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The Amazing Race taps into everyone's biggest fears
High up atop Mont Blanc in France, the teams had to scale the 11,000-foot mountain to get to their challenges, and both the contestants and the Internet freaked out about it.
One half of the Dancers team, Dana Borriello, had a full blown panic attack while trying to climb atop the mountain to deliver some lunch (and explosives!), which is ironic because her boyfriend, Matt Steffanina, revealed later in the show that he was a professional snowboarder before he was a dancer.
Many of the teams began to sweat, despite the apparently freezing temperatures on the gondola ride up to the challenge, including social media faves Tyler and Korey, Zach King, and mother-son team Sheri and Cole LaBrant.
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Fans of the show were quite literally biting their nails and gripping the edges of their seats, and of course tweeting the crap out of their anxiety over what was unfolding on their television screens.
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In addition to being terrified from the heights that the contestants were having to climb, people were losing their minds over the fact that they were having to deliver dynamite to be used for a controlled explosion on the side of the mountain.
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This episode really ramped-up everyone's heartbeats. Once the challenge was complete, the contestants had to paraglide back off the mountain to complete a detour.
Ultimately, Erin White Robinson and Joslyn Davis were the last to get off the mountain and back to host Phil Keoghen, and were sadly send home. This episode was telling in that it showed many more people than you'd think are really, really afraid of heights, and that The Amazing Race has some amazing camera people and a heck of a lot of insurance.
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Ask JJ: 3 Simple Shifts for Fat Loss
"I just became overwhelmed with everything, said 'to hell with it,' and devoured my best friend's lemon tart," a reader recently confessed, recalling how tackling a new diet plan that included exercise, supplementing, and a slew of other weight-loss tactics quickly left her feeling overwhelmed and defeated.
Mind you, all of these strategies are perfectly legitimate, but too many become information overload that usually backfires during an 11 p.m. butter pecan freezer raid. We've all tried to do everything at once when it comes to fat loss, and usually it leaves us defeated and swearing at the scales.
Big changes happen from seemingly small strategies, and rather than overwhelm you with a herculean list of obligations to get lean and healthy by summer (or really, any time), I want to propose three simple shifts that can simplify fat loss.
Shift your meal timing.
• Have a protein-rich breakfast (my favorite is a shake) within an hour of waking. One study among adolescents found a high-protein breakfast prevented weight gain and curbed hunger throughout the day.
• Eat every four to six hours with lean protein, healthy fats, non-starchy veggies, and slow low carbs like quinoa. Have a substantial dinner and then close up the kitchen about three hours before bed.
• Minimize snacking, which studies show can stall fat loss.
• If you want to step things up, try intermittent fasting. You'll find lots of ways to do this. My favorite involves having a big breakfast and lunch, then skipping dinner a few times each week, which creates a 16 - 18 hour "fasting" - read: fat burning - window.
Shift your environment.
• Plan ahead and minimize trigger situations. If you know you're attending a big dinner, arrive pleasantly full rather than starving and grabbing the nearest high-sugar impact concoction. If you've got to try something sweet, try three polite bites and step away from the dessert!
• Keep the enemy out of the house, whether that means homemade chocolate chip cookies or even healthy stuff like almond butter if you overeat it.
• Keep healthy food at eye level. One study with 96 college kids put fruit and veggies in clear or opaque bowls either nearby or about seven feet away. Most gravitated to the closer bowls.
• Surround yourself with like-minded people whose focus involves lean and healthy, not nose diving into chips and salsas with margaritas. One study proved what we all know: Our friends can become good or bad influences regarding food choices. And support groups - including online groups - can help you better stick with your fat loss plan.
Shift your food.
• Practice lateral shifts, or healthier options for your favorite foods. Be creative and any food can work. So instead of mashed potatoes, try faux-tatoes (mashed cauliflower with ghee and salt).
• Add before you take away. Rather than say "I can't eat this," add nutrient-dense, high-fiber foods. Any time you remove something, you've got to add something else. Fill up on the good stuff, and you won't want the bad stuff. Green tea, fiber, high-protein foods, and non-starchy veggies are among my favorite "adds" to crush cravings and hunger.
• Become a sugar sleuth. Pinpoint and eliminate hidden sugars in so-called healthy foods like fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt. (I've identified nine more suspects here.)
• Eliminate food intolerances. Soy, gluten, and other highly reactive foods (that unfortunately even hide in "healthy" foods) can stall fat loss even when you're doing everything else correct. Try an elimination diet for three weeks and see if those common offenders aren't hijacking weight loss. One animal study found a gluten-free diet could reduce body fat, inflammation, and insulin resistance.
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