You are not fat

Such a great perspective to have and I love this statement made on tumblr it really made me think.

You are a soul. You are a mind.
You are not fat. You have fat.
You also have fingernails, but you aren't fingernails, are you?
You have hair, but you aren't hair, are you?
You have fat, but you are not fat.
You are beautiful.

This is really quite profound and is a very clever statement because it enables us to think of our weight loss in a new way.

Some of use have longer fingernails or more hair than others but we do not define ourselves or get in an emotional muddle over it, if the fingernails are too long we just cut them to our desired length. If we do not like our hair we change it to a style we like. These two brilliant examples of fingernails and hair do not define us, so why should we let fat do the same. If we are happy with our weight and feel we have enough fat great, if we have too much then lets remove in with a similar mindset to how we change the length of our nail and hair. No real emotional attachment, just do what is best for you.

You are amazing please do not define yourself by something you have too much or too little off, define yourself by your soul and your life purpose.

Best wishes
Mindful Mark

Friday Weight Loss Affirmation

Say this to yourself over and over as an affirmation today and see how you feel at the end of the day.

It doesn't matter if you say it out loud or if you say it in your head, just say t over and over to get yourself in the correct mindset to lose weight.

"Today I will do my best!

Today, I will try my best to make choices that are healthy and make me feel good.

Today, I'll work on my goal!"

Happy Fantastic Friday To You All!

Best wishes
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

Weight Loss Begins in Your Head

It is clear that any change that we action in our body start from our head, it starts with a thought which, turns into words, behaviour, actions and beliefs. Weight Loss is no different what you think at the start ripples through to your final results so when I found an amazing article on topendsports.com that shared an amazing 9 exercises for you to use to get your head in gear I had to share it with you.

The nine exercises are:

1. Self Examination
2. You can be what you want to be
3. Keep a journal of your daily successes
4. Go easy on yourself, you are beautiful work in progress
5. Forget about the past
6. Resolve to change today
7. Write a plan for your life
8. Carry affirmation cards about yourself
9. Change your eating habits

You can see read more about these exercises here. They look fantastic to use and I would love to hear how you get on and which ones you found most helpful.

Take care and speak soon
Mindful Mark

The Importance of the Mind For Weight Loss

We at Mind Body Weight Loss love how the power of the mind helps people lose weight and this quote helps explain why:

"The body achieves what the mind believes"

The basic say to me that everything comes from a thought, before we do anything and I mean anything it is processed in the brain, either consciously or unconsciously but it is processed in the mind first. So if we control our thoughts to be those that will help us lose weight our words, behaviour and actions will then follow on from these thoughts and create our desired outcomes. This is why the mind is so powerful and why Jose Silva believed that for any meaningful change to occur we need desire, belief and an expectance that it will happen.

We, at Mind Body Weight Loss, are here to help you achieve the correct mindset for you to achieve your weight loss goals. We do this with regular posts with tips, advice and motivation. We also have 3 really helpful FREE ebooks cram packed with information, and on top of this to help you achieve the strongest beliefs to aid your weight loss we have regular eNewsletter updates for you.

So let get the weight loss mind activated and get start losing weight!

Kind regards
Mindful Mark

Start Where You Are

This post is similar to the theme of yesterdays in that just control, do and use what you can to make your weight loss method as effective as possible. The quote suggests:

Start where you are.
Use what you have.
Do what you want.

So lets break this down line by line:

Start where you are - means to me that in this moment right now with everything the way it is the best time to start losing weight and taking control of your life is definitely now.

Use what you have - translates as find your strength and working them to get the best outcomes, it could also mean getting the most out your knowledge, support groups, shop and food.

Do what you can - With the knowledge you have what can you do to make this happen with full desire, belief and expectancy it is going to happen. You can also look at lots of different method to help you lose weight like The Gabriel Method, Weight Loss Attitude, Fat Loss Code, The Silva Method for Weight Loss, Hypnosis for weight loss and Program yourself thin to name a few.

So lets get started, both Can Do Craig and I here to help support you to lose weight in every way we can. You can also get our free eBooks and sign up for our eNewsletter here.

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

Soup Portion Control Experiment

 Brian Wansink who has been called the Sherlock Holmes of food carried out a study which we call 'Soup Portion Control'. What he proved was that at our eyes are indeed bigger than our stomachs. He did this by giving 60 people a bowl of soup, half the people had a normal bowl of soup. the other half had a special bowl designed to refill itself with out them knowing.

