How To Get Flat Abs By Xmas

I just received a newsletter from a former colleague with the following subject line; “Flat abs for Xmas”. This type of marketing is typical fitness industry stuff. Over-hyped, unrealistic promises that prey on your emotional triggers.

 I’m sick of it. Let’s get real!

First of all it is probably impossible for you to have flat abs by Christmas. This Newsletter was sent out on December 1st, so you’d only have 24 days to get your flat abs. To get flat abs you’ll need to get very lean. And while exercise is a vital component you’d have to follow a very strict diet to get flat abs. If you’re following a very strict diet you can expect to lose a max of 1-2 pounds per week. So in four weeks you’ll lose about 4-8 pounds.

If you are more than 4-8 pounds away from flat abs you won’t reach your goal in time for Christmas.

Second, if you’ve got to lose more than 8 pounds to get your flat abs, are you really going to go on an extremely strict diet the 3-4 weeks before Christmas? You have to set realistic, attainable goals. Otherwise you’ll set yourself up for failure. If you fail enough times, you’ll simply give up and stop trying. And when you stop trying, you’ll never reach your goals.

I want you to be successful. I want you to reach your goals. I will help to set you up for success.

Third and most important, is having flat abs really your top priority when it comes to your health, fitness and nutrition? If it is then I’m not interested in helping you. Shoot me and email and I’ll get you in touch with the trainer who promises “flat abs for Xmas.”

When your priorities are rooted in your superficial appearance you are setting yourself up for failure. Because you’re never going to be happy with what you see in the mirror.

The changes that will happen to your body are the by-product (or side effect), of genuine good health and wellness. And that change starts in your mind. If you want to improve your health, you’ll need to change the way that you think about yourself, food, and movement (exercise). When you change your mind, your way of thinking, then you’ll like what you see in the mirror.

Think about it this way. If you don’t think that you’re worthy or deserving of good health, why would you even begin to engage in habits or activities that would lead to improved health?

If you “hate” exercise, do you think that you’ll be successful at it? Have you ever been successful at anything that you hate to do? So to be successful you have to change your mind, change the way you think and feel about exercise. Now this is a process, a journey, there isn’t a switch that you can hit that will cause you to love to exercise when you currently hate it.

But I can show you how.

If you think of food that is bad for your health and in direct opposition to your goals as a “treat” or “reward”, then you need to change your mind. Change your relationship with food. Start to think of food that nourishes your body and improves your health as the reward.

Again this is a process, and a journey. And the destination is good health! It might take longer than 3-4 weeks to get there but it’s worth it.

And unlike the misleading, unrealistic goal of flat abs in 3 weeks, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and understanding of how to maintain your good health for the rest of your life.

Now for a fun little task. In the comment section below create a list of 5-10 health, fitness, and wellness goals that you have. The list must include “Flat Abs”. Then rank them in order of importance to you…

Enjoy….and Have a Merry Christmas
(Flat abs, or not…)

Motivational And Inspirational Quotes from The Biggest Loser Season 12 – Week #11

Here are the best quotes from week #11 of The Biggest Loser

“I’m pushing with everything I’ve got. I want this so bad.”

“Be free of the burden that the weight causes you.”

“You’ve got to get up tomorrow morning and do it all over again.”

“This is the first step to the rest of my life.”

“I feel so good about myself.”

“My life had gotten away from me and I’ve gotten it back. It’s my life now and it feels great!”

See you next week

Biggest Loser Motivational and Inspirational Quotes from the Thanksgiving Celebration

The night before Thanksgiving The Biggest Loser had a reunion celebration episode.

They invited back competitors from previous seasons to see how they were doing. The people that they invited back still looked great and they are all doing amazing things. It was a great show. Here are the best quotes for that episode;

“Tomorrow is gone, but today is here, you can do this.”

“Why can’t I have it all? Why can’t everyone have it all?”

“I have done this to myself, no more blaming someone else. No more excuses.”

“Everyone deserves the same happiness that I’ve found on the (Biggest Loser) ranch.”

“I’m trying to lead by example.”

“I know how it feels when you think that you don’t have anymore…you dig down deep and you realize that you do. That faith is unwavering.”

“I finally have a life.”

“Nothing is impossible.”

“I finally unlocked something inside myself.”

“No obstacle is too big or to small.”

“You know what? Why can’t I? Why not?”

“The next chapter of my life is yet to be seen, but whatever it is I’m ready to fly again.”

