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Want to look the best you’ve ever looked? Feel better than you’ve ever felt? Be the best you you’ve ever been?

I’m sure the answer is YES!

How to do it you wonder?

By Effective Goal Setting and Pre Empting Excuses. Sounds simple, but don’t underestimate the power of these tools.

Here are 3 steps to getting you closer to a healthier, happier you!

1.Goal Setting. This is the most important of all 12 principles! Without a clear goal, then you can not have clear direction. The most important thing about goal setting is that it is realistic and very specific. For example it’s not enough to just say you want to lose weight, or even to say that you want to lose 10lbs.

Here’s what to do:

Choose a date in the future including the day, month, and year; it’s a good idea to choose a date that may be significant to you or a date that’s linked to special event.

Next describe where you will be when you know you have achieved your goal. Will you be in your room in front of the mirror? Will you be sitting at your desk in your office? Be specific!

Finally how will you know you achieved it. Will you be doing up your belt and realise you’ve had to tighten it a few notches? WIll you be putting on your favourite outfit and realise if fits perfectly? What will you look like and feel like from head to toe? Get the picture? Start to live that moment as if it has already happened.

2. Visualise Your Goal. It’s critical that you don’t go through the hard work of setting your goal simply to forget about it. Visualise it every single day! Choose a time in the morning or a time when you’re on your way to work, basically a time when you know you have a few minutes to reflect on and live the moment in which you have achieved your goal.

3. No Excuses. At the start of each day think of potential moments or situations that may put you off track. Come up with a plan before they happen. For example if you know you have to meet a friend for dinner, think ahead and choose a place that you know will have healthy meals that you can choose from. If you know you’re going to have a busy evening, fit your exercise in to the morning or at lunch. Be one step ahead, all the time!

I know this is just the start of a HEALTHIER HAPPIER YOU! Go for it! Give it a try

Scientists have discovered that traditional Mediterranean cuisine is one of the most healthful, nutritious diets in the world — one that can help everyone lose weight and enjoy lower rates of coronary heart disease and other chronic conditions, including diabetes and cancer. From tasty Moroccan vegetable stew to rosemary focaccia, from eggplant parmesan to lemon almond cake, The Mediterranean Diet offers a program that will make dieters everywhere — and food lovers in general (more…)

“You need to be an absolute bully when it comes to weight loss ” These were the last words I would hear from him, the stranger who was commuting with me on my way back to work. Before I could ask him what he had meant by being a “bully”, he exited the bus and disappeared into the crowd.
There was something of an air of wisdom and confidence about this man that lingered. His statement, and the sparkle in his eyes, combined with the all-knowing look that emanated from his face, left me pondering his final words.
Yes, he had the power to make me think!
Throughout the following days, waves of thoughts crossed my mind and many questions started to flood my brain. How do you be a bully? Isn’t a bully a person who is cruel, intimidating and overbearing? Did he mean a ruffian, a tough or rowdy person? How would that apply to weight loss?
Bullies pick at other people… they are relentless, I thought. Perhaps I was beginning to grasp the meaning of what this man had meant. Could he have meant to be ruthless in conquering your goals? Did it mean to be relentless in exercise and working out… to keep up the pressure to succeed?
Perhaps he meant taking up the sword to your weight loss and waging war against your old habits. Maybe it meant I should “bully” anyone or anything that stood in my way of achieving a healthy lifestyle! Did he mean to be courageous and to reach for my dreams no matter what? The irony was not lost as I considered the word “bully” being compared to standing up for what I believed.
Finally, I resorted to the dictionary and found a few meanings that began to support some positive thoughts…
“To make (one’s way) aggressively.”
“Excellent, splendid: did a bully job of persuading the members.”
“Used to express approval: Bully for you!”
“Relentless - not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; ‘grim determination’; ‘grim necessity’ incapable of being placated”;
“Persistent, unrelenting, continual - occurring without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series” as in “the continual banging of the shutters”.
“Unyielding, unstoppable”
Perhaps I was on to something! Perhaps I could now relate to what this intriguing man had meant….
-Be driven in your commitment to yourself.
-Push yourself harder physically.
-Be willing to deprive yourself of high caloried foods that give you an immediate pleasure in return for the long-term joy of attaining your goal of weight loss.
-Don’t let yourself give up; kick yourself in your rear to reach your dreams.
-Coach yourself to do one more crunch, one more sit-up or to go two steps farther than you did the day before.
-Bully yourself to be physically stronger.
-Be determined, even bull-headed to succeed.
-Pick away at your resistance to change until your attitude is one of willingness.
-Stand up for yourself and don’t let anyone stand in your way of success.
-Be confident in your resolve, know that you WILL win this weight loss battle.
-Be relentless in taking the actions to bring about change.
-Change your attitude to go after what you want…. and get it!
-Take back your life.
-Kick your own butt; never say never!
-Don’t let people tell you “No”.
Do you have the same determination as a “bully” when it come to your weight loss? Are you willing to be steadfast in your commitment and do what it takes to reach your goals? Are you willing to live your dreams?
Then YOU may be a Weight Loss “Bully”
Please add your comments to the blog and let us know your thoughts…
“Bully” for YOU!!!

Being overweight is a pain, and trying to lose flab is an even bigger pain. However, now if scientists are to be believed, then the world could finally be greeted with a pharmaceutical drug that makes you lose wait.As appears in the news, the U.S. government researchers reported that, an epilepsy drug when tested for use in treating addiction led to the laboratory rats to lose weight. While the fat rats lost 19 percent of their body weight, the normal ones lost 12 to 20 percent in about 40 days, after they were injected with the drug.Apparently, the drug inhibits craving for food just like it inhibits the craving for the addictive substance in a person. Being a central nervous system drug it acts on the brain’s dopamine reward system. Which plays a role in both overeating and drug addiction. “Vigabatrin” is the drug under consideration, which reduces the build up dopamine in the body.Experts believe that many people who gain weight do so because they overeat in response to the cues they get from the environment, viz. the aroma, etc. The same is the case with drug abusers. During the study, the rats successively gained and lost weight as they were dosed with the drug and then taken off it. The drug helps lose weight because it stops the mechanism by which people abuse drugs and overeat.Although this is good news, but not without a pitfall, that an overdose of the drug can affect eyesight, and permanently too. At the same time experts from the medical industry opine that it shouldn’t happen with the amount of dosage needed to help people lose weight. Still good news!

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