Fat Burning Diets And Workouts Where Is Your Head At?

Okay maybe it is a strange title but I think it's an important one. Let me ask you a question:

Do You see yourself as being thin and fit?

 I mean in your own mind can you sit back close your eyes and see yourself 20lbs. lighter?

Answer honestly!! And if the answer is No then why not?

Look we live in a society that bombards us with what we should look like, what we should be doing, what's wrong with us etc. Right or wrong we are faced with it everyday. And in most cases people that I talk with always say:

 " But I could never look like that" and I'll tell you what, it just bugs me to no end to hear that, And my response usually is something like

" Why The Hell Not "  I hate a defeatist attitude I do understand it sometimes but rarely.

And I do understand that when you are starting out your goals can seem insurmountable but they are not. I do believe in small steps every small step you conquer is a victory. Will you stumble along the way? More than likely, but it's not the end of the world. It is how you get back up after that stumble that counts.

What You Believe You Can Achieve

If you don't really truly believe you can reach your fat loss goals then you might as well go back to eating junk food and spending all your waking hours on the couch. I am no motivation expert but I do believe that if you really want something in this life you need to sincerely believe that it is going to happen.

I say go look in the mirror and say " Why The Hell Not Me " Look I try to help you by giving you healthy eating and exercise advice but I can't make you do it or convince you it Can and Will happen for you. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.

Here is a 7 Step Plan to Reach Your Fat Loss and Fitness Goals.

If you see alot of yourself in what I have been talking about here pay paticular attention to #1

1. Sit down and plan out your complete body transformation – everything from end goals, to getting started with nutrition changes, to overcoming all of the obstacles in your way. Sit and daydream about this for 15-30 minutes.


2. Spend time planning your workouts to save you time when you go to do you workouts.

3. One of the biggest mistakes people make is not having a plan. That leads to wasted time (“what should I do today”) and no results.

4. Surround yourself with social support to have people do the work for you. Surround yourself with people who are smarter and fitter than you.

5. Script your day.

6. Be ruthless with your time. Time spent on cardio robs your family of you.

7. Get in to your workout, get out, and get on with your life.


Start today and add a healthy habit to your life every day - an extra glass of water, an apple a day, extra serving of vegetables, replace processed snacks with an ounce of raw nuts, drink Green Tea instead of soda, get up on time instead of hitting snooze, plan ahead instead of winging it, & set goals instead of daydreaming.


YOU CAN DO THIS!!!

Is Diet More Important Than Exercise?

I don't know if I ever showed you this video before about "diet vs exercise"

If you haven't watched it, you can see it at the end of these diet tips.

It points out the futility of the cardio confessional and shows you that diet is much more important than exercise.

And since diet is more important than exercise, I've decided to spend a lot time sharing nutrition tips this week, starting with these 3 diet secrets:

1) Your nutrition program doesn't have to be extreme.

Hold up on the insane New Year's changes. Make sure the nutrition plan you've chosen is sustainable. Simple diet changes go a lot farther than you might think.

Why not just eat more whole, natural foods rather than trying to go on an impossible-to-stick-to ultra-low carb extreme plan?

2) Get the junk out of the house.

If it's in your house, you'll eat it...and trust me, this goes for me too. When I visited my mom's house for Christmas, I ate all the chocolate I could find. But I keep it out of my house here in the big city.

So whatever your weakness is, keep it out of your home.

Success is that simple.

3) Fill in the "diet-killing" gap.

For some folks, the diet-killing gap is between work and dinner. For others, it's between dinner and bedtime, but for almost everyone, there is a point in the day when we suffer from mindless eating.

So make sure you have alternatives...as soon as you come home from work, cut up vegetables and dip them into hummus. That will keep you full on a small amount of calories.

After dinner, if you need something sweet, stir up chocolate protein powder into a small bit of plain yogurt. That will satisfy you.

BONUS Tip #1 - Chew your food 20 times before swallowing. Most people eat so fast they only about 5 times. You'll really notice a difference and you'll slow your eating so you feel full.

I was reminded of this tip while reading a book called, "Mr America", about one of the first ever fitness gurus.

BONUS Tip #2 - Have a bowl of broth-based vegetable soup before a meal. American researcher Barbara Roll has published a lot of studies showing that this will help you reduce the food you eat. Surprisingly,
consuming just water doesn't seem to do the same trick.




Thanks to Craig Ballantyne of Turbulence Training for the video.