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FIFA officials were recently indicted in a $150 million bribery scandal in connection with the selection of South Africa as the host country for the 2010 World Cup.
At the same time, Switzerland has announced a criminal investigation into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Allegedly awful conditions for migrant workers along with 120-degree summers always made Qatar seem like an odd fit for host.
With the new investigation and multiple accusations of bribery around Qatar's bid, it seems increasingly likely that Qatar was chosen for one reason: It has a lot of money.
In just 50 years, the tiny peninsula has gone from a poor fishing country to an oil giant with the highest per-capita gross domestic product in the world at $98,800. Many suggest that number may vastly understate the actual wealth of Qatar's 280,000 citizens.
We've gathered photos to tell the incredible story of Qatar.
Summer's almost here, which means most men between the ages of 20 and 40 are reaching for their tried-and-true pair of boat shoes to beat the heat.
Not so fast! Men have a plethora of choices in the summer-shoe department. There's a whole world of moccasin-inspired summer footwear just waiting to be explored.
With four alternatives as good as these, there's no excuse to wear those familiar, worn-out boat shoes from now until it's time to break out the boots again.
No longer relegated to the closets of the prep, the penny loafer has gained acceptance as a three-season casual shoe. It's a definite step up from the boat shoe — and it will get you noticed.
The pair pictured is the Oak Street Bootmakers Beefroll Penny Loafer.
Many men are now donning the driving moc for activities other than driving. They have a refined yet laid-back vibe that's ideal for summer in the city. The driving moc is often considered the penny loafer's sportier, more-Euro cousin.
The pair pictures is Cole Haan's Grant Driver.
A very close relative of the boat shoe, the camp moc even has the same wraparound leather lacing and general profile. However, the front lacing sets it apart, with a distinctive row of metal eyelets.
The pair pictured is L.L. Bean's Camp Moc.
The blucher moc ditches the wraparound lace in favor of a full four-eyelet system. This changes the profile of the shoe but still provides that low-profile, moc-toe summer look with the oh-so casual spirit we love.
The pair pictured is Rancourt & Co.'s Ranger Moc for Brooks Brothers.
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"Light as a feather, stiff as a board, light as a feather, stiff as a board." If you ever went to camp or had a slumber party, you might be familiar with that chant; the one that urban legend swears will levitate a body off the ground if the party-goers just focus hard enough.
Chances are, it probably never worked for you (but maybe it worked for a friend's friend's cousin!) and it's probably been awhile since you tried.
But just because "light as a feather, stiff as a board" is a relic of our childhood doesn't mean today's youngsters don't have suspicions of their own.
Introducing Charlie. Charlie Charlie, to be exact.
It's all over the internet, after it exploded this past Memorial Day Weekend. It's a game, like a Ouija board, where you draw an X on a piece of paper, label its quadrants "yes" and "no" and lay two pencils over the lines of the X you drew. You say "Charlie Charlie, are you there?" and ask another question (think something you'd ask a Magic 8 ball). The result? The pencils are allegedly supposed to independently move and point to the "yes" or to the "no."
Congratulations, you've "summoned" a "demon!" And oh yeah, make sure you capture the entire thing on Vine or Instagram:
The whole 1D fandom doing the #charliecharliechallenge like pic.twitter.com/IpJJljPgEV
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Instagrammer Jenny Zhang is trying to get more fruit into your daily internet diet.
Two years ago, Zhang, a 21-year-old university student, started taking pictures of her afternoon snacks from her dorm room in London and posting them on her Instagram account.
Today, the account — @myfruitplatter — boasts almost 12,000 followers and has caught the attention of celebrities like Gigi Hadid, Lo Bosworth, and Naomi Campbell.
"It's all really exciting, when I started doing this I never thought I'd get nearly this many followers," Zhang told Business Insider.
Originally the account was called @healthyfoodporno, but Zhang changed the name when she started gaining more traction on Instagram. Most of Zhang's early photos were taken on top of her bed, using the one plate she kept in her room. You can even see her bedsheets in some of them.
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This futuristic chef, created by Moley Robotics, was pre-programmed to prepare a crab bisque. The robot handles the entire cooking process - although the ingredients do have to be prepared and placed in a pre-designated spot for the robot to successfully follow the recipe.
The entire robotic kitchen took around two years from conception to the working prototype on display at CES Asia. The plan is to have a cloud-based "iTunes-style" content platform where more recipes can be uploaded and downloaded.
