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I am sure most of you have gotten to a point in life where you stop and wonder: how did I get here and what’s next?

This moment came to me in 2012 when my best friend of 15 years challenged me to start running. At this time I had been married for 6 years to my amazing husband and our daughter was 5. I had struggled with my weight since her birth and honestly was not in a happy place. So, I reluctantly accepted the challenge to start running with my first 5k a month away.
I did not realize how important a lifestyle including my diet would be at the time, thank goodness I realized quick. After my first 5k, my legs felt weak, and I had absolutely no energy. I had a friend at the time try to help me with my lifestyle change. She is a competitive body builder, and I learned about eating clean.
It was not until recently when I found The Dolce Diet that things started to make sense. When I started my journey I weighed 183 lbs. and now I weigh 160 with a goal of 155 to my 5’6 frame.
Fast forward to the present, I am in better shape due to my love of running and the introduction to Jiu Jitsu through my husband in early 2013. The clean eating is still a very important part of our family life, but the body building side of things was not working for me.
I am an athlete, so Dolce’s principles were like music to my ears, and since he has worked within the MMA world, he TRULY understands what a martial arts person needs.
I know that if I can do it working full time, taking care of my family and living an active lifestyle that anyone can do it.
I purchased the Living Lean Cookbook and the Living Lean book in February and LOVE both. I eat the breakfast bowl every morning and my husband loves all the recipes, especially the Champion Chili. The Dolce Diet and its principles have become so ingrained in me that I am getting ready to start my fitness nutrition certification via NASM so I can help others in my shoes. I look forward to adding the Dolce Diet certification to my bag of tools soon. Thank you Mike and Brandy for all you do.

Green tea extract plus exercise may boost metabolism

A 16-week study investigating the effects of green tea extract and exercise resulted in a reduction in body mass in mice.
Joshua Lambert, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA, and colleagues analyzed the effect of green-tea extract (GTE) in combination with voluntary exercise in mice fed a diet high in fat.
Voluntary exercise in combination with GTE reduced the final body mass by 27.1 percent and the total visceral fat mass by 36.6 percent compared to mice fed a diet high in fat without treatment.
GTE or voluntary exercise alone had less significant effects.
The study was funded by the National Institute of health.

Sae-tan, S., Rogers, C. J. and Lambert, J. D. (2013), Voluntary exercise and green tea enhance the expression of genes related to energy utilization and attenuate metabolic syndrome in high fat fed mice. Mol. Nutr. Food Res.. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.201300621
Read the study

Transformation Story

Name: Alton Fowler
Age: 46
Starting weight: 341
Current weight: 238
Which Dolce Diet books helped you on your journey?
3 Weeks to Shredded & Living Lean Cookbook

Alton’s Story

My best friend and next-door neighbor had been talking to me for months about exercising and eating right. Frankly, I got tired of hearing about it, and it was either go to the track at the school and walk to shut him up or kill him – either one.
So in October 2012 I started walking 2 miles every day for months, and I started 3 Weeks to Shredded. After the first 3 weeks I saw a slight weight loss. Then I kept at it. I probably (followed) 3 Weeks to Shredded for about 9 weeks, and the results were amazing. Then I started using Living Lean Cookbook. It also is amazing.
I then started walking 3 miles a day, (and) now I’m walking 4 and 5 miles every day. I run/walk a 5k race every other Saturday or more if I am off work. I can say I am truly addicted to this exercise regimen and the diet. Thanks, Mike Dolce.

Transformation Story

Name: Andy Norzagaray
Age: 27
Starting Weight: 250
Current Weight: 190
Which Dolce Diet book helped you on your journey?
Living Lean

Today I went to the doctor for a wellness check, based on your recommendation of doing so, I’ve lost 60 lbs. in the last year and my blood work was exemplary. Ten months ago I had a similar check-up and here are the differences in my labs:
Triglycerides went from 240 to 74
HDL Cholesterol went from 41 to 63
LDL Cholesterol went from 120 to 66
Blood pressure went from 160/90 to 129/83
My health is at an all time best. A few years ago, it was at an all time low. I spent six years in the United States Marine Corps. Upon my discharge I had a series of misfortunate events happen in my life that sent me into a dark place in my life filled with self pity and eating lots of “comfort food.” I was fat, out of shape and depressed. I began listening to Joey Diaz’s “Church of What’s Happening Now.” Joey Diaz motivated me to quit feeling bad for myself. When you were on his show, you guys helped me make the decision to start The Dolce Diet. A few weeks later I ordered “Living Lean.” This was around May 2013.
Once I started living the lifestyle, the weight started dropping really fast. I began jogging a few times a week. I could only run one lap before I had to stop due to the pain throughout my body and the inability to breath.
A few months after that in August I got a gym membership at a commercial gym. I’ve been grinding it out ever since. This past Sunday, March 23rd, I ran a half-marathon in 151:44; placing 157th out of 900. Two days later I went to the gym and dead lifted 455lbs raw “PR”. I plan on competing in a powerlifting meet this summer while still training in distance running in order to help me reach my goal of becoming a strength and conditioning coach. I’m currently attending a junior college full time using my VA benefits. In a year and a half I will be transferring to the Nutrition program at the University of Arizona.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You’ve been a huge inspiration. Keep kicking ass and motivating others to live a healthy lifestyle.
Andy Norzagaray

Thiago “Pitbull” Alves is making his long-awaited return to the Octagon and Mike Dolce is on site to offer guidance…as well as some signature Dolce Diet dishes! Take a look at The Dolce Diet Skinny Sumo Stir-Fry! This recipe, as well as over 130 other delicious & healthy meals can be found in #1 International best-seller The Dolce Diet: Living Lean Cookbook. Alves is set to return to the UFC on April 10 in Orlando, Fl., against Seth Baczynski.