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

 

Biggest Loser – Motivational and Inspirational Quotes Season 12 week #10

Before I get to the Motivational and Inspirational Quotes from this week I want to go over an important Holiday weight gain issue. This was the Thanksgiving episode. They started the show with Thanksgiving temptation. But more importantly they dropped an interesting fact.

According the The Biggest Loser, the average American consumes about 4500 calories during Thanksgiving. This is an important fact. Because so many people worry about weight gain during the Holidays or try to make a Holiday meal healthier. I say that that is a waste of time. Here’s  why….

Yes the average American may consume 4500 calories. But if you’re an average American you’ll need about 2000 calories that day. So it is only 2500 extra calories. That means you’d only gain about .7 pounds on Thanksgiving. You shouldn’t be concerned with a .7 pound weight gain on Thanksgiving. You should enjoy yourself and your friends, family and food. What you should be concerned about, and what should keep you awake at night is the extra 100 calories that you consume the 350 non-holiday days each year that lead to 10 pounds of weight gain a year.

If you eat clean everyday and exercise more days than not year round, then you won’t have anything to worry about on the Holidays. How much more fun and enjoyable will they be if that is your reality?

Let’s look at this another way. Let’s say that you consume an extra 2500 on each of the Holidays; Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. That is 10,000 extra calories. That means you’d gain about 2.8 pounds. You seriously aren’t trying to make Thanksgiving a healthy meal because your worried about gaining only 2.8 pounds are you? If so here is the solution. You need a combination of reduced calorie intake (eating) or increased calorie expenditure (moving) of about 166 calories per day to lose 2.8 pounds during the two months between Halloween and New Years Day.

If you do that, then you can pig out during the four holidays and not gain a pound.

So how do you get to a total of 166 calories?

10 minutes of exercise (jogging at 12 minutes/mile, circuit training, aerobics), for a 180 pound person will burn about 100 calories. One chocolate chip cookie is about 72 calories. Grand total 172 calories. There you go. Exercise 10 minutes/day (or add 10 minutes to your workout) and skip one cookie per day. That way you can enjoy your holidays and not gain any weight.

Now if you just go nuts and have Halloween candy around for a month, eat Thanksgiving left overs for a week, eat every bit of candy and cookies that people bring in to work or give you as gifts, then you’re going to gain a ton of weight (10-20+ pounds). If you’re going to do that then just disregard everything I’ve written above.

Gain the weight and look me up in January. I’ll help you to lose the weight then!!!

Now for the Inspirational and Motivational quotes from this weeks episode of The Biggest Loser

“You have a lot to fight for.”

“If you can’t celebrate it then you don’t think you’ve achieved anything. It make it that much easier to go back.”

“Just keep moving, don’t stop.”

“Yeah, I’m hurting, but I’m not dead.”

“Finish what you start.”

“Hold your head up high.”

“I have so much to live for now.”

“I was lying to myself, there’s no more lying.”

“This is the life, right here!”

See you next week

Biggest Loser – Motivational and Inspirational Quotes From Season 12, Week 9

Here are the top Inspirational and Motivational Quotes from this weeks episode of The Biggest Loser

“I’m going all out.”

“We’re going to make this happen.”

“Don’t ever tell me that you can’t do it.”

“You let go…and you just did it. Don’t ever tell me that you can’t do this.”

“The only way that you’re going to be OK is to let go – and trust.”

“Start taking care of yourself.”

BAM! That just happened.”

“I want to be the healthiest 63 year old women I can be.”

“I feel better than I’ve ever felt in my life.”

“It’s about what I’m doing to save my life.”

See you next week

Biggest Loser – Motivational and Inspirational Quotes From Season 12, Week 8

Before I get to the motivational and inspirational quotes from this weeks episode of The Biggest Loser, there are a couple interesting topics from this show that I believe will help you immensely.

They brought in a doctor who is a expert on how the pleasure area of the brain reacts to food. They compared the reaction of non-obese to the reaction of obese people. Here are the super interesting results. When an obese person sees or smells food they get a much greater reaction in the pleasure area of the brain. They experience an increase of the neurotransmitter dopamine.

But when an obese person begins to eat they experience much less pleasure than a normal weight person. So they continue to eat more food in an attempt to experience more pleasure. Here is the conclusion obese people have stronger cravings (and pleasure response) for food but have to actually eat more to experience the same pleasure that a normal weight person does. That is a double whammy that makes the cycle of obesity so difficult to overcome.

To beat it you have to rethink everything. Everything about your relationship with food and activity. You can retrain your brain. This retraining (the new habits) can take weeks or even months to develop. That is why short term, quick fix diets and exercise programs will never work. To make thinks even more challenging weeks of working on changing your thought process can easily be erased by several days (one week) of returning to your old habits.

Think, going on vacation for a week after only being on your new program for a few weeks prior. When you get back you may need to start the process all over. I know that that might seem daunting, but what is the alternative? What if you don’t fail? What if you succeed? Or even worse, what if you don’t even try?

Respect yourself! Make your health a priority!

One more really positive thing before I get to the top quotes.

Ramon, who is 27, was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes at the beginning of the season. In eight weeks he has changed his diet and exercise program and lost enough weight to completely reverse the disease. This is proof that proper nutrition and exercise will profoundly and positively affect your health. It will work, every time!

Now for the top Inspirational and Motivational quotes from this week’s episode;

“Think of the big picture, it’s going to get better.”

“It’s OK to have a bad day; it’s what you do after that bad day that counts.”

“You have an enormous amount of potential, you can do anything that you want to do.’

“This is about changing your life, forever.”

“It’s about writing the next chapter in your life.”

“My future is just so good.”

“You deserve to feel confident.”

“The world is mine and I can do whatever I want to.”

“I’m learning to rethink everything.”

“I’m not going to give up…no way!”

“Respect yourself; take care of yourself.”

“It’s about getting your life back.”

“When you believe in yourself you can do amazing things.”

See you next week!

Biggest Loser – Motivational and Inspirational Quotes From Season 12, Week 7

Here are the top Motivational and Inspirational quotes from this weeks episode of The Biggest Loser

“It’s the first step in getting myself stronger…to move on.”

“Work with what you’ve got.”

“There is magic around every single corner, you just have to go look for it.”

“Anything that you want, you can achieve. You just have to look for it and work hard to get there.”

“This is good, I’m happy.”

“That 15 pounds is gone, and that’s priceless.”

“I have to make myself responsible for my outcome.”

See you next week!

Biggest Loser – Motivational and Inspirational Quotes From Season 12, Week 6

This was the Halloween Episode

Here are a couple of interesting facts from this week’s show.

1. Each year 20 million pounds of candy corn is sold.

2. The average American eats 24lbs. of candy per year.

OK Here are the Motivational and Inspirational Quotes from this weeks episode of The Biggest Loser

“When an issue comes, deal with it, don’t ignore it.”

“The more you suppress your feelings, the more damage you do to yourself.”

“I’m in this for the long haul.”

“I want you to think about what motivates you, that’s your fuel, that’s your drive.”

“This is going to be a way of life; changing who I am and my perception of myself that’s what this is all about.”

“Exercise has become my new fuel, my motivation, the most amazing felling to ever have.”

 

Enjoy Halloween. See you next week!

Biggest Loser – Motivational and Inspirational Quotes From Season 12, Week 5

OK here are the top quotes from this week’s episode of The Biggest Loser.

“It’s OK to have a challenge, because with challenges come bigger things.”

“Life; get off the sidelines and get in the game.”

“I’ve denied myself the life that I deserve.”

“I’m changing myself.”

“I’m not going to settle for less than the best. I want to be the best.”

“I want to have the life that I deserve.”

“It’s about changing yourself.”

“I’m ready to be happy. I’m ready to do things that I want to do.”

See you next week!

Biggest Loser – Motivational and Inspirational quotes from Season 12 week 4

Here are the top quotes from this weeks episode of The Biggest Loser

“I was miserable and unhappy. I didn’t go out of my home. I was comfortable in that fat suit.”

“I’m happy for the first time. I don’t even know if I knew what it was like to be happy.”

“Our lives are worth fighting for. Let’s take our lives back.”

“A leader doesn’t say it. A leader does it.”

“I don’t want to hate myself. I’m not proud of myself ever.”

“When you start to love your actions, you start to love yourself.”

“It’s not about changing how you eat, it’s about changing how you relate to food.”

“That unconditional love that your spouse has given you; you need to start giving that to yourself.”

“You have the ability to be better than you think you can be.”

“I can do this. And who knows what else I can do and how much else have I not done, because I was afraid to try.”

“Age doesn’t matter, anybody can do it.”

“If you work hard, good things will happen.”

“You have to have a purpose. You have to have a vision and you have to set goals. If you don’t do that, it’s too easy to fall backwards.”

“I didn’t want to be a statistic so I did something.”

“Get up and go for a walk.”

 

See you next week!

 

 

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