Work your mind for weight loss

We at Mind Body Weight Loss have always believed that if you work deal with your mind first you will not lose weight quicker but you will also keep the weight off. Arnold Schwarzenegger is so right with his quote and belief:

"The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you."

With this in mind it shows the importance of addressing the mind when it comes to your weight loss. It may seems difficult to do but really it is not as the quite a few products that will help you do this. these include:

• The Gabriel Method
• The Fat Loss Code
• Weight Loss Attitude
• Weight Loss Hypnosis Pro

Why not check them out?

You Can Lose Weight, I Promise

This is such a great quote because you are so much better than you believe. When you look back at your life you may see some amazing events that you have came through or amazing things you have done, if not now is the time to start. You will find out that if others can lose weight then you can too. This is the premise of NLP, in that if one person can achieve weight loss then you can follow the same model they did and lose weight too.

You may want to try this successful model:

The Gabriel Method, Jon Gabriel lost 220lbs and share exactly how he did it. There are testimonial of other who follow the same model and lost lots of weight too.

So remember:

YOU CAN.
Keep your head up
You are much better than you believe
You can do this.
I PROMISE.

Best wishes
Mindful Mark

Hunger Scale

The hunger scale can help you learn to listen to your body and its messages. The body know what it needs to be healthy we just need to listen and not be distracted. The hunger scale is a great way to start listening to your body.

You can listen to the audio above or read the transcript on our website.

If you like what you hear you can listen to many more weight loss audio file on our SoundCloud page.

Don't Wait, Be Proud

Each journey starts with a single step so be proud of each step you take toward your weight loss goal.

"Don't wait until you reach your goal to be proud of yourself.
Be proud of each step you take toward reaching that goal."

So today let make a little step in the right direction and keep take lots of little steps until we reach our goals. Put all your focus on your daily small step and do it to the best of your ability and do this every day and all of a sudden you will be at your weight loss goal.

The best example of this is from tennis, each player are told to focus 100% on winning each point. Do this and each game, set and match will take care of themselves. It is so true, the good player don't get distracted by the bigger picture they just concentrate on what they can do here and now and let every thing else take care of it's self from this point of power.

One thing you could do from your point of power is get our 3 FREE ebooks and our eNewsletters

Take care
Mindful Mark

Be Brave and Make Some Changes

Making changes can be scary because we are in a rut and use to our current routine and lifestyle. It can take bravery to make a change. By recognising what life will be like if you did not make the change compared to your life if you did is a great way to get you motivated to take the required action.

A quote from the film 'We Bought a Zoo' helps come up with a solution for us to be brave enough to change and make difference to our lifes:

"You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery, and I promise you something great will come of it."
Source - moviequotesandmore.com

This advice helped his son in the movie ask a girl out because 20 seconds of bravery is achievable to make that change. The choice of having a better lifestyle for himself was worth that 20 seconds of insane bravery.

This is all you need to get started on your weight loss journey too. 20 seconds of courage and the changes have started.

We, at Mind Body Weight Loss, will be here to support you in any way we can, with regular updates, tips, advice, product suggestions and eNewsletters.

Take care and speak soon
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

Never Give Up on Your Weight Loss Goals

I have to say I absolutely love this little quote, it is humorous and make you thinking about over coming any little setbacks or bumps in the road.

As I have said before in some forms Buddhism they do not recognize the concept of word guilt, so there is no point in feeling guilty or negative about a setback or to overreact by 'slashing the other three tires' all we can do is in this moment pledge to do what is best for us in this moment to make our goal a reality.

Kind regards
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

Genius Idea for Fitness Weight Loss.

Who ever thought of this is nothing short of a genius because it changes the attitude to fitness by focus on saving money and it feels we are getting something for free when actually what we a train ride and a healthier body.

I wonder if this idea can be extended in any other ways. If you can think of any please comment below.

Control the Controllables

Control the Controllables is an important life lesson because it includes accepting certain truths, like we can only control so much of what goes on around us. The crux here is that the things we can control can make a huge difference to our lives, so it make sense to only focus on those things.

Here are some questions to make you think about what you can and can not control:

• Can you control the quality of the food your eat?
• Can you control where you eat your food?
• Can you control how much you eat?
• Can you control your emotions?
• Can you control your hunger?
• Can you control the weather?
• Can you control your family and friends?

