Are you tired of yoyo-ing with your weight? Then, quit cutting carbs out of your meals everytime you try to lose weight! This issue never seems to go away and people continue time and time again to get suckered into thinking that if they eliminate their carbs, they will get the weight loss they desire. Many people think this idea is "scientific" and "cutting edge." However, this idea has been around for decades and is only supported by very shaky science. The idea actually died for many years because it plain and simple doesn't work LONG-TERM. Eventually, the idea was brought back to life because enough time had passed that many people forgot it didn't work and then you throw in a clever marketing scheme to back up the old idea and it seems like a new idea.
Unfortuneately, when it comes to weight loss, people are easily fooled. They don't understand how the body actually works and buy into eating plans that give them quick results, but set them up for failure in the long-term. I like to say, "If the scale is dropping too fast, the weight loss won't last." Rapid weight loss is always a red flag in my book. People often approach me and brag about their weight loss. "I have lost 20 lbs in 3 weeks." My words back to them aren't, "that is great, keep up the good work." What I am thinking is, "I can't believe that they are starving themselves and/or cutting carbs to lose weight. They are going to gain it all back as fast as they took it off." I will never give someone praise for weight loss until I know how they are losing weight. There are a lot of ways to lose weight, but only 1 way to keep it off. Part of that 1 way is EAT CARBS!
To give you a statement that shows you how important carbs are for weight loss I will tell you this...
I went to a nutrition seminar a couple years back that was lead by several NUTRITION PH D's. They said,
"The fat gets burned on the flames of the carbs." So, if you are not putting carbs in, your metabolic fire will eventually burn out and you will then begin to store fat like a bear preparing for hibernation. The deception is that it usually takes around 3 months or so before the metabolic fire dies. What this means is that during that 3 months of very limited or no carbs, your body will burn a little fat, but a lot of muscle. Your muscles have thousands of calories of stored carbs in them called glycogen. If you don't put carbs in your body, your body WILL pull carbs out of your muscle and use them for energy...that is plain and simple science. As your muscle gets burned (this is very bad), you will lose weight because muscle makes up more than half your bodyweight in most individuals. Yes, you will be temporarily happy because the scale is going down and cloths are starting to fit better, but that happiness will turn into great disappointment and frustration when you hit what I call the metabolic WALL. This is the point when your body says, "I've had enough of this." Your body then goes into preservation mode and holds onto fat like that hibernating bear and turns the metabolism off.
So now, you have flushed muscle down the toilet for 3 months which means that you burn way less calories everyday than before AND you have put your body into fat-storing mode. The weight you did lose comes back with a vengence and your bodyfat % actually goes higher from the carb restriction in the long run because you now have less muscle and more fat. It is a vicious cycle that has claimed countless victims.
The truth is that all these people had to do to avoid the failure was not eliminate carbs, but change the carbs they were eating and eat the carbs at the right time. Taking whole grains out of your diet to lose weight is like trying to reduce your monthly cashflow output by using a credit card. There will be a debt to pay back...a big FAT debt. It will now take you months to regain the muscle you lost and begin retraining your metabolism. Save yourself from this disaster and eat AT LEAST 5 servings (preferrably 7) of REAL whole grains everyday. Feed your muscles so they burn fat for you. Your fat metabolism LOVES whole grains. God even tells us to eat whole grains...check out Ezekial 4:9 among other verses that talk about eating grains and fruits. You want to make sure that the fruit is organic and grown in nutrient-rich soil. The farmer's market is a great place to find this kind of fruit. And for the whole grain, make sure it is sprouted whole grains like Ezekial grain products for example. If you eat rice, it should be whole grain. You should see whole grain as the first ingredient to ensure that it is a true whole grain or just eat the grain itself like Quinoa or unprocessed Steel Cut Oats.
I will leave you with my food pyramid since they have now thrown the food pyramid out the window and come up with a new system called the food plate that is still wrong. Once you get the focus off of losing weight and onto lifestyle, you will then see long-term success. Here you go...
