Are You Giving Your Best Effort To Achieving Your Fat Loss Goals?

Hi,

I have a very inspirational post for you today. If you have tried and failed (or at least not gotten the results you are after) to lose your unwanted body fat pay attention. The post is from Scott Tousignant of Fat Loss quickie fame. I think this is a great post that everyone can get something from. It is a little long but well worth taking a couple of minutes to read.

Are You Giving Your Very Best Effort Toward Achieving Your Fat Loss Goals?


by Scott Tousignant · Fat Loss Quickie Motivation

“I’ve tried everything!” If only I had a penny for every time that I’ve heard that statement made by a frustrated dieter. I’d be writing this post from my very own private tropical island

You may have started several different diets. You may have followed several different workout programs. But did you honestly give your very best effort to all of them? Honestly? If not, then can you honestly say that you’ve tried each of those programs?

Have you really tried everything? Seriously. Every diet and workout program out there?

Are you aware of these lies that you tell yourself every day?

I’m confident in saying that what you believe you can achieve in regards to your fat loss goals is nowhere near what you can actually achieve. I believe that you can accomplish much more!

Allow me to use just a few of the many examples of amazing transformation success stories from Tom Venuto’s Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle Inner Circle to prove this point…

If you are around 40% body fat right now, I bet the thought that you could release fat and sculpt your body to the point of winning a medal in a figure competition and being featured in fitness magazines seems impossible and ‘unrealistic’…

…Yet that’s exactly what 40 year old Eka Ukaobasi did!

I bet that the thought of losing 254.6 pounds in just two years sounds impossible, especially when you’ve tried to lose weight in the past and it ended in frustration and disappointment…

…Yet that’s exactly what Michael Boyd did. Think about that for a moment. That’s like going through life carrying around two lean women around everywhere that you go. Then over the course of two years doing what’s necessary to get them off your shoulders and ease the burden of that excess load.

Take a look at his photo collage. His before and after pictures could be mistaken for two completely different people. At the beginning of your journey it may be difficult to believe that you can look that great. But over time anything is possible.

Eka wasn’t the only woman in Tom Venuto’s Burn The Fat Inner Circle who surprised themselves and decided to take their fitness to the next level and compete in a women’s physique competition. There’s actually been several women who took that big leap, including Bonnie Van Niekerk who released 51 pounds and 12% body fat and entered into a competition. Bonnie actually shared her entire journey in the Burn The Fat Inner Circle to inspire other women about what’s possible even when faced with challenges.

Bonnie mentioned something very inspiring during one of her interviews in the Burn The Fat Inner Circle. She said, “To be lean and fit is within everyone’s reach no matter what your current weight or genetic type. You can be a better version of YOU. It takes desire and the right motivation. Don’t get discouraged, and put yourself first for a change.”

I love that advice!

Have any of these examples helped you realize that you are capable of much greater results that you previously thought possible?


Your Very Best Effort

It’s up to you to put the blindfold on. If you get to a point where you feel you are giving your very best, you may just decide to stop even though you are capable of so much more.


So how do you give your VERY BEST EFFORT toward your fat loss goals?


1) Harness The Power Of “Personal Bests”

I live by a goal of becoming better today than I was yesterday and better tomorrow than I am today. My life is basically a series of breaking my previous personal bests. Does that happen every day… No, but it’s always my goal.

When it comes to your workouts you can improve upon your personal best by either pushing out one more rep beyond your previous workout, lifting 1 pound heavier than your previous workout, reducing your rest period between sets by 5 seconds, or a variety of other means to push just a little bit harder.

When it comes to cardio if you can run 5k in 40 minutes you can try to run it in a shorter period of time this week. You can run a little longer distance in that 40 minute time frame, you can run that 5k on an incline through a hilly terrain, or a variety of other methods to push harder.

When it comes to eating healthier you can reduce the amount of man made food in your diet by just a little bit each week.

You can try to stretch your muscles a little bit more each week, drink a little more water each week, devote an extra minute per day to reading your goals and re-writing them, and so many other healthy habits that you can improve just a teeny weeny bit each week.

I’ve spent my adult life studying Olympic athletes. They are always focused on achieving their personal bests. Not every athlete wins an Olympic gold, silver, or bronze medal, but if they achieve a personal best during the Olympics you may just mistake them for the person who won the gold because they are so ecstatic and overjoyed by their accomplishments.