Moley hopes to start selling a consumer version in 2017 for a cost of around $15,000.
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Every May the Formula One carnival descends upon the twisty streets of Monte Carlo for the annual Grand Prix of Monaco.
Over the weekend, the narrow streets of the tiny Mediterranean principality are transformed into a full-blown racing circuit.
So far this season, Mercedes-AMG has dominated the series. The team's duo of drivers — Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg — have won five of the first six races. However, Ferrari and four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel have been resurgent and are now challenging for race victories.
The annual World's 50 Best Restaurants List won't be published until next Monday, but today we have spoilers.
Sponsored by San Pellegrino and Acqua Panna and voted upon by an international jury of chefs, critics, and food world luminaries, the list has just named 2015's top 51-100 restaurants in the world— aka the runners up to the forthcoming top 50.
Last year Daniel Boulud's eponymous New York City restaurant, Daniel, was ranked number 40, but this year the French fine dining institution plummeted to number 80.
California chef David Kinch's Manresa, too, has been knocked from its perch, falling from the number 62 spot to the absolute bottom, number 100.
Making the list for the first time at number 49 last year, chef Daniel Patterson's San Francisco restaurant, Coi, slipped to the 75th spot.
David Chang's Momofuku Ko only fell one step behind, from 69th to 70th.
Paris' L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon was demoted from number 35 to number 63; San Sebastian's Martin Berasategui— which holds three Michelin stars — dropped from 31st to 63rd; and Monte Carlo's culinary crown jewel, Alain Ducasse's Le Louis XV, fell from 56 to 82.
Somehow one of the world's hottest food towns has never had a restaurant featured on the top 50 or 51-100 list. Thanks to the maniacally delicious Joe Beef, in this year at number 81, the city now has official bragging rights.
In New York, every Wall Streeter's favorite sushi restaurant, Masa, reentered the list for the first time since 2009, claiming the 94th spot; The Nomad climbed up a rung, from number 68 to number 67; and Noho's small but mighty Estela hit the list for the first time ever in the 90th spot.
Over on the west coast, Napa's stunningly beautiful The Restaurant at Meadowood rose from number 80 to number 72, and San Francisco's Saison— at number 56, up from 69 last year — has the distinction of being the top North American restaurant on the 51-100 list.
The real news will come next week, though. Can René Redzepi's Noma be unseated? The Copenhagen juggernaut has been the number one restaurant in the world for four out of the past five years.
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Cool Glass One, a product from Chinese company Beijing Palo Alto Tech, looks similar to Google Glass. The wearable tech appeared at CES Asia.
It has a touchpad on the side, allowing users to control the device by swiping through an interface displayed onscreen. There is also a camera, which takes photos and records 1080p HD video. The device can currently only be connected to mobile phones using Android systems.
Cool Glass One will retail for $330-$500 per device and will be available online in August.
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Looking around, one might well think that the modern luxury hotel is built for sex as much as sleep.
Heavy doors, thick walls, and privacy curtains envelop the room in secrecy and silence.
An attentive staff is committed to keeping secrets and privacy.
But, still, the sound of sex drifts, occasionally, into your room and into the more public venues of hallway and elevator waiting area, carried through the walls by ventilation shafts, like background music in an elevator.
Oversized beds with soft linens are the focal center point, dominating most rooms, and leaving precious little room for doing anything that does not involve lying down.
A well-appointed, chilled bar is at your disposal.
Showers are built for two. And a wide screen television is positioned just in front of the bed.
You might see some of these same features in the garden-variety roadside hotel, but only if those places attempt to mimic the feel and function of the most elite spaces: the spa hotels, the getaway hotels, and the historically prominent retreats of the rich and famous, or those who wish to imagine themselves, if briefly, as such.
When historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, in Hotel: An American History (2007), tracks this theme of sexual experimentation, risk taking, and misbehavior backward into the nineteenth century, he notes that "some people went to hotels for the wrong reasons."
In this telling, hoteliers and innkeepers were engaged in a constant struggle to control and purify the experience of an overnight stay, a struggle that pitted them against a veritable horde of "adulterers, seducers, and prostitutes," "burglars and confidence men."
In an act of moral stewardship, late nineteenth-century reformers began to place Bibles in hotel rooms, in the hopes that the mere presence of the good book might inspire, in a moment of great temptation, a patron to stay on the straight and narrow path to grace.
