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Fitness Nutrition Training
Sovereign Michael Valentine
SPN, CFT, Eft, Yft, Cft, SSc, GFI, CMCht, CERT, Reiki Master
206.225.9647
email: sovereignmv@gmail.com
web: bnbbs.myshaklee.com
Special Report #32
Part of the
“I see you to succeeding"
series
What's Your Real "Why"?
So, in previous blurbs I've talked about what it really takes to get healthy, get lean once and for all and how to sustain / maintain it or even improve with time, regardless of your age.
Experienced personal trainers know which parts of applied nutrition and exercise really matter and are worthwhile (internal success factors), and which things are fads and bogus (environmental failure factors), in order to extract more and more money from the public who continue to not reach their goals, like low calorie diets, stimulant based supplements or even hormonal products like HcG,
(There's a hell of a lot more money made from people losing fat, then regaining it and repeating than from people getting lean & healthy once and for all). The bean counters at gyms love it when people don't reach their goals! It's good fer business!
The flip side of the "3-sided coin", if you will is that there is more money made from junk food (SADCRAP) and low quality supplements than high quality whole food and nutrient dense supplements (the billion dollar business of enabling the public to get and stay un-healthy).
So we know that in recent history, there are manipulative outside influences which constantly bombard the public with messages that it's okay to eat SADCRAP "this one time" (you deserve goodies and comfort food), [knowing full well people get addicted to SADCRAP within a single serving] that you "should" love yourself how you are (permission to be less than your best) [not the same self love as honoring your spirit] as well as the message that being skinny is better (a mixed message designed to create confusion, guilt and negative self talk for which relief will come through consumption of comfort food -SADCRAP)...in other words, a perfectly engineered, chemical & emotional, mind & emotional f-over. (Misspell on purpose).
We know that the worse people feel about themselves the more sh*t-food they eat! And the worse they feel the more they eat but the less physical and emotional energy they have to exercise (so called depression & lack of motivation). And the more depressed people are the more they want "comfort" food...a downward spiral.
Anytime someone wants to get on a healthier path to a lean & healthy lifestyle they are literally competing with thousands and thousands of hours of messages that have programmed the psyche for thoughts, behaviors and emotions which support a fat lifestyle (body composition of 20% or more)...but which is then referred to as "free will" and autonomy.
If you give a child sugar and they get digestive problems like I did, are they exercising free will? If that child grows into an adult with health problems are they still exercising free will?
The point being whether or not someone knows what is happening, or what they are agreeing to...[informed consent].
Yes, I said "programmed". With thousands of hours of formal training in the application of clinical hypnosis I think I'm more than qualified to notice hypnotic programming. In America we call it capitalism. I'm all for capitalism... as long as it helps and contributes to something more than lining the pockets of the capitalists and their families at the expense of consumers.
But, as if those mixed messages weren't deep enough, throw in "You deserve to feel good in the moment," "You shouldn't have to go without," "You deserve a break today," "You can't eat just one," and /or "You don't want to miss out," "You're going to miss out on the real fun if you don't party on the weekends," and you have a recipe for health disaster unlike this nation has ever seen as a result of the side effects and complications of having too high percentage of body fat (20% or higher) [e.g. diabetes, heart dis-ease, insulin resistance, Syndrome-X, metabolic disorders, etc.]
So what's the point, Sov?
The point being that people start "weight loss" programs for many reasons they tell themselves and their friends and their trainers and so on... It's called rationalizing behaviors rooted in desire to appear healthy to others.
But until you get to your core "Why?" which underlies all the rationalizing of the behaviors that got you fat, your fat loss will neither be successful nor maintainable. Until you get to the "Why?" that feeds your spirit...the "Why?" that unleashes your spirit unto the world, all the junk food and unhealthy programming and accompanying malnutrition will always win and progress will be inconsistent to say the least followed by additional weight gain.
Until you uncover your real "Why?" you'll be prone to finding every little reason why you shouldn't continue or why the exercise program interferes with your unfit lifestyle or why the supplements don't meet your expectations or why your trainer isn't doing enough for you or how much you're missing out on by being healthy or why you feel punished for not indulging in the fat lifestyle which makes you more and more fat and malnourished with each day that passes ...(all external reasons to procrastinate and not follow through / external arguments for external "Why's"). See the pattern?
When you get to your core "Why?" you simply won't have any rationale for not following through! ...it's indisputable to your spirit!
Here's some examples of superficial "Whys?" that never provide enough fuel to maintain success:
"So I can wear skinny clothes".