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Mike Dolce is the World MMA Awards 2013 Trainer of The Year, the founder of The Dolce Diet & creator of UFC FIT. He is known the world over for his work managing the weight cuts of UFC athletes like Johny Hendricks, Gilbert Melendez, Vitor Belfort, Thiago Alves, Chael Sonnen, Nik Lentz, Jake Ellenberger and more!
His #1 international best-selling books include The Dolce Diet: 3 Weeks to Shredded, The Dolce Diet: Living Lean, & The Dolce Diet: Living Lean Cookbook and The Dolce Diet: College Diet Guide. For more information on Mike’s books, MMA weight cuts, weight management, gaining muscle, weight loss, overall healthy living, UFC FIT and so much more, visit TheDolceDiet.com & TheMikeDolceShow.com & UFCFIT.com.

Mike answers your questions and makes a couple of surprise phone calls to listeners!
The founder of The Dolce Diet & creator of UFC FIT, Mike Dolce is known the world over for his work managing the weight cuts of UFC athletes like Johny Hendricks, Gilbert Melendez, Vitor Belfort, Thiago Alves, Chael Sonnen, Nik Lentz, Jake Ellenberger and more!
His #1 international best-selling books include The Dolce Diet: 3 Weeks to Shredded, The Dolce Diet: Living Lean, & The Dolce Diet: Living Lean Cookbook. For more information on Mike’s books, MMA weight cuts, weight management, gaining muscle, weight loss, overall healthy living, UFC FIT and so much more, visit TheDolceDiet.com & TheMikeDolceShow.com & UFCFIT.com.

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Tough guys can diet, too – or at least I hope so

The Telegraph’s boxing and mixed martial arts correspondent wants to lose his flab, so, fittingly, has embarked on a tough regime used by top fighters

We’ve all seen the ads: get a fighter’s physique in 12 weeks, with bulging biceps, sculpted abs and tiny waist. But I’m not interested in attaining the chiselled, muscular look – just in getting rid of my sizeable paunch.
None the less, as The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent on boxing and mixed martial arts, I’m embarking on the Dolce Diet, the tough weight-loss regime used by world-class professional fighters.
Why? I’ve seen the results. Mixed martial arts is the fastest-growing sport in the world, one in which participants are allowed to kick, punch, knee, wrestle and grapple each other on the floor. World champion fighters – men such as Johnny Hendricks from Texas or Britain’s Michael Bisping – typically walk around at 220lb (16 stone) but are, incredibly, able to “boil down” by about 50lb (3.6 stone) in the three months leading up to a bout, to reach their fighting weight.

It’s a tough challenge – and many rely on fitness guru Mike Dolce, to help them. Dolce, 37, is a former wrestler, professional fighter and, at one point in his twenties, a muscle-bound powerlifter who bulked up to a massive 282lb (20 stone).

“Now I’m healthy and happy at 195lb [14 stone] – the perfect weight for my frame,” he tells me when we meet. “I can run 10 miles today, squat double my body weight for multiple repetitions, and do 100 push-ups at the drop of a hat.”
Dolce has agreed to oversee my weight-loss programme. Six foot tall and weighing 210lb (15 stone), I’m aiming to lose 30lb (2 stone) in 12 weeks. At 48, I’m up against not a champion fighter, but a typical journalist’s lifestyle, including constant travel and bad eating habits.
So far, I’ve followed Dolce’s instructions to the letter: all the “normal” food has been cleared from the fridge and kitchen cupboards, to be stored in boxes or given away. Thankfully there are no family meals to worry about: both my daughters are at university and my wife Andrea, a qualified yoga instructor, is joining me on the diet.
Armed with a 137-page manual, a shopping list, recipes and 12 DVDs, I’m ready to tackle the Dolce regime. I’ll be committing to an hour of intense plyometric exercise – in which muscles exert maximum force in as short a time as possible – which means that, each day, I’ll be attacking thin air with my fists, knees and feet, and lifting light weights while doing so.
I am permitted four meals and two snacks daily. But there’s no worries about calorie counting – as long as I stick to the recipes in Dolce’s book.

On the menu are foods such as almond milk (lactose and cholesterol-free), organic agave nectar, chickpeas, broccoli, quinoa, buckwheat, tofu and wild salmon; those more associated with high-end diet mags than fight culture. Andrea is delighted: there are oats and berry smoothies for breakfast, dates and pecans for a mid-morning snack, Waldorf “warrior” salad and a skinny “sumo” stir-fry for dinner.

Like a fighter pursuing the world title belt, the success of this experiment could come down to how much I want this. I’ll be travelling to fights for five of the next 12 weeks, so the real test will be sticking to the Dolce plan while on the move.
The man himself is encouraging. “There’s no reward without the pain,” he tells me. But, he promises that the programme, if I stick to it, will transform me into “the person you deserve to be”.
More information can be found at ufcfit.com
Article originally posted here at Telegraph.co.uk

Johny Hendricks defeated Robbie Lawler to capture the UFC Welterweight Title Saturday night at UFC 171. Congratulations to the new champion!