This tradition — of viewing the hotel as a den of iniquity, challenging the strength of weary and weakened travelers — continues to the present.
"We urge you to do away with pornography in your hotels," two religious leaders recently wrote, in an open letter to a handful of hotel chains, "because it is morally wrong to seek to profit from the suffering, degradation, or corruption of others. You are placing temptation in their path — temptation for the sake of profit."
In contrast, we read the articulation of this struggle as a clever bit of public relations, a papering over of the fundamental contradiction of the spatial politics of intimate space-for-rent. Offering porn to the guest is merely an indication of the bigger issues, because sex is built into the architecture of the modern hotel right alongside and often in dynamic tension with domesticity, intimacy, and privacy.
Elite sites like the Plaza — "new hotels," as architectural critic David Collins named them in 2001 — imagine the bedroom as "the most private and intimate area of the hotel," or as "the destination beyond the destination," so that every point of contact from the street inward flows into the interior sanctum and the bed.
The hotel room is thus a production site — one of many — for the modern sexual self.
And hotels work, generally, to create and confirm contemporary notions of sex and sexuality, and to make possible, at the same time, a planned, if carefully delimited, escape from the normal rules, especially, but not only, for men.
There are, then, no "misdeeds" in a hotel room; no one really behaves badly there, and this tends to be the case because of the fluidity and seeming infinite flexibility that is literally built into the hotel's architectural and social logic.
Pleasure is partly a production of space, and nothing is naturally sexy.
From "HOTEL LIFE: THE STORY OF A PLACE WHERE ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN" by Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl. Copyright © 2015 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher.
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People just aren't getting married like they used to. This chart, taken from Mary Meeker's comprehensive look at our changing online lives, makes that crystal clear.
In 1960, 65% of the population between the ages of 18 and 32 were married, often getting hitched right after high school or college. By 2014, only 26% of the population in that age group were married.
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New York City contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia. And while Manhattan's Chinatown gets most of the hype — with its cheap wontons and cheaper knock-off designer purses — many would argue it's not the most authentic enclave.
Flushing, Queens, has emerged as New York's bigger and better Chinatown. Home to more than 30,000 people born in China, the out-of-the-way neighborhood boasts mouthwatering street food, bubble tea cafés on every corner, and entire stores dedicated to ancient herbal remedies.
I set out to explore Flushing's culinary offerings during a recent visit. I won't soon forget it.
Summer is finally here, and no one is more excited than your dog.
A dog park is the perfect place to let your four-legged friend interact with other dogs and run wild.
But not too wild.
Yes, there are rules of etiquette — for you and your pet — at the dog park.
Here's what you need to know to not be that dog owner.
Every dog loves a treat, but make sure to keep them out of sight at the park. Treats can make the other dogs jealous, and sharing the treats with other dogs doesn't always go over well with other owners. But feel free to bring water and a bowl to keep your dog hydrated.
If you know your toy poodle doesn't interact well with larger dogs, don't go to a park full of big dogs. As noted by WebMD, an ideal dog park has a designated small-dogs section to avoid this scenario. Barking and growling are considered normal social interactions, but it's your responsibility to decide when playful rough-housing starts to escalate to a fight. If that happens, remove your dog from the social setting.
Just like everywhere else, you're responsible for cleaning up after your pet at the park. Some parks have plastic bags available near the waste cans, but you should always carry a few extras.
It seems obvious, but sometimes you get distracted while talking to other dog owners. Make sure you know where your dog is at all times to avoid problems like fights. As with a child, you never know what your dog might get into.
While it may be tempting to bring your little ball of energy to the park, PETA suggests waiting until your puppy is at least four months old and has had all the necessary vaccinations. Unneutered males have higher testosterone, meaning more aggressive behavior, and unspayed females in heat can make you a fast grandparent.
If your dog has fleas, parasites, or is sick, stay home. Owners don't want their dogs catching anything just as you don't want your dog catching anything. Wait until your dog is healthy to bring him/her to the park.
There are a few things you need to evaluate before you actually bring your dog to a new park. Is it fenced in? Are the dogs there playing nicely? It's wise to get a sense of the atmosphere so you can judge whether it's a good fit for your dog.
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When the people movers in the airport just won't cut it, you need something a little speedier to catch that flight.
Enter Suitsupply's new solution: The Race Case. It's a $599 suitcase with a scooter attached to it. Isn't that exactly what you asked for?