8 glasses of purified/filtered water
7 servings of TRUE whole grains
6 servings of lean and clean protein
5 servings of healthy fats
4 servings of nutrient-rich veggies
3 servings of nutrient-rich fruits
2 natural protein shakes
1 small treat of whatever you want
There you have it! There can be slight alterations made to this, but the core of it remains the same for everyone. People try 100 different things to lose weight, but the fact is that if you want real, lasting results, follow this plan, do metabolic exercise and supplement with plant-based products. There is a reason why I stay less than 10% bodyfat year-round. CONSISTENCY of doing all of this including eating loads of fat-burning carbs EVERYDAY. I am not trying to brag...it's just that I have been in the trenches of this for over 10 years and have worked with hundreds of people and I see what works long-term and what doesn't. What kind of results do you want?
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
The Road To Health
Health is one of the most important aspects of our lives, yet so many people neglect their health. It is no secret that minimizing stress, and getting proper nutrition/supplementation and exercise are three of the key components in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, as well as preventing poor health. Yes, everyone knows it, but the problem is that so many people fail to make these things a priority in their lives. If you neglect your health, you must realize that it is only a matter of time before something goes wrong. A poorly maintained engine gets clogged up and eventually breaks down. Furthermore, you can’t drive the car when it is in the shop. In the same way, your body can “break down” if you do not take care of it, which means that you now have to put everything on hold to take care of your broken down body. When your body is in a “broken down” state, you can’t work as efficiently (or at all), you significantly affect those around you, and your focus, which includes a lot of your time and energy, is on your health condition. All you need to do is take a proactive role in making adequate nutrition/supplementation and exercise a steady part of your life, while minimizing stress. Don’t you want to have a healthy direction in life?
If you have an unhealthy direction in life, you end up wandering around aimlessly without ever getting anywhere. It is the same for nutrition and exercise. Without the right guidance and direction, you can spend a lot of unproductive time and energy exercising and dieting with no real, lasting results. Now, if you want to succeed, whether it be in stress management, exercise, nutrition or life, you must make wise choices. Think of it this way…you don’t just throw your money up in the wind and hope it will blow somewhere productive. If so, you would end up broke. So, why would you choose to eat and exercise a certain way without ever establishing a clear direction and purpose for what you are doing?
The truth is that many people make decisions about their health based on articles or books they have read, shows they have seen on television, information they have heard from other people or just their own notions of how to do things. I strongly urge you to be aware of these deceptions. Whether it be ANY diets, false advertising, unregulated & unsafe supplements that make false claims, biased information instead of the real truth or just your own preconceived mindset of what is good or bad, you need to determine what is fact and what is myth. If you seek the truth, you will find it. If you want to travel down the road that leads to better health, you need to use the right fuel and know when and how to step on the gas. There is a right road, however, very few choose to travel down it, hence the soaring obesity and disease rates in our country. What road do you want to be on?
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
DIEts
It is estimated that about 1/3 of Americans are on some type of diet on any given day. It is also estimated that around 1/3 of Americans are now considered obese. Furthermore, there are more diets than ever out there on the market. You have the blood type diet, low fat, no carb, no meat, gluten free, ancestor diet (this one is really laughable), shake diet, etc. and the list goes on and on. To be more truthful, they should call these plans what they really are...things like the starve yourself plan, the muscle burning diet, the Hollywood metabolism destroyer, nutrient deprivation system and the list could keep going. The bottom line is that diets WILL rob you of long term success with your weight loss and health. People too easily fall into the trap of sabatoging long term success by soley focusing on the scale going down the first 12 weeks or so. When you consider the fact that most of the weight loss on diets is muscle and water, you can then realize that you are flushing your metabolism down the toilet. Most people can only manage to stay on a diet for 12 weeks...if that long...and then go back to eating like they did before the diet. Yes, they have lost say 30lbs, but now there metabolism is 30-40% slower which means they are going to be packing on fat fast. It is the deadly yoyo effect, but each time they yoyo, it gets worse. Yoyo is a NoNo and will make your metabolism very SlowSlow!