The purpose of the study was to see if we listened our body and it's message that we have had enough food or do we listen to the bowl or plate. The answer was clear from the results when the group with the self filling bowl group ate a staggering 73% more than the people with a normal bowl.

This clearly shows the power of mindful eating and listening to your body and following the Hara Hachi Bu model of stop eating when you are 80% full because your stomach takes around 20 minutes to register as full.

I hope you found this interesting and helpful and I believe that if you use the mindful eating method it will help you loads with your weight loss.

Kind regards
Mindful Mark

You Are in Control

How empowering! It means that like others before you who have achieved the goals that you want you to can achieve them, if you decide too.

It is said by the Silva Method that once you decide to be who you want to be you need 3 things to make it happen:

• Desire
• Belief
• Expectancy

A nice little zen story about desire makes will make you think:

A man approaches a Zen Master and asks to be shown the path to enlightenment. The Master replies, “Okay, follow me,” stands up, and walks the man to a nearby river and into the water. Without warning, the Master forces the man’s head under the water and holds it there as he struggles violently for his life, until he is nearly dead. At last the Master pulls the man up, gasping for air, and says, “When you want to be enlightened as badly as you wanted to take your next breath just now, come back and see me.

Belief, like I said earlier, if some else can do it, then there is no reason you can not achieve it too. NLP is a great believer in this by suggesting 'Modelling'. This means that following the same procedure and actions as the person who lost the weight and achieved the goal like yours. This is a great way to develop the belief because you have seen it work for somebody else.

Expectancy means expect the results to happen, and why shouldn't you because you know it will happen for you too.

Some People you may like to 'Model' your weight loss on could be:

• John Gabriel
• Anna Aparicio
• Lizzy
• Jose Silva 

I hope you found this post helpful in working towards your weight loss goals, we at Mind Body Weight Loss will support you in achieving this.

Take care
Mindful Mark

Visualization for Weight Loss

Visualization for Weight Loss is amazing! Once you set your target weight, visualize what you will look and feel like. Studies have proven the brain can not tell the difference between what is real and visualized because it uses the same part of the brain for both!

There are a few studies you can check out which back this up, the first is called the 'The Little Finger Strength Test", another is the 'Basket Ball Test' and the final one I can think of right now is the 'Piano Practice Test' The very interesting think about this is that each time a similar test is run they proof the same thing. The mind can not distinguish between what is real and imagined. Empowering isn't it!

As Can Do Craig once said "Olympic Athletes use visualization to improve their performance. You could use it to Improve Your Weight Loss Performance." This is supported by what Dennis Waitley has said about goals:

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."

So what can you do to help you define your goals.

• Be clear on what you want
• Believe you can achieve your goal
• Picture your self achieving it over and over.
• Create an affirmations to re-enforce your goal and belief
• Do something towards your goal each day

I hope this helps you on your journey, one visualization I created (see below) a little while ago is called the 'Control Panel' you may find it good place to get you started.

Kind regards
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

Determination to Lose Weight

Below are some quotes that can help you view your weight loss goals in a different way and increase your motivation and determination to succeed.

"When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ways to do it."
Dr. David Schwartz - Click to Tweet

"Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe."
Mark Victor Hansen - Click to Tweet

"It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward."
Poverb - Click to Tweet

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals–this alone is worth the struggle."
William Penn - Click to Tweet

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."
proverb - Click to Tweet

"He is able who thinks he is able."
Buddha - Click to Tweet

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
Einstein - Click to Tweet

"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."
Unknown - Click to Tweet

I hope you have found these helpful and motivational, if you would like more tips, advice and motivational support the please sign up for eNewsletter.

Go for it you can do it.

From
Can Do Craig

Meal Sizes and Portion Control

I found this quote which really made me think as it fits in nicely with what I read about Buddhist weight loss.

