “relentless” is just the way I am, either. Being relentless about you and your fitness goals has nothing to do with my personality. I am actually a chill, laid back, laze fair Zen master, with some occasional strong opinions and my old brain would much rather shack up with your lazy brain, and together devour two pints of Ben n Jerry’s Half-Baked….(it now comes on a stick, canya beleive it?) Yeah, from a nice warm, even smelly couch, in a dimly-lit and well-heated room…. Cream soda in one hand, remote control in the other, in my favorite striped cotton boxers… video games in the background to boot. (I don’t play video games, but I’m fascinated with the apathy of people who do it regularly.)

But I can’t. Not because I don’t “want to”… but because my method has worked so well, on so many occasions, in spite of so many variables and odds, that I too am on “autopilot” when I’m coaching you from level-t0-next-level… So if you’ve gotten results in my program and found yourself biting your tongue along the way…. it’s okay, just acknowledge that my “Master Palangi” Brain, knows better, and outperforms the “Scotty-boy brain” who will put up with your malarkey, and all the stuff that comes along with that!

HENCE I’VE TRAINED MY BRAIN TO BE RELENTLESS IN GETTING YOURS TO BE RELENTLESS TOO.

Isn’t the brain awesome when you create a PRACTICE that re-programs?

I have successfully re-programmed my brain to deal with your lack-of-programming, that, like a samurai warrior, I can cut through the B.S. and force you to let the new software “run” a lil bit… to take hold.

And extra lucky for you… YOUR BRAIN WILL in fact, LET YOU RE-PROGRAM IT… (that is, if, you isnert the right software, so to speak; not just once, but let it run several times, over and over.) WITH MY PROGRAM!

Can you now see why:

Palangi Kickboxing is a FAT-BURNING and TOTAL FITNESS “PROGRAM”…  not just a “place” or an exercise “class” or a “thing” or a “gym”?

LOOK AT YOUR FITNESS, YOUR DIET, (and pretty much anything else you want to see in your life, that is currently missing) AS A METHOD OF PRACTICE!

You see, the know-it-all’s who study the brain ALSO ADMIT that we CAN actually alter what it means to “survive”, by virtue of (in their words “exposure”, in my words) PRACTICE!

Yep, PRACTICE.

That’s all your brain knows you to do.

Right now, if you are unfit, your brain has a proverbial conniption if it’s thrown a “new regimen”… but the converse is also true, if and when, you run the NEW PROGRAM.

Once re-trained…. your brain will also have a conniption of different style, one that will get you closer to your fitness goals!

How? Practice.

Like, yeah, your brain will get your mind and mouth to finally saying, “No, I’m not eating with you guys if we’re going to Cheesecake Factory”.... or “Hey, you guys need to get your homework done on time and work this problem out with your classmates because I MUST GO TO PALANGI KICKBOXING!” (Yes…. new programming folks…. has a cascading effect; first re-training your brain, lol, and then re-training all the people in your environment as well, so that “They” don’t jeopardize the brains new status quo (eating well, looking good, and feeling AWESOME physically and mentally!)

And I see it all the time, this seemingly selfish shift with so many of my clients (yes, sadly, this re-wiring to an outsider… may show up as “they no longer care” about such and such, or “they are self-centered”). For further example, I have about 40 or so clients who GET REALLY, REALLY, REALLY PISSED if they miss a class. Don’t get me wrong, they don’t flip coffee tables or kick chairs or people… but they’ll get LIVID if and when they become too busy to keep their current “survival mode” present. And they’ll get furious if lets say, they forget or get caught up in the moment …. and instead of preparing PALANGI APPROVED FOODS, wind up eating junk food, their new brain flips on them, causing a crappy feeling to ensue.

What is that so-called crappy feeling? Is it because we of let ourselves down? Giving in to the “old way”?

I believe it is our brains NEW AND BETTER SURVIVAL MECHANISMS!! And its sending an “aggravation signal” that we’re screwing around with the (new and better) current survival mechanism the one so many of us have worked so hard to create!

Yeah, it’s a newly formed and better “neuronal pattern”…. now in jeopardy! (Ins’t that great? Next time the people in your life think your being a jerk for missing a workout or a perfect Palangi Approved Meal, just say “I’m soooo soooo sooo sooo sorry that I’m acting this way… Why please forgive me, would you? See…. it’s not my fault… it’s just that my new and awesome neuronal patterns that I’ve worked so desperately to to  develop at Palangi Kickboxing, they’re being threatened.” : )

Trust me, your brain will assist you when the new (better) program is being run, and run often. You’ll do and say the right thing, at the right time, to the right people, places, and things that stand in between you and optimal fitness. You’ll become BOLDER. More clear in your speaking, too. And all of this…. has NOTHING to do with your “personality”, but rather, this new way of being literally lives along side of the new habits being upheld by the brains natural order of keeping whats happening – HAPPENING!

All this being said, armed with the above facts and insights…. instead of telling people you come to Palangi Kickboxing to get in shape, you could more accurately share that you come here TO GET YOUR BRAIN RE-WIRED!

Best,

Norwood, NJ

October 14th, 2011 5:34pm

Hi everyone! Master Palangi here with a quick, and inspiring/emotional testimonial… highlighting one woman’s inner-strength, as she transforms not ONLY her body, but her relationship to personal tragedy as well. I wanna also mention, this is THE difference between simply being a “member” at a garden-variety “gym”… and being a CLIENT, STUDENT, and heck, why don’t we throw in the word “DISCIPLE” too — seeing how what we DO is based from the DISCIPLINE — of Palangi Kickboxing.

I am proud of Laurie’s progress, and also humbled by here commitment to pick, and STICK, with us!

Here’s here B-n-A (before and after picture)… also click the video link too, k?

Best,

Master Scott Palangi