Now, consider this...the average person that I deal with is not eating enough food and can't lose weight or is gaining weight. IF YOU EVER WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT THE RIGHT WAY AND KEEP IT OFF, YOU HAVE TO EAT MORE TO BURN MORE. Your metabolism is a furnace and if you feed it more HEALTHY logs, it will burn hotter and give off more energy...hence, calorie burning. The diet mentality is only making people more fat and unhealthy and is leading them down a road of failure. With diets, you don't have to worry about calories making you fat, you should worry about a lack of calories making you fat. I'll never forget the woman that I trained a couple years ago. She was absolutely terrified of calories. She was very frustrated because she had gained 10lbs over the last year. Get this...she exercised 5 days a week for an hour and only ate 500 calories a day...UNBELIEVABLE! I about fell off my stability ball when she told me this...I told her that 500 calories is like one of my snacks and she only ate that much in a WHOLE DAY. She gained 10lbs in the year only eating 500 calories a day! How? She shut down her metabolism by starving herself. If you try to trick your body, you will end up getting the short end of the stick.
I tell people, don't let yourself get too hungry or too full. It is ok to get hungry as that is our body's cue to tell us to eat, but if you wait until you are starving, your metabolism will go looking for calories in your muscles. You also may not get hungry, which simply means that you have trained your metabolism to be slow and you need to retrain it by eating more...even when you don't feel like you are hungry. On the flipside, you should never eat until too full as this will cause a metabolic dump. This means that your body is overloaded with calories and will store many of them as fat. It takes your stomach 15 minutes or so to catch up to your brain. If you eat too fast, you will not feel FULL until it's too late. So, eat until you are satisfied (not still hungry and not full). It's at that point where you feel like you could keep eating, but if you stopped, you would not feel anymore hunger. You have to learn to listen to your body and be in tune with it. You have to be disiplined to eat the right foods 90% of the time and leave 10% for "error." This is not an article about what foods to eat, so I will not dive into that right now. I just wanted to point out the fact that this way of eating that I have talked about only works if you eat the right foods most of the time because not all calories are created equal. That is for another day though.
To sum it up, don't starve yourself, embrace carbs and fats (the healthy ones), never stay hungry, don't eat until you can't move, make wise food choices 90% of the time, keep your metabolic furnace burning all day and don't listen to the diet hype. If you ever want to become a lean mean metabolic machine, you have to ditch the diet mentality or your world will be a fat reality. Feed the muscles the right blend of premium fuel at regular intervals throughout the day and couple that with HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) as well as an appropriate resistance training program and you will be well on your way. You will never have to worry about "dieting" again. Afterall, the first 3 letters of the word DIEt are...
Now, consider this...the average person that I deal with is not eating enough food and can't lose weight or is gaining weight. IF YOU EVER WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT THE RIGHT WAY AND KEEP IT OFF, YOU HAVE TO EAT MORE TO BURN MORE. Your metabolism is a furnace and if you feed it more HEALTHY logs, it will burn hotter and give off more energy...hence, calorie burning. The diet mentality is only making people more fat and unhealthy and is leading them down a road of failure. With diets, you don't have to worry about calories making you fat, you should worry about a lack of calories making you fat. I'll never forget the woman that I trained a couple years ago. She was absolutely terrified of calories. She was very frustrated because she had gained 10lbs over the last year. Get this...she exercised 5 days a week for an hour and only ate 500 calories a day...UNBELIEVABLE! I about fell off my stability ball when she told me this...I told her that 500 calories is like one of my snacks and she only ate that much in a WHOLE DAY. She gained 10lbs in the year only eating 500 calories a day! How? She shut down her metabolism by starving herself. If you try to trick your body, you will end up getting the short end of the stick.
I tell people, don't let yourself get too hungry or too full. It is ok to get hungry as that is our body's cue to tell us to eat, but if you wait until you are starving, your metabolism will go looking for calories in your muscles. You also may not get hungry, which simply means that you have trained your metabolism to be slow and you need to retrain it by eating more...even when you don't feel like you are hungry. On the flipside, you should never eat until too full as this will cause a metabolic dump. This means that your body is overloaded with calories and will store many of them as fat. It takes your stomach 15 minutes or so to catch up to your brain. If you eat too fast, you will not feel FULL until it's too late. So, eat until you are satisfied (not still hungry and not full). It's at that point where you feel like you could keep eating, but if you stopped, you would not feel anymore hunger. You have to learn to listen to your body and be in tune with it. You have to be disiplined to eat the right foods 90% of the time and leave 10% for "error." This is not an article about what foods to eat, so I will not dive into that right now. I just wanted to point out the fact that this way of eating that I have talked about only works if you eat the right foods most of the time because not all calories are created equal. That is for another day though.
