By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

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Today, we’re going to focus on something that I know a lot of men and women are struggling with – MOTIVATION.   So here are my top 11 inspirational tips to help motivate you to stick to your fat loss plan and transform your body & life forever.

11. Never Give Up

If you fall off the wagon, cut your losses. Don’t let it weigh on your mind and hold you back because it’s only minor damage that can be dealt with. The important thing is to get back on track, immediately. Never, ever, EVER give up. I believe in you.

10. Don’t Procrastinate

Do it now. Whether you’re thinking of cleaning out the pantry or finally starting to exercise, STOP procrastinating and DO IT now!

9. Identify Exactly What It Is You Want…

…then don’t let anything stand in your way of getting it. By setting specific goals along with deadlines you are providing yourself with a measuring stick.

8. Do Your Best With Everything You Have Control Over

Most people fail to control themselves, and end up only with regrets. We trade minutes of pleasure (i.e. fast food) for days, weeks, months, and years of regret.

Remember that the pleasure of eating lasts for only minutes, but you inhabit your body 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for life.

Rather than trying to “out-cardio” your bad diet, you must PLAN ahead to overcome obstacles. Otherwise, you’ll never succeed.

7. Replace Bad Habits

Everyday you will be tempted to fall back on old bad habits. To make a lasting change in your health and appearance you must do everything you can to resist that. Try adding a new healthy habit each day to replace an old unhealthy habit.

6. Be Consistent With Baby Steps

The best approach is to build your life one positive step at a time and the way to do this is by taking baby steps to improvement each and every single day. Be a little better than yesterday.

5. Test

There are no failures, only good and bad tests.

You should always be trying something new, monitoring your body’s response, and deciding whether or not that food or exercise belongs in your “tool box”. Do everything you can to learn more about your body. The more you know, the faster your success will be.

4. Social Support & Role Modeling

You can’t soar with eagles if you’re hanging around turkeys.

By hanging around others who want to lose weight, you can leverage their knowledge, commitment, support, and success to push yourself harder than you otherwise would be able to.

3. Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone

People will do almost anything to stay in their comfort zones.

If you want to accomplish anything, get out of your comfort zone and strive to increase order and discipline in your life.

Discipline means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing.

Setting goals and deadlines are the easy roads to discipline.

2. Plan

Planning is the ultimate key to fat loss success.

With a weekly plan of meals and workouts in place, you will be much less likely to hit a road bump that takes you down the wrong path.

Try setting aside one day a week to map out your weekly itinerary and you’ll be amazed at how quickly your body transforms itself.

1. Realize YOU Are In Charge of Your Success

Og Mandino once said, “I shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me. Or I can be lost in the maze. My choice. My responsibility. Win or lose; only I hold the key to my destiny.”

Translation – Everyone can succeed and reach their goals. It’s a just a matter of how badly you want it.

I know you want it. And I know you can do it. And I’m really looking forward to your success.

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Here is the article I found on EzineArticles.

We Must Lose Weight En Masse in This Country
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Doug_Weightsman]Doug Weightsman

Have you ever wondered why some people are thin and other people are fat? If so, welcome to the club. I would venture to say that most people have thought about this at some point in their life. In fact, I would be willing to bet that on a subconscious level you probably think about this at least once a week. The reason you likely think about this as we all do is because the citizens of this country are getting fatter and fatter.

When I was young, it was really rare to see very fat people. Today, two thirds of the US population is either overweight or obese. Again, when I was young the people who were fat likely had some hereditary or hormonal reason for being overweight. Today, the majority of people who are overweight are that way because of lack of activity and poor dietary habits.

If we can ever get universal health care through the Congress and signed by President Obama, I believe we will have a chance at reversing the trend of obesity in this country. The reason for optimism is that we simply must get healthier as a country or else our health care system, already at the breaking point, will collapse. When all people have access to adequate health care they can be educated about proper diet and exercise in relation to resultant illnesses.

Simply by losing weight a person dramatically reduces their risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart attacks and other serious medical conditions. Losing weight is also not as hard to achieve as most people think. It is simply a matter of beginning some type of moderate exercise program like walking, hiking, swimming and changing a high calorie, high fat diet to one that is healthier.

Sure, it takes a little effort to begin a moderate exercise program and it does take some willpower to eat healthier foods instead of junk food, but the results are so worth it. The fact that young kids are becoming obese at such a young age tarnishes their outlook on their future because they have known no other way of being except obese.

I believe that if we have healthcare for everyone in this country doctors will have an incentive to prevent disease instead of simply trying to cure disease. We might also be able to have a presidential mandate such, as was the case with President Kennedy in the 60s with his Council on physical fitness. Obesity is a serious issue and unless this country begins to lose weight as a whole we are headed for profound economic consequences.

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