Register Today For the Last X Gym Cooking Class of 2009!
There are only 3 seats left for the final X Gym cooking class of 2009, so email me today to sign up! It will be next Thursday, 12/10 at 6 pm at JF Henry in West Seattle. The next class after this one will be in 2010 on the eastside, so the Kirkland X Gym members can enjoy the location convenience. Click here for more details on the class, and how you can learn to cook the best holiday dinner ever, as well as some cool brain training techniques to boot! Also, read the second study in the bottom section of this newsletter for a possibility of fudge in your future...

Give the Gift of Fitness This Season.
Check out the coupon at the bottom of this newsletter for a special bonus edition to give to your friends and family as a stocking stuffer or gift card! Normally we offer 3 free workouts, but this limited edition coupon allows them four!

Holiday Advice For You and Yours.
The nice folks at sceneroom.com made a holiday advice video for us. It offers ideas on "holiday feast" eating as well as what to do to break the pattern of weight gain between those big meals. Click here to see it and remember to pass it on to your friends and family for their benefit as well. Be forewarned however, it's kind of dorky (on purpose - see frame capture left), so it might need some explaining...

So Far, I Only Have to Climb the 56 Story WAMU Tower Twice!
C'mon! Make we work! If you donate by tomorrow, you can get in on the scheme to make me run up the Wamu tower over and over and over. For every $1,000 raised, I will climb the 56 story WAMU tower once (up to 7 times). Click here to donate and then enter my name to find me. Even $5 makes a difference for this great cause!

Do You Have Trouble Explaining the X Gym Workout to Others?
Me too! It's so unique and complex, it just can't be explained with words. Now you will have a new tool that will help those people "get it." The X Gym workout DVD will show them what you mean! It should be available next week if the printers are on time! Thanks so much to tellitproductions.com for all their great work in shooting, editing, and producing this fantastic DVD!

Train Your Brain
Did you click here to be disgusted and amused for the brain training exercise in the last newsletter? Linking associations in your brain is a powerful tool to rewiring your thought patterns and cravings. Have you noticed that a food becomes unappealing after you have had food poisoning? That is a good demonstration of how powerful this technique can be!

For your brain training suggestion in this issue, try content scrambling. The holiday season often brings with it family issues and personality combinations that trigger undesirable eating patterns. To short-circuit this cycle, give that "loved one" or "ex" a different voice in your brain. Train yourself to hear them as a smurf, cartoon, or other funny character. You can use this technique for past experiences and memories too. More on how this works in the next issue...

Thanks,

PJ Glassey, CSCS
X Gym (www.xgym.com)
Author, Cracking Your Calorie Code (www.crackingyourcode.com)
Fitness blogger: www.pjfit.com
Fitness tweeter: www.twitter.com/xgym
Email: pj@xgym.com