To sum it up, don't starve yourself, embrace carbs and fats (the healthy ones), never stay hungry, don't eat until you can't move, make wise food choices 90% of the time, keep your metabolic furnace burning all day and don't listen to the diet hype. If you ever want to become a lean mean metabolic machine, you have to ditch the diet mentality or your world will be a fat reality. Feed the muscles the right blend of premium fuel at regular intervals throughout the day and couple that with HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) as well as an appropriate resistance training program and you will be well on your way. You will never have to worry about "dieting" again. Afterall, the first 3 letters of the word DIEt are...
Monday, April 4, 2011
Spring Cleaning
Spring is a perfect time to not only do some deep cleaning, but also to do some serious revamping. I'm not talking about decluttering your house, throwing junk out and shifting furniture around...I'm talking about decluttering your body, cleaning your cupboards out and shifting your mindset. Lets start with decluttering your body.
Most peoples' bodies are like toxic factories. Unfortuneately, toxins store in the fat, most people have too much fat and are doing too little to get rid of that fat. Furthermore, the average person is exposed to over 500 toxins per day from the air we breathe, to the food we eat, to the things we drink to the stress we have. Also consider that the average person has 2-10 stored meals sitting in their colon at any given time. The worst part is that most people are not extinguishing these toxins from their body. Instead they are giving them a nice, warm, cozy place to live and multiply. This obviously has many serious health implications that I will not get into in this blog. I simply want to inform people to develop a plan of action to eliminate these toxins on a daily basis so you can live a better quality life. Our bodies were not designed to be a toxic dump site. The first step in cleaning out the toxins is a five letter word for many of you...WATER. You need at least 64 oz per day, but should ideally be at half your bodyweight in ounces per day. What do you count as water? Well, as the saying goes, "if you wouldn't wash your face in it, don't count it as water." Also, it should be filtered water free of chlorine, flouride and many other very harmful chemicals that get into the water. Next, you should be eating most of your foods from God-made sources, not man-made. Processed foods are little toxic warehouses. They are a double whammy! They will make you fat and give you an abundance of toxins to store in that fat. The bottom line is that you need to eat real, high fiber foods as close to the way they are in nature as possible. The more organic the better as well so you avoid the harsh chemicals and soil conditions filling our plants with awful toxins. If you need nutritional help, then seek a professional that is PRACTICING WHAT THEY PREACH. Next, no matter how good you eat, you WILL be missing many important nutrients so WHOLE FOOD supplementation is a must. You need daily supplementation that will alkalize, detoxify, fill nutritional gaps and balance the immune system. Failure to take this seriously will lead to health problems. A great website to check out for supplementation is http://www.defeatthefat.org/. The last thing I will mention is exercise. Sweating out toxins is excellent! Even better is the fact that exercise will help control stress giving you a better outlook on life and more confidence. Stress in the body releases toxic substance that will destroy your body over time. Exercise is crucial for regular detoxing as well as toxin control.
The last 2 things I will lump together and be brief about although they are vitally important...cleaning your cupboards out and shifting your mindset. Lets face it, if you have bad food and drinks in the cupboards, you WILL consume them. So, get rid of them! Don't use them up until they are gone...just get rid of them...NOW! They will not do you any good. You need to revamp what's in your cupboards and fridge. If you only have healthy food and drinks around...guess what...you will only consume healthy food and drinks. If you need to splurge every now and then, go out and get it and then it's gone. If you bring the cake home, you will keep eating it every day until it's gone. Believe me, I know how that works because I have seen many food logs to prove it. This also goes along with a shift in mindset. If you hold onto the past, your hands won't be wide open to grab your future. (If you hold onto bad foods/drinks/habits, you will never change your body or your health.) You have to decide how bad you want it! You spring clean your house, your office, your car...etc. Why not spring clean your body? Spring is the perfect time to get your body detoxified and KEEP it detoxified as well as revamping how you shop at the grocery store and shifting how you think about your body and health. Do you want your body to be a toxic dump site or a flourishing garden of health? Go after the body you were designed to have and don't settle for less!