With their tongue firmly planted in their cheek, Suitsupply boasts about the case's features, which include:
A leather-covered handle ...
... a solid scooter bottom ...
... which folds up when you're ready to board.
A surprisingly well-thought out interior awaits inside. On the outside, a leather face and nickle zippers complete the refined look of the bag.
While the bag is quite a looker, there's no doubt it would attract a few stares from curious onlookers for reasons other than how attractive it is. Especially if you're scootering through the terminals as hard as this guy.
How the front-heavy suitcase doesn't tip over, we'll never know. And shouldn't Suitsupply design a matching helmet?
Suitsupply assures Business Insider that this is a very real product, and they're taking preorders for it now. Their corporate team has apparently been using the case for almost a year, and they're already working on the next production run now.
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For the last six months, I've been using Pinterest nearly everyday. I don't use it to create boards (I currently have zero boards), but rather to look at my wardrobe differently. It may not be what Pinterest is intended for, but I think it's the most helpful piece of its platform.
It started in December, when I was planning on going away for a weekend trip. I had just purchased a new pair of leopard skinny pants, but I had no idea what to wear with them. I was sure I'd have to return them because I decided "I didn't really have anything that would match."
In a desperate attempt to keep the pants hanging in my closet, I plugged a description into Pinterest's search bar, and the way I saw the platform began to change.
But before I explain, I'll give you the rundown of what I'm not doing on Pinterest.
When I sign into my account and look across the site, either at suggested boards or those belonging to my friends, I see a theme emerging. And if you've ever spent any time on Pinterest, you're aware of the theme too: Most all of these people are visually planning for the future.
Whether it's a board called "{new house}" or "<<10.17.16>>" (denoting someone's upcoming wedding day, and yes, the board names are almost always stylized like that), my peers and our fellow Pinterest users are constantly using the site to curate a life they are just on the precipice of living.
There are, of course, elements of creating a Pinterest board that are wistful if not flat-out unrealistic — just pinning together a living room filled with expensive furniture and art can sometimes feel as satisfying as it would to shell out the cash to redecorate your apartment. Like walking by a bakery and trying a sample of a cookie rather than scarfing down a box of 24.
A friend of mine has lived in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City for ten years with no plans to leave, but admits she has a Pinterest board called "|country home|" filled with hundreds of photos of barns.
I am not planning for a "{{baby}}" or a "|bridal.shower|" — so how am I using Pinterest?
Simple. Each morning I pick one item of clothing I'd like to wear that day. Maybe it's a chambray shirt, or a pair of gray joggers. Or maybe it's a flannel button-up, or a pair of denim shorts.
I type that item's description into Pinterest and add the word "outfit."
And there it is, right in front of me! Pages and pages of outfit ideas based on one item of clothing, taking all of the guesswork out of trying to put together an entire look.
One of the most surprising things I've learned about using Pinterest in this way is that it doesn't make me feel like I need to go shopping all of the time. As most women can probably relate, it's hard to fight off the nagging feeling of "well I love this shirt I own but I have nothing to wear with it."
That little voice inside of my head began to fade once I started getting into the habit of doing daily outfit searches. Instead, I am often reminded I do have most staple clothing items already — dark denim jeans or a black dress.
The outfit search pushes me to be more cognizant of all of the kinds of things I already own and all of the ways in which to wear them.
When I first told a friend about outfit searching several months ago, she started using it to search her own closet as well.
But nothing's perfect — we learned it didn't work for everything, like emoji leggings.
The outfit searches work best if you're searching an item of clothing that could work with a lot of other wardrobe pieces. Most of what I own is gray, black, white, or tan, with a bold item or two scattered within. For the most specific items in your closet (like a dress with a multicolor pattern), make your search terms as vague as possible and use the suggestions Pinterest comes up with as a jumping off point.
I have done a daily outfit search for almost everything I own, including shoes:
And bags.
I don't save the outfit ideas to a board, and thankfully I'm rarely drawn to try (or buy) outfits that are unrealistic (like this one).
Rather, when it's 6 a.m. and I'm still stumbling around half-asleep, I let Pinterest do the work I'd normally do to try to find clothes in my closet that look good together.
It is insanely simple and insanely useful.
