#57: You Have As Much Right To Fail As Succeed!

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Sovereign Michael Valentine

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Special Report #57

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You Have As Much Right To Fail As Succeed!

One of the mind-tricks people play on themselves in regard to maintaining healthy body composition and fitness is that they tell themselves that, "No one can make me...". In reality its true and any healthy trainer or medical provider isn't interested in "making" anyone do anything, even when its in the client / patient's own best interest.

In regard to healthy weight (both directions of it), more often than not the psychological and emotional factors are the main factors that are interfering in progress.

What that means, as if I haven't said it enough, is that the science and the "doing" of exercise and nutrition is already well known and proven to work...where it breaks down (for most everyone) is when the client has unresolved psychological and emotional issues that are running in the background, which literally stop the weight loss / gain process. (As long as there is an unresolved emotional issue, the physical aspects of weigh loss halt.)

Specifically, the need to gain attention is one of the most common attributes involved. Whether a person is insisting they can't lose weight or can't gain weight, ultimately it comes down to gaining attention in unnatural ways...e.g. the more a person insists they can't lose weight the more attention they get from people wanting to help them. There's a few dis-ease processes that work this way. Left to its own, these aspects become neurosis-based habits which the person has so perfected the neurosis takes on a life of its own and the person can honestly insist they don't know what they're doing...all habits become unconscious at a certain point.

So just because you set the fat, unhealthy lifestyle up out of a coping mechanism, insisted you didn't know and then perfected the process to the point you aren't even aware of it anymore doesn't mean you're not responsible, capable and the one who has to do the exercise and nutrition while simultaneously work your way back through, so you can experience the same stressors but make better, more healthy, generative decisions and establish equally healthy habits in the current time now.

You can insist, whether consciously or unconsciously, that no one can make you...and you're right...but in order to get the results you say you want you have to let that concept go and allow people to help you. You might even, in the process, figure out why you wanted to make yourself unhealthy and then insist no one can make you healthy! Control!

Sov

#56: All Diets Work?

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Sovereign Michael Valentine

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206.225.9647

email: sovereignmv@gmail.com

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Special Report #56

Part of the

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All Diets Work?

Within the fitness and wellness industry there happens to be cliché saying that tend to circulate every few years which sound real good but can actually distract, confuse and interfere with your progress.

A common one is, "Calories in, calories out" meaning simply reduce you calories to "lose weight". This sounds real good and even sounds rational, but its not. The reason its not is because calorie related "weight loss" is short term and followed up by even more weight gain, since restricting calories lowers the metabolic rate setting you up for rebound weight gain. (Calories have to be adjusted the first of each month based on your current body composition, activity level and current goals). [Each month you exercise, your metabolism increase a little and the more fit you get the higher your caloric needs, to an extent]

Caloric reduction weight loss results in lean mass loss, not body fat, which compounds the lower metabolic rate and results in mediocre weight loss that bounces back. "Calories in, calories out" is really a lazy approach to the science and art of a lean & healthy lifestyle and is the equivalent of saying "To get better gas mileage in your car, put less gas in the tank". And it makes as much sense.

Another saying that goes in the category is, "

All diets work?

Again, within the fitness industry, you'll hear things and hear people who really have no more business talking weight loss than prescribing medications a doctor would, say things without adequate thought. That goes for any industry...myth, cliché, ...things that are easier to say than to research, apply, measure and really find out and know the truth of the matter.

There's certainly a segment of the population which is neither a professional trainer (let alone a seasoned trainer), nor a client themselves, nor the kind of health care provider who really knows the science of fast, sustainable, health & fitness. Even within the medical community a portion of the information available to health care providers is actually designed so that you won't get results with proper, scientific exercise and nutrition so you'll then conclude "it doesn't work" and resort to more invasive treatment(s) as well as prescriptions which don't work as well in the long run as proper, scientific exercise and nutrition.

So, from those health care providers who aren't submerged in the fitness industry nor doing the fitness lifestyle themselves nor needing to apply the stuff on themselves, its just easier to say something like, "Do anything...all diets work!"...because you get sick of hearing people complain but not take proper action nor follow through long enough to get results!

