� Carb The Fuck Up! �1 It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for - and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool - for love - for your dreams - for the adventure of being alive. Oriah Mountain Dreamer ! ! ! Disclaimer: If you are looking for solutions then you will find many in this book. Understand that a life of adventure and passion has its associated risks. Take it easy on the downhills, watch out for gravel on corners, use lights at night and pay attention to what is happening on the road around you. Also use some logic and wisdom, feel free to eat 70 bananas in a day but please don’t try and eat 70 large bananas in 7 minutes or guzzle 5 litres of water in 20minutes. What Im trying to say is lets take fucking responsibility for our daily choices and this will translate into taking responsibility for our life direction. Our daily decisions determine our destiny. One life. One shot. Fucking do it and do it well and understand that its not so much about the goals we achieve but more about the person we become in the process of achieving those goals. Carb The Fuck Up! �2 ! Remember these 12 rules. 1. TRUST YOURSELF 2. BREAK SOME RULES 3. DON’T BE AFRAID TO FAIL 4. EMBRACE THE HATERS 5. WORK LIKE HELL 6. GIVE SOMETHING BACK. PAY IT FORWARD 7. ALWAYS HAVE GOALS FOR EACH DAY 8. AVOID TAKING THINGS PERSONALLY 9. SUFFICIENT SLEEP. WATER. SUGAR. 10. DAILY CARDIO AT TALKING PACE. 11. EARLY NIGHTS LIKE 8-9PM 12. LIVE HARD AND WITH PASSION! ! ! ! Carb The Fuck Up! �3 Im going to be honest & upfront with you. Im not here to fuck around wasting your time making you feel warm and fuzzy by blowing smoke up your ass. This book is meant to be confronting, unedited, raw and straight up. There are no unicorns grazing in this book. I don’t encourage perfection, as I see a perfection mentality is bullshit and just a distraction from things that really matter in life. Instead I encourage excellence in our daily thoughts, actions and choices. I recommend you read 1 chapter per day. Ive written this book so its easy to read and easy to understand. The grammar is not professional but Ive written as if I talking to you face to face out on a training ride somewhere. I feel too many book are too sterile, boring and full of meaningless filler. Many authors talk a lot but don’t really say anything. I say cut to the fucking chase, mean what you say and say what you mean. Lets be real with each other. Don't let your life be ruled by the opinion of others; believe in yourself, set your personal goals, go out there and conquer them. There's only one thing that can hold you back... You. ! Carb The Fuck Up! �4 ! ! ! ! ! ! Carb The Fuck Up! �5 Introduction ! THANK YOU for purchasing this book! Its something I've looked for on the ever since I started my health and fitness journey as an 8 year old child. My goal for this book is to share with you exactly what tools I would have like to have learned from day one. We don't get taught much overall life skill in school or university. We don't get owners manuals like we do with our macbook. We just get mass media advertising telling us what to buy, what to think, how to look and what is right and wrong depending on what generates profits for the corporations that control the economy. We get taught to put profits before people. We get taught to be really good consumers that never question much more than 'is this better than last years model?' , 'can I have it cheaper?' , 'is it status quo kosher?'. You get the point. You understand. You can relate. Thats why you're reading this book. You want more. You're sick of the lies. Sick of the fries. Sick of rubbing thigh's or listening to MLM guru's with $ in their eyes. ! Too many overweight huck$ter$ telling other overweight people how to get healthy and fit. Too many starvation programs out there saying 'starve till ya skinny!'. Too many Dr Atkin's paleo primal low carb ketogenic south beach T bone, body type, hair type blood type fad gimmick diets out there. Ive just seen to much to stay silent. Im writing this book to debunk all the huck$sters once and for all. Call me crazy. I don't care, somebody has to call these jokers out. ! Some people don't like my delivery. Some say Im scandalous and harsh. Some say Ive has helped them to transform their health. Some say Im out-of-control. Some say Ive influenced them to run and finish marathons. Some say Im vulgar and crass. Some say I simply speak the truth, and stops people from harming animals by getting people to follow a vegan diet. Some say Im an ego maniac. Thousands say Ive influenced them to drop the junk food and pick up the running shoes, bike shorts, and drop weight while greatly improving their fitness level. Some say they wish I would stop using such potty language. Some people praise me. Some people absolutely fucking hate me. Some credit me for getting them to follow a pure vegan diet that reversed their diseases. Some haters Carb The Fuck Up! �6 have threatened to kill me. Some say I help call out and reveal scam artists. Some say Im a scam artist - because I tell people to eat fruits and vegetables, and a low fat vegan diet, and not eat stuff that creates obesity, world famine, preventable disease, animal extinction and incredible violence towards other human beings. Thats fine. People are gonna say what they want to say, thats fine and no fucks are given by me. Im here to say what I want in order to help you help yourself. Im here to tell you what you NEED to hear. I speak what others are too apathetic, ignorant, gutless and/or too financially castrated to speak about. Like it or leave it. THIS IS A BULLSHIT FREE ZONE! Will this book improve your life? NO FUCKING WAY! Only “you” have that power. But if you’re ready to start making changes the readiness itself is all the power you need. But how