Happy New Year

Can Do Craig and I would like to wish you a fantastic 2014 and we hope you achieve your wishes and goals through out the year ahead.

If one of you goals this year is to lose weight and keep it off you may be able to get your year of to a great start by checking these out:

• The Gabriel Method
• The Fat Loss Code
• Weight Loss Attitude
• Program Yourself Thin
• Weight Loss Hypnosis Pro

Make That Change

This quote is really quite empowering because it tells us that we have the power to make any changes we wish to improve our look.

"If you keep doing what you've always been doing
You're going to keep looking how you been looking"

 It also reminds me of lines from the Michael Jackson 'Man in the Mirror' song:

"I'm Gonna Make A Change,
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . ."

and

"I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways
And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change"

By taking the responsibility to change youself for the better you also make the world as a whole better too, because if you are happier with yourself the world as a whole is a happier place too. This is how much power we each have as individuals. So make that change!

Take care and speak soon
Mindful Mark

Correct Your Mind

What a lovely quote by Lao Tzu, it really does show that proper planning and structure of your mind can help you achieve your goals, for me this was extended upon by something Gandhi said:

"Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words.
Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions.
Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits.
Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values.
Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.”

So very poignant and show how we can achieve anything just carefully watching our thoughts and correcting our minds.

We at Mind Body Weight Loss believe that everything starts from the mind which is why we share lots of tips, information an product information to help you get correct your mind to give you the best change of achieving your weight loss goals.

Take care
Mindful Mark

Don't Eat Less, Eat Right

The premise of ' Don't eat less, Eat Right' is pretty much self explanatory but has some reallt really interesting points hidden inside.

One point being that if we eat healthily we will lose weight as side result. So make you aim to eat healthy and don't focus on the weight loss because it will happen.

The next point is that this piece of weight loss advice fits in with what we at Mind Body Weight Loss believe is the best weight loss strategy ever:

"The best strategy we have got is to just add in good stuff and eventually it will crowd out the bad stuff. It’s so simple and deactivates the mental neurosis we have about diets and what we have to eat"
Source – David Wolfe

 The final point that I feel this tip falls under is the 'Eat Less CRAP, Eat More FOOD' because if you eat less crap and and eat more healthy food you are still eating the same amount, but the difference is that you are eating more healthy and as a result the weight will come off.

I hope you found this post helpful.

Take care and speak soon.
Mindful Mark

Stop Trying To Lose Weight

I know this sounds very odd advice coming from a motivational weight loss blog like Mind Body Weight Loss, but it is true in so many ways.

The first and most important part of 'trying' is that to the subconscious mind and with in hypnotherapy 'trying' presupposes failure. This is because it gives you the option to fail, you are not pledging to do it, you are just saying you are going to attempt it and the easiest way out of an attempt is to fail or quit.

So if we should not try to lose weight, what is the other option? Well I think Yoda from Star Wars put it best - "Do or Do Not. There is no try".

Can you see the difference in 'trying' to lose weight you leave yourself the easier option of failure, but by choosing to do weight loss or choosing not to do weight loss you are choosing one of the absolute options and are therefore much more like to achieve your weight loss goals.

So if you want to 'do' weight loss why not read our blog or website, sign up to our eNewsletter and checkout some of the fantastic products Mind Body Weight Loss believe can help you.

Take care and speak soon.

Your Life, You are in Control

This is your life, You are in Control. This is so empowering you may see you life as story book unfolding before you. You may not like the story upto now, but the great thing about this story and indeed you life is that you decide how it unfolds. You can change each and every part of it from this moment on, including your weight loss. So lets read the quote again:

"Ctrl your portions and hunger
Alt your lifestyle and choices
Del Junk food and bad vibe"

So if you follow the weight loss advice in the above quote how do you think you story will change and unfold?

Take total ownership of finishing your story as you would like it to conclude and lets see together what amazing things will happen in your life.

Take care and speak soon.
Mindful Mark

Real Fast Food Is Not Fat Food!