Part of this phenomena is because health care providers see the affects of being fat on the entire health everyday..they want you to get healthy and be healthy so they don't have to keep giving more medications that simply cover up the symptoms of lack of exercise and nutrition density..there's only so much any doctor, physician assistant or nurse can do for you...you have to do it for yourself....and when you continue to show up with the same complaints (whether with friends, family, or the doctors office or E.R.), but do everything EXCEPT get lean and healthy, you're taking time away from the patients who are doing the correct things to get healthy and still require professional help...its really an arrogant (fear + anger), selfish, self-absorbed way of living and being in the world. .

If a person keeps going to the doctor for the same problems (e.g. joint pain, back pain, lack of energy, etc.) but you don't take charge to change your lifestyle it can becomes frustrating since the doctor is doing their part (checking on you) but you aren't doing your part (proper, scientific exercise and nutrition density).

I mean if someone keeps repeating the same thing to you and you give your best input and they ignore what you say then you repeat the same thing again...what's up with that?!

The primary problem with the "All diets work" mentality is that it doesn't say what kind of weight gets lost. Simply getting "smaller" is not the answer. Most often, if your exercise and nutrition density program isn't specifically set up to retain lean mass and burn fat for energy (you have to get trained for this) the opposite happens...the person looks smaller but they have actually retained the fat or even gained fat but gotten smaller from loss of lean tissue.

Very unfortunately, a small portion of medical care providers know that a large portion of the population wants the miracle quick fix and they simple give up and begin offering quick-fix diets or treatments which provide short term weight loss resulting in long term weight gain (you get tired of telling patients the same thing and them insisting, "... there must be an easy  quick fix you aren't telling me about".)..people think if a doctor is offering or treating then it must be good and "...If they haven't told me about it they must be keeping it a secret since the TV commercials say I can find the quick fix for $19.95". 

But, there's many cases of doctors who over prescribe narcotics or perform treatments they really don't have the experience in with disastrous results. I just saw a news blurb here in Montana where a physician is facing 400 felony charges for improperly prescribing medications. Amphetamines were very popular prescriptions for weight loss, approved for such and yet they were found to damage the valves of the heart itself. When I was in Hawaii in 2014 there was a dentist who would overdo the anesthesia and lose patients that way. I heard of a doctor who wasn't properly sanitizing his surgical tools and people got sick from that.

What you really want is a doctor, physician assistant and nurse who tell you the truth and maybe even encourage you to keep doing (correct) exercise and nutrition density. The truth hurts, but it sets you free and leads you to what you insist you want.

So, there's always going to be people who want to cut corners, avoid the real work they need to do and seek the latest miracle cure. We simply can't save every person...some people are too far into self denial and avoidance to be helped (until they get real). The people who are most likely to reach their goals and sustain the results they get are the ones who face up to the personal responsibility of getting properly trained, continuing to increase their knowledge based, monitor their results and fine tune their progress as they go. No one succeeds in a perfectly straight line...it just doesn't happen. But when you pay attention and monitor your results on a monthly basis the way I suggest in other posts, you'll get better results than 80% of the population.

No matter what program you apply, you have to get to the point where you're learning more, refining your process and applying what you have learned about yourself.

All diets do something, but most do more harm than good!

Ask for help.

Sov

#55: Obesity As Dis-ease:

Reasons or

Results! 

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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 #55

Part of the

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Obesity As Dis-ease:

One of the tricks of the pharmaceutical companies is to take an everyday behavior, then through a long process of advertising, marketing, lobbying and arm twisting get everyday behaviors listed as a 'disease' which then has an official diagnosis and prognosis. Once something is 'officially' called a disease, the flood gates are opened up to produce drugs to treat the 'symptoms' which are actually and simply daily, personal choices and lifestyle factors.


The outcomes are to simply create more consumers who consume more drugs the more they live an unfat lifestyle and the more drugs they take they more side effects they experience, which in turn requires more prescription drugs to cover up the symptoms of the initial lifestyle choices and prescription drugs!

#54: Improvement Comes From Within, But the Actions Which Produce Results Come From Without.