Most peoples' bodies are like toxic factories. Unfortuneately, toxins store in the fat, most people have too much fat and are doing too little to get rid of that fat. Furthermore, the average person is exposed to over 500 toxins per day from the air we breathe, to the food we eat, to the things we drink to the stress we have. Also consider that the average person has 2-10 stored meals sitting in their colon at any given time. The worst part is that most people are not extinguishing these toxins from their body. Instead they are giving them a nice, warm, cozy place to live and multiply. This obviously has many serious health implications that I will not get into in this blog. I simply want to inform people to develop a plan of action to eliminate these toxins on a daily basis so you can live a better quality life. Our bodies were not designed to be a toxic dump site. The first step in cleaning out the toxins is a five letter word for many of you...WATER. You need at least 64 oz per day, but should ideally be at half your bodyweight in ounces per day. What do you count as water? Well, as the saying goes, "if you wouldn't wash your face in it, don't count it as water." Also, it should be filtered water free of chlorine, flouride and many other very harmful chemicals that get into the water. Next, you should be eating most of your foods from God-made sources, not man-made. Processed foods are little toxic warehouses. They are a double whammy! They will make you fat and give you an abundance of toxins to store in that fat. The bottom line is that you need to eat real, high fiber foods as close to the way they are in nature as possible. The more organic the better as well so you avoid the harsh chemicals and soil conditions filling our plants with awful toxins. If you need nutritional help, then seek a professional that is PRACTICING WHAT THEY PREACH. Next, no matter how good you eat, you WILL be missing many important nutrients so WHOLE FOOD supplementation is a must. You need daily supplementation that will alkalize, detoxify, fill nutritional gaps and balance the immune system. Failure to take this seriously will lead to health problems. A great website to check out for supplementation is http://www.defeatthefat.org/. The last thing I will mention is exercise. Sweating out toxins is excellent! Even better is the fact that exercise will help control stress giving you a better outlook on life and more confidence. Stress in the body releases toxic substance that will destroy your body over time. Exercise is crucial for regular detoxing as well as toxin control.
The last 2 things I will lump together and be brief about although they are vitally important...cleaning your cupboards out and shifting your mindset. Lets face it, if you have bad food and drinks in the cupboards, you WILL consume them. So, get rid of them! Don't use them up until they are gone...just get rid of them...NOW! They will not do you any good. You need to revamp what's in your cupboards and fridge. If you only have healthy food and drinks around...guess what...you will only consume healthy food and drinks. If you need to splurge every now and then, go out and get it and then it's gone. If you bring the cake home, you will keep eating it every day until it's gone. Believe me, I know how that works because I have seen many food logs to prove it. This also goes along with a shift in mindset. If you hold onto the past, your hands won't be wide open to grab your future. (If you hold onto bad foods/drinks/habits, you will never change your body or your health.) You have to decide how bad you want it! You spring clean your house, your office, your car...etc. Why not spring clean your body? Spring is the perfect time to get your body detoxified and KEEP it detoxified as well as revamping how you shop at the grocery store and shifting how you think about your body and health. Do you want your body to be a toxic dump site or a flourishing garden of health? Go after the body you were designed to have and don't settle for less!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Personal Health Portfolio
Are you making an investment in your health? Are you setting your body up for retirement?
So many people make their finances a top priority and are very diligent at saving and investing for their futures. Why not do that for you body? You might have millions of dollars, but if your health is poor, you can't enjoy that money. What is more important, your health or your money? I heard a great quote one time that really sums up what I'm talking about. "So many people lose their health to make money and then get to a point in life where they turn around and have to spend money on their bad health." You have the power to make the choice to invest in your health so you can draw from that interest as you get older.
