#23: Fat-Loss Mindset: Fine-Tuning The Attitude.

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Sovereign Michael Valentine

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Special Report #23

Part of the

“I see you to succeeding"

series

Fat-Loss Mindset: Fine-tuning the attitude.

In the 20+ years I've been in the fitness industry, and additional 10 years of personal nutrition experience, overwhelmingly the single greatest factor that assures or inhibits short term and long term fat-loss success is your attitude.

Attitude actually affects every kind of success in every area of life, more so than money, education or privilege. Attitude can assure success or prevent it.

As a trainer who has seen it all and heard it all I think I have some of the highest standards out there in terms of assuring people that if they simply stick to the plan, they'll likely get remarkable results.

Rookie trainers tend to preach outdated information (e.g. cut calories to starve the fat, don't eat after 7pm, calories in, calories out, etc.), leave it to the client to succeed or fail (trainer doesn't know how to adjust the course as they go), and neither holds themselves nor their clients accountable (trainer doesn't know how to measure healthy success nor what to do if the client isn't making progress). 

BUT, ultimately, the single greatest factor of whether you will succeed and reach your target body composition (body fat %) level (20% or less) is YOUR attitude. There are 168 hours in a week. We all get the same amount if time, so it comes down to moment-to-moment choices. 

Like everything in life, a plan gives you the confidence to begin. Faith gives you the fuel that you'll succeed before you have evidence it's so.  

NO MATTER WHAT you are pursuing in life, there are little tweeks that have to be done along the way that can't he taken into account before beginning. The point is to simply keep going and adjust course as you go. Calm the attitude and settle into a rhythm. 

The most destructive attitudes I routinely encounter in helping people are:

1) That the lifestyle that got you overweight is a privilege...in reality, if your body composition is more than 20%, you're actually in a dis-ease process. Having body fat over 20% is a dis-ease of unhealthy lifestyle resulting from little, daily choices which cumulatively add up. It's taking time for the medical establishment to label obesity as a dis-ease, but unequivocally, obesity leads to the top 10 killer diseases in America and most no one is immune.

2) The second common attitude is that by adopting a fat-burning lifestyle, you're being "deprived" of something (symptom of malnutrition). Noticing that many people are raised to substitute emotional richness and presence of mind with SADCRAP, ultimately leads to people who "feel" as though having the poison withheld is deprivation??? -that they are missing out on a poisonous lifestyle?! (addiction).

The clincher in this scenario is that people who have body fat above 20% tend to be trusting "feelings" that are neither correct nor rational...feelings associated with a malnourished brain and body. Until your nutrition density is high enough in your brain, "feelings" are like a compass that points to South. 

The third attitude that gets in people's way is the type where they "feel" (catch that?) as though following a healthy program is a form of punishment...so even though the person wants to lose weight, hires a trainer and goes to all the effort to succeed (on the outside), their attitude in the inside is that they "don't want to"...and "you can't make me".

Both of these being [symptoms of an undernourished brain]. Until the brain is optimally nourished, there's no way I know of to improve your attitude. The brain that is properly nourished performs more "calm". One could say being malnourished is an addiction.

Until your attitude improves, there's no way to stick to a program. So, ultimately you have to choose to put the BNBBs in your body even if you don't feel like it. AND this is the reason I usually tell people to keep eating their usual SADCRAP for at least one month before starting to remove it...until the nutrition density (BNBBs / Vitalizer) is high enough, you simply won't get able to stick to your own, self-initiated program.

But when you do simply consume the BNBBs everyday, not only is the transition easier, you're MUCH more likely to be successful, both in the first 90 days and the rest of your life.

The fourth attitude problem is when you think and behave as though you are an exception to the laws of nature. Generally, the higher a person's body composition (body at %), the more "off" their perception is about where they actually are...I used to live with a 150 lb mastiff who thought she was a  Chihuahua...jumping up on my lap as though she was tiny.

People with the "I'm an exception" attitude tend to say, "Yay, yay...I know all that... now help me."

In other words, these folks, carrying around the chip on their shoulder, believe the rules of nature don't apply to them. They think they are the only person on the planet with a particular type of fat which requires special, special, special instructions. (This comes from people who were told they were getting special treats because they are so special...treats that ruin their health). Again, ultimately,  no matter how special and unique you are, the rules of exercise and nutrition density apply to you...

As long as a fitness program actually has [health built into it], and actually builds health at the cellular level FIRST (rather than weight loss first, health second) it applies to you. The HCG program promoted by some doctors is an example of a program that emphasizes unhealthy habits and I won't work with people who want an unhealthy short cut.

I would be wary of any program that promotes eating less than an average of [about] 1,600 calories per day, unless you are a very, very short person (4 feet or less, in which you may be fine with less calories). 

HOW to know if you have an attitude problem?

If you're [doing anything] other than following the plan, there's attitude interfering with the process...distracted...too busy to live your own life. 

In other words, you have a chip on your shoulder but didn't know it. It's not a crime,..it's not a sin...it's simply means there's a misunderstanding in your mind [with yourself] that you'll have to come to terms with before you'll make sustainable results.

The misunderstanding isn't about your trainer or anyone else...you are the only person on the planet that can adjust your attitude...it's in "inside job" and you're right, no one can make you.

First, you have to recognize there's some attitudes which need updating. I'm very proud of the programs I utilize with clients and follow myself. They've been looked over by doctors who they tell my clients, "Keep doing what you're doing"...especially since the blood chemistry improve so much. 

All you have to do is check things off as you go. Anything else is a distraction...an attitude problem. There's no way around doing specific actions to get specific results. There's really no secrets to fat loss nor unknowns anymore...its just that a bad attitude generally blocks out the very information a person needs, even when there's adequate science backing it up.

The variables have been acknowledged. Most people who need attitudinal adjustments are spending more time [talking themselves out of sticking to the plan] than talking themselves into sticking to the plan...it's that simple!

But if you're a person who doesn't even acknowledge you're trying to find a way to [not do the action] yet reap the benefits of people who do, you've got personal work to do before you'll ever succeed let alone sustain it in a healthy way.

For information on the nutritional aspect of weight loss program, watch this video:

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Ciao! 

Do it now, do it consistently!

I see you succeeding!