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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 #54

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Improvement Comes From Within.


But the Actions Which Produce Results Come From Without.

As discussed in the 'self image' post, the greatest controlling factor of success is how you see yourself in the back of your mind, outside your conscious awareness.

Miracles do happen, I see them all the time, which implies not having to 'do' anything to get a desired result (intention). But more commonly we have to do the thing / be engaged in the process to realize our goals...its more fun that way and it builds character, tempers the spirit and prepares you for the challenges life has yet to bring...and it makes the process of reaching your goals a gradual process...you see, if the change occurred all at once, most people wouldn't believe it and it would be such a shock that it would either have detrimental affects on the psyche and emotions or in a short time the person would sabotage the new, instant them (conflict with old self image).

In one of the earlier posts I talked about the 'doing' versus 'saying' or 'dabbling'.

The doing of the workouts & nutritional density habits allows your mind to gradually adjust to the new, updated version of yourself...in other words, by engaging the body in the act of progressive exercise, the mind can gradually let go the old image with your newer, self created image.

With the concept of outside-in, exercise is that part that happens to you from the outside-in, which merges with the change you make from the inside-out (new self image). When the two meet you have congruity of goals and personal agenda.

One of the misconceptions with regard to people who have started a program or unsuccessfully followed through is that they believe weight loss is something that happens 'to them' versus something they have to 'do to themselves'...essentially use the same amount of energy they used to get fat and unhealthy in the first place...its just that since they were taking action within their 'fat' self image, the process was happening outside their conscious awareness and it seemed relatively effortless...it matched their self image.

Bouncing back and forth in the mind uses immense emotional energy leaving very little if anything for the new goal...also known as decision fatigue.

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

Not clearly defining and creating your own self image is the modern day equivalent of hesitancy, since the mind goes back and forth never delegating the majority of physical, mental, emotional & spiritual energy toward one prevalent goal.

The "struggle", difficulty, and effort that chronic yo-yo dieter types perceive is actually the distance (cognitive dissonance), between their old self image and their new self image which for all intent and purpose is what creates / permits the energy, mental clarity and emotional fortitude to simply do the exercise and nutrition habits of lean, healthy people....everything in between 'intending to do the thing' and actually doing it is the emotional aspect of letting go the old self image (for whatever reason) and the new self image. This process can be emotionally draining.

Exercise is the thing that comes from outside which allows the work on the inside to manifest on the outside as physical health & fitness.

Sov

#53: The Controlling Force of Life: Your Self Image:

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Results! 

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Sovereign Michael Valentine

SPN, CFT, Eft, Yft, Cft, SSc, GFI, CMCht, CERT, Reiki Master

206.225.9647

email: sovereignmv@gmail.com

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Special Report #53

Part of the

“I see you to succeeding"

series

The Controlling Force of Life:


Your Self Image


Part I

Believe it or not, in terms of the most humanly possible affect(s) we can have on our own existence, self image (how we unconsciously see ourselves or think of ourselves deep in the back of our mind) is the single greatest factor in terms of what we create, do, have and become in life.


Similar to love, values and individual choices, self image is an intangible thing (can't carry it in a bucket) which affects us in real time on a daily basis.


Side note: Although spirit is viewed as the highest level of functioning & existence, once you truly learn the ins and outs and the boundaries of the information herein, you might realize these concepts are not to say that your self image is either limited by your spiritual capability nor that the self image is a more powerful factor than spiritual health...I would be more likely to compare self image  to the human spirit what the computer is to the internet...a function and capability within the bigger system itself, but limited in its potential by the human mind itself depending how the end user consciously chooses to utilize it. Self image is not exclusive of spirit, nor higher than spirit, but to be used in conjunction to maximize the ability of spirit to raise the individual to their highest potential, both for physical health & well being and spiritual health and balance. How self image relates to this duality, is that as sentient beings (able to think about and analyze our own thoughts) we have free will and autonomy to exercise free will and that includes using our mental & emotional faculties to become better versions of ourselves or leave it to chance...spiritual beings with free will.