Most people wait before something happens and then have to do medical intervention. I would much rather practice prevention by having a well-balanced health portfolio. There are some key investments that you need to make in order to get the best return on investment from your health. Consider this list of health investments:
I boldly ask you to not discount any of the health investment options that I mentioned. Actually, in my book, they are not really options, they are just a way of life. If you need help putting the right portfolio together, hire a professional. You get a financial advisor for your finances, so why not get a health advisor for your health and well-being? No one knows when they will leave this earth, but why go sooner than your intended time? Furthermore, don't you want to have as high a quality of life as possible until it's your time to go? I promise you that you will never regret having a strong personal health portfolio. The earlier you get started, the better the investment is, but it is never too late to start investing.
So many people make their finances a top priority and are very diligent at saving and investing for their futures. Why not do that for you body? You might have millions of dollars, but if your health is poor, you can't enjoy that money. What is more important, your health or your money? I heard a great quote one time that really sums up what I'm talking about. "So many people lose their health to make money and then get to a point in life where they turn around and have to spend money on their bad health." You have the power to make the choice to invest in your health so you can draw from that interest as you get older.
Most people wait before something happens and then have to do medical intervention. I would much rather practice prevention by having a well-balanced health portfolio. There are some key investments that you need to make in order to get the best return on investment from your health. Consider this list of health investments:
- Daily detoxification including regularity
- Immune system balancing
- Alkalizing
- Adequate water intake
- Unprocessed natural and organic foods and FIT eating
- Whole food supplementation
- Blood sugar control
- Cortisol control
- Sufficient REM sleep
- Thermogenesis
- Maximized metabolism
- Natural growth hormone release
- Hormonal balance
- Essential exercise selection
- Positive practice
I boldly ask you to not discount any of the health investment options that I mentioned. Actually, in my book, they are not really options, they are just a way of life. If you need help putting the right portfolio together, hire a professional. You get a financial advisor for your finances, so why not get a health advisor for your health and well-being? No one knows when they will leave this earth, but why go sooner than your intended time? Furthermore, don't you want to have as high a quality of life as possible until it's your time to go? I promise you that you will never regret having a strong personal health portfolio. The earlier you get started, the better the investment is, but it is never too late to start investing.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
What Are You Waiting For?
Are you spending too much time thinking about your health and fitness goals instead of taking action towards them? No matter how hard and long you think about them, you will never accomplish your goals without action.....CONSISTENT ACTION! Consider that we are now in February and the gyms are starting to clear out as people begin to fall away from the motivation they had just 1 month earlier. One month is only scraping the surface of their goals, yet, why do so many people lose focus after such a short period of time?
My first response is that they don't want it bad enough, or in other words, DESIRE it. If someone has a strong enough desire to do or accomplish something, they will stop at nothing until they get there. I could give you story after story for examples of this.
Here is one...think about someone trying to quit smoking. They try pills, hypnosis, patches, gum, etc. They stop smoking and then start again...in the same day! AND, do it day after day. Most of them are "trying to quit." It's like someone trying to eat better...you DO or you DON'T! The apple or the donut. What about those people that quit cold turkey and never smoke again? What separates them from the others that I have mentioned? It is a DECISION that was birthed out of a DESIRE. The bottom line is that if someone only wants something and doesn't DESIRE something, there is a part of them that really doesn't want to change their behaviors.
So, with that said, people usually WANT to look better, feel better and be healthier. They talk about it, read about it, watch t.v. shows about it, join gyms, go on crazy DIEts, buy exercise equipment, take pills and think this is the answer. The truth is that none of those things are the answer! So many people are missing the TRUTH. The TRUTH doesn't cost anything monetarily, it doesn't involve piling more information into your brain, it's not tangible and it doesn't come and go like the wind. It is something that is locked up deep inside every person and is like a hidden treasure chest. Inside this treasure chest are not excuses for why you can't... (fill in the blank), external stimuli or wishful thinking. Inside the treasure chest you will find nuggets of gold like...I WILL accomplish my health and fitness goals and will stop at nothing to get there, I DESIRE to look and feel better and will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to make that happen, I WILL continue to PUSH until I get to the top of the mountain and my body IS a LIVING sacrifice and I WILL treat it like one.
It is these affirmations and revelations that come from deep within that will literally and figuratively shape who you are and who you will become. If you want the secret to weight loss and looking and feeling your best...YOU ALREADY HAVE THE ANSWER! Find that treasure chest and unlock it. The gold inside it may save your life!
