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Sovereign Michael Valentine
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Special Report #39
Part of the
“I see you to succeeding"
series
Common Misconceptions In Fat-Loss
In my experience, the greatest barrier to fast, healthy & sustainable fat loss is the misconceptions and/or internal misunderstandings clients have in the preliminary stages of initiating their fat loss program (first three months).
In other words, the gap between what people say to themselves and what the reality of the situation is vast (cognitive dissonance).
The most common self-delusion is that we can keep doing what made us fat and unhealthy, hire a trainer and begin to lose fat and get healthy. Hear the self-delusion there? (Doing the same thing but expecting a different result.) Or telling ourselves that being a person that got so fat, unhealthy and out of shape we'll some how magically know how to get ourselves out of the situation using the same skills that got us into being that way (ask for professional help).
In order to burn fat and reduce your body composition to 20% or less, (any percentage higher is unhealthy and dangerous), everyone has to replace the fat-building behaviors with lean, healthy behaviors. (Yet, knowing what to do doesn't necessarily insure successful application and honestly, most people don't know what to do.)
BUT, there's this little thing called [self talk]. We can tell ourselves things, believe what we say (even though it isn't true) and subsequently build unconscious belief systems (the software of the mind; operating system), where we filter and gather information which supports our fake ideas and simultaneously filters out the information that would inform us our beliefs are incorrect! (Thought virus). (also known as superstition).
The positive side of this quality is that we can just as effortlessly create new beliefs (operating program), which support our success regardless of the validity in current time. In other words, whatever you choose to believe, your mind will successfully filter & gather information to prove you are right... To support your success.
The downside is that when people refuse to be responsible for taking actions which are in alignment with what they say their current goals are and regulate their own [impulse control] they tend to consistently give themselves permission to do those little things often enough that those little things add up to consistent fat gain / increased body composition (more than 20%). Any percentage above 20% is dangerous.
The point being that you need to take an active role in managing your ideas and thoughts (at least in the beginning) to make sure that what you are thinking is in fact reality. For example, people often think that plunking down money to their trainer will make them lose fat.
The presupposition here is that fat loss comes from the outside-in or is something your trainer will do "for you or to you". The reality is that the trainer is just to make sure you're accessing and staying focused on the correct information amongst the hoards of valid and invalid / distracting information out there and to make sure you are doing the right exercises, eating the right whole foods, and consuming the right functional-foods and supplements in the right quantity for the amount of time each week or month. (I just read a post on FB by a friend's trainer quoting outdated information rooted in the 1970's).
Example two is where people believe paying a trainer is going to "do it", yet of the 168 hours in every week the client only holds themselves accountable during the few hours they are present with the trainer (maybe 3 hours?). The other 165 hours the client regresses back to the typical fat-building behaviors and then insists they are "doing everything their trainer showed them to do". (Body composition and blood chemistry results don't lie ...and there's no secrets to fat loss anymore).
You might not know or acknowledge the truth, but it's not a secret. If you're fat, it simply means you haven't made use of the information available to everyone!
In other words, the misconception being that if we say we're are "doing it" we are entitled to the same results as the people who are doing the work!
This really relates to the five stages of change described in earlier posts in that until someone has really made the congruent, personal decision to change they will constantly distract and deceive themselves from the truth that they really aren't doing it yet.
They are giving themselves permission to skip fundamentals, make excuses, cut corners and then act surprised that they are not losing fat or even gaining more fat!
As a seasoned trainer, we know exactly what people look, sound, feel and behave like when they are consistently following through on the exercise and nutrition basics. Generally, seasoned trainers can tell what a person's body composition is by looking at them...actually checking the body composition is for the "reality check" validation of the client. Even when we do actually check body composition, the people who haven't worked through the stages of change will be in denial about their actual body composition level.
Once I had a client who was s physician and used the BMI medical model to measure overall health... Her BMI "said" she was fairly healthy, but her body composition was 39%. (Carrying approximately 38 pounds of fat in excess of the healthy 20% body composition; each 1% of body composition is approximately 2 pounds of excess fat).
The doctor client insisted I must not know what I was doing...again, showed up for the workouts but insisted the nutrition principles were "overrated". (Quality & timing of nutrition is 80% of the results you get or do not get...the exercise is just the stimulus to improve lean mass and decrease fat: in order to carry out the stimulus, adequate nutrition has to be on board [in advance]).
SO! The point being that if it's been a while since you've experienced body composition of 20% or less, your thoughts, ideas, values and beliefs will likely be aligned with the fat lifestyle... You'll need to "check" yourself and realize that body chemistry is so negatively affected and manipulated by the insulin resistance of high body composition (greater than 20%), you really need to find out if your thoughts and ideas about how to invest your time, energy and $ are aligned with your stated fitness goals. (Saying so doesn't make it so.)
If you find yourself arguing or trying to manipulate your way out of the work and habits your trainer has provided or attempting to keep doing the fat lifestyle but get lean lifestyle results, it's likely your thinking is off.
Get good help, take one day at a time and force yourself to do the activities that will get you what you say you want.
"I see you succeeding"
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