Although you may have not given your self image much thought before, (some people didn't even know it exists), in simple terms, self image is how you see yourself in the world and that image that you may not even know you have, determines who you are today and what the rest of your life will be like...self image is the single greatest factor which determines your potential in all areas of life...health, family, financial, recreation, career, spiritual and so on.


In practical terms, you might have heard / seen interviews of music artists, athletes and other top performers tell story after story of how they would look in the mirror in the bedroom growing up and envision reaching the top of their game, regardless of their niche...rehearsing their ultimate success.


Some of the stars who stand out and whom I remember in this way include Tiger Woods (golf), Avril Lavigne (music), Adam Levine (music), Michael Jordan (basketball), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and so on...this list is barely the tip of the iceberg. When you watch interviews of people who have reached the level of success they aspired to, a common denominator is they all had a vision in their mind of what they aspired, intended, expected and relentlessly worked toward.


In other words, in all areas of their mind and emotions they are [completely lined-up and congruent] in what they want and see for themselves, regardless where they started from, how unlikely they were to succeed, regardless of who their role models were growing up, regardless of what resources they had available to them and so on.


People who reach goals and lifestyles which surpass where they started from haven't allowed their current circumstances, nor the supposed rationale of those around them to determine who they are becoming in the future.


...what determines where a person is today and ends up is determined by how they see themselves, just outside their conscious awareness.


How? Why so much importance?


Self image controls beliefs, beliefs control habits, habits determine actions, actions determine what you accomplish and then it comes full circle to self image...regardless what you achieve, if your self image doesn't get updated to match the new you, you'll regress back to previous version of yourself...or worse!


In short,  some people can have such a clear image of themselves that life for them seems to revolve around them and things come easy (lack of incongruity or utter clarity and intent without conflicting self image) and for some congruity, clarity and intent (without conflicting purpose or agenda) requires more practice, intent and focused habit development. In either case it doesn't really matter where a person is or started from as long as they can get completely clear about what they want for themselves and then go about creating (at first) a conscious  image of the 'finished product' followed by repetition of the consciously created self image, which in turn becomes an unconscious  self image...after all, that's how your current self image has been created.


Details


Where people tend to accidently interfere with their own process of creating their own improved self image is where the idea of 'incongruity' comes into play. The idea of incongruity, in simple terms, means two ideas that are in direct competition with each other. When two ideas compete with each other (inner conflict) not only are goals difficult to achieve, the ideas related to early development or trauma, stress and coping with disappointments tend to run the show at the unconscious level, which is what determines behaviors....the reason being that ideas, whether productive or unproductive are "charged by the emotions" related to the situation...that's right, when you combine the vision of what you want with the positive emotions and expectations of the completed success of who you aspire to become you successfully override all the prior (so called negative programming and experiences) that influenced the behaviors of what you didn't want for yourself.

A simple example would be if someone wants to be lean and healthy and fit, but the messages they received, especially during developmental years or the ideas they envisioned were the opposite of lean, healthy & fit. Remember, the self image determines which actions a person habitually takes (behaviors) on a daily basis...behaviors and actions which seem natural and familiar are controlled by the self image which has been created either inadvertently (left to chance) or on purpose.

Whether the ultimate goal is to be lean & healthy or wealthy & debt free or have a happy, healthy relationship when a person has conflicting outcomes, goals or agendas (e.g. to be loved vs to be right all the time and win every argument), or to learn how to get lean and healthy vs not wanting to be told what to do or even saying they want to be wealthy but value pleasing their parents who insist people who are wealthy are crooks...you get it (inner conflict of opposing values).

Anytime there is a conflict of values in the back of the mind, the person won't make sustainable progress regardless how much time they seem to invest in the project in the world outside their head...the self image isn't clear. So you can see the value of examining what might be playing in the back of your mind.

How to know?

A common question is how to know what is playing in the back of your mind outside your awareness? The easiest way is to look at your life in the major categories (health, family, financial, career and recreation, etc.) and what kind of existence you're having is THE reflection of your self image.


If you are fat and unhealthy...self image.


Can't stick to a workout program...self image.


If you are broke & in debt...self image.


