Wow, the response and interest for our 21 Day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean Challenge has been TREMENDOUS!    


If you’re STILL SITTING ON THE FENCE, I thought I’d provide you with our TOP 12 FAQ list based on what people have been asking me all week…  



#1:  Do I have to be a current client of HEALTH AND FITNESS AUSTRALIA?

Answer:  No.  :-)  We have several past and never-been clients joining us.   We even have wonderful people that have joined from interstate and overseas.

#2:  I’m not in the right head space now!

I know we all go through this many times in our lives…  The key is not to let it take over your health and fitness to the point where you go way off track… You still need to eat, right?  Perhaps eating clean will help put you in the right head space.  It’s not that hard!

How frustrated are you with how you feel and look right now?  If you need to change, then do it!  If you find that you can’t stop complaining to yourself and others that you are not happy with yourself, then I suggest that regardless of whether you are in the right head space or not, you need to make a change!!!   The support you will receive with the 21 days Spring Clean challenge, goes beyond what you will expect!!!

#3:  Will preparing recipes and meals take longer?

Simply put, its not the time cooking and preparing that should change, it’s the quality of food that changes!!!

If you already spend a little time shopping, preparing and cooking meals (and I hope you are!), then the 21 Day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean will be easy.  The only difference is the quality and type of food.   

If you are eating out most of the time and not preparing meals at home, chances are your diet is way off track, and you are going to struggle whether you do the detox challenge or not – because your healthy choices are simply limited based on take out eating options.  There is a high chance your diet is high in fats, salt, sugars/high GI carbs, harmful wheat, corn, soy, highly processed and high in calories…  If you are this person, you need to seriously consider a lifestyle change and our 21 day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean is a great start. Especially given the support you will receive.

#4:  How is it different to Lite N Easy, Weight Watchers, Tony Ferguson or other detox’s?

What I have found with most of my clients who have tried these before and had a number of frustrations with them – for example, not liking the foods, too costly, not being able to keep it going for long.

THE BIGGEST FRUSTRATION OF ALL, is nearly all have put on weight again later down the track…  That’s because they relied on a program that puts food in their mouth without really making proper sustainable lifestyle changes, and learning health cooking options.  There is a lack of knowledge, understanding, empowerment, as well as a lack of support.  And that’s why they go backwards – they haven’t really learnt anything! Any they lose confidence in themselves!

The 21 Day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean is an honest kick start to empowerment for healthy lifestyle aimed at showing you how easy it is to EAT CLEAN, GET LEAN and FEEL AMAZING!!   It is something that can be continued long term.

#5:  I don’t eat certain food because I’m Allergic, Intolerant, Vegetarian, etc

The 21 day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean is designed to help you improve your health by eliminating addictive and inflammatory foods so that you body can cleanse and reset itself in a cleaner healthier state…  Many allergens are derived from diet imbalances and this will help stabilize you… 

In saying that, this program is friendly for people who cannot consume gluten, diary, eggs, nuts, lactose, etc.  Also if you are vegetarian or don’t eat certain meats, this program can be adapted to you too…

#6:  Is my food bill going to go up?

I don’t know why people think that eating good clean healthy food is more expensive than inflammatory addictive foods…  All I can say is this, I will be surprised if you don’t save on your food bill.

#7:  Should my partner or family do it too?

If they need help and support, I say yes!!!  This is what makes it unique, not only the solution, but the support systems we have put in place too!  Doing it on their own, may not work, doing it with support exponentially increases their chances of success…

#8:  When do I have to start and do I have to do 21 days straight?

The challenge is for 21 days and we have chosen to give everyone an option to complete it during a 6 week window starting from next week…  Many of the participants will start straight away, while others will start a little later in the month, because of certain engagements… 

Sticking to the program for the full 21 days is going to give you the best outcome, but if you cant at the moment due to certain circumstances and events (eg, birthdays, celebrations, etc), you can still achieve amazing results.  This program will teach you how to deal with these situations better and how to strategically stick as close to it as possible when circumstances are out of your hands. 

The most important thing to remember too is, you are going to learn how to EAT CLEAN, GET LEAN and FEEL AMAZING, that will be useful to you for the rest of your life.  That’s why everyone should do it!!!

#9:  Do I have to drink some weird concoction that tastes awful?

Answer:  NO!  This isn’t about blasting your system and spending your weekend on the toilet.

The 21-Day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean Challenge is more of what is termed an “elimination diet.”  The idea is to pull out certain foods that are both addictive and toxic to your body.  That’s not to say you can’t ever eat them again.  No, we just want to give your body a break so it can heal itself internally.  When that happens we see people lose incredible amounts of weight and see huge bursts of energy!

