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There was a time in the 1990s when
Mark Macdonald couldn’t walk past a mirror without lifting up his shirt to make
sure he still had a six-pack.
All these years later, the
40-year-old fitness and nutrition consultant for CNN admits that he was a slave
to food and his physique.
“Food controlled me, and my body
controlled me. I lived in fear of getting fat,” he tells Sun Media in a phone
interview from Atlanta. “My wife came to me and said something had to change.”
At the time, Macdonald was managing
a gym and training clients. He was practising and preaching deprivation dieting
and excessive exercising.
It was a regimen that helped the
personal trainer stay ultra-lean for some sideline work as a fitness model.
But he was miserable.
“I was fitness modelling and I just
sucked it up,” he recalls, noting he followed a nearly no-carbs diet for all
but one day of the week. “I hated my food for six straight days and then I
lived for my cheat day. No one should live like that, because eventually you
crack.”
And although he was helping his
clients drop weight, they would invariably gain it back within a few months.
“So when you’re failing your wife
and failing your clients, there’s got to be a different way,” explains
Macdonald, who had studied nutrition, physiology and anatomy in college while
on a soccer scholarship. “I went back to my books.”
Through his research and good
old-fashioned trial-and-error, Macdonald eventually discovered what he says is
the real key to getting and staying lean: stabilizing the body’s blood sugar.
Balancing blood sugar helps the
body “consistently release its stored fat and then that fat gets burned up in
your muscle,” he explains.
“It’s very simple,” he adds. “It’s
just like a baby. Babies feed every three to four hours. They eat a balance of
protein, fat and carbohydrates in breast milk. They stop eating when they’re
satisfied and eat again when they’re hungry. That’s how we’re fed our entire
first year of life. And then we abandon it.”
In 1999, Macdonald founded Venice
Nutrition and opened the first Venice Nutrition Consulting Centre in Venice
Beach, Calif., where he began expounding on the virtues of blood-sugar
stabilization through one-on-one coaching.
The company has evolved and grown
over the years. Today, there’s a network of more than 350 licensed
locations throughout the U.S., as
well as Venice Nutrition Online, which feature the Venice Nutrition Program
based on blood-sugar stabilization.
Macdonald adapted his fitness and
nutrition know-how into a book, Body Confidence, which was released last year
and became a New York Times best-seller.
More recently, he has teamed with
MonaVie, a purveyor of health juices and other nutritional products.
Besides keeping his blood sugar
stabilized by eating smart and healthily, Macdonald maintains his fantastically
fit six-foot-two, 200-pound physique these days with five efficient workouts a
week in his home gym.
He lifts weights two to three times
weekly for no more than 25 minutes each session and does roughly an hour of
high- and low-intensity cardio — often while watching Netflix — on the other
days.
“To me, I feel great and I look
great,” he says, “which is the definition of ‘Body Confidence.’ ”
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