Can't make enough money...self image.


If you argue more than you love...self image.


If you feel empty...self image.


If you work too much and play too little...self image.


and so on.


There isn't a single category of life that isn't affected by how you see yourself in the back of your mind.


And the luxury we have is we can re-invent our image, re-start and get a fresh start beginning today.


When you hear yourself and other say, "Oh, I tried that program and  [it] didn't work, for me" what they are really saying is that they hadn't developed a congruent image to [allow / permit] the program to work...they unconsciously interfered in their own progress...they weren't working the program but rather expecting the program to do them, versus doing the program...one represents "change from the inside out" and the latter shows the person expects the program to affect them "from the outside in" (mal-formed outcome)....like saying you're going to go snow skiing on the concrete in the middle of a hot summer's day...mal-formed outcome...it sounds good but makes no rational sense.

The people who seem to find ease in endeavors have developed their self image which allows the mind to create the energy to [do the thing] to completion and sustain the results.

In simplest terms, you simply make a list of who you want to experience life as, see the finished result, attach the emotions you would have once its completed and then repeat the process in your mind until it becomes the unconscious, operating system.  Once the new images and emotions hold as much weight and relevance as the old unfit, fat, unhealthy images combined with the work to earn the new version you'll be living a new version of you.


Where people trip themselves up (fail to maintain the new accomplishment / fight the process / challenge the laws of nature / sabotage any results they get) is to fail to change their self image to the new version of themselves. Without changing your self image, even God won't be able to make you change...(free will). Miracles are miracles but we've all seen people who seem to get a blessing and then it goes away...that's the incongruity / conflicting outcomes...and what happens when there's conflicting outcomes? The old patterns associated with prior self image have a better track record / more traction and the old image surfaces, which controls behaviors which manifests as unconscious habits (actions) which manifests as the old reality (a.k.a. bad luck).


The people who seem to burn fat easily and get really lean, happy, healthy and maintain it? They changed their self image either consciously or unconsciously / on purpose or inadvertently. Sometimes people have already developed their self image prior to beginning their workout program so the process itself is effortless ...it matches their image which controls the behaviors (makes the process seem easier [perception] than someone with a poor, under developed self image).


An example of how self image will interfere in weight loss would be when someone seems to be into their workouts, but seem to accumulate more and more injuries (even though they are working within their physical conditioning and limits) [the conflicting self image will create reasons to not do the activities that would get the stated goals]. there's no way to outsmart the outdated self image other than creating a new, updated self image that congruently matches your desired outcome. Notice it in other people and your environment.


For an in depth study of this phenomena, read the book, Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (1961). Updated version (2015).


Sov

#70: You Can't Give What You Don't Got...You Can't Keep WhatYyou Haven't Earned!

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Sovereign Michael Valentine

SPN, CFT, Eft, Yft, Cft, SSc, GFI, CMCht, CERT, Reiki Master

206.225.9647

email: sovereignmv@gmail.com

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Special Report #70

Part of the

“I see you to succeeding"

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You Can't Give What You Don't Got...


You Can't keep What you Haven't Earned!

One of the greatest hurdles to overcome when you decide to get fit and healthy once and for all, is surpassing the environment you grew up in.


In other words, the difficulty of attempting to give yourself a personality quality that wasn't in your family to begin with or the inability to maintain a goal once achieved, when it's in conflict with how you see yourself.


For people who are new to working out or haven't successfully reached and maintained their goals (same thing).


Until a person reaches their goal and then maintains it, they haven't reached that point in success psychology where they can see / envision beyond 'trying' to 'being'.


In reflecting on my own success in beginning a program, my main goal was to learn how to properly exercise without hurting myself (so I could maintain it in the long run) as well as hopefully learn some stuff about nutrition.


I didn't really have expectations since I had been a skinny guy my whole life. When I graduated high school I weighed 144 pounds at about six feet tall.


While I was working my way through the first eight weeks of my workouts (3x / week), my main focus was simply on doing the exercises the best and most correct I could. I still saw myself as that skinny guy but had no idea the changes that were occurring. I did begin to feel more competent, in that I knew that I needed to show up three times a week, rest a day in between and do a five minute warm up on the bike and then lift weights for about an hour and then finish with 20 minutes riding the bike...remember, all I expected was to learn proper form.