Once the 21 Days is over, we show you how to introduce the “other” foods back in a healthier way, rather than jump back on them.

#10:  Do I have to take any extra supplements?

Answer:  NO, you don’t have to.  You may already be taking a good multi-vitamin, krill oil and a probiotic – that’s just good nutritional sense.  If you would like to maximize your health and weight-loss, please ask us about our world class Nutritional Cleansing and Replenishing supplements.

#11:  What can I eat?

Let me say from the onset, this is NOT A STARVATION TYPE OF DETOX…  It’s more of a healthy balanced clean eating lifestyle program.  Whenever I look at people food journals, there nearly always seems to be an imbalance of inflammatory foods, fats, proteins, sugars and carbohydrates.  To make matters worse, they think they are eating healthy!!!

There are plenty of delicious, everyday, common foods that you can eat.  There are a lot of awesome recipes that you and your family are going to love! This includes breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack options.  I have been fortunate enough to be the guinea pig and lost 25 kgs previously.  So I’m a pretty happy camper!  :-) 

#12:  Why are you only charging $29?

Yes.  I’ve gotten this one a bunch.  “If the program is so great, why is it so cheap?”  Honestly, there are four reasons:

1.     By running a challenge and having everyone do it together, it is possible to subsidize it to $29.

2.     The 21-Day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean Challenge is VERY DIFFERENT from what most of our clients have ever done before; probably, you, too.  We didn’t want to scare anyone off with a price that was more in line with the value ($199.95)

3.     We REALLY want people to experience this.  We’ve had such amazing results with it, that we want all of our clients and readers to get the same results.

4.     Honestly, for our members it’s a great service that will give them great results and keep them coming back.  And, for non-members it’s a great service that shows the value of what we do here at Health and Fitness Australia.

After this challenge the price will go up to $99, so if you are still toying with the idea of whether to do it or not, then $29 to kick start some great new lifestyle eating habits should be a great incentive.

Hopefully, I answered your questions and eased any hesitation you may have with joining us for the 21-Day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean.

If you still have a question, Please let me know.

Seriously, we want YOU to do the nutritional rebalance Spring Clean Challenge with us. :-)

P.S. – Registration for the 21-Day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean Challenge closes Monday.   If you're local and looking to give your Fitness Goal a Boost, Check this out!      

P.P.S. – We’re going to record the Workshop so don’t let not being able to attend hold you back.  We’ll have it available for you the next day to watch.  :-)

HAVE FAITH & TAKE ACTION!

Helfi Joe


Helfi Joe, is the Owner & Chief Fitness Officer of Health and Fitness Australia in Brisbane Southside, located in Stones Corner.  He also runs personal training sessions and group personal training Toning and Cardio sessions at his Personal Training Studio, which is a wonderful alternative to a Brisbane Gym.

Helfi Joe is obviously a fully certified Master personal trainer with the Australian Institute of Fitness, and is fully registered with our governing body Health and Fitness Australia.  He also has a background in managing and mentoring people for over 20 years and with the people and personal development experience combined with his technical expertise in health and fitness, you can be rest assured Helfi Joe will give you the best guidance for your goals. 

To contact Helfi Joe for training, education or to have him speak at an event please email get.helfi@healthandfitnessaustralia.com.au.

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WARNING:  THIS IS GROSS, BUT YOU NEED TO KNOW.

This is not a theory or possibility - it’s a fact. You as the consumer have a right to know the facts behind what goes into your body.  Maybe you figure that what you don’t know won’t worry you, once you know about this, you may think otherwise...  

The Origins: You’ve heard of cuts of beef, right? You know them as Chuck, T-bone, Sirloin, Round, Rib-eye, and Flank.  You've seen them in their whole form, at the supermarket or butcher's.  You know exactly what you're getting because you can see it.  

When the steer is broken down so that these sections of meat can be obtained, remnants (other tissues) are left.  These leftover “trimmings” are unsightly. Have you ever seen medical anatomy photos?  You can see the muscle, and then there’s this whitish, yellowish, tattered stuff.  

Well, much of the “trimmings” are made up of connective tissue, cartilage and bone.  The sinewy “trimmings” mostly come from between the solid chunks of meat and the guts of the cow.  The Australian beef industry wants to sell as much of the steer as possible.     

These trimmings are made into dog food, no technology added.  This is because the stomach and bowels of dogs can handle a lot more insult than a humans can. The same stuff that's used for dog food gets used for human food, but not before technology gets involved. 

