Are you overweight? Do you have a big belly or a big butt and you have for most of your life? If you answered yes then losing weight and getting in shape is probably a priority for you. Achieving this goal, however, can be much easier said than done. You see while it is our bodies that will do the actual physical exercise needed to transform them it is our minds that control whether or not that will ever even happen.

Your mind is incredibly powerful and can help you overcome just about any obstacle in life if you let it. Once you truly decide to do something and put all of your mental abilities toward achieving that goal then it will be difficult for anything to stand in your way. This can include overcoming drug or alcohol addiction, smoking, anger issues and yes losing weight and getting in shape. If you are not able to develop the right mindset up front, however, these goals may never be achieved. You see, our mindset is often focused on what exists at any particular time rather than what you want to be. What I mean is if you’re overweight and your mind continues to see your body as being overweight and not as it would look like once you are in shape. It is only through overcoming this negative mindset and allowing you to see or visualize the potential results that can occur through action that you will really achieve results.

Think about it for a second. You saw someone on the beach who was in incredibly good shape or maybe you saw someone wearing clothes that you wish you could fit into. This scenario is probably made you feel less than positive about your body rather than spurred you on to achieve the results you desire. If instead of thinking about how you were at any particular time and focusing on how you could be you could dramatically speed up the results that you achieve from any activities in life. Simply focusing on your goals will help you to achieve them. Your actions and reactions to the things that surround you in your life will help to support your efforts rather than combat them and this has been proven in study after clinical study. If you focus on what you are then you’ll reinforce that, but if you focus on where you want to be you will move toward it. Be the change you want to see!

Overcoming these mental blocks can be just as difficult, if not more so, as simply exercising and eating right. The fact is they represent a critically important step in your achieving your body goals and you must work on changing your mindset first even before developing an effective exercise routine. There are many ways to help you achieve the proper mindset and these can include motivational books, CDs you can listen to in your car or at work, or in person seminars where you could hear from speakers who have used these techniques to great success in their own lives. While some people look at using these tools as foolishness, those that adopt the right mindset and simply use them as an aid in their overall program, the results can be absolutely staggering.

Making the decision to completely change the way you look, feel, and view your body from now on may be one of the most important and positive steps you ever take in your life. Know that changing this mindset can be tough, but if you focus on your goals and use motivational tools to help you along then you can absolutely achieve the positive results that you desire.

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching and previous NPC judging experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.

Some people who are looking to lose weight simply never achieve their goal but it’s not due to their lack of motivation or even the amount of work they do, they simply get lost in the process. What I mean is, there are so many directions that a fat loss program can take it can be simply overwhelming at times. Deciding where you are at any time during your program and making the changes necessary to increase your results, if not organized properly, can lead to failure. One of the best ways to stay on track and properly motivated is to set short-term goals.

Short-term goals allow you to achieve success in smaller bites which added up over time leads to large success. These smaller goals help you to see your progress more easily and can keep your motivational mindset at a very high level at all times. Let’s look at a couple of short-term goals you may use in your own fat loss program:

Eating Habit Goals

Most people are going to have to dramatically change the way they eat if they want to experience dramatic fat loss. Changing everything all at once can be difficult, however. A good idea is to set a few short-term goals to help you reach your target. These goals might include eating one less snack per week or maybe cutting your overall calories by 5% over the course of a month. These goals, when looked at individually, look small but on a day to day and week by week basis they can make a big difference in the fat loss results you achieve.

Exercise Program Goals-here is another area where people get overwhelmed. They want to jump in and begin an incredibly rigorous exercise program but the key is really starting slow. If you have been sedentary for a period of time then running 5 miles and hitting the gym for an hour is not a wise decision. Start slow, maybe walking for 10 to 20 minutes per day and build up the amount of work you do over time. It should only take you about a month or so to get your health and conditioning to a point where you might not be able to do a really intense workout, but if you jump in too fast, you run the risk getting hurt or simply getting burned out too early into your program.