Business Insider's Jillian D'Onfro recently reported Pinterest cofounder Evan Sharp adamantly maintains "Pinterest is not a social network." Rather, he told D'Onfro in an interview that Pinterest is a tool to plan for your future.
But future can mean anything — the next five years or the next five minutes — and it's up to you to decide what to plan for.
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We all know what it's like to need a vacation ... from your vacation. Depending on the company, traveling can be more exhausting than enjoyable.
But there is one surefire way you can make sure no one gets on your nerves: Go alone. Solo travel can be a unique and rewarding experience that everyone should try at least once, even if you're on a budget. Not only do you get to steer your own ship, but you might learn a lot about yourself along the way.
With that said, traveling alone can be intimidating and even scary if you've never done it before. Here are five tips for crafting a great trip that you — and only you — will never forget:
Traveling solo means you're responsible for your belongings and getting to your flight on time; in this case, there's no one to lean on. And there's nothing worse than losing luggage or missing your flight. To avoid these mishaps, pack only what you need, try not to bring anything valuable, and leave room for items you plan on bringing home with you.
Double-check your flight information before you go. The Fly Delta app lets you can track your bag and flight status — and even rebook a missed flight — all from your smartphone.
When you're planning a solo jaunt, location is key. Whether you're an outdoor adventurer or a city seeker who loves culture and art, go somewhere that fits your personality and needs. After all, traveling alone means you don't have to compromise.
If you want to relax on a beach, you may want to explore a tropical island like Aruba. Foodies, on the other hand, will be enthralled with Tokyo. For music lovers who don't want to venture too far from home, a quick weekend getaway to Nashville, the country-music capital of the world might do the trick. If you're unsure of where to go, see if any of these Delta destinations pique your interest.
If it's your first time traveling alone, doing research is a must. It might be tempting to go without any plans set in stone, but you should at least know a little bit about your destination, including the customs, currency, weather conditions, and which neighborhoods to avoid.
You don't have to have it all figured out, but deciding the important things ahead of time — where you'll stay or the must-see tourist attractions — will save you a lot of headaches while you're there. It never hurts to reach out to your network of friends and family. You never know who might be able to point you to a great hole-in-the-wall restaurant or introduce you to a friend who lives there.
Your definition of "treating yourself" might include a hot-stone massage or a fantastic meal. For someone else, it might mean flying in the best class — like Delta One, the airline's newest and most luxurious cabin (which includes 180-degree flat-bed seats and chef-curated meals paired with wines). Either way, you decide where you get to splurge (and save) on when you travel alone.
One common complaint about traveling alone is that it gets lonely, but the reality is that you can meet people pretty much anywhere you go. You could, for example, stay at a hostel, which is usually buzzing with people — and not just recent college grads; travelers of all ages stay there. If the thought of sleeping in a hostel makes you shudder, then sign up for a tour so you can hang out with other travelers all day but still go back to your hotel to unwind. Plus, there's a good chance you will come across people who are also traveling alone. And then it's up to you whether you befriend them or just embrace the solitude.
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These people might look like underwear models, but they're not. And 30 days before this photo was taken, they didn't look like this.
In fact, they were just regular people who worked for an advertising agency and, while they worked out a fair amount, they ate pretty much what they pleased.
But in just a few weeks, the women slimmed down to have as little as 12% to 14% body fat and the man had just 5% to 6% body fat.
And that woman on the left? She was pregnant just five months before the photo was taken.
The key to their success: A low-fat, high-protein diet and intense, professionally guided exercise. They also had some good motivation from their employer: They were asked to be models in an upcoming photo shoot for their agency's rebranding, posing buck naked.
The three extreme dieters work for Viceroy Creative, an advertising agency that wanted to rebrand itself in a powerful way last March. As part of the rebranding, they asked some of their key executives to be part of a buzzy photo shoot that would present them totally nude.
The participants were the firm's creative director Gabrielle Rein, account manager Raegan Gillette, and president David Moritz — the naked man in the photos. Mortiz tells AdWeek they agreed to the shoot for the good of the company and their clients.
Getting model-thin in a hurry took a great deal of mental and physical endurance, and it's that kind of diligent dedication that Viceroy wanted to communicate in their new campaign, Moritz tells Business Insider.
Before they started preparing for the shoot, Viceroy's executives were in decent shape. Still, each worked hard those final weeks to get ready for the big nude day. Here's a picture of a topless Moritz two years before the training began:
Gabrielle Rein, Viceroy's creative director, had a baby just a few months earlier, so the preparation was especially challenging and rewarding.