"For my kids."
"For health reasons."
"My doctor told me I have to."
See / hear the pattern? They are all good reasons in their own way. All good reasons that an amateur trainer might not dispute, but often disconnected from the person's spirit...a.k.a. disassociation... Junk food and lack of nutrition disassociates a person from their own values and sensibility of spirit!
The above examples are all related to external motivations / external "Whys". Either in the form of trying to please others, avoid a potential perceived loss, perceived peer pressure or from attempting to fabricate a personal motivation which lacks high integrity, spirit connected drive and will-power.
Until one locks onto the "Why" which is connected to releasing their spirit every other motivation comes from the outside vs coming from within.
You see people succeed on many types of programs as long as they get the nutrition density and exercise parts correct...AS LONG AS THEIR SPIRIT IS PRESENT & INVESTED !!
The challenge or inherent conflict in beginning a honest, integrity-based lean lifestyle, seeing it through and maintaining the course regardless what life throws at you is that often "getting fat"comes from an unhealthy form of taking care of others whether they are your children, relatives, spouse or even strangers' feelings!
Getting healthy, lean and staying that way is a kind of selfish act, but by doing so you're demonstrating to others how to get healthy themselves! Hmmmm, is there something to helping others by helping yourself? Oh, too deep Sov, stop!
In other words, it's more cool to show people how to fish than to just give them a fish! Saying you aren't healthy because you're too busy taking care of others is an unhealthy kind of selfishness, since it demonstrates being unhealthy to those you say you care for the most!
Trainers who have been in the game long enough, especially the ones who overcome their own superficial "Whys?" And gotten down to their real "Why?" recognize this paradox and know that the superficial reasons are enough for the client to "get started" but not enough to see it through and maintain it...yo-yo dieting.
The harsh reality is that in the 20+ years I've been doing this, I've noticed a pattern that it takes a good 3 months MINIMUM to begin to become conscious of your own real "Why?".
BUT, without solid nutrition density and an effective, focused exercise program, general "activity" results in either no fat loss, fat gain or even injury...they don't make it to that magical 3 month mark...and the beat goes on.
Becoming conscious enough to recognize your spirit telling you the real reason why you want to get lean and healthy once and for all requires moving out of emotional based motivation habits (high nutrition density, less SADCRAP).
HINT: How to know if its a genuine "Why?", is whether or not you follow through, stick to the plan and resist temptation to either skip your workouts or partake in SADCRAP for immediate satisfaction, yet compromising your primary goal.
But for people who are so malnourished they are no longer able to comprehend the importance of nutrition density, the likelihood of success is slim to none (represented in the stats on diabetes, heart dis-ease, and all the popular de-generative dis-eases).
Yes, I'm saying it's too late for people who won't simply do the nutrition and exercise fundamentals consistently enough to realize it on their own. That doesn't even take into account the children raised in homes where junk food is considered a "reward" and where problems with the body systems are showing up at younger and younger ages. Sad. I was one of those kids and had the digestive problems, allergies and constant colds and bugs to show for it.
The point being that the first 3 months are critical in your program. You have to stick with a program (go on faith) long enough for your own body to respond to the nutrition and exercise. Once the benefits of increased strength, mental clarity, fat loss and definition kick in prioritizing nutrition and exercise become effortless... "The machine drives itself", but you have to get yourself to overcome the inertia that SADCRAP creates.
In reality, if you have a good exercise program based on burning fat and improving lean mass,as well as a solid nutritional plan, you should begin noticing positive changes within 3 days of beginning. (The longer it takes to notice visual improvement the further off track your exercise and nutrition program is.)
Oh yay, my "Whys?"... I wanted to move away from suffering with mediocre health (digestive problems, allergies, and being sick all the time), and move toward a fitness based lifestyle...I didn't want to end up where I had seen most of my family end up...I wanted to feel really good, clean and confident in my own skin. I was tired of feeling weak and self conscious.
For me, a big part of my success was switching from cheap supplements to ones that I actually notice getting healthier from (improved body composition and healthy blood chemistry)
[Don't want to check those two thing? Never mind you aren't ready.]
...digestive problems? They went away! Reducing SADCRAP? Of course! Learning about food? Of course! Learning about exercise vs activity? Of course! Discerning marketing hype and fads from science? Of course! Was it a fast process? No! Did I make consistent progress? YES! And you can too!
A great first step is to get some good nutrition in your body:
I see you succeeding!