The unsightly chunks of sinew, cartilage, bone, fascia and other musculoskeletal system innards are tossed into a centrifuge.  The centrifuge spins around so fast that the centrifugal force separates the fat from whatever actual meat there is in the trimmings.  

The product, minus the separated fat, is bathed in ammonia and water to remove pathogens like E. coli.  The pinkish slimy looking gunk is then drained and fed through a machine that churns out what appears to be ground beef.  

The cheapest parts of this process literally goes to the dogs.  What’s left after that ends up in people food? Governments around the world can allow beef to contain up to 15% of this pink slime. 

Don’t assume that the next package of ground beef, chuck or sirloin that you see doesn’t have any slime in it just because the package doesn’t list ammonia as an ingredient; the authorities do not require the beef industry to list ammonia as an ingredient.  Thus, you can be ingesting pink slime and ammonia and not even know it.  It’s reportedly in around 70 percent of ground beef products.  

You can avoid pink slime by avoiding fast food burgers, you just don’t know what’s in them.  If you want ground meat, ask a butcher to grind up a whole cut right before your eyes.  

To find out what else you may be eating without even knowing it, and to help rid your body of the harmful toxins that come with it, join us in our 21-Day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean Challenge.  

HAVE FAITH & TAKE ACTION!

Helfi Joe
Helfi Joe, is the Owner & Chief Fitness Officer of Health and Fitness Australia of in Brisbane Southside, located in 
Stones Corner.  He also runs personal training sessions and group personal training Toning and Cardio sessions at his Personal Training Studio, which is a wonderful alternative to a Brisbane Gym.

Helfi Joe is obviously a fully certified Master personal trainer with the Australian Institute of Fitness, and is fully registered with our governing body Health and Fitness Australia.  He also has a background in managing and mentoring people for over 20 years and with such people and personal development experience combined with his technical expertise in health and fitness, you can be rest assured Helfi Joe will give you the best guidance for you goals. 

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What are the health risks of eating the typical Brisbane diet?  
You may be surprised to learn the effect I’m about to list are the typical conditions that we have learned to associate with the ‘normal’ aging process - heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, high blood pressure, migraines, fluctuating energy, bloating and gas, constipation, diarrhea and even dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease. 

You see most people, have never really considered that a large amount of these conditions have a cause other than aging.  Likewise, you may not realize that in many cases there is a way to prevent and assist them. 

The answer?  Detoxing your body and feeding it what it needs for optimal health.

What is Detoxing? 
After years of feeding our body the tox(sick) foods that is so typical in our culture, it is very important to cleanse our system (liver and thyroid) and decrease the inflammation and stress that we have placed it under.  Of course, toxins don’t come just from the food that we eat - we can breathe them, slap them on out skin with personal care and clean with them. 

The good news is that through a smart and effective natural detox program, we can lighten the tox(sick) load that our bodies are under.  

In my next article blog post, I will give you some practical ways that you can cleanse your body and lighten the tox(sick) load that it is under. 

By the way, if you’d like to learn more about detoxing and elimination dieting for health check out our 21-Day Nutrition Rebalance and Spring Clean Challenge - click here.  A done for you program with full Support provided…

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Helfi Joe, is the Owner & Chief Fitness Officer of Health and Fitness Australia of in Brisbane Southside, located in Stones Corner.  He also runs personal training sessions and group personal training Toning and Cardio sessions at his Personal Training Studio, which is a wonderful alternative to a Brisbane Gym.

Helfi Joe is obviously a fully certified Master personal trainer with the Australian Institute of Fitness, and is fully registered with our governing body Health and Fitness Australia.  He also has a background in managing and mentoring people for over 20 years and with such people and personal development experience combined with his technical expertise in health and fitness, you can be rest assured Helfi Joe will give you the best guidance for you goals. 

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To successfully make this happen, we need to have a reasonable strategy that focuses on identifying what and why we want and how we going to do it (with a plan). Remember, the brain will persist in working hard to follow the old pathways (habits), so introducing new ones is going to take a lot more structure, endeavour and energy.  Now you know why our emotional and spontaneous resolutions, are set up for failure before we begin - because shifting a thought for change and converting into action (to change a habit) takes a lot more to apply.

Cool Suggestions On Changing Lifestyle Habits 
We still have just under 3 months to achieve our 2014 goals.  So for the Brisbane Gym | Brisbane Personal Training fanatics,  I have come up with some cool suggestions to help you make positive changes in your life NOW.  I reckon 2015 has already come - :), so no need to hold off til then!  Check out our 21 Day Nutrition Rebalance Spring Clean Challenge.