"Eat Breakfast like a king, Lunch like a prince and Dinner like a Pauper"
Source - Work Out Box

The reason behind this is best illustrated in the picture above. but also a quote from a post entitled 'The Five Contemplations While Eating' suggests why it is better to eat more in the morning according to Buddhist monks:

"I have read an interesting way Buddhist Monks eat only in the morning and why. The theory goes something like this; In the morning one hour before and one hour after sunrise the large intestine are at the most productive. The technique the monks use is to not eat until there is enough sunlight for them to see the lines on the palms of their hands. They will eat as much as they like at this point up until the sun is at its highest point (midday). The rest of the day the can drink as much water as they wish. They say that water is a great way to plug the hunger should they have any, however if they are hungry at any point through out that day, the next morning they will have more appreciation for the food and the people who supplied it."
Source - www.mindbodyweightloss.info

We would love to hear from you if this method of eating alot for breakfast, alittle less for lunch and a small dinner is something you have tried yourself and if so what results you got.

Kind regards
Mindful Mark

Affirmations for Motivation and Change

Below are 10 affirmations to get you empowered about your weight loss. If you connect with any of the below affirmations why not write them down 10 times and repeat it over and over until it becomes your belief.

1. I am the architect of my life; I build its foundation and choose its contents.
2. My body is healthy; my mind is brilliant; my soul is tranquil.
3. I possess the qualities needed to be extremely successful
4. My ability to conquer my challenges is limitless; my potential to succeed is infinite.
5. My thoughts are filled with positivity and my life is plentiful with prosperity.
6. Today, I abandon my old habits and take up new, more positive ones.
7. Everything that is happening now is happening for my ultimate good.
8. My future is an ideal projection of what I envision now.
9. I radiate beauty, charm, and grace.
10. My obstacles are moving out of my way; my path is carved towards greatness.

We found these 10 affirmations on the huffington post website they have 25 more affirmations which you can check out if you wish.

Take care and speak soon.

Mindful Mark

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

Some Weight Loss Thoughts

Here are some weight loss thoughts to get you thinking.

Don't do it to impress someone else. Do it to satisfy yourself - Click to Tweet

Now that I eat healthy, when I see the fake, processed foods that I used to eat, it makes me feel sick. - Click to Tweet

Eat. Energize - Click to Tweet

Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet - Click to Tweet

If you want to be sad live in the past. If you want to be anxious live in the future. If you want to be peaceful live in the now - Click to Tweet

Running helps slow the aging process of the human body mentally & physically. - Click to Tweet

Every small achievement will soon be one amazing success - Click to Tweet

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.

Change Your Mind, Change You Body Weight

An interesting study which backs the view of  how to 'Change Your Mind, Change Your Body Weight'. The research was carried out by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and concludes we are what we think.

The study looked at the weight, height and BMI of thousands children between the age of 13 and 19. Each participant was then asked about there lifestyle and body image.

When the children, now 11 years later as adults, were retested the people who felt fat had gained more BMI than those whose did not feel they were fat.⁽¹⁾

“Perceiving themselves as fat even though they are not may actually cause normal weight children to become overweight as adults,”
Source - Koenraad Cuypers, project researcher.⁽²⁾

Quite powerful stuff I think you will agree.We now know that if we change our thoughts we can indeed change our mind and body.



Source:
(1) Norwegian University of Science and Technology. News. 2012. www.ntnu.edu/news/2012-news/teens-and-fat
(2) Koenraad Cuypers, Kirsti Kvaløy, Grete Bratberg, Kristian Midthjell, Jostein Holmen, and Turid Lingaas Holmen, “Being Normal Weight but Feeling Overweight in Adolescence May Affect Weight Development into Young Adulthood—An 11-Year Followup: The HUNT Study, Norway,” Journal of Obesity, vol. 2012, Article ID 601872, 8 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/601872

Believing in Weight Loss

Believing in weight loss can make a huge difference to the amount of weight you lose, don't just believe me, listen to the Weight Loss Belief Audio above to hear how scientists proved this.

I have also popped some quotes about belief and believing to demonstrate its power.

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."
Muhammad Ali Click to Tweet Quote

"Belief creates the actual fact."
William James Click to Tweet Quote

"When you believe a thing, believe in it all the way."
Walt Disney Click to Tweet Quote

"We are what we believe we are"
Benjamin N. Cardozo Click to Tweet Quote

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
Henry Ford Click to Tweet Quote

"Man is what he believes"
Anton Chekov Click to Tweet Quote

"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs."
James Allen Click to Tweet Quote

"To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest"
Mahatma Gandhi Click to Tweet Quote

"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
John Stuart Mill Click to Tweet Quote

"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."
Robert Collier Click to Tweet Quote

Take care and speak soon

Mindful Mark