As you may guess I think most people can control the top five where as the last two you most probably can not control totally, however the weather you can prepare properly for the event nd family and friends you can at least influence.

For example you can influence what others may buy when they go shopping, or you may influence the choice of the restaurant.

Gerry Pritchard The Mental Coach at the New York Red Bulls explains his understanding of control the controllables in relation to soccer. It is really interesting and can be equally applied to weight loss



The part which jumped out at me in the video is the acronym of E.A.R to describe what you need to control the controllables and they are: Effort, Attitude and Response.

So this all comes down to a weight loss attitude of focusing first on the things you can control, then on the ones you can influence and the rest which can't just ignore, prepare for in advance or stay as far away from as you can.

Why not make a list of the things you can control, the things you can not and the thing you can influence.

I hope you found this helpful.

Take care and control those controllables.

Visualization for Weight Loss

Jon Gabriel shares what Arnold Schwarzenegger, Albert Einstein, Michael Jordan and Oprah winfrey all have in common, and guess what it can help you lose weight too.

Learn more about this with the The Gabriel Method.

You Feel What You eat

This is the whole purpose of eating, is stay alive as long as possible in a happy and healthy way so we can spend time with the one we love. A side effect of eating well and clean is that we will operate at optimum weight, so weight loss would be fixed as a by product of eating healthy.

Eat Crap = Feel Like Crap
Eat Nothing = Feel Like Nothing
Eat Healthy = Feel Helathy
Eat Well = Being Well

Is how I would change the quote because we have the power in this moment to choose what to put in our mouth to make us feel like either, Crap, Nothing, Healthy or Well. In this moment what are you going to choose?

Take care and speak soon
Mindful Mark

Water and Weight Loss

You may be surprised just how helpful water can be at helping you lose weight.

If you would like to learn more please listen to the audio of visit our website for the audio transcript and more information about Mind Body Weight Loss.

Weight Loss Now

This quote help demonstrate the 'Weight Loss Now' mentality I was discussing in a earlier post called 'The Power of Now for Weight Loss' because your point of power is always this moment right here, right now. You can create any life you want from one of billions of options open to you. If you want the future to be a certain way you can start behaving in certain way right now to make that future a reality. For me this is so powerful, especially for weight loss.

Lets read the quote again to cement this idea:

"If you start now
you'll start seeing results
one day earlier
than if you wait until tomorrow
Start Today!"

We can do whatever we want from NOW on, so what life do you want create for yourself, your choice, your life.

Kind regards
Mindful Mark

Time to Lose Weight

The name of the blog post, Time to Lose Weight, has 2 meanings.

The first is the time to be and eat healthy to lose weight is always now, remember our post 'The Power of Now for Weight Loss'.

The second is that we all may struggle for time to achieve our goals. I know I do at times because I expect we all have busy lives. This was until I read this quote, which changed my perspective:

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller.
Source - kkoolook.com

Wow that is so powerful because following the the NLP idea of modelling if someone else can complete so much in 24hrs with the right motivation, attitude and techniques we can too.

Isn't life amazing and full of limitless possiblilities!

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.

The Power of Now for Weight Loss

The Power of Now for Weight Loss has ideas based from Eckhart Tolle's book called, you guessed it, "The Power of Now" The premise is like many other philosophies and self help suggestion that any change we want can on come from this moment right now.

The key here is to accept our current predicament exactly as it is, because from this foundation of acceptance we can control all the controllables to our life in any one of almost infinite possibilities and directions.

There is no point dwelling in the past as we can not change the past, but in the present we can change our perspective to it. For example that bad thing that happened in the past, is now my motivation to ensure I achieve my goals and prove that person wrong.

There is no point focusing too much in the future because we can only control the future by our action in this moment right now, right here. So in the moment you have the power to choose the best behavior or action to make your ideal future at your ideal weight. The power is now, the power is yours!

Speak soon.
Mindful Mark

Walk, Cycle or Drive?

This nice little image sets the scene for a question to ask yourself before you go anywhere. And that question is 'Shall I Walk, Cycle or Drive to my destination?"

Walking and Cycling are the ones which run on your fat and saves you money.

Where as Driving runs on money and makes you fat.

To me this bit of information is a game changer in relation to changing our behaviour to aid weight loss.

I hope, like me, you can see how this question can effect your weight loss.

Kind regards
Mindful Mark 

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