Focus on the one. You increase your chances to make new lifestyle changes if you keep the “overwhelm myself factor” under total control.  When we try to make change to multiple lifestyle habits “all at once”, this can promptly result in frustration and burnout.  I suggest you focus on one specific area that you would like to change, and centre your energy there for around 21 Days. This will instil the habit…

Small steps go a “loooong way”.  I’m not suggesting that you should not maintain big, brave goals.  Of course you should.  I see big goals like a mountain, and the best way we get to the top is one step at a time.  That’s why you should set a goal, and then break it down into smaller manageable portions.  If your seeking to further improve your health start by ensuring you drink 1 litre of water for your every 25kgs of body weight every day.  When you’ve successfully achieved this for 21 days straight without forgetting, and you feel confident it is part of your normal habit, add in a new small step habit…perhaps, eating at least 5-6 smaller meals/snacks each day.  When you’ve achieved success with that add another small step habit, and keep moving forward from there…

Plan for red lights and roadblocks.  I always say to my Brisbane Personal Training clients, healthy lifestyle habits are about managing past red lights and road block – the more of them, while you are changing to a healthier lifestyle, the better – this means you will preserve the new changes because you have control.  Seriously, what’s the likelihood that we can drive from the northside of Brisbane to the Brisbane Southside and have all 20 or so traffic lights be green? And then doing it day after day?…  Hardly a chance – so lets get real! The unexpected WILL happen, so embrace this concept rather than 
lose control and get frustrated with life.  I suggest you focus on a solutions when the unexpected happens. The best way I do this is anticipate what are potentially going to be the red lights and road blocks, and then develop a simple strategy to manage it.  Of course, sometimes we cant anticipate the unexpected and it arrives before we know it..  I suggest you don’t panic, give yourself the next 24hours to work it out (I learnt not to get cornered to making rash decisions within the first 24 hours) , and if by that stage you are stuck, contact your Brisbane personal trainer for support – that’s what we are here for… Having a process like this in effect hardwires the habit to account for those things that would throw the habit off.  Here is a real life scenario I used have to deal with (and still do at time) quite often.  Lets say you want to avoid unhealthy sweets and food at functions but know that eventually someone is going to bring in something that will tempt you.  You know that no matter how much you say no, people are going to insist with typical frustrating phrases like ‘cmon its only this time’ of ‘you gotta enjoy life’.  You get the picture.  Well, I make a deal with myself prior to attending as to whether its an option (ie my cheat day) and then I drum up a convincing pass back statement that will diffuse any persisting people – for example “I’ve had an upset tummy all day, I don’t want to risk it”, “I’ve been recommended not to for the next three days”, or “I’m having a health analysis check done in a few days and I need to lay off the carbs, so that it doesn’t adversely affect results”.  I’m sure you get the gist of it – the point is, don’t let yourself get caught off guard.

Shift it to the visual.  I believe the more ways you can make your goals for lifestyle changes real and tangible, the greater the chance for success.  Why not place calendar or chart in a visually seen place.  Whenever you successfully achieve your new habit, indicate it on that date.  This will set the platform for seeing a visual cue of your past success and achievement, and will be undoubtedly motivated and focused on staying on track to keep working on your new neural pathways habitual changes.  Clearly you will be able to visually see a connection of achievement on your calendar forming a “chain of success.”

Be crystal clear on your “why” Let’s be real: chances are you are going to want to give in to pressure or challenges or through laziness at some point.  Clearly, if you don’t have a strong enough “why” in front of you, you will not achieve the life change that you are seeking.  Be serious about spending some time reflecting about why you want to create a new habits.
Reflect on questions such as:
     What attracts you to your goal? 
     How will your life change when you reach your goal? 
     What are the consequences of not reaching your goal? 
     What will significant others say about you when you successfully achieve your goal? 
     What kind of meaningful regrets will you have if you quit before you achieve? 

I’m certain, each of the above questions will help you clarify why you are focusing so hard towards your inspiration, and they will certainly help you push past any rough patches.

In summary, the great news is that while some of the old habits may continue to circulate in your brain, you have the power to build new circuits that can certainly become as strong as the old ones, if not stronger.  It’s really up to you, your planning and structure.  So the moral of this blog post, when you apply what I have suggested above, you have not just made and kept a New Year’s Resolution, instead, you have made a significant channel forward to change your life.

By the way, if you’re ready to get started with a personal training or fitness program that works (and you live in the Brisbane Southside area – we are located in Stones Corner) drop on by and we will be happy to give you a FREE Personal Training Experience session.  You can also check out our 21 Day Fit & Tone Personal Training Package for $21 on our website.  Of course, if you’re not a local resident you can Subscribe to our Helfi Minute Newsletter or like our facebook page to receive all the latest information, knowledge and events as well.