When they agreed to the nude photo shoot last year, they gave themselves five months to get fit.
For the first four months, they completed a series of trainings designed to strengthen their muscles, bolster their cardiovascular strength, and increase their metabolism. Here's the company's account manager, Raegan Gillette, doing one of the exercises:
But those four months of exercises weren't what ultimately got them the sculpted bodies in the photos.
"No matter how much exercise you do, that will only get you part of the way. In terms of seeing abs and muscle definition, it's all about diet and reducing your body fat percentage. That's essential," Moritz says.
For the last four weeks, the Viceroy executives committed to a grueling diet. The goal, said Moritz, was to cut body fat so that the muscles they'd been toning for the previous four months would shine through.
Each executive ate six meals a day, catered specifically to their needs by a nutritionist. Although each diet was unique, the meals mostly consisted of the same types of food, Moritz says, and included a lot of protein.
"You need [protein] to continue to build muscle," Moritz explains. "Which is a little bit more than one gram of protein per every pound that you weigh."
For Moritz — who was still able to recite the diet by heart months after the shoot — the meals consisted of:
That's it, each and every day, for an entire month! At first they had the meals prepared for them by a chef but that quickly became too expensive to maintain. They began preparing the meals themselves, which required a scale and measuring cups to make sure they consumed exactly what the nutritionist ordered.
Despite consuming significantly fewer calories than he was used to, Moritz said he didn't feel too many negative effects from the strict plan, aside from boredom from the food.
"You don't feel tired because your body is getting what it needs," said Moritz.
Moritz pointed out that he was at about 5% body fat on the day of the photo shoot, which is close to the lowest a man his age and height should be. Body builders have between 3.5% and 5% body fat on competition day.
If you add it up, Moritz consumed roughly 1,700 calories per day, far fewer than the 2,400 to 2,500 calories he was burning throughout the day, he tells Business Insider.
According to the Mayo Clinic, a man his age and height should be consuming at least 1,600 calories a day even if they're trying to lose weight. So he was pushing the bare minimum.
The women were eating about 1,300 calories and burning 2,000 calories each day. For them, the Mayo Clinic estimates that women in their age and height ranges should eat at least 1,200 calories a day even if they're trying to lose weight.
"The plan puts you in a relatively significant caloric deficit every day," Moritz says. "And it forces your body to burn stored fat."
In addition to the diet, the executives stuck to a grueling fitness routine. All of them worked out every day for an hour and a half, seven days a week with the help of professional trainers at their local Equinox gym.
The exercises included intense weight lifting and low-impact cardiovascular activities — like walking on a treadmill set with the highest incline — that burned most of the large amount calories they were losing each day. The rest were lost through regular daily activities like walking.
Here's Gillette doing one of the weight-lifting exercises:
The regimen wasn't cheap. The nutritionist Viceroy used charges $700 a person for a month-long program. And an average Equinox Tier 3+ trainer — the most intense trainer you can get at Equinox — costs $135 per session, and each exec was completing a few sessions a week during the entire training process.
Moritz says anyone can get into this kind of shape given the time and motivation, however.
"While we did it with a lot of extensive help, a person can do this on their own given just a little more time," Moritz says. "Follow the same basic principles and find a way to get really motivated. It's just all mental."
For Moritz and the rest of the team, the motivator that kept them dedicated was a pretty strong one:
"Knowing that you're going to send naked pictures of yourself to as many people as you can makes you stay with it," he says.
After the shoot, Moritz, Rein, and Bearce slowly regained some of their body fat to a more reasonable amount, but they continued to stick with a modified version of the diet.
For Moritz, the five-month regimen was only a beginning. Since the photo shoot, he's stuck with it. (He now uses a food-delivery service to stick with his diet.) By the end of the summer, he says, that he suspects he'll even be in better shape than he was in March. Rein also kept her beautiful post-baby physique, getting into increasingly better shape even after the training was over, Moritz said.
Here's what she looks like months later and after feasting on ribs, BBQ, and hamburgers over Memorial Day weekend of this year. She's 31 years old.
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Experts say men with high-pressure jobs need to look their best if they want to get ahead. But they also say those same professionals should expect to work long hours.
That leads to a problem: How can men find the time to look great in well-fitting clothes when they're sometimes working up to 100-hour weeks?
Busy guys can buy off-the-rack and hope for the best. Or they can burn away their Sundays — often their only day off — getting the right look for work.
But custom-made shirts have a drawback: They can require in-person fittings — or your learning how to measure yourself correctly. That means they can take more time (and money) than you might expect.
To fix this problem, Matt Harpalani, a tailor who's fitted 10,000 customers, joined forces with long-time customer Gage Mersereau, a Wall Street pro formerly of Deutsche Bank, to form ShirtCycle.
ShirtCycle is a subscription service that quickly gets its customers the best custom-fitted shirts at the best possible price. Because ShirtCycle is a service for men who don't have much time — but still want high-quality dress shirts — Harpalani and Mersereau decided to keep things simple.
Customers only have to take out their phones and enter some basic information on the ShirtCycle site. Then, for a personal touch, they're asked to include a selfie. ShirtCycle then uses your picture and your off-the-rack shirt size — so there's no measuring involved.
Here's how the process works: Once ShirtCycle receives your order, Harpalani uses the data, but also takes advantage of his long experience in the field to assess your photo. His professional eye takes into account your shoulder slope and body shape. Your skin color and jawline also helps him to curate fabrics and styles that look best on you.
Soon, ShirtCycle sends you a free custom shirt. If the shirt fits you just the way you like it (and it does 75% of the time, which is the same average as going to a tailor the old-fashioned way), ShirtCycle will curate three shirts based on your look, lifestyle, and workplace for $250 ($83 per shirt).
You can confirm or swap their recommendations. But if your free shirt doesn't fit, use the prepaid label on your box to send it back and get it altered, for free. And they won't stop altering until the fit is perfect.
Harpalani and Mersereau say the service has zero returns because they only send you shirts in the fit, fabric, and style you want. There aren't any surprises. And because of that, ShirtCycle also has a high customer-retention rate. ShirtCycle will also include a prepaid label so you can send your old shirts to Career Gear; your tax-deductible donation will help someone less fortunate interview in style.
We went through a trial run with ShirtCycle, sending them only our pictures and off-the-rack sizes — and they nailed the fit. We also found the fabrics and construction to be of very high quality.
We decided to learn more. When we met with them, they explained that they streamlined the fit process and isolated alterations to the first shirt. That meant they've eliminated the need for returns — which allows ShirtCycle to sell $100-125 shirts for $83.
As Harpalani and Mersereau see it, most guys don't have time to get measured at the tailor. And they don't want to try to figure out how to measure themselves in the proper way. Even if they do go through the process, they may still end up needing alterations.
So ShirtCycle focuses on making alterations easy and getting that problem out of the way. They personally handle alterations for free and verify your fit before curating your shirt styles.
ShirtCycle uses the finest sea island and non-iron fabrics. Its Black Label line tailors shirts using fabric from Thomas Mason, the English mill that has outfitted aristocrats since 1796.
ShirtCycle seams are tight "French seams," the best kind of stitching. Buttons are shell mother of pearl. The shirts are made to last.
According to Harpalani and Mersereau, cutting friction out of the process and switching to a subscription has allowed them to lower their price while maintaining the same high level of quality. Men no longer have to feel like they're swimming in their clothes, or strangled by their ties, or cinched in the waist by too-tight shirts. That is, not when they have the right fitting shirts.
Harpalani and Mersereau are adding more services for regular customers. They can now get custom-made pants, ones more comfortable than anything off the rack. These pants have details not usually found, like latex grippers to keep your shirt tucked in. They cost $175 and use the finest Italian wools. The $295 Black Label line use fabrics from Vitale Barberis Canonico.
You can add a matching tie and socks to any shirt. Their ties are 100% silk with a wool interlining that releases wrinkles and holds it shape. Each tie and sock set includes a metal clip that attaches to your shirt hanger and preps your look in advance.
ShirtCycle gets it. We all want to look better, but late nights and early flights can make that easier said than done. Their matching sets provide seamless style and leave you with one less thing to think about in the morning.
ShirtCycle offers the personal touch of a stylist and the convenience of a subscription service. Harpalani, who still outfits much of the financial world, knows what styles are in play in the professional fields. He also knows which collars and colors are going to look best on his customers.
Busy men no longer have to spend their weekends focusing on fashion. Instead. they can take the time off, or focus on their careers. ShirtCycle takes the guesswork out of getting dressed.
Now watch how ShirtCycle works:
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