A big point here is that no one else in my family exercised and in fact I got made fun of a out as though I was wasting my time. But, each time I worked out I felt a little better, a little stronger and had a little more inner confidence. I still wasn't expecting any body building miracles since my self image was that of a skinny guy. I really couldn't stand to even look at myself in the mirror and I couldn't count on my home life for support in these exercise endeavors. Even friends I was closest with, ones who had participated in sports all through school had no interest in being consistent with workouts. Along the way, many people wanted to come to the gym with me and "check it out" but none continued. I simply kept doing the basics (3 workouts / week with a day in between to rest).


On my time away from the gym I read everything I could and compared it with my personal experience but I was so naïve when it came to nutrition that often my blood sugar would drop off after y workout and I would nearly pass out.


Somewhere in the first few months, I had just gotten home from my workout and was going to shower. At that time I was still living at home in a trailer court...very depressing. But this day was different because I caught a glimpse of myself in the bathroom mirror and couldn't believe what I saw. Remember, my focus was on learning to exercise correctly and moving beyond the first workout (6-8 weeks) that my trainer had designed and progressing to the second six to eight weeks...I had no idea my physique was improving so much.


Needless to say, I was hooked. Yes, the workouts seemed like 'work' per se, but I really felt that I got more reward for what I put in compared than I thought I would...and again, this was before I knew about nutrition.


Nowadays, the way I train people, (it has advanced so far since my beginning days) they usually are experiencing decent results within three days of beginning a program. When people hire a trainer they tend to expect to see results relatively quickly and so the way I train takes that into account.


There are those clients who plunk down the money, say, "Yay, yay..uh-huh...you bet" and then don't follow through at all on their part of working out (unreasonable expectations). These are often the people who complain the most but invest the least. This ties into the ideas of apathy, complaining, lack of decision to change themselves to get better results and so on.


Burning fat and getting lean and becoming healthy is really a doing thing. You really have to simply focus and apply the very basic fundamentals long enough for the body to start remodeling the lean mass to fat ratio. Its not something that comes from wanting or saying...it has to be earned by sticking to the very basic fundamentals and then expanding on them every six to eight weeks.




Until one goes beyond the wanting and trying to the "ah-ha" moment where they can see and feel for themselves the point of working out consistently, they won't maintain any gains or losses in body composition and health. If someone does get to that point but still doesn't maintain it then that points to psychological and emotional issues that have to be figured out so that their inner goals and motivations aren't conflicting with each other. In other words, had I simply been comfortable and felt more safe living at home in the trailer court as a skinny, 144 lb guy I probably would have had an inner conflict and most likely, the easier choice would have been to not workout. In every area of my life, I had more peer pressure to not workout than to workout and most of my role models didn't believe in working out at all.


As a side note, I was driving 18 miles each way to the gym!


Sov

#71: The Magic of SOME Activity

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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 #71

Part of the

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The Magic of SOME Activity

Its not uncommon for people who have never reached their fitness goals or who have been yo-yo dieters or who have tried "dieting" but never worked out correctly to incorrectly presume that in order to get any results at all you have to workout out three or four hours each day.

In reality, to begin getting what I would consider amazing results, three, 50 minute resistance training sessions (done correctly) and three, 20 minute aerobic training sessions per week (done correctly) combined with applied nutrition (whole foods +functional-foods + sensible supplementation) results in better results than anyone else you know has gotten.

The thing that blocks most people from beginning is that they assume they'll have to exercise way more, so they simply avoid doing it at all.

The truth of the matter is that the better your nutrition is dialed in (I give specifics), the less exercise you have to do to get the same results!

The problem being that most people make excuses about committing to nutritional strategies in hopes they'll get magnificent results from their exercise alone, only to find that without the nutrition, the results from the exercise is limited, leaving them scratching their heads.

So, consistency of some exercise is what produces results (about 4 hours per week, done correctly).

Sov