This image above helps me understands that most 'Fast Food' just has one letter too many and could be called 'Fat Food'

"Real fast food isn't fat food'

Also this quote and picture has firmed my belief that the fasted food you can eat is natural fresh foods like apples, carrots, broccoli, bananas. You see the advice for true fast food should go like this; if it has no packaging, if it has no labels, if you are sure edible and healthy, if you can eat it raw or cooked then this is true 'Fast Food' because it isn't 'Fat Food" it is "Fab Food" for you, your health, weight, life longevity.

Some other website posts which you may find helpful which relate to this post are - Eat less CRAP, Eat more FOOD, The Best Weight Loss Strategy, Helpful Weight Loss Rules and The Key to Weight Loss.

I hope you found this post helpful.

Speak soon
Mindful Mark

7 Amazing Tips On How to Visualise Losing Weight

 

 

We at Mind Body Weight Loss know how important visualization is, however you may not know how to use it in your day to day. Well! Have no fear Can Do Craig is here! Mmm, sorry about that, any way lets get to it!

 

Now let us start with a few home truths. You are not going to be able to do this right away you will have to practice, practice and practice. Also love the process, enjoy it and know that it will work for you! Because it will work!

 

 

1. Write down as many things as you can that you love about your self, do this every day!

 

2. Sit down or lie down and relax for 20-30 minutes, without any distractions. Practice until you feel relaxed for the whole 20-30 minutes.

 

3. When you have mastered number 2 focus on your breathing inhale though you nose and out through your mouth counting to 5 as your exhale. Again practice, practice and more practice. You will feel so relaxed, I know I do!

 

4. Ok! Sit down or lie down and repeat 2 and 3 together remember Practice!

 

5. Now you have practiced 2 and 3 together it is time to relax all the muscles in the body starting from your head all the way down to your toes.

 

6. Now it is time to visualise what you will look like when you are at your target weight. You will have to really feel what it would feel like, for example! Think of your self on a beach taking in the rays of the sun, putting sun lotion on your perfect new body, here the sound of the sea and birds.

 

7. Finally, my last tip is to smile. This really makes you feel good and happy.

 

I hope this little guide is helpful. Just remember to practice! It really does work it has been proven time and time again. Read more post on this very blog to see for your self.

 

Can Do Craig

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.

Getting Started with Weight Loss Tip

This Getting Started with Weight Loss Tip is great and a fantastic way to getting motivated and in a way fits in with what David Wolfe advices in his great weight loss philosophy of adding in more good food, rather taking away the bad and unhealthy.

It is a really positive piece advice that can have a big different on any ones life. Just be aware of how good the first step feels and understand that you can make that multiply by taking bigger and bigger positive steps in the coming hours and days.

"Start today,  Start Now! Even if it is small.
Drink a glass of water, Eat some fruit, Take a walk outside.
Those small changes will become bigger and you will be glad you started now"
Source - fitnessflirt

Please let us at Mind Body Weight Loss know how you get on with this tip and where it takes you on your weight loss journey.

Speak soon.
Mark

Mother of all Motivations

I just had to share this motivational quote I found on Tumblr it really made me think about what I want to achieve and has helped me focus my mind and body on achieving it.

"Your mother didn't spend 9 months forming you body in her just so you could destroy it. Love it and make it the best you can."

Now I know there is an element of guilt built in to the quote but as we know there is nothing we can do about the past but what we can do is right now pledge to make our body and indeed our life the best it can be.

Take care and speak soon
Mindful Mark

Weight Loss Support

Hi Can Do Craig and I would like to share an image with you that has really inspired us this week. Apart from it being extremely cute it helped us consider our Mind Body Weight Loss Purpose.

If you can imagine yourself on one side of your weight loss journey wanting to get to the other side where you have become your ideal weight. You have to cross that gap but do not yet know how to do so. Well we at Mind Body Weight Loss want to be that bridge which can support you along you weight loss journey. As you can see from the picture above you will still have to do some work to get the other side but we at Mind Body Weight Loss are here to make it easier for you in as many ways as we possibly can.

Some on the ways we help you lose weight are our helpful blog posts with advice, tips and suggestions, free ebooks, eNewsletters, and recommending fantastic products which we feel could help you lose weight.

Best wishes
Can Do Craig and Mindful Mark
Your Mind Body Weight Loss Support Team