2) The Power Of Support

Having a support group and some very key supportive people in your life can make all the difference in putting your very best effort forward.

This is a picture of my two friends Tishia Lee and Mary Lutz as they compete in their very first 5k run. Tishia mentioned that there were times during the race that she felt like quitting. She had shin splints and a side cramp. But Mary kept motivating her to push through to the end. It would have been easy for Tishia to give up, but Mary helped her put her very best effort toward completing the run.

Now that they have competed in their first 5k race they have a base point and their very first personal best, which they can set a goal of breaking in the near future.


3) Why Should You Give Your Very Best Effort?

You have probably heard that you should find your powerful reason why, when it comes to achieving your fat loss goals. I shared how to take this advice to the next level in a post called “Having a Powerful Why Is Not Enough”

One of the reasons why a Powerful Why is not enough is because of what many people do after they have discovered it… Nothing!

Once you have your powerful reason why, you must repeat it to yourself as frequently as possible, especially before a workout, cardio session, or meal.

My powerful reason why I MUST continue to improve my health is because I believe that my family’s freedom and happiness depends upon it and their happiness and freedom means more to me than anything in this world.

When I begin to think that I can’t push out one more rep I repeat to myself, “My family’s freedom and happiness depends upon this one last rep.”

When I feel like slowing down the intensity of my cardio or stopping short of my destination I think, “My family’s freedom and happiness depends on me putting forth my very best effort.”

There is absolutely no obstacle that can prevent me from achieving my desired outcome when I am repeating that phrase in my head. Find your powerful reason why, write it down frequently, and read it every chance you get.

4) Commit To The Plan and Deadline

When you purchase a workout or diet program decide how much time you are going to devote to ‘working the program’ and mark it down on your calender.

Suppress the desire to program hop or try the latest and greatest program until you’ve completed the current program that you are following. I discussed this during an information packed interview  with John Romaniello.


Have a plan of action for the time after you achieve your goal and complete the current program.


Here’s what my current plan looks like…

===> May 10th 2010 – June 3rd 2010: Follow Joel Marion’s Xtreme Fat Loss Diet Goal: Eliminate my lower belly fat


===> June 4th 2010 – July 2nd 2010: Follow John Romaniello’s Final Phase Fat Loss

Goal: Look better than I’ve ever looked in my entire life.



===> July 3rd 2010 – July 11th 2010: Celebrate my victories on the beaches of Turks and Caicos

Goal: Rest, relax, recover.



===> July 12th 2010 – August 8th 2010: Follow Nick Nilsson’s Muscle Explosion Goal: Gain 6 pounds of muscle in 28 days.


===>  August 9th 2010 – December 23rd 2010: Follow my Fat Loss Quickie Program.


5) I AM UNSTOPPABLE!

Adopt the belief and attitude that “I am Unstoppable!” No matter what obstacle or challenge you are faced with I want you to know with absolute certainty that you will overcome that challenge.

Walk around tall and proud while showing off your “Unstoppable Attitude”. Exude confidence and absolutely 100% EXPECT SUCCESS! You’re not just hoping that this program will work for you… you know that this program will work for you because you are going to work the program to the very best of your abilities.


6) There’s Always Someone Worse Off Than You


I thrive off of reading and listening to success stories and I’ve been inspired by countless people who have had a much tougher time sculpting their body and improving their health than I ever will… and when I feel like giving up I think of them.

No matter what your challenge is, I guarantee that there is at least a thousand people out there who have gone through a similar challenge and have faced even greater challenges than you are currently facing, yet they were able to blast through those obstacles to achieve great success. If they can do it… So Can YOU!

Be a role model. Face your challenges! Achieve success in spite of those challenges. Prove that you are capable of greatness and that if you can do it… anyone can do it.

This is your life and your body. Make the most of it. Life the best quality of life possible in the best body that you can possibly sculpt. You deserve this.

You are faced with dozens of choices throughout your day. The most important choice that you can make is to become the best that you can be by choosing to live to your full potential.

Temporarily step into the realm of discomfort in order to create a new level of comfort that you’ve never experienced before. What may seem challenging for you today will not be challenging in the slightest during the months to come.

Expand your world. Experience this life to the fullest. Cherish every second.

To achieving your limitless potential,

Scott Tousignant