do you start? Wouldn’t it be nice if you had your own personal guide, someone who’s already one that route, who can save you time, effort, health and money by pointing out what works and what doesn’t? Thats my personal goal for this book. To be a guide that will act as a compass to steer you in the right direction so you can achieve your personal health, fitness, weight loss, simple lifestyle goals etc. I’ve basically written a manual that I wish I had given to me when I was a 10 year old so I could start making life choices to set me up for the future. The reality is 99% of people don’t want to hear what they need to hear but 100% of the time we should say something anyway. Its hard living. Life is hard. Lets fucking do it! ! My goal for this book is to share with you the most essential foundations for health & fitness. Im known for my straight up no BS approach and its what comes naturally to me. I want you to get on track as easy and as fast as possible. You might have terminal cancer. You might just want to run a sub 30min 10k. You might want to drop the beef gut. You might just want to look hot in one of those black tight dresses and STAY that way for longer than a month! You might just want enough energy to be able to be the parent you want to be for your children. Whatever your goals, the basic tips in this book will help you get there. I want to make it as simple and as easy to understand as possible. ! Carb The Fuck Up! �7 All thru this book your old conditioning will have you saying 'NO WAY!!! Its not that simple mate! You don't understand!!!'. I hear that same comment everyday amongst the 1500+ email questions I currently get. People shouting at me and telling me Im wrong. I tell them to email me in 5 years time and tell me how they are going. Unless they embrace the basic fundamentals of health & fitness they are always still fat, sick, frustrated and or not reaching their health and fitness goals. No exceptions. I've seen world class athletes become obese. I've had raw food friends literally starve themselves to death. Ive also seen people go from flab to fab. From tragic to magic. ! I've been on this journey since I was 8 and feeling like I was dying in a hospital bed. I was desperate to feel well. I was born with an eye for detail and was naturally drawn to looking after spiders/insects/lizards since I was in first grade primary school. This interest taught me that you MUST look after a creature or it fails to thrive. If you don't provide the right conditions then the animal you are trying to care for, it dies. I never had a cat or dog. I had spiders and mantids from the back yard. Animals so light and delicate that you Carb The Fuck Up! �8 could literally kill them just by picking them up wrong. Animals that were so delicate about their immediate environment that they could die overnight in captivity. I can literally walk up to a jumping spider or a huntsman and tell if its dehydrated and then present that spider with a teaspoon of water and make it drink. Same with moths and butterflies. Its all in the details... ! With my experience observing small creatures for so many decades, its SO EASY to spot obvious needs in something as large as a human. Cycling literally hundreds of thousands of km on my bicycle in many nations around the world has also taught me so many invaluable health tips. Its the little things that get overlooked yet make all the difference. Its the tyre pressure on a bicycle. Its the loose shoe lace. Its the dripping tap. Its the little things that add up. Ok. Enough yap'n, lets make it happen! ! YOUR SELF TALK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN WORK ON. Its the ONLY thing you really have control over. What you focus on is how you feel. Our destiny is determined by our daily choices. (This statement is so important, Im gonna throw it in multiple times as a reminder.) ! ! Chapter 1 ! Why Vegan? ! Here is a great little snippet to set the tone for this chapter. Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroo’s, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the Carb The Fuck Up! �9 million because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out card praying for “Peace on Earth”,. - from Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm by David Coats. ! People often ask me 'Durian, why do you label yourself a vegan? Its just a word, its dogma and it doesn't mean anything!' My reply to that is 'What is the point of using any words if we are afraid of labeling ourselves, things or others for fear of being called dogmatic by people that are closer to cavemen than conscious stewards of our planet?' Im happy to use labels. Im not afraid of naysayers saying I cant. Those that never commit to anything worthwhile are always the first to complain. Fuck em. Use templates that work. Use words to describe the worthwhile. Use labels to be objective. Be helpful vs being a boring stick in the mud that worships the god of public opinion. Be part of the solution vs part of the problem. Be open minded enough to see the truth in the saying 'if we keep doing what we are doing, we will keep getting what we are getting..'. ! Vegan means you don't eat/use animal products. Its an ideal. Its not a reality. The reality is that I step on ants accidentally when I win my running races wearing my 'go vegan' singlet. The reality is Im sitting in a plane typing this and the seats are leather. The reality is that I inhale a few flies each year. The reality is I eat millions of nematodes and bacteria on my fruit and veg each week. See the pattern here? Some simple minded folk think 'well if I step on an ant then I may as well eat a steak burger. Thats like saying 'the money in your wallet passed thru the hands of a drug dealer at some point so you may as well sell drugs then!'. ! Carb The Fuck Up! �10