Motivational Mindset Goals

It is important to adopt the right mindset when working to achieve significant fat loss goals. Because there are many books, CDs and DVDs on the market to help achieve these motivational mindsets, a short-term goal may be to review one of these products on a weekly or monthly basis. Feeding your mind with a constant supply of positive mental attitude type training will go a long way over time to support your fat loss goals.

Weight Loss Goals

Want to lose 10 pounds per week? This probably is not a good idea for the majority of people to try this strategy. Fat loss is best achieved in small amounts over time. If you expect to lose a tremendous amount of weight very quickly, first of all, you could get sick because this is not healthy, and second of all you could become discouraged because this is also very hard to do. Setting small goals such as half to one pound or so per week of weight loss are more easily achieved and are healthier for your body.

Working to achieve any goal can be much easier and more successful if broken down into small short-term goals like the ones mentioned above. Organize your routines on a daily and weekly basis and track your results so that you are continually making progress toward your goal. With the right mindset and the right achievable short-term goals, your result will be long term fat loss success.

http://www.MrFatLoss.com , aka, Emile Jarreau is 31 year veteran fitness professional and co-owner of M2FitnessPros.com in Long Beach, California. Also having 19 years of bodybuilding and figure coaching and previous NPC judging experience, he specializes in fat loss and all its aspects and freely shares online resources to the world.

Anything you can measure, you can control. Weight loss and fat loss are all about control. People who are fat didn’t set a goal to become fat. They didn’t measure their daily fat growth. Their eating got out of hand in relation to their activity level, and they gradually put on 20, 30, 40, even 50 pounds or more.

If you are one of those people, and you now want to lose that weight, you can do it easily enough, but you’re going to have to get control, and you’re going to do that by measuring the things you do.

I recommend you buy a couple of items.

First, you need scales that measure your weight, body fat, and hydration level. You will constantly measure these three as you lose weight. Although a few other brands give these measurements, I believe Tanita is the best. You can find them online or at many major retail stores.

Second, you need to purchase or have access to any type of exercise equipment that measures the calories and fat calories you burn. Go online to find the normal amount of calories you burn each day based on your sex, weight, height, and activity level. You need exercise equipment to measure how many more calories you’re burning each day above that norm.

You also need a scale that measures the weight of different types of food you eat. I found these scales particularly helpful when I tried to ration myself to three ounces of meat or one to two ounces of cereal or chips. You can’t guess at the amounts you’re eating because you will always assume you’re eating less than you actually are eating.

With these three items you’ll be able to measure the amount of calories going into your body, the number of calories you’re burning each day, and the amount of weight and fat you’re losing each day. You’ll also check your hydration level to make sure you’re not just losing water weight, and you’ll probably want to use a tape measure to take your chest, waist, and hip measurements.

Why will all this measurement help you lose weight? It’s simple. A pound of fat equals about 3,500 calories. If you burn 500 calories per day more than you eat, you’ll lose a pound each week. Burn an extra 1,000 calories per day, and you’ll lose a couple of pounds per week.

Want to lose even more quickly? Eat even fewer calories per day. Burn more calories per day on your exercise equipment. It’s simple enough, but you have to make a commitment to measure all calories eaten and all calories burned. You have to get in control of your weight loss.

You really can control anything you can measure. I personally lost forty pounds in sixty days. One chief component of this dramatic loss was measurement. I weighed three or four times every day. I always tried to weigh the same or less each evening than I did that morning. That virtually guaranteed that I would weigh from 1/2 to one pound less every morning than I did the previous morning.

You can’t weigh once each week and be guaranteed to consistently lose weight. You have to measure the calories going in, measure the calories you’re burning, and measure that weight loss and fat loss every day.

You can control anything you can measure – and that includes your weight.

Don Peek has made his living online for the last 8 years. He spent 6 of those years gaining 40 pounds and 60 days losing it. Don concentrates on writing specialty ebooks and helping others to earn their living online. Contact welcome: dpeek@ebookinnercircle.com
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