Tell Someone Today.

What am I talking about? I’m talking about the TRUTH. Let’s face it – most of us are not completely honest with ourselves when it comes to what we are eating.

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Have you thought about your New Year’s Resolutions yet? Most people have some intention of trying to get healthier in the next year. The problem is that their plan is not very specific and it lacks the compelling reasons WHY they want to be in better shape. If you fall into the category of going all out come Jan 1 – working out 5 days/week, eating well, feeling great, only to wake up one morning with enough motivation to shut off the alarm clock, you definitely need to dig deeper into why you want to lose the weight and come up with a long term plan.

Do you find you are mostly on your own when it comes to eating healthy and having intentions of losing weight? Is your partner overweight, yet doing nothing about it? Are you the only one in your household enjoying large salads, nuts, and fresh fruit and berries?

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When it comes to dieting and exercise, the key is to always take consistent action. Even better – planned, focused, and committed consistent action. Once you begin to live your life with your health as a top priority, nothing can get in your way. Yes, I said NOTHING. That’s right, not even the fast approaching holidays.

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Did you know that creating a strong ‘CORE’ will alleviate lower back pain and reduce injury? These exercises are a killer and will totally fatigue those core muscles. I suggest that you go through this routine 2X and peform this 2X/week. This is about a 6 minute workout.

I perform 6 different core exercises in the video that target your obliques (side of abdominal muscles), external and internal obliques, transverse abdominis muscle, and many other smaller muscles that support your spine.

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Do you want to speed up your fat loss results?! Well you can!

Quick, fast movements or High Intensity Training (H.I.T.) will increase your metabolism to accelerate your fat loss during and long after your workout.

Here’s a great question for you: “Who’s generally leaner and reaches lower body fat %, sprinters or distance runners?”

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Are you a GRATEFUL person or do you tend to focus on the things that you don’t have? Do your thoughts often reflect a stream of negative, incessant thought all day that keeps repeating itself over and over again?

You may want to listen to what I have to say here because your thoughts may be having a direct effect on just how much exercise you engage in each week!

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There really is an intelligent way to lose weight and as you can probably guess it doesn’t involve going on a crash diet or spending countless hours in the gym. The intelligent approach to fat loss is to skyrocket your motivation by focusing just as much effort on strengthening your mental muscle as you do the other muscles in your body.

The holiday season has arrived, which means that you will be surrounded with tempting foods, alcoholic beverages, and be presented with many opportunities to bail out on your workouts. Lucky for you, the Unstoppable Fat Loss mindset that you are developing will help you blast through any obstacle or barrier that you are faced with during this festive time of year.

If you have been thinking of starting a weight loss routine and are beginning to debate whether or not to put it off until the New Year, it’s time to take action. There’s no better time than now.

If you have been following an exercise and diet program for a little while and you are getting a little nervous about how you will handle the holiday temptations, it’s time to begin thinking of how great it’s going to feel as you continue to make progress during these challenging times.

I have a great audio for you today that will help skyrocket your fat loss motivation.

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I’ve read a very intriguing article today that I wanted to summarize for you. Basically people need to expand their thoughts surrounding exercise to include the tasks that involve movement on a daily basis. Exercise should not be narrowly viewed as that ‘time slot’ at the gym or your early walk in the morning. People really need to look at ways to incorporate more ‘movement’ into their everyday routines. Did you know that in the last 150 years the average amount of calories burned on a daily basis from walking, working, playing, and fidgeting is down by 2,000? This is a staggering number! Why do you think this is?

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I thought this was an interesting study to report from Boston College: “60% of the successful dieters had strong beliefs that they could handle uncomfortable situations. Their thoughts reflect a very positive and firm belief that they are in control of their eating.”
Whereas, two-thirds of the unsuccessful dieters reported worries about what other people were thinking of them.

You, too, can be a very successful eater. Work on these stategies:

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Well, the holidays are upon us and it’s that time of year of family gatherings, wonderful memories, and, of course, lots of scruptuous food!

Do you already have the thoughts that…”Ya, maybe I’ll just wait until the New Year to begin my diet program.” Or, “There is no point in trying to stick to my plan during the holidays since I HAVE TO eat Aunt Pat’s homemade apple pie or I just HAVE TO eat one of her delicious brownies.”

If you are already succumbing to this kind of ‘all or none thinking’ you are setting yourself up to loosen your belt another notch. This is obviously not the direction you want.

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I just wanted to share a great tip with you that I find is working very well with my training clients. We have a ‘check in’ call. We set up a time to do a quick call to each other in the morning. This call is solely to let the other person know that you did your cardio. Wow, is it effective!

Once that alarm goes off in the morning, I am UP! I am ready to get going on my bike or walk because I know that someone is counting on me to do it. I know that I will be getting a call soon and I don’t want to have any lame excuses. This set up will encourage you to be accountable to a plan and motivated to prove to someone else that you did it!

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Hello all,

I’ve been hearing lately from family and friends about how many books they have on weight loss. They have so many books on their shelves and are trying to organize them. Complaining that they have not even opened some of them. Or, that the book was not what they had expected…or that they liked the book, but it is flawed because they are not getting the results they anticipated.

Does this sound familiar to you? Do you tend to jump from one program to the other, hoping for some kind of a miracle? Do you truly think that you will find that one unique book and/or program that will solve all of your weight loss problems? Well, if you do, I’m sorry to tell you this, but you are going to be greatly disappointed. Why? Because there is only one true answer to lifetime weight loss success and that is:

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Are you lacking the motivation to stick with a diet and exercise program? Let’s face it. It doesn’t matter how effective a nutrition or workout program is, if you are not motivated to follow through and use it to the best of your abilities, the weight loss program becomes utterly useless.

Recently I was interviewed by Sincere Hogan as a series dedicated to raising money for the victims of Hurricane Ike. Sincere grilled my friend Scott Colby and I on the topic of mindset and motivation and we dished out some great information which I am certain will accelerate your fat loss results.

Here are some of the questions that Sincere asked us…

Creating An Unstoppable Mindset

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You have questions about fat loss and we’ve got answers. The first week of the Fat Loss Rapid fire Reader Request podcast produced some great questions from over 20 of our valued readers and that was with just a few hours notice. Obviously my co-host Leigh Peele and I are unable to answer all of your fat loss queries during our rapid fire session, but we will do our best to answer the questions that we don’t get to during the podcast throughout the week on our blogs. Here are the 6 questions that we answered this week during the podcast…

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Announcing the winners of the Unstoppable Fat Loss Birthday Contest! First of all, thank you for making my 33rd birthday extra special. The action that you all took in writing out your mission statements was spectacular. It proved to be a much more difficult decision in choosing the winners than I had anticipated. I have posted the winning mission statements below and my comments about each one. If you haven’t written out your own personal mission statement I recommend that you do it now!

Unstoppable Fat Loss Birthday Contest Winner #1

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