making it count policies public, they couldn t even be ranked. which checking accounts do make the cut, alley bank, charles schwab, first republic, but even with those, there is room for improvement. is it possible to lose weight while eating mcdonald s every single day? the ceo of mcdonald says not only has he done it, but he s lost 20 pounds. don thompson says he s been eating mcdonald s every single day, but he also recently decided to, quote, get his butt up and working out. calories are calories. it s just what you take in. if you watch them, you can lose weight. the issue is vitamins and nutrients and things like that and balance and everything. my diet is watching every calorie as it goes right down the gullet. this is breakfast for christine romans. this weighs like 14 pounds. i ve been doing bicep curls with
dvd is right here. how many have we done? now we re going to do bicep curls. we want to do this standing up if you can. you can also do it sitting at your chair. sitting is the new smoking. brian: we do these and i can also take calls on speaker phone. i say do this one if off conference call. stand up, do your bicep curls. brian: this is five, right? yep. that s for yours to tour. do that throughout the day. any time off call, stand up. do not sit. and our last one will be our glute workout. you put your feet in the shape of a t and kick back. brian: really? what is that for? this is for your booty. brian: really? yeah. so when people walk by and say what are you working on? you say i m working on my booty. because you re sitting all day. my butt falls asleep when i m at the office writing my fitness articles all day. if you stand up, working it
our next guest has all the solutions. brian: she s known as america s favorite fitness expert. denise austin is the author of a new book called side effect skinny. look at her! gretchen: you just burned 200 calories! here is an excuse, there is not enough time. everybody says that, but guess what? i ve got a workout plan for seven minutes every day to target, tone all the major muscles of the body. it s in the book. they re easy and they re great exercises. grab some weights. you can give it a try. you also can do all these exercises without weights. the first exercise is easy. it s a rear lunge with bicep curls. work those firm arms, sexy arms. step back. it s easier on your knees. step back. good! that s great, gretchen. okay, everybody. this will firm up those bags! brian: that kicks out one excuse. here is another excuse. number two, i m too tired.
i did. your wife samantha. actually not. it is sandra. but she is the fourth of four girls and they just wanted a boy. how nice for her growing up. so set the scene for us. hercules is a hit show and you are doing by accept curl bicep curls and you are shirtless and sweaty, maybe that s not how it was. it was between season five and six. i shot in new zealand. i was coming back to l.a. for publicity. i had pain in my left shoulder bugging me for weeks and weeks and weeks. i decided to see my doctor. he was checking on my shoulder and found a lump. he said this bugs me and i want to do a biopsy. i went to my chiroprator and he was working on it. when i left i was driving and i was like two minutes away and i heard two loud pops. my vision went and it was all over the place.
it s like finding out that your best friend thinks he can fly by flapping his arms really fast. is your due diligence just making sure that he does a lot of bicep curls and his arms are in great shape? how can the government be handing out permits to drill on at the rate of one every four days on the premise that drilling is safer when we don t know what happened last night? when the piece of equipment that prevents a blowout from happening in the first place we just found may not work even when used as directed? for weeks now we have been asking those questions on this show. and for weeks, we have been trying to get a good answer to those questions from the interior department. we were told since it s an ongoing investigation, they would have no comment specifically on the blowout preventer matter. we asked them about their whole blowout preventers don t work report seven different ways from sunday, and still no comment. and then this week, some big and unexpected news. look at this.