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My NEW Online Fitness Club is now available across the world! It features exclusive, invigorating content designed to shape healthier lifestyles and fitter physiques. The site includes new daily videos where I lead workouts, help you out in the kitchen with recipes and other healthy lifestyle tips along with progressive circuit workouts, a fitness journal, a community section and a database of my personal recipes (with vegan and vegetarian options).

I can’t wait to share my new book, THE SKINNY RULES, with the world this spring, but in the meantime I’m getting all kinds of requests for a sneak-peak because who really wants to wait to get started losing weight? So, okay. With “Rule #18: Go to Bed Hungry” you can get a jump on weight loss tonight! Your body will respond: denied fuel for more than five hours, your body will start burning its own fat and sugar. That means that if your dinner was at 8 p.m., you’re burning fat by 1 a.m. Eat earlier, start burning fat earlier. Either way, you’ll wake up wanting breakfast, which is a good thing: you should eat a proper breakfast instead of grabbing a high-carb bagel or muffin on your way to work! (What’s a proper breakfast? I’ll give you some fantastic options in the book).

The absence of carbs in your bloodstream will also let your body produce the hormones it needs for better sleep. And with good sleep comes other benefits—muscle repair, brain-chemical balancing, and increased energy during the day. You might almost say that sleep is nature’s ultimate spa treatment. It’s no accident that the connection between sleep and obesity is one of the hottest scientific enterprises going.

There are a lot of ways you could comply with this rule: Don’t eat three hours before going to bed. Don’t eat after eight. Don’t eat anything after dinner. You decide. But make the effort and enjoy the weight loss rewards!

THE SKINNY RULES comes out May 15th, but you can order online from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or anywhere else books are sold.

I have been trying a lot of different things in my oatmeal recently… and LOVE this combo. Have you tried this? What do you put in your oatmeal?? xx..Bob



Ingredients

• ½ cup Oatmeal
• 1/3 – ½ cup water (maybe more, maybe less depending on your preference)
• Small apple, cored and cut into small cubes
• 2 tbsp chopped Almonds
• Dash Cinnamon

Procedure

• Combine dry oatmeal with chopped apple and almonds
• Pour hot water and stir
• Top with a dash of cinnamon

I get SO many questions about how to incorporate protein! Try this shake! You will LOVE it and as always I have included instructions below..xox Bob

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup dry measure oatmeal, cooked in water and cooled
• 2 scoops vanilla protein
• 1 ½ cups of seasonal berries: ex- strawberries, blueberries, blackberries
• 12 oz. water or almond milk  (Bob uses half of each)

Procedure

• Combine all in blender and “liquefy” for 30 seconds.

Hey everyone! As some of you know I created this year’s 5-month workout program for Shape’s 2011 Bikini Body Countdown. There is a link below to the workout program and check out the how-to videos below! Stay tuned… I will post the remaining 4 months of the program in the coming weeks..xoxo Bob

Workout Program

Videos

Looking for some free motivation?

Here are some videos I put together that will help give you a jump start! http://bit.ly/fGhMCx

A lot of you have been asking me about plant-based protein.. So let me give you a breakdown of all my protein choices:

1. ALL kinds of beans (black, kidney, great northern, chick peas, black eyed peas, green peas, lentils, pinto beans, lima beans)
2. Tempeh
3. Seitan
4. Tofu
5. Veggie burger
6. Quinoa
7. Oatmeal
8. Brown rice
9. Whole wheat bread
10. Nuts
11. Peanut butter
12. Soy milk
13. Hemp Protein
14. Green Pea Protein
15. Brown Rice Protein
16. Vegan Protein Powder
17. Chlorella
18. Plenty of rich green leafy vegetables