Top 4 Things You Can Do To Force Your Body To Lose Fat & Gain Muscle Quickly

TheTop 4 Things You Can Do ;

1.) Work out intensley/ safely with weights (add stretching)
2.) Do cardio (preferably Interval Style) first thing in the a.m.
3.) Eat small meals with protein and carbs every 3 hours (cycle starchy carbs)
4.) Realize the Power of your mind and how your attitude can change everything

The first 3 on the list above are common sense (or at least they should be), the last one is not so much common sense. I can hear a lot of you now; “Yeah, yeah, I have heard all of this positive thinking stuff before.”

I do agree, it does not seem logical that our mind and our attitude would influence our waistline. On the surface, it seems pretty straight forward;

Work out harder, eat less, and lose the fat and waist line. But I hope to inspire you to slow down and consider for a moment how you can work out less and make more gains with the proper mindset.

You see, though my experience of training myself through over 9,000 work outs and my clients through over 20,000 work outs, I have learned a lot about how to get leaner, more muscular, more flexible, more pain free, more athletic, and more youthful.

And the key is not physical, it’s mental.

Through the experience of using those 29,000 work-outs as learning tools, I have realized;

1.) Anything you believe deep down in your gut with an absolute certainty will come true for you.
100% of the time.

2.) The placebo affect is very real and very strong. If you believe it, you can conceive it.

3.) Seeing and feeling what you want, in the “Theatre of Your Mind”, like you already have
have accomplished it produces physical results.

4.) Slowing down, doing deep breathing, and thinking of nothing opens up your mind for new
ideas, positiveness, and a whole world of “prosperity”.

5.) Being positive and consistently seeing the “Glass as 1/2 full” is somethng that you can learn.
And you must never “hold on to” negative thoughts or words.

6.) The body has an unbelievable ability to “regenerate” healthy cells when we;

Put good nutrients in our mouth

Put good thoughts in our head

Hang around people we want to be like

Exercise

Goal Set and get leverage by setting a deadline with consequences

When you start to become more positive and excited about your future, your body chemistry changes. You have 1,000′s of different things firing off in your body that promote health, fitness, happiness, and prosperity.

So I beg you to stay open minded about the power of your mind. Below is a true story about how some women became leaner, more fit, and healthier simply by changing their mind.

When you change your mind, and your nutrition, and your exercise, and your goals; you can have a totally new body, lifestyle, and life.

TRUE STORY BELOW;

Hotel maids don’t always realize their jobs qualify as exercise. When one group of overweight maids was told they exceeded the surgeon general’s guidelines for fitness, they started losing weight.

In fact, a recent study by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer seems to challenge our basic assumptions about the relationship between the physical body and the mind — and perhaps even our assumptions about the nature of objective reality itself. It certainly challenges our assumptions about the limits of the placebo effect.

Langer is a researcher who has published several important and provocative studies. In this study, she decided to look at whether our perception of how much exercise we are getting has any effect on how our bodies actually look. To do this, she studied hotel maids.

As any casual observer of the hospitality industry knows, hotel maids spend the majority of their days lugging heavy equipment around endless hallways. Basically, almost every moment of their working lives is spent engaged in some kind of physical activity.

But Langer found that most of these women don’t see themselves as physically active. She did a survey and found that 67 percent reported they didn’t exercise. More than one-third of those reported they didn’t get any exercise at all.

“Given that they are exercising all day long,” Langer says, “that seemed to be bizarre.”

Perceptions Matter

What was even more bizarre, she says, was that, despite the fact all of the women in her study far exceeded the U.S. surgeon general’s recommendation for daily exercise, the bodies of the women did not seem to benefit from their activity.

Langer and her team measured the maids’ body fat, waist-to-hip ratio, blood pressure, weight and body mass index. They found that all of these indicators matched the maids’ perceived amount of exercise, rather than their actual amount of exercise.

So Langer set about changing perceptions.

She divided 84 maids into two groups. With one group, researchers carefully went through each of the tasks they did each day, explaining how many calories those tasks burned. They were informed that the activity already met the surgeon general’s definition of an active lifestyle.

The other group was given no information at all.

One month later, Langer and her team returned to take physical measurements of the women and were surprised by what they found. In the group that had been educated, there was a decrease in their systolic blood pressure, weight, and waist-to-hip ratio — and a 10 percent drop in blood pressure.

One possible explanation is that the process of learning about the amount of exercise they were already getting somehow changed the maids’ behavior. But Langer says that her team surveyed both the women and their managers and found no indication that the maids had altered their routines in any way. She believes that the change can be explained only by the change in the women’s mindset.

Essentially, what Langer is talking about is a placebo effect. She says that if you believe you are exercising, your body may respond as if it is. It’s the same as if you believe you are getting medication when you are actually getting a sugar pill — your body can sometimes respond as if a placebo is actually working.

The implication is that the “objective reality” of the physical body is not as immovable as we might have assumed. Hence, the theoretical possibility that, if done with genuine conviction, one might be able to sit around eating chocolate and still lose weight.

Placebo Effect Limited?

But Martin Binks, director of behavioral health at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center in North Carolina, is skeptical of Langer’s conclusion, even though he is impressed with the physical changes in the maids.

“There’s a very high likelihood that [the maids] behaved differently after they received that information,” he says, “and they were being more active and eating more healthfully. And that resulted in their improvements in health.”

But Binks has a more substantive criticism. He does not believe that placebos are capable of producing the kind of objective change in the physical body that Langer is claiming.

“Generally what placebos work on is subjective types of findings,” he says.

In other words, a placebo can help change something like your perception of pain or perhaps your sense of whether you feel depressed, but it can’t do something objective like shrink a tumor or cut three pounds off your waistline.

Or can it?

Howard Brody has spent years looking at this issue. He says that a number of relatively new studies challenge the old assumption that the placebo effect alters only subjective perception. He is the director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch and the author of the book, The Placebo Response.

For example, Brody notes one study where researchers gave asthmatic patients a drug that actually makes asthma worse. When they gave the drug to the patients, they told them that it relieves asthma.

“A significant number of those patients said that my asthma got better when you gave me the drug,” Brody says, “and they measured better when you measured the lung findings.

“So the idea that the placebo effect applies only to subjective things is really one that we have to dismiss.”

Your Mind & you are more powerful than you know.

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Your Healthy Lifestyle Coach,

Darin L Steen

Four of My Top Mentors who have helped me are:
Bill Phillips
MERCOLA
Tony Robbins
Joel OSteen