5 Questions to Ask Yourself

I found these 5 questions to ask yourself before you eat on mizfits and they really do make you think.

1. Am I dehydrated?
2. Am I trying to overcome emotions with food?
3. Am I physically exhausted?
4. Am I eating to be polite?
5. Do I need to sustain my body?

These are really useful questions because if you are dehydrated drink water before eating anything, if it is emotional consumption deal with the emotions first, if you are tired do you need food or sleep is the decision to make, if it is to be polite you have to make a difficult decision to follow your path or please someone else. Finally question 5 is the crux of why we eat and perhaps the only reason we should eat and that is it going to help me live longer and healthier?

Take and I hope you found this post helpful.
Mindful Mark

Attitude is Everything

Today I would like to share a story I found. At the end, or even as you read, you will see how this can apply to weight loss and help you.

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ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING
By Francie Baltazar-Schwartz

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Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate

He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say

When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant

The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee to look on the positive side of the situation

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time How do you do it?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it

I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes it is," Jerry said

"Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life." I reflected on what Jerry said

Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business

We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him

Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place

"The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die

I chose to live

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man. " I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry.

"She asked if I was allergic to anything

'Yes,' Ireplied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply... I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!'

Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything .

You have 2 choices now:
1. Do nothing and continue as you are
2. Change your attitude to weight loss
Hope you will choose choice 2

If you chose number two perhaps these product could help you get started:

• Weight Loss Attitude
• John GabrielThe Gabriel Method
  
• The Fat Loss Code
• The Silva Weight Loss System

I hope you found this story as helpful and inspiring as I did.

Take care and speak soon from
Mindful Mark

Hunger and Emotions - Eating When You Are hungry

Because hunger and emotions are experienced in the stomach area of the body sometime it can be hard to tell the difference. The importance of Eating when You are Hungry is highlighted because if you eat because of your emotions you are much more likely to put weight on. What this post is aim to to is share a few of pointers of how you recognise your hunger and act upon it.

1. Eat regular healthy meals this way you won't have extreme feelings of hunger
2. Use a hunger scale, this helps set in a conscious way exactly how hungry you are, this is great way to tell the difference between emotions and hunger
3. Consciously eat being fully aware of the tastes, textures, smells and the messages your body is sending. One great way to experience eating consciously is to try the 'Eating a Raisin Experiment'
4. Be kind to yourself and make your life easier, for example checking your hunger scale to see if it above 5 prior to any food shopping trip.

I hope you have found this post helpful and remember to ask yourself next time you think you are hungry. How hungry am I on the hunger scale.

Take care and happy weight loss.

Trusting your Body

 
Trust is one of the most importance things in life along with acceptance. Acceptance gives you the base from where to start and trust enables you to develop the most healthy belief to achieve the weight loss goals.

We need to believe that it’s even possible. We need to know that our body is not at war with us, that it’s not fighting our weight loss efforts. The body is always doing the best it can to make us feel healthy and safe. When we can trust our body, listen to it, and respect its innate wisdom, we relax on a deep level. From that place, natural weight loss is possible. Some of the best things in life happen to us because we trusted.
Source - Psychology of Eating

The premise of working with our body instead of fighting it is a great point because by trusting it to do what we want is a great way to develop the belief and you know what, the body generally follows its beliefs. Just think of the Placebo effect where someone takes a sugar pill with no medical value yet it cures their ailiment. They are trusting the tablet to cure them, so trust in your body to lose weight and it will in harmony with your thought.

To end I would like share one my favourite Louise L Hay affirmations.

"I trust in the process of life to bring me my highest good."

If you have to trust in something trust in the best for yourself be that your highest good or that your body will do as you required to keep you at your healthiest.

Take care and speak soon.
Mindful Mark

Good Health a Great Way to Live

Today I would just like to share a quick quote which moved me and really made me thing and clarify a belief of Good Health a Great Way to Live.

The quote is this:

"Good health is simply the slowest way a human being can die."
author unknown

It moved me for 2 reason one is the realisation that, as much as we may not want to, we are all going to die. We can see this all around us there is nobody alive today who was born 150 years ago. From this we work out that we are only here for a limited time only. There is nothing we can do about it. However from the quote above shares with us that with good health we can slow the dying process down. And surely slowing down so we can spend more time on this planet with the ones we love and care is great thing to do. I say this for the reason of motivation because with good health comes our optimum healthy weight. Our weight loss can just be a by product of living healthy to spend more time with our family, friends and others. So please consider this as option, stop focusing on weight loss and concentrate on being healthy and dieing (no I did not miss the 't' out of dieting, I said dieing) as slowly as possible.

Some of the best way we can get health and slow down our dieing process is by reading these blog posts:

• Eat Less CRAP, Eat More FOOD
• Quote which makes you think about the Importance of Food
• The Best Weight Loss Strategy
• Good Food to Eat for Weight Loss

I hope you found this post thought provoking and made you think about weight loss in a different way and motivated you to try to live in a healthy and lose weight as a by product of a healthy lifestyle to live longer.

Kind regards
Mindful Mark

p.s. If you wanted read more about living a longer life, I found the above quote in the above on this website.

Keys to Unlock Your Weight Loss

Please listen to this audio below sharing some keys to unlock your weight loss.



It shares different ways which can have a huge impact of the way you could lose weight. If you would prefer to read the transcript, you can do so at the Mind Body Weight Loss website.

Take care.

from
Mindful Mark

Good Food to Eat for Weight Loss

Michael Pollan the author of Food Rules has some fantastic tips for Good Food to Eat for Weight Loss, some of which I am going share with you below:

"Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
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"Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry."
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"Avoid food products that contain more than five ingredients."
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"Avoid foods you see advertised on television."
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"Eat only foods that will eventually rot."
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All of his points are best summed in Michaels most famous tip :

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
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If you would like to learn more about each of these tips please check out the amazing book called 'Food Rules'. It will really make you think and can make a fantastic different to your health and as a result your weight.

Take care and speak soon.

Can Do Craig

You Choose!

OK! Do you really want to lose weight? Yes of course I bloody do! Why would I be reading this if I did not want to lose weight!

Well we all make choices through the day that will help us lose weight or put on weight. Here are some examples ….

You choose to THINK that you are not good enough

You choose to Eat and drink fatty foods

You choose not to exercise

You Choose to THINK fat thoughts

I think you get the general idea, YOU CHOOSE!

So how can I change?

Do not think about losing weight! Think about when you have lost weight!

Now this is how it works. You have to imagine that it is real in this moment. All changes are made in this moment!

Now imagine yourself on a beach with your fantastic body taking the rays of the sun and getting that deep golden tan. Feel it! I mean Really Feel it! feel good and feel gratitude for having this body.

You can do this! it might take practice but I believe you can do it. All you have to do is make that choice to change. YOU CHOOSE! No excuses!

Can Do Craig.