~Clayton Halls
My first response is that they don't want it bad enough, or in other words, DESIRE it. If someone has a strong enough desire to do or accomplish something, they will stop at nothing until they get there. I could give you story after story for examples of this.
Here is one...think about someone trying to quit smoking. They try pills, hypnosis, patches, gum, etc. They stop smoking and then start again...in the same day! AND, do it day after day. Most of them are "trying to quit." It's like someone trying to eat better...you DO or you DON'T! The apple or the donut. What about those people that quit cold turkey and never smoke again? What separates them from the others that I have mentioned? It is a DECISION that was birthed out of a DESIRE. The bottom line is that if someone only wants something and doesn't DESIRE something, there is a part of them that really doesn't want to change their behaviors.
So, with that said, people usually WANT to look better, feel better and be healthier. They talk about it, read about it, watch t.v. shows about it, join gyms, go on crazy DIEts, buy exercise equipment, take pills and think this is the answer. The truth is that none of those things are the answer! So many people are missing the TRUTH. The TRUTH doesn't cost anything monetarily, it doesn't involve piling more information into your brain, it's not tangible and it doesn't come and go like the wind. It is something that is locked up deep inside every person and is like a hidden treasure chest. Inside this treasure chest are not excuses for why you can't... (fill in the blank), external stimuli or wishful thinking. Inside the treasure chest you will find nuggets of gold like...I WILL accomplish my health and fitness goals and will stop at nothing to get there, I DESIRE to look and feel better and will do WHATEVER IT TAKES to make that happen, I WILL continue to PUSH until I get to the top of the mountain and my body IS a LIVING sacrifice and I WILL treat it like one.
It is these affirmations and revelations that come from deep within that will literally and figuratively shape who you are and who you will become. If you want the secret to weight loss and looking and feeling your best...YOU ALREADY HAVE THE ANSWER! Find that treasure chest and unlock it. The gold inside it may save your life!
~Clayton Halls
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Happy New Body
The new year is here so take a look in the mirror. Do you like what you see? If not, do you plan to make some new year's resolutions that you are not going to keep and end the year in even worse shape than you began? This is a typical cycle of Americans and it leads their bodies down a path of destruction. You only live once right? So, why don't you treat your body like it is important? I promise that you will be much happier in life if you are healthy versus eating and drinking and indulging in whatever you want. Do you want a life full of health or your health sucking the life out of you? I think it is safe to say that most people would want a life full of health, but it is amazing how little they are willing to do for it. If you want your health to change, you must take action. If you get beyond wishful thinking and decide to take action, I want to warn you of 7 deadly sins to avoid.......
1. DIEts
2. ANYTHING Unnatural, Except The Supernatural (hormones, preservatives, chemicals, processing, etc)
3. Gimmicks Including Caffiene Loaded Weight Loss Stimulants
4. Excuses
5. Medications (there are some exceptions to this sin)
6. Chronically Negative People
7. Lack of Professional Advice
Of course there are more, but this is a great start. Also, I didn't mention the things to not avoid which I will in the future. The bottom line is that you have to get out of your head and off the fence and into something that motivates you and on track to becoming healthier. It takes desire and dicipline, you just need to dig deep enough to find it. You may or may not believe in resolutions, but I encourage you to take advantage of a new year and shift your health into high gear. It could be a new year and a new you. Don't settle for a new year and same old you. You deserve better than that!
1. DIEts
2. ANYTHING Unnatural, Except The Supernatural (hormones, preservatives, chemicals, processing, etc)
3. Gimmicks Including Caffiene Loaded Weight Loss Stimulants
4. Excuses
5. Medications (there are some exceptions to this sin)
6. Chronically Negative People
7. Lack of Professional Advice
Of course there are more, but this is a great start. Also, I didn't mention the things to not avoid which I will in the future. The bottom line is that you have to get out of your head and off the fence and into something that motivates you and on track to becoming healthier. It takes desire and dicipline, you just need to dig deep enough to find it. You may or may not believe in resolutions, but I encourage you to take advantage of a new year and shift your health into high gear. It could be a new year and a new you. Don't settle for a new year